This morning on SportsCenter, for a brief moment, ESPN did it how they used to do it. After doing analysis on the Dayton Regional of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, anchors Josh Eliot and Hannah Storm gave us useful information.
UConn Head Coach Geno Auriemma has served as an assistant, or vice versa, under the coaches of the higher profile programs in the Dayton Regional. Temple Head Coach Tonya Cardoza, among others, was an assistant under Auriemma for 14 years.
So this train sounded the horn for ESPN because they let the stories that are inherent in sports present themselves as they reported them to us. The small bit was informative and alluded to all the sub-plots that will play themselves out as the women's tourney unfurls. We were spared the spin, speculation, and so forth that have unfortunately become the network's calling card and led us to arrange its call-letters as the Eternal Speculation and Pontification Network. That was not the case for a moment today.
Then the breaking news that Tiger Woods announced he would be coming back to the PGA for The Masters ruined that calm moment. Before you could say Perkins' waitress, the network was back up to the rumor-mongering and what not that has become their usual tricks.
Still, we here at The D-train Daily enjoyed the moment and hope that there is another like it in the future.
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