I used to like The Sports Reporters. Now we'll just get more Mike Lupica.

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That sucks. I liked that guy.

That sucks. Seemed like one of the actual good guys on ESPN.

One guy I actually liked

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

I always liked the look of bewilderment on his face when Mitch Albom would try to look enlightened but would instead unintentionally say some racist shit.

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This is a bummer he was a good reporter

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Damn...crazy...I don't think he did last Sunday's Sports Reporters but he did the week before, and he was just out this past weekend for the NABJ Convention. Died his in sleep?

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That's a shame. The guy seemed like a class act and had a very nice voice which I can still hear in my head...(yes,along with the other voices.)


Rest In Peace.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I'm sure Vince Lloyd crowds them all out.

Yet that talentless fat fuck Berman still lives. There is no God.

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Sure came off as a good guy ... connected w/ the viewer more than most of them, I felt.

Didn't realize the fella was 61. Black don't crack. It does though, apparently, croak.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

That's what I thought, too. Maybe he'll get attacked by a shark.

With Mike Tirico and Tom Jackson leaving and the death of Saunders, I'm not sure there's any older ESPN brothers from the 90's.

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Kevin Frazier was the only one I could think of but he left.

Now all you have is Scott Van Pelt.

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Hell of a note, ESPN no longer satisfied simply forcing these guys into early retirement.

When did Tom Jackson leave?

I always liked Saunders. He could pretty much do anything on the network well. Damn shame he died so young. LeBatard said on his radio show today that Saunders had some health issues in recent years, but didn't elaborate.

Poor Hannah Storm... she had to deliver the news re Stuart Scott, which everybody senior at ESPN knew was coming. And she's on the air again today, and this time it seemed like a bit of a stunner; her hands are shaking as she's delivering the news, and she's pretending to fiddle with papers to try and keep the viewer from noticing at the same time she's talking on air.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Jackson just announced his retirement.

We'll always have Fred Hickman in our hearts.



For all you youngsters out there....

CNN's "Sports Tonight" was a better show than Sportscaster back in the day.

Hickman and Charles were solid.

+1

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Stephen A. Smith did a great job of giving a tribute to himself that briefly mentioned John Saunders' impact on him.

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America is great again.

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Love it or leave it Buddy.

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Mike and Mike talked to Robin Roberts this morning, John Saunders was the person who pushed her to push to be on NFL Prime Time, no doubt the springboard for her career that has led to GMA.

She referenced Tim McGraws song "Be Humble and Kind", said it fit John perfectly. I think that's why many of us could relate to Saunders- he wasn't some egomaniac douche like so many media guys.

Saunders was mentioned in a recent Western Michigan Alumni magazine I skimmed through, I'll have to look it back up to reread the article. I wasn't much of a follower of WMU hockey mid seventies, but knew he was an alumnus when I was there and he was on ESPN already.

A real pro at his job, could cover anything and did it all well.

Any updates on how he died? I heard a rumor it was on that waterslide in Kansas?

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Blackhawk goal, scored by number 20, Al Secord.

that would be an odd way to go out

Must have taken a full detail to get the smell of Old Spice and garlic bread out of that car.

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"Now comes good sailing. Moose. Indian."