Friday Morning Thoughts

Has anyone else been noticing ESPN doubling down on their coverage of the NFL and college football this year? Just two days ago this monstrosity of an article was posted by Chantel Jennings. Meanwhile, hockey can't get but a minute of airtime. According to an article written by Allan Muir of Sports Illustrated, hockey gets a total of 2.7 percent of all airtime on ESPN's headline show, SportsCenter. What's going on here? Hockey fans obviously represents more than 2.7 percent of ESPN's audience, yet the coverage just isn't there.

ESPN also cut the Daily Dime, a daily article giving a recap of all of the previous nights NBA games and ten fun tidbits about those games. The Daily Dime has been replaced with "The Ten", which is a hash up of graphics representing the previous nights action. This leaves me trying to find a new site to read up on the NBA games I couldn't get to watching.

Some lighter news, Papa Johns had to alter their deal with the Philadelphia 76'ers after the 0-11 start left fans with no way to cash out on the deal. The previous promotion was 50 percent off online orders after a Sixers win. Unfortunately, that isn't really feasible for the near historically bad Sixers, requiring Papa Johns to change up the deal. Now, Papa Johns is offering 50 percent off online orders following any game the Sixers score 90 points. With the 76'ers averaging 88.6 points a game this season, fans in Philly stand a chance to cash in this time.