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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:00 AM

ESPN's dishonest tap-dance

The network refuses to play it straight with Euro 2008 viewers about its announcers not being at the stadium.
King Kaufman

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  • Wednesday, June 25, 2008 05:14 PM

    This isn't anything new

    If you're unfortunate enough to only have been able to get you international soccer coverage through ESPN, you know that they never have guys live at the game. They've gotten better about making it seem as if they're there, but it's long been known that the guys are in a studio, and not in Europe or wherever....I always chalked it up to FIFA only providing one video feed like F1 does, but who knows....in any event, it wasn't a surprise that ESPN got caught with their pants down. Makes me long for SBS in Australia......

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