For all the (mostly deserved) flack the network gets, the 21st century sports fan is still forever indebted to ESPN for everything it’s done over the past 30 years. The world wide leader is the driving force behind the modern fan: the man or woman who can gleefully devote any given weekend to watching 48 hours of coverage pertaining to their sport of choice. But when any person, idea or organization grows so large and powerful, people are bound to find fault with it.
