{"id":3475,"date":"2009-03-07T08:03:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T08:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/07\/seasonal-sports-peeve\/"},"modified":"2009-03-07T08:03:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T08:03:50","slug":"seasonal-sports-peeve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/07\/seasonal-sports-peeve\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal Sports Peeve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s March now, which means that we&#8217;re at the absolute peak of the college basketball season. Small conferences have already started their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midmajority.com\/2009\/03\/tourney-central-362009-day-4.php\">tournaments<\/a>, playing for the one shot those teams have of getting into the NCAA&#8217;s. Big conference tournaments start next week, with the Big Dance the week after.<\/p>\n<p>So, of course, ESPN and all its variants are devoting all of their energy to&#8230; speculating about Terrell Owens and Alex Rodriguez. Because, apparently, those two have signed-in-blood contracts with Satan ensuring that not one week passes without one or the other being the lead story on SportsCenter.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve become resigned to the idea that ESPN no longer produces sports programming, but rather hour upon hour of people <em>talking<\/em> about sports. But is it too much to ask for them to talk about sports that are, you know, <em>in season<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s March now, which means that we&#8217;re at the absolute peak of the college basketball season. Small conferences have already started their tournaments, playing for the one shot those teams have of getting into the NCAA&#8217;s. Big conference tournaments start next week, with the Big Dance the week after. So, of course, ESPN and all&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/07\/seasonal-sports-peeve\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seasonal Sports Peeve<\/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":[26,31,37,27,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-football","category-pop_culture","category-sports","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","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=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}