This is the difference between STUART SCOTT and STEVEN A. SMITH. Both of these dudes work for ESPN but they aren’t equal.
I give STUART credit for infusing street slang into the broadcasting lexicon. SportsCenter isn’t your typical news programming because it covers sports at a sometimes breakneck lightning pace. STUART SCOTT has been the Black version of CHRIS BERMAN for the 11pm EST broadcasts. His wit is quick and his personality is effusive. STUART SCOTT makes you actually want to watch golf. Almost. That’s saying a lot as well since KEITH OLBERMANN was too wry sometimes and everybody else are whitebread cornballs.
STEVEN A. SMITH spends too much time yelling at the camera and then contradicting himself on a broadcast a day later. His middle initial ‘A’ stands for ASSHAT. He only aims for hyperbole which is why he bores me. He has no real opinion or loyalty. His only goal is Hollywood. I only pray that no one needs to cast a rat faced looking sportscaster in the next SHAQUILLE O’NEAL movie. If STEVEN A. SMITH became a movie star he would be fucking unbearable.
Cable and satellite television has caused the rocketboom in content proliferation. With every channel broadcasting twenty four hours a day there is a need to fill up the roster with programs AND personalities. If ESPN gave me a shot at a ‘hood version of a sports show the opening montage would have a shot of me pissing on the 8×12 glossy of STEVEN A. SMITH (no STEVEN A. SMITH).
Peep this hot shit…
Keith Olbermann is awesome. if you haven’t seen this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pdD6op0l2jk, you should watch it. it’s his special comment from his TV show on the 5 year anniversary of 911. i would assume you have seen it, but you hate television and everything.
I tried to fight SAS when he spoke at a class I had in grad school at Temple. He wasn’t national then just the sports writer for the Philly Inquirer, that mouth of his was gonna write a check his ass couldn’t cash (nullus).
Someone stands up for Stuart Scott! Wouldn’t have been me. But for cripes sake, Screamin’ A Smith annoys the hell out of me too.
Comparing Scott to Berman isn’t a good thing. Both of them have been worn out for years. But I give credit to Scott for staying sharp on stats/facts etc.
This had me rolling…
http://www.thesportshernia.com/basketball/announcers.html
Man, Scott is that dude, but that crazy eye makes me crazy. Crazy how it happened too. Crazy…
i don’t respect sportscasters….scratch that, i don’t respect men who can’t catch a damn ball. object comes flying at any self respectable man he catches it. with his hands, not his eye.
I can’t stand Stephen Smith and I get a double dose of his arrogant azz living in Philly. UGH.
I used to think Steven Smith was out spoken and kinda entertaining…. dude is a straight jerk….
i love me some scott smith, he’s a loud mouth bastard that looks like my ex and although he has more of a face for radio he reminds me of dudes that i know and he knows how to hold his own no matter who his guests are….
oops i’m tipsy i meant to say stuart scott!
Say it aint so! Tell me you’re not really standing up for Stuart Scott (aka the Corkified version of Will Smith). He’s the ultimate punk ass suburban negro: instead of being himself, he tries to prove to white people how “black” he is by shoehorning as many played out slang terms as he can into his broadcasts.
He’s the type to join a white frat and laugh when they call each other “nigga” at their ghetto parties.
He’s also the type to gas up fat white chicks by tellin them they’re “thick” and got “ghetto booties.”
When he was reporting that Dennis Scott was cut from some team, Stuart Scott decided to reminisce about the days of Scott and Shaq freestyling in the Orlando locker room. He ended the broadcast by saying that this “was what legends were made of.”
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
^ No, BOOYAH!
Here’s every Stu Scott highlight of the past 13 years:
“Let’s skate over to Dallas, as the Suns visited the hometown Mavericks who have won 12 straight at their crib. Lucky thirteen would make Mark “Only Built for” Cuban “Linx” get super hyphy!
Dirk got crazy ill from the gate, yo: 16 points in the first quarter! Son was ON FII-YAH! 2-time MVP Steve Nash had something to say about that. In the fourth quarter, Nash said “Allow me to re-introduce myself, kid!” by dropping dimes like they were HOT! Watch this lob to Amare: BOO-YEAH! Suns up by 3 with 4 mins to go.
Dallas would try to answer with a Jerry Stackhouse three….but he missed the rim completely! See…see…see what happened was…
6 seconds left, Suns lead by 1. Dirk gets the inbound pass, fakes left, fakes right, headfakes Boris Diaw and launches a shot softer than Birdman and Lil’ Weezy. BOO-YEAH! Mavs walk out with a win, Diaw tells his homies “My bad y’all” and Dirk and them are like butter ’cause their on a roll, winning their 13th straight at home! Let’s send it to Rachel Nichols for a post-game chat with Avery Johnson. What’s good, BEEYOTCH!??!”
The best Stuart Scott moments were his exchanges with John Madden on Monday Night pre-games. There’d always be a two to three second delay from Scott to Madden… ’cause Madden would be trying to figure out what Scott just said. Then Madden would grumble, “Well, uh, OK, Stuart.”
who needs television when we got dallaspenn.com?
@ Zilla Rocca: Brilliant.
I’ve always admired Stephen A., if only for the fact that his entire on-air persona comes off as a pasteurized, ends-driven version of Peter Finch’s character in Network. On the surface, dude is in the boredom killing business, but instead of calling out the moral inequities of Big TV, he’s exploiting its obsession with boisterous, colorful, opinionated caricatures for his own personal gain. (And ooh look, he’s not white! Bonus!) I can’t really be mad at that.
Anyone see his guest turn on General Hospital? Makes me wish I had TiVo.