There will be no one left to cover ESPN--Neil Best, Watchdog

Which team has more money than anyone else? Answer: The ESPN team in Bristol, Ct. Neil Best notes the recent steroids-specialists who've left print for super-green pastures of ESPN. And they're not done, those Yankees..oops, I mean those guys at ESPN.

• If 95% of our information came from either Republicans or Democrats, people would say that's bad. But nobody says that about ESPN which virtually controls baseball information. When reporters say they want more "access," I wonder when they'll mean more access to the monopolistic processes at ESPN.

(Neil Best): "Meanwhile, The New York Times' Selena Roberts appears to be strongly in the mix to join SI, perhaps as a replacement for the departing (to ESPN) Rick Reilly, but other media outlets apparently are pursuing her as well, a list that likely includes . . . ESPN!

• Here is my prediction for the state of sports journalism five years from today: Every remaining print journalist in America will be working for ESPN except me.

WatchDog will critique ESPN and in its spare time cover everything else going on in sports, because there will be no one else left to do so."

• From Neil Best's Watchdog blog at Newsday, "ESPN's Conquering of Earth Nearing Completion," 11/14/07

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