ESPN Dumps the Schwab

[Mark Jeffries]

Howie Schwab, the 26-year veteran researcher at the Worldwide Leader who was the biggest genuine sports geek at a place that you think you would be filled with sports geeks (and among, other things was rewarded for it by becoming the Ben Stein of a game show called "Stump the Schwab"), has been given the ax as part of the Disney-ordered corporate layoffs for seemingly no other reason than too big a salary--but hey, how about that new "SportsCenter" set that's costing perhaps how much they paid Schwab for his 26 years of service to the sports fans of America?:

http://deadspin.com/espn-loses-its-mind-what-howie-schwab-meant-to-bristol-514002446

Oh, yeah, Schwab's counterpart at ESPN the Magazine also got dumped.  What a time for Fox to start Fox Sports One...

[David Bruggeman]

I'm kind of surprised Schwab was still with the four-letter, given the increasing emphasis on (occasionally informed) opinion in Bristol.  It's too bad he's out the door, and it would be nice to see either the sports channels at NBC or FOX grab Schwab and his print colleague.

David

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Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:24 PM
Subject: [TV orNotTV] ESPN Dumps the Schwab

Howie Schwab, the 26-year veteran researcher at the Worldwide Leader who was the biggest genuine sports geek at a place that you think you would be filled with sports geeks (and among, other things was rewarded for it by becoming the Ben Stein of a game show called "Stump the Schwab"), has been given the ax as part of the Disney-ordered corporate layoffs for seemingly no other reason than too big a salary--but hey, how about that new "SportsCenter" set that's costing perhaps how much they paid Schwab for his 26 years of service to the sports fans of America?:

http://deadspin.com/espn-loses-its-mind-what-howie-schwab-meant-to-bristol-514002446

Oh, yeah, Schwab's counterpart at ESPN the Magazine also got dumped.  What a time for Fox to start Fox Sports One...

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[Joe Hass]

Quite simply, all that ESPN gives a rat's ass about right now is obtaining sports properties and meeting Disney's profit goals (despite the obvious conflict between the two points). Everything else is irrelevant. 

As for FS1, I have a horse in this race, as fellow former The Scarlet Letter (Athens High School, Troy, Michigan) writer Ryan Field got the call from Fox Sports Detroit to do hosting work there. While I have a general dislike of Fox Sports, I hope FS1 buries ESPN deeper than the Marina Trench.