Another media fanboi?

Watching SportsCenter now and I didn't catch the female anchor/reporter's name, but she's doing a story on UCLA's Lorenzo Ball WHILE WEARING A UCLA T-SHIRT.

What's happened to our impartiality, folks? An isolated case, no doubt, but still ...

 

Wouldn't a better thread title have been media fangurl?

 

You've identified the problem.

 

Cari Champion is her name

 

True. Was unsure of the feminine form of the word. But if any place can straighten out anyone, it's here. In most cases.

 

Maybe it was an accident. When I worked at a paper in Louisiana in the late '90s, I was assigned to cover an LSU women's hoops game. It was St. Patrick's Day, so as is my wont I wore an Irish national team rugby jersey. It was only when I arrived at the arena that I focused on who LSU was playing: Notre Dame. I was mortified. At least my shirt didn't say "Fighting Irish."

Then again, I brought homemade sodabread, so at least the SID and other scribes forgave me.

 

I seem to recall Awful Announcing doing a story about this a while back. Wilbon was on the field in a Cubs jersey after they won the World Series. ESPN wants it's faces to be fans...and not just in the funny "SVP is a Maryland guy" joke either...like actually be fanbois on even the main shows.

 

wilbon isn't a journalist anymore, so it's fine. now if jeremy schapp is rocking some school swag on a live feed, that's no bueno

 

True...but it sounds like he wasn't happy with it.

Here's the piece: Michael Wilbon: ESPN told him to come on air in Cubs' jersey despite his protests

 

Good god, that's awful. It's one thing if he's there and it just happens, but for them to orchestrate it is garbage.

 

What happened to impartiality is no one really gives a shit about it except a a lonely objective few.

 

Cari went to UCLA FWIW ....