Rupert Murdoch to create rival sports network to challenge ESPN

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Hockey is locked in with NBC for a long time.

People bitch about the PTIs and that time of stuff but thats the trouble with a sports network since mornings and afternoons aren't going to have live sporting events to air. Thus you get those shows to fill time slots. FOX will have European soccer matches during the afternoons, so that will kill alot of the down time at least.

I don't even need them to play it live; I get plenty of games of FSMW.

I'd just like them to acknowledge that it exists as a sport...outside of Sidney Crosby. That would be more than ESPN is willing to do.

ESPN has been a bunch of butthurt little ****s over hockey. They lost the contract to do live games and suddenly nothing from the network. They give the WNBA more pub than the NHL because they don't have the rights to it.

I've hated ESPN ever since.