ESPN parts ways with Colin Cowherd

Submitted by Adrian on

Can't provide a link but just heard tha news. Good riddance

 

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wolverinewonde…

July 24th, 2015 at 8:08 PM ^

Why is it everyone on this site hates good sports minded people? Other than university of michigan enthusiasts you hate on everyone. Cowerd and rome and many of these guys are icons in sports reporting/radio. You all probably hate wilbon and kornieser too. What a shame this site has so many haters

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Phil Brickma

July 24th, 2015 at 8:21 PM ^

No. They are on ESPN. That doesn't make them icons. Wilbon and Kormheiser had great runs as columnists, but their egos drive them to ESPN's personality-driven sludge. The truth is most ESPN content doesn't drive any fruitful discussion, it drives buzzwords, hot takes and ratings. That's not to say ESPN is the only culprit, but TV and radio is the last place to look for strong public discourse.



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Jeff09

July 24th, 2015 at 8:25 PM ^

I really enjoy Kornheiser and Wilbon. I enjoy Des (obviously) and Herbstreit and Fowler. I even enjoy me some Jesse Palmer from time to time. But without a doubt the assholes are going to get more air play on a message board (e.g. Joey Galloway, Mark May, Old Man River aka Lou Holtz). Why is that surprising to you?

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HenneGivenSunday

July 24th, 2015 at 9:15 PM ^

I agree with this entirely. Herbstreit is great when he isn't talking about OSU. I was telling my wife last season, "I really like Jesse Palmer's insight to the game, I just hate having to look at him." Obviously with that many on air personalities there are going to be at least a few duds. It just seems like ESPN has a hard time minimizing their airtime (as you mentioned).



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ElBictors

July 26th, 2015 at 11:14 AM ^

Okay, I actually did just laugh out loud at reading your post.  Icons???  LMAO!

 

Dick Schapp was iconic (maybe) and you could say at some point a guy like Mitch Albom is a "journalist," but ESPN long ago decided to sell its soul in the name of the almighty dollar and hasn't looked back.

Like MTV did years ago, ESPN decided to get into making content rather than covering their area (sports).  Once they decided to hire in producers from the 24-hour news cycle cable media world, it was over.  Aside from broadcast of live sporting events, ESPN is more interested in dictating to the American sports fans what five topics it will have to hear and then bludgeons them all day with the same garbage.

Cowherd never provided anything unique or insightful, he just acted like some contrarian guy by putting himself out as smarter than everyone else and using absolutely stupid metaphors and analogies..

In that vein, he might remark on his own demise at ESPN and the recent remarks about Dominicans as ..."you know, you know ....it's like the big guy ...that really BIG GUY we all know ..who just had a bit toooo much at the All-You-Can-Eat Buffet ...you know, he just takes it a bit too far.  That's me with the Dominican thing ....I'm the Big, Fat Guy and the All-You-Can-Eat Buffet is EGO ....just couldn't get enough and went too far.   It;'s like Neck Tattoo Guy ...."

 

 

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aratman

July 24th, 2015 at 8:11 PM ^

Even though he is a hated buckeye atleast he isn't a blowhard.  Jalen Rose?  He is just the opposite, Wolverine who is a blowhard.  Either of those would be nice.  Probably going to be Skip or Stephen A.

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Moonlight Graham

July 24th, 2015 at 8:12 PM ^

radio less ... and less ... and less. 

I let MGoBlog and 538 sum it all up for me. May sound corny but I've had an epiphany of sorts that ESPN and sports radio offer nothing positive to my personal well being and are to the contrary quite soul sucking. All the analysis of the week's stories I need is Frank Deford's Friday segment on NPR. 

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sadeto

July 24th, 2015 at 9:11 PM ^

This is the second time I have seen this on this blog in the past week. Plus, I heard it on NPR in a piece about slang. Of course, the woman who gave it as an example of slang she likes to use, couldn't explain what it means, beyond "goodbye." So, I'm asking you, what does this mean?

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UMgradMSUdad

July 24th, 2015 at 11:01 PM ^

My students explained this to me a couple of years ago, so this is probably only partly right.  Phylicia was annoying everyone one.  When she finally made a production of leaving, to everyone's relief,  she was told "Bye Phylicia."  So, yeah, it's basically a way to tell some annoying twat to fuck off and leave.

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Durham Blue

July 24th, 2015 at 9:08 PM ^

I might be in the minority but I enjoy listening to Cowherd.  Sports is entertainment for me and Cowherd makes things entertaining, even though he is mindless and an asshat.  I guess I enjoy him in the same way I enjoyed Beavis and Butthead.  Sometimes my mind needs a break.

I did hate the Harbaugh interview though.

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chatster

July 24th, 2015 at 11:17 PM ^

(a) I live in the metropolitan New York area, (b) I’m more of a college sports and international football (soccer) fan, (c) I don’t have Sirius/XM radio in my car and (d) and I don’t have much of a rooting interest in any of the local pro teams other than the Giants, Rangers and Knicks. Cowherd’s show was a refreshing departure from the local ESPN radio shows.  I rarely found his substitute hosts to be very interesting or informative.
 
Switching back and forth between the local NPR station and ESPN radio while driving between 10:00 AM and noon, I often found Cowherd to be vastly more interesting than any of the local sports radio hosts, because he talked a lot about college sports and national sports news. The NYC ESPN radio station didn’t broadcast the last hour of his show. It’s more important for them to hear callers asking about Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jets, Knicks, Nets and sometimes hockey. (“Hi, thanks for takin’ my call, Mike. This is Klutzy from da Bronx. D’ya think Jorge Posada will make the Hall of Fame?” or “Yeah, Don, this is Hubcap Glitzoid from Queens. The Mets oughta trade David Wright and Jon Niese for Mike Trout. I’ll hang up and wait fer yer antza.”)
 
College sports talk on NYC area radio is reserved for the football playoffs and bowl season and March Madness. Soccer isn’t mentioned more than once every three or four years around the time of the World Cup tournaments. For them, “UEFA” meant that “little cracker” that Donald Trump eats when he goes to church, and “Leo Messi” was how they described the previous show’s host after he left the studio.
 
In recent weeks (maybe months), I sensed that Colin Cowherd already had checked out of his life at ESPN. His disastrous interview of Jim Harbaugh and his comments about players from the Dominican Republic in Major League Baseball were only two examples of his downslide, even though they might have been his most-glaring, recent missteps.
 
Now it’s back to NPR, podcasts and music on the iPhone.

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Inuyesta

July 26th, 2015 at 6:11 PM ^

Upvoted for the hilariously spot-on depiction of NYC sports fans.  Always cringe whenever I have the misfortune to turn on the TV when New York 1's sports call in show is on and I have to listen to them for the 30 seconds it takes to find something else to flip to.

 

Of course, I tend to think the proper remedy is just to stay away from NYC sports radio altogether rather than listen to a more articulate moron in Cowherd, but to each his own.

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megaswami

July 24th, 2015 at 9:24 PM ^

Dude is sloppy, repeats himself too much to listen to. I've never heard a guy spin an angle in so many directions in my life. It's like listening to your wife ask you if you are going to mow the lawn, over and over again!



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BleedsBlue

July 24th, 2015 at 10:34 PM ^

is the best bar none. Colin puts himself on a pedestal, then goes out like this making racial comments and basically getting fired? Way to stay classy bagadouche`.Fox is probably regretting this, nobody liked him in the first place, why would anyone listen now

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