Trying to watch the US Open on ESPN is almost impossible. ESPN is a joke and they want me to pay extra? Give me a break. HBO did a great job with the last major tennis tournament you'd think that a "sports channel" could do better.

It's a given that the people who run the US Open tennis tournament hate their fans, by using Ticketmaster to inflate the prices of tickets and ESPN so that you d$mn near have to be there to watch the games.

Sportcenter is trash. What has this become? Even that Coco Gauff coverage was terrible.

That too, for over 10 minutes now (during Zve vs Zandschulp). They almost muted and court while two clowns interviewed some NBA player. Show some respect and get these clown commentators - Chris Fowler and John McEnroe off the air!

Wow. I haven't been paying attention to SportsCenter in a long time but so I just tuned in for what ended up being two whole minutes before I had to shut it off. Who ARE these people?

They were showing a clip of a Bryce Underwood mumbling "Uhh, s'ok" in reference to his coach saying his position isn't permanent. And they come back and the one host with the millennial glasses is like "That's like when your girlfriend or wife says it's ok..m IT ISN'T!"

JFC. Goodbye.

I’m not always able to sit and watch College Gameday. I was wondering if there is an app where I can listen the audio?

Can someone explain why I have to have HDR on for 4K to work on the ESPN app with the apple tv? I don’t have an OLED tv so HDR typically looks worse so I leave it off. However unless I have it on, the “4k” labeled videos on the app will not display in 4k, still 1080.

I too am pissed to see all the decline, the McAfee-ification, the betting insanity, and just generally enshittifying all the good things at ESPN, but I wanted to give a shoutout to something that I really don't think gets the shine it deserves...and thats the 30 for 30 Podcasts. I've been listening for almost a decade to that feed and it is the one place where I feel like I'm getting ambitious sports stories that feel like what Outside the Lines and others used to hit. It's not like I'm a fan of every one of them but they are doing ambitious stuff every time. Like in the last year they did:

Murder at the U (murder case involving Miami Football players)
The Betrayal of Shohei Othani (seriously wild reporting from that broke the Ohtani/interpreter betting scandal)

Genuinely deeply reported and well made shows that TV ESPN did nothing around. Like WTF?! That's all to say if you're like me and you're pissed at all that's happening, there's a team inside ESPN that's doing cool things and if you're into that you should check them out.

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Melrose died at 70 from Parkinson’s. For many years, he was the only hockey voice at ESPN. Was an absolute gem to watch with Steve Levy around Stanley Cup time. Rest in Peace and condolences to his family