I assume many of you are much more interested in sports themselves rather than sports coverage, but the latest column from Le Anne Schreiber, ESPN's ombudsman, is well worth your time.
Turns out ESPN got a lot of hate mail after the broadcast team covering the Tulsa-Oklahoma game spent some time editorializing about Notre Dame's historically poor start to the season. In the tease to the article on ESPN.com's homepage, Schreiber calls sports coverage "the molehill on which mountains of opinion are built."
Besdies being a particularly nifty turn of phrase, I think she's pretty accurate as well. Isn't that the very definition of many a sports blog? In most cases, people like me aren't reporting the news, we're building upon (or in some cases destroying) things other people have already observed.
Is that good or bad? I'm not sure yet, but it's not just an influx of opinion we're experiencing now, it's an influx of highly specific opinion. I can go weeks without reading, hearing or seeing something that doesn't directly interests me and that scares me a little bit.
Getting beyond that is a struggle I think we'll continue to face, both inside and outside of the sports realm.
So that's my philosophical musing for 2007.
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