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Gregg Easterbrook

Gregg Easterbrook

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In addition to writing Tuesday Morning Quarterback for Page 2, Gregg Easterbrook is the author of the forthcoming "Sonic Boom," and six other books. He is also a contributing editor for The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Monthly. His web site can be found here.
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'SportsCenter Specials' too often just hot air on hot topics

Le Anne Schreiber, ESPN Ombudsman

The prospect of saying goodbye to "SportsCenter Specials," writes the ombudsman, means ESPN can stop asking its on-air talent to fill five gallons of airtime with a half-pint of breaking news.

Story | June 11, 2008

MNF dilemma: How to entice casual fans, not alienate purists

Le Anne Schreiber, ESPN Ombudsman

At its best, "Monday Night Football" invites fans to be the fourth person in the booth. At its worst, writes ESPN's ombudsman, it excludes fans from a loud private party, not letting them get a word in edgewise and blocking the view of the game.

Story | February 10, 2008

ESPN news magazine show manages both style and substance

Le Anne Schreiber, ESPN Ombudsman

The news magazine show E:60, writes the Ombudsman, infused welcome fresh air into ESPN lungs that have been chronically taxed by over-exhalation of stale opinion.

Story | November 12, 2007

Fed fast food of opinion, ESPN audience starves for reported fact

Le Anne Schreiber, ESPN Ombudsman

The main function of sports news, it seems, is to serve as the molehill on which mountains of opinion are built. We don't have news cycles anymore, writes the Ombudsman, we have opinion cycles.

Story | October 05, 2007
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