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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 1140427, member: 210"] ESPN has like 16 channels most of which have no new content about 50%-75% of the time. If they want to make any money they need to figure out how to drive eyeballs to their content when there are no live sporting events going on so they can generate advertising revenue. The best way to do this in this day and age is by covering a controversy involving a high profile sports figure or issue. As a result ESPN has turned from covering the news to making the news by going after issues like Winston cursing and blowing them all out of proportion. In some cases like the Ped State scandal and the Ray Rice/AP stuff this is a good thing for society but in many cases like Winston or the Bernie Fine crap this can be a really bad thing. Either way ESPN doesn't care as it leads to eyeballs on their content both on TV and digitally which means more money in their pocket. [/QUOTE]