At 12:28 PM 4/8/96 PDT, Steve Klein wrote: >The ESPN coverage of the championship game was an insulting joke. You almost >have to think that ESPN wants to dump college hockey and was trying to >insult the NCAA (when you look at the numbers, do you think WE matter?). WHO >WAS THAT STUDIO HOST? Someone's kid? Why did college hockey fans have to >suffer the basketball mouths between periods? [...] The guy's name is Rich Eisen, and he's one of the new SportsCenter anchors. I saw him doing the 2am edition this last weekend, and he wasn't much better then. What really got me was that ESPN doesn't even show the NCAA basketball tourney, but I guess they feel they need to put it ahead of things they have paid to show. I can think of a lot better things to show in the intermissions other than basketball previews (they should've just had a show after the game, but I guess they couldn't miss showing that tennis!). How about a college hockey year in review? What about the college hockey plays of the year? How about a feature on the history of the Hobey Baker award (how many of the viewers know who Hobey Baker was?)? I could go on for a while, but I won't. Todd D. Milewski [log in to unmask] "U-Rah-Rah Wisconsin!" HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.