CBS Sports Network (Formerly VS Network)

I like it so far.

FUCK ESPN. Too many talking heads and egos for my taste. I've been waiting ever since the CNN/SI network folded for a sports channel alternative.

Now we have it.

No they won't broadcast the best live sporting events. But I think they can OBJECTIVELY give us some sports reporting.

I sure fucking hope.

 

Sorry I was wrong on my post. It's NBC Network. Not CBS.

 

i stopped watching espn years ago. GL NBC

Can't remember the last time I watched anything other than 30 for 30 on any of their channels.

 Are any of you old enough to remember life before ESPN?

 I wouldn't hold my breath hoping for anything great or drastically different out of NBC.

Seems like a decent option...ESPN is the hype machine...others are the news and analyst machine

I've been wanting another option for years, I'm tired of talking tebow- Espn is more like E news, it's celeb news

Well we already have NFL Network, MLB Network, and NBA TV which are all pretty good alternatives to ESPN, not to mention the highlight shows on Fox Sports Net, but hey Ill give it a look.

I only watch NHL, NFL and MLB network for my highlights and analysis. Never turn on ESPN except for a live game

Ah yes, used to have to call the newspaper desk about midnight for the late hockey scores.

Yes kids, look up what a newspaper desk was.

I remember calculating Rotiserrie baseball scores by hand using the Tuesday USA Today paper.

And the Agony of Defeat on Wide World of Sports when th ski jumper fell of the jump.

 I remember having to watch the "George Michaels sports machine" late Sunday night to try to get some highlights/scores from NFL games (before ESPN got in full swing)..........local news was crap for sports.

 I'm not gonna wave a flag for ESPN but it's interesting to see/hear people bash them so much (some of it deserved nowadays) w/o realizing what they did for sports on TV..........we were lucky to see 2 cfb games on Saturdays..........tape-delayed NBA playoffs........World Series games in the middle of a work day.........lotta weird stuff back then.

thorpe.............always remember the WWOS shot of Nadia Cominiches' smiling red face as she bent her body backwards on the balance beam..........along with the ski jump wipe-out.

Hell, being on the east coast you wouldn't get some west coast scores till a couple of days later.  Too late for the next days paper so had to wait another day.

Mugg, they just stopped the sports machine only a year or so ago.  I can't believe it lasted that long.

ESPN is much like Microsoft: Both are trailblazers that changed the world so its only natural that some people will despise them. 

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Better than ESPN is having a huge satellite dish in the early 80s or late 70s.  That's what bars had, and some people had them in their home.  I think they were pretty expensive but my neighbor had one.    My neighbor was a big hockey fan and he watched a million games on his dish. 

Awesome channel...Wally Szczerbiak killing it CBS Sports 

C - Band  only thing was when the gears froze you were stuck with what ever channels that particular satelite.I remember getting wild feeds of horse races in Mexico. I too, have called the sports desk looking for scores.ESPN still blows for the most part.

 A bar in my town had a dish but the owner/staff had little knowledge of its capabilities. They let me play with it.......I was able to get games on it they never dreamed of. Only problem was the broadcasts shifted channels all the time. An NBA team on a homestand would be on Satcom3 -18 one night then Galaxy1-14 the next. Still, it was always fun searching through all the chans.

 That's my point..........I don't care much for what they've become but they shook the big 3 networks' tree & raised the bar for sports broadcasting.

I remember trying to follow the Flyers/Canadiens conference finals series while I was in law school.  We found some bar who would put it on, but we always had to find the game itself.  Because those feeds were basically raw, you'd occassionally hear an announcer say "how about that last fucking hit!" during a commercial break.  It was great.