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Here's my votes, in no particular order.
Stephen A.Smith his act is getting very tired.
Tino Martinez ............total robot, announcing things like he's reading a hostage note
Mike Torico ............no substance.......he's just there
Rachele Nichols ...............makes me nervous just watching her....lay off the make up!
The whole NBA gang..............can't you buy out TNT?
Tony Reali ......... hey everyone............look at me!
Jeremy Schaap............ super generic white boy...my Dad was famous...speed it up a little
Dick Vitale...........see Stephen Smith
votefor yours tonight!
Stephen A.Smith his act is getting very tired.
Tino Martinez ............total robot, announcing things like he's reading a hostage note
Mike Torico ............no substance.......he's just there
Rachele Nichols ...............makes me nervous just watching her....lay off the make up!
The whole NBA gang..............can't you buy out TNT?
Tony Reali ......... hey everyone............look at me!
Jeremy Schaap............ super generic white boy...my Dad was famous...speed it up a little
Dick Vitale...........see Stephen Smith
votefor yours tonight!
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Absolutely can't stand him.
Also can't stand the ESPN woman who says "and just a little crush" EVERY time a guy hits a homerun. Puke.
Smith is unbelievably arrogant to the point I want to kick my TV just so I can imagine it is his face
Rachel Nichols seems like the kind of girl that slept with the entire basketball team...at once
Dick Vitale - annoying, but I don't watch B-Ball so, whatever
I wish Crazy Eye Stuart Scott would hitch a ride home with Cokey McIrvin on the annoying and fired bus
JMO
Tee-hee. Best line I've read here in months.
Bosox1976
To me the worst personality (no one ESPN is a journalist, even the jounrnalist) is Stuart Scott. I stopped watching the Monday pre, halftime, and post game shows.
The best pre-game I like is CBS. Shannon Sharpe is great and JB keep its it moving. The Fox show is not as good without JB. Plus I can't stand Joe Buck and his arrogance.
Rachele Nichols - shes hot!
John Kruk is awful.
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TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject
They should get some ot thier radio personalities to do tv as well.
Berman gets on my nerves.
On the radio side - Colin Cowherd is sort of different with me. He is very polarizing. About half the time, I want to kick the radio in because I disagree with him so vehemently. Then the other half, I agree with him totally.
Shane
I met Suzy Kolber at the draft two years ago - much nicer looking in person.
Rachel Nichols, on the other hand, is hot
If someone even mentions the NCAA watch his face boil up in anger.
He is all about "attitude". Sometimes he had interesting guests on his show, too often he tended to veer off subject.
"He could go ALL THE WAY".
Anyone notice on "NFL Countdown" that when Irvin starts to talk that often times the other people on the show
start to cringe? Sort of a "what stupid thing is he going to say this time" expression.
<< <i>I don't care to listen to any announcers outside of Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo (Red Sox, NESN). I do like to see Erin Andrews working a game for ESPN. I use the volume button on the remote control frequently, it helps to drown out the drivel. >>
I couldn't agree more with you on both Remy/Orsillo and Erin Andrews.
I've developed a hatred for Chris Berman . . . and that stupid "Jacked Up!" thing they're doing these days. Seriously, why do they have to screech "Jacked Up" over and over? The hits say it all, don't they?
Stuart Scott is in love with himself.
Jeff "Cowboy" Brantley is worse than Tim McCarver.
Rachel Nichols makes me wish that women were still expected to do nothing but cook men meals and "multiply" . . . and not because I'd want her to do either for me, but because then I'd never have to see her ugly mug and listen to her pronounce every sentence like she just heard something extremely important straight from the mouth of God.
And this is a little off topic, but I absolutely hate that ESPN insists on having some actor spend the entire 2nd quarter in the booth during Monday Night Football. If I wanted to spend a half hour listening to Jim Belushi be not funny I'd watch "According to Jim". But I don't.
I like Rachel Nichols. She's nice to look at. I have never heard one thing she said.
I liked Dan Patrick on Sportscenter, but he is brutal on the radio. He repeats thigs too often and belabors nearly every point to where I want to disagree with him.
I liked Olbermann before he got all political and left.
The past generations of guys were FAR superior to now and even though some of them are still with ESPN, but less visible.
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The best pre-game I like is CBS. Shannon Sharpe is great and JB keep its it moving.
Shannon Sharpe sounds like he's talking with a handfull of marbles in his mouth . . Tough listening to him
I actually like Steven A Smith and being a Cowboy fan of course i like Irvin
The new NFL commish came on the set the first week of the season and signed a football for Marino, Shannon told the commish to watch out because Dan is going to sell the ball on ebay.
Plus I still love the DeAngelo Williams is more like Dionne Warwick than Deion Sanders blast he got off last year.
He is a buffoon who makes everything broadcast about himself. His nicknames are not clever and he adds nothing positive to any broadcast. He was at ESPN at the beginning when they could only get the lowest people on the sportscasting totum pole and he has stayed.
Second, Stu Scott. How tired is the "dog and homey" routine?
Theisman is horrible, Kornheiser is an idiot.
Peace
45% complete.
I don't know, she must be one of those love her or hate her people.
<< <i>Rachel Nichols doesn't blink!!! She freaks me out.
I don't know, she must be one of those love her or hate her people. >>
Maybe. She does absolutely nothing for me. Erin Andrews, on the other hand...
But dang, she's great on the eyes
There's a guy on ESPN news that looks like a vampire. He's on there all the time, but they don't even acknowledge him on espn.com
I don't think I'd call Rachael Nichols hot. Erin Andrews is hot. Rachael Nichols is just odd looking. I've never seen a hairline so low that she basically doesn't have a forehead.
Funny piece on her:
Doable?
Erik
<< <i> He's not on ESPN but I was just reminded that Bryant Gumble IS the worst play-by-play announcer, ever. >>
Hands down.
Heck, even Richard Simmons thinks Gumble's voice is annoying!
I cannot believe there is even a discussion over Rachel Nichols or Erin Andrews!
Stephen Smith is yelling across the airwaves now. Something has gotten him wound up.
The people who think Rachael Nichols is hot googled the name and saw pics of the other Rachael Nichols , the actress .
Why are we bringing up 12 year old threads?
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
If its ok to bump your own stale threads , then everything is fair game
If it was single malt, you wouldn't be kvetching.
The correct answer is , all of them
ALL OF THE ABOVE
Ohhh s***!
15 year is way better actually
RIP Stuart Scott. Most of the personalities listed in the original post have done pretty well for themselves, especially Mike Tirico. I can't listen to Stephen A. The one I can't figure out how he has a job in broadcasting is Michael Wilbon. I wonder in 12 more years if ESPN will still be around, if so in what format?
In 12 years, of sooner, ESPN will morph into ESSCPPN (EntertainmentSportsProgressiveSocialChangeProgammingNetwork).
Viewership will continue its downward slide to the point that it will seek and qualify for tax payer funding (like NPR and Public Television). The broadcast teams who host the networks flagship programs will, as a condition of receiving tax payer funding, be required to change their on air performances to reflect the nuanced, erudite, elite and sophisticated style of the persons who host NPR radio broadcasts.
Oops.
I meant ESPSCPN, not ESSCPPN.
My bad.
Michigan was a good poster here. Shows that he has been off since 2006.
Time flies, fellas.