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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2182657, member: 289"]
ESPN's The Sports Reporters signed off today for the last time, eliminating a staple of my Sunday mornings. very well done. Lupica, (no I don't  like him either but he's been on good behavior since he became host and done a good job), Rhoden, Albom and Ryan all choose their #1 athlete of the 29 years the show has been on. Each chose a different one: Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Tom Brady and Larry Bird, respectively. (Interesting that three of them were basketball players.)  They gave heartfelt tributes to Dick Schaap and John Saunders as well as to their long-time producer and director. They bemoaned, (genteelly) the fact that the conversation will now be totally taken over by younger, hipper, more combative shows. They hoped their verison of "the conversation" would return in some form, someday.

[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sports_Reporters"]The Sports Reporters - Wikipedia[/URL]

As the Wikipedia article says, this show was, in part, inspired by the old "Sportswriters on TV" show from Chicago, which had a more intimate, around the card table look:

[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sportswriters_on_TV"]The Sportswriters on TV - Wikipedia[/URL]

On the last Bud and the Manchild show before their current "vacation", (I understand  that they hope to be back on the air tomorrow), I suggested to Jim Lersch that a local version of this type of show could fill a gap for all of us on Sunday morning, whether it was broadcast on radio or TV. He seemed interested but who knows if anything will come of the idea.
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