Yea they did the same thing at one point during UNLV-Illinois this year; it was something along the lines of "the Rebels hopes of upsetting the Illinii are fading quickly..." I remember thinking "uhh... they're 2 pt favs."
And yea, ESPN can be very fucking annoying. It's targeted to pretty low intelligence people. They've gotten a little better by adding some sabremetrics to baseball reporting in recent years, but it's all pretty low-brow stuff. Higher-brow stuff is harder to produce and I think they know if they went that route they might find there's not as much to say so instead 25% of their coverage is a bunch of know-nothing journalists speculating over the various facets of non-stories (see: Tiger, Heat crying in locker room, Favre, etc, etc).
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