{"id":3407,"date":"2009-02-12T07:40:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T07:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/12\/why-do-sports-media-hate-me\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T07:40:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T07:40:42","slug":"why-do-sports-media-hate-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/12\/why-do-sports-media-hate-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Sports Media Hate Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched (bits of) a couple of basketball games last night for the first time in ages: Syracuse put up a good fight for a bit more than a half before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2009\/02\/11\/sports\/AP-BKC-T25-Syracuse-Connecticut.html?_r=1\">being put away<\/a> by a really good Connecticut team, and North Carolina <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2009\/02\/11\/sports\/AP-BKC-T25-NCarolina-Duke.html\">blew Duke away late<\/a> to win their fourth straight in Durham. These were two impressive performances by two terrific teams.<\/p>\n<p>So I flip on Mike&amp;Mike this morning, and they have Jay Bilas on. Who talks for two minutes about UConn and UNC, then Greenberg asks him, essentially, &#8220;You have a law degree, so would you care to pontificate about Alex Rodriguez?&#8221; And they spend the rest of the segment talking about steroids in baseball.<\/p>\n<p>I put my breakfast together during the commercial break, and come back to find that they&#8217;ve changed the topic. Now they&#8217;re talking about Michael Phelps smoking dope, and the ludicrous efforts of South Carolina prosecutors to make some sort of case to arrest him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be one of those days, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched (bits of) a couple of basketball games last night for the first time in ages: Syracuse put up a good fight for a bit more than a half before being put away by a really good Connecticut team, and North Carolina blew Duke away late to win their fourth straight in Durham. These&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/12\/why-do-sports-media-hate-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Do Sports Media Hate Me?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}