This is something I noticed over a week ago, and I just figured they would fix it. Whenever you go to another sports 'homepage' from the main ESPN.com page, the new index on the left does not list soccer. This might sound confusing, so I'll give an example. Look at ESPN.com. Soccer is listed on the left with all the sports. Now click on 'NBA' under sports sections. When the NBA page comes up, all the other sports are still listed on the left under 'Sports Sections' besides soccer. This happens no matter what sport you click on. It's kind of annoying because instead of navigating under sports sections, you have to return to the ESPN.com homepage to get there. With every other sport you can just jump from sport to sport. I'm not saying this is part of a conspiracy, but it is...interesting.
it rotates, in season mls will be listed in some of the other sports pages, and not on others during the offseaon, i doubt we are ever on any of the other sports pages
Give it a try. It just might work. In the past I had complaints about WashingtonPost.com not having equivalent links to Freedom that they had on other sports teams (including women's pro basketball). For the most part they paid attention. Try the webmaster if you can get through and appeal to his/her professional pride on creating an easily navigated site that behaves similarly for all like navigation. It's probably just an oversite, not a plot about soccer.
I already did, but to the Page 2 group. I couldn't find an email addy or comment page for the main page.
But soccer is not located at all. Usually in the offseason, it is like the other offseason sports. Right now they have WNBA, Recruiting, College Football, etc listed but not the soccer. I noticed it a couple of weeks ago, but thought that there was just a slight error. I send them a feedback comment earlier today before I even say this thread.
Often this email will work for webmasters when not listed. webmaster@espn.com for example. The domain will get any emails to anything @espn.com. You could even send an email to doodoobird@espn.com and they will get it.
I just got an email back from them. And it did have my email message that I sent to them at the bottom of the email. Could be a generic email, but don't think so.
I can't believe you people still migrate to ESPN sports sites. With the disrespect they show for US soccer, you would think that we should have learned by now to avoid their sites. And of course, WHY would they change if we still keep clinging to them! I mean, there are a myriad of soccer sites out there that carry US soccer content in detail.
Why? I like to check out what they say about soccer. Plus I use ESPN mostly for the college basketball and college football. I check those two sites usually and then check to see what soccer says. I get all my other soccer info from BigSoccer. I could care less about other sites.
Yeah, all of the MLS games that they show during the season and all of the World Cup games that they showed this summer proves what soccer-hating bastards that they are.
preach it brother fox showing games to 10 million people is far more love than the mouse showing it to 90 million plus on the duece and the entire nation on abc is simply too little move mls games to fox, they'll put it on fox sports world where far fewer people will be able to see it
I think you might be confusing ESPN in general with the comments you sometimes hear on SportsCenter. I haven't regularly watched SportsCenter in a long time. The new anchors aren't that good and I don't need to wait until 11 to get my sports news anyway. Some of those anchors are soccer-bashers, no doubt about it. Now, ESPN did piss me off yesterday by delaying the WNT game to show the overtime of a women's college basketball game that I'm pretty sure involved two unranked teams. We ended up missing the only goal, too. But still, I'm glad that the game was even on. And I'm looking forward to watching a Champions' League game tomorrow. I've got no real bone to pick with ESPN with regards to soccer.
Of course they'll throw some breadcrumbs to us by showing SOME games... I never said they are stupid busines operators; I just said they show no respect for US Soccer and they don't seem to have a care to make an effort to hide that.
You hit it right on the head Caroline... I have nothing against ESPN's website specifically. It's shows such as Sports Center that fills me with resentment towards ESPN. And obviously ESPN management is well aware of what is being said in Sports Center. I mean, Sports Center is their show, and yet they seem not to care to force it to cut down on its soccer-bashing rhetoric. The anchors are not just criticising a certain soccer play or a certain player; they are actually bashing a sport! Imagine if another sport, say baseball, was on their receiving end; do you really think that ESPN management would stay silent and not interfere with the show? I think not! And yesterday's delayed showing of the WNT game for a WNBA game. Heaven forbid if this delayed game was a NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB game!
huh mlb, nfl, mls which of those three is not like the other in terms of popularity in this country? i'm dumbfounded on it i had always thought that mls was not the king like the other two sports... baseball being the national pastime and nfl being the current top dog but i guess that mls 100% deserves equal attention YOU HEAR THAT ESPN, RevdUp WANTS EQUAL COVERAGE screw earning what you get, we want to be a living, breathing joke... just like the wnba
Sorry, my mistake... for some reason I was under the impression that we like to consider ourselves(soccer fans) and our sport(soccer...just in case we have forgotten this is a BigSoccer forum) as having equal representation at least on their website. Thanks for pointing out (and more importantly, accepting the notion without regret) that we, soccer fans, are second class citizens to the 4 "major" sports. Silly me! We should all be so happy and satisfied that they at least give us something to digest. Lucky us! And I mentioned MLB and NFL because they, also, are out of season. Granted, we all know MLS is not the king as is NFL, MLB and NBA, but for a sport that is being labeled as one of the "top 4" or "top 5" major sports in the US, you would think that ESPN would give it its own link on their webpages, and above all, treat it with respect accross all media.
Soccer was left out of their navbar for a day during the changeover to a new design. Get over it, people. If you want to be mad at espn.com, be pissed that it takes the site forever in a day to load. And, sorry, soccer isn't among the top 4 sports. Quite frankly, when Tiger Woods is playing it isn't in the top 5 for most people.