SportsNation

SportsNation is a feature section on ESPN.com, labeled "Where America's Sports Fans Meet".

Programming

Daily features include "The Show", which consisted of "The Morning Quickie with Dan Shanoff" until September 2006. Depending on the sports in season, there will be two to three shows on that sport. Currently, after The Morning Buzz, Fantasy analysis from either Christopher Harris, Matthew Berry, Stephania Bell, Scott Engel, AJ Mass, Nate Ravitz, Eric Karabell, and Tristan Cockcroft. On Monday Night, Buzz does a chat during the Monday Night Football game.

The Morning Buzz

"The Morning Buzz" is the first of many chat sessions and takes place every weekday from 10am EST to 11am EST, followed by chat sessions with other notable ESPN.com personalities; along with celebrities and athletes. The Morning Buzz discusses current sports news, along with pop culture, pop tarts and the chatters' lunch selection for the day. There is a 2 day ban for spamming.Frequent chatters include Kevin (Manassas), mitchel (Houston), Zach Rastall (Marinette, WI), and many more!

The Week in Review

The Week in Review (abbreviated WIR in the chat) is a long post written by Robert in Raleigh NC every Friday. The WIR generally is posted around 10:50 and reviews topics from the week in a story format. The topics which are generally unrealted, are tied together in some way. The WIR started when a chat user asked what happened during a week of chat that he missed. Robert responded using a similar format to the current WIR and most of the chat users enjoyed it, so the WIR became a weekly segment.

In late 2007, Robert posted that he had to leave the Morning Buzz to do discipline at work and the WIR stopped. During the last week in February, Robert returned to the chat and posted his first WIR on February 29th.

Here is an example of a WIR, that was posted on February 29th, 2008.

Robert (Raleigh NC): Back back back back back, the WIR is not gone, but back! I was cruising up to a grocery store in Negativetown / Killadelphia in my Yugo in search of the perfect Bloody Mary. The store was packed with all kinds of crazy people. One guy was trying to figure out the difference between Cilantro and Parsley while others were buying box wine for their party at the stupid hotel and some were getting ready for their appearance on the Pulse. Just when everything seemed normal, I misremembered where I was; this was Killadelphia and nothing is normal there. About that time employees started running through the store with machine guns attacking each other. I started telling bad knock knock jokes to try and calm people down, but it didn't work. I told them about my man crush on Will Ferrell, that didn't work either. I even offered them my Spice Girl tickets. Nothing. I ran back out to my car in 18.6 seconds and the worst thing possible had happened. Some stupid valet had backed into my bumper. My bumper was destroyed. I didn't even get my Bloody Mary mix. Now my pride, like my bumper, was destroyed. Then I realized it was February 31st, therefore, none of this happened. The WIR did not like hibernation and is glad to be back.

External links

* [http://sports.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/index?&lpos=globalnav&lid=gn_SportsNation_SportsNation SportsNation home page]
* [http://sports.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/story?page=ChatArchiveIndexHome SportsNation Chat Archives]