Wednesday, February 26, 2003

Now that we have AFN, I'm watching ESPN's Sportscenter at least once per day.  And it's great to have it back, because I love Sportscenter, and I'm loving the highlights and the jokes, though they seem to be spending a lot of energy covering NASCAR.  ESPN has a new Sportscenter feature--sort of a game show within a game show--called "Hearsay", in which Rich Eisen and Stuart Scott pair up with a variety of athletes to play a sports version of Taboo, which is sort of like $25,000 Pyramid, except there a bunch of words you can't say when giving the clues. How can a network that is so generally badassed have screwed this one up so badly?  Today, I had to watch Maurice Green fail to come up with "The Kentucky Derby" when Eisen prompted him with "It's a race in May at Churchill Downs, in the Bluegrass State, It's part of the three races along with the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, men ride big animals in the race."  Nothing.  In the three or four of these things I've seen so far, the only thing that's been confirmed is that Taboo is a terrible spectator sport, particularly when playing with people who aren't so smart.  It's absolutely awful. Whew.  Got that off my chest. 5:32:12 PM    Let's hear it. []