Duke How I Hate Thee and NCAA your on my list to

I am really really fed up with ESPN. I am watching one of the great games this year in the UCONN-Syracuse game and after the game they are discussing what this means. Of course the conversation comes to Duke, because God knows you cannot have a discussion about college basketball without talking about the greatest team ever right? I am just tired of ESPN being so obviously partisan toward some teams. Duke is good there is no question about that, but do I really need to constantly hear about they are the team to beat and how good redick is. No one talks about how good teams like UNC, UConn, and Kentucky are even though they have each won two championships in the last 13 years, and each have developed better pros and better overall results in the tournament (they did not choke when they were supposed to win). The issue with Duke is the fact that they came up the same time as the current viewers of ESPN, so ESPN sold out figured they focus on the team that most people follow and alienate the other 90% of people who watch college basketball. They do the same thing with football (Patriots), college football (Notre Dame, USC), and baseball (Yankees, to a lesser extend Red Sox). This is why ESPN's ratings are going down along with the fact sportscenter is not entertaining anymore since no one is funny, or clever and all the anchors are tools. I can get scores and news without listening to Stew Scott say something stupid and embarrassing for the entire African American population (Holla' at your boy!). ESPN used to be edgy and have opinions that may anger some people, but they did not worry about that. Now since they have to keep contracts with leagues and such it is so watered down that there are no actual opinions. They say what the NFL, NBA, or Duke wants to hear. I want to see something I did not know, or hear some opinion I would not usually hear on TV like "Duke does not have enough talent past Redick and Williams to win it all." But I won't because they rather devote 5 channels to a Duke game and make that extra 10 million than make something real fans want to watch. In the end Disney ruined ESPN by forcing them to focus on revenue rather than giving real sports fan a channel to watch. This is why I watch family guy or daily show at 11.

I am not very fond of many rules the NCAA has, but that is not my issue here. I was bored and looked up where the next 6 final fours will be and this is the list: Indianapolis, Detroit, Atlanta, San Antonio, Indianapolis, Houston. Now I will exempt Indianapolis since the NCAA has their offices there, but I guess I never knew that Texas was such a basketball hot bed. My point is the fact that from 1996-2011 there will be 0 final fours in the Northeast, where basketball is arguably most popular. This is ridiculous Texas sucks, and you cannot make the "middle america" argument that you can make for Detroit and Indianapolis, Texas is way down south. Basically I think D.C., Boston, NYC, and most notably Philly needs a Final Four. Twelve of the last 15 NCAA champions have been from the East half of the United States with 9 coming from the Eastern seaboard and three of those coming from the northeast itself. I think it is unfair that there will not be a NCAA championship within driving distance for me until at least 2012. So, just like ESPN the NCAA is alienated a large fan base.