General Discussion

when callers called in and reasonably informed hosts answered questions and had conversations with fans. Now it is nearly all about salary drama, personal drama etc. Tune in to most of these channels and you will constantly hear arguing about who is the GOAT of a particular sport.

What you won't generally hear is any discussion of track and field, very much about hockey beyond headlines, any real discussion or coverage of soccer, no discussion of NCAA baseball or wrestling, nothing beyond a headline about tennis, nothing about golf now that Woods is more or less kaput, nothing about general issues facing high school athletics and the list goes on.

But we will hear endless speculation and rumor about owners, stadiums, coaches, players, salaries, stupid things said on podcasts and on and on. What we won't hear is anybody talking much about the actual play of a player or the game beyond generalities like "they didn't play well defensively". But rare will be the conversation, for basketball as an example, where anybody talks about what specifically wasn't done defensively and what a player specifically wasn't doing such as moving their feet or was doing wrong such as trying to reach too much as opposed to move. Also rare would be anybody having the knowledge about a player and their career in college to speak about their skills development progression and their coaching. But the talking head host with the loudest mouth will talk all about how this or that player is "good" or "bad".