Not to be another American talking about soccer but one thing I wish soccer would do—linger longer after a match before going to the studio. You just spent the whole match with these broadcasters, you want to hear their thoughts and allow them to properly summarize it
This may be the closest thing we have to comparing games/players across eras. Let’s see a LeBron game with this scorebug (or a Jordan game with modern graphics)
Ok I didn’t even know it was happening but the NBA on NBC throwback is sick. The lack of visual clutter is actually really nice although I’m sure it would get old after a while
College basketball’s ability to generate regular season marquees needs to be studied
Michigan-Duke means basically nothing (maybe decides if each is a 1 v. 2 seed and…that’s it) but the (neutral site!) building is electric and the players are amped up for it
Hot (?) take: people generally accepting March madness being a crapshoot is a feature not a bug because it makes regular season accolades like winning your conference more prestigious. I’m ok if the same thing happens to CFB
Look, I hate the dodgers as much as the next guy, but their organist rocks. Opalite (which was released THREE WEEKS ago) seamlessly into “let’s go Dodgers”??? Come on.