Well like give credit where it's due. In 2004 or whatever there was no one else, and those guys were keepers of the flame because they sincerely cared. We are all brothers in the American soccer community and should never forget that. That being said, the standards need to be higher now, and we will be held back if they aren't. As I said in another thread, whether Lalas has any part of the Apple coverage will tell us a lot.
Rob Stone has covered soccer for many years with ESPN before moving over to Fox where he also covers soccer. I'm kind of neutral on him. Maybe I missed the joke about football meaning soccer? But he has waaay more soccer experience than American football.
FYP There's a reason ESPN let him walk when his contract expired.......they didn't view himas anything other than a c/d team studio host, or the host of those time filler sports/games.
Maybe it's just me, but the coverage seems to have improved a bit today. The banter between Donovan and Dempsey is kinda fun.
It's sad that ESPN has lost all of its rights to American soccer (USMNT, MLS). They've done so much to grow the game.
The longer a TV network has a sport the staler the coverage gets. I didn't watch any of the Olympics on NBC.
But Fox Sports took over the World Cup from ESPN in 2018 and immediately made it worse. ESPN's coverage in 2014 was far better.
Presented without comment. 💀 pic.twitter.com/17xsVLxnT1— Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) December 17, 2022
When ESPN and NBC vied for rights to the 2018 & 2022 World Cups, they bid blind. But not Fox. New testimony alleges it got inside information on how much to bid from a FIFA VP who’d been taking bribes from a Fox business partner for years. Fox won.https://t.co/WMPgd6hLs9— Ken Bensinger (@kenbensinger) January 21, 2023
Yep, makes sense. If there had NOT been corruption involved in the 2018 (Russia) and 2022 (Qatar) World Cups, now *that* would have been the real shocker.
Major League Soccer's set on #MLSSeasonPass for #NSHvNYC looks like a million dollars. FOX's set for the same game looks like they're broadcasting out of a college dorm 🤣 pic.twitter.com/15zGb42esH— World Soccer Talk (@worldsoccertalk) February 25, 2023