OT: Alexa Philippou Joins ESPN

[MSGRET]

It's sad the way venture capitalists have no qualms destroying newspapers. The Courant has lost over 40 people in editorial over the last few months and has only made a couple of new hires.

The late Sheldon Addison rescued the Las Vegas Review Journal from financial problems. If it hadn't been for his willingness to lose money because he loved the paper and thought it best that Vegas have it's owner live in the same town it would most likely be shuttered or have a major reduction in staff. He kept the reductions to a lot less than the previous owners were contemplating, thankfully his wife has carried on with the same mindset.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Seemingly Alexa's first article with ESPN.com:

Why South Carolina's Aliyah Boston should win national player of the year

Aliyah Boston is ESPN's pick for national player of the year. Who else should be All-Americans? Who are the coach and freshman of the year favorites?

www.espn.com

 

[TeamFirst!]

The late Sheldon Addison rescued the Las Vegas Review Journal from financial problems. If it hadn't been for his willingness to lose money because he loved the paper and thought it best that Vegas have it's owner live in the same town it would most likely be shuttered or have a major reduction in staff. He kept the reductions to a lot less than the previous owners were contemplating, thankfully his wife has carried on with the same mindset.

Then again, since he was making about $23 million a day last time I checked, it could just be that he wanted to influence Nevada politics and it was chump change to him.

 

[eebmg]

Guess writing for ESPN or Courant is the same

UConn's Paige Bueckers is back; what does it mean for the Huskies?

How will Paige Bueckers' return after almost 12 weeks impact UConn's rotation, especially with the Huskies playing some of their best ball of 2022?

www.espn.com

 

[nomdoux]

After just reading Michelle's [Voepel] power rankings, I hope she is being moved on.

[via Twitter @DougFeinberg] It's great that @alexaphilippou got hired by @espn as she'll do an awesome job for them. Too bad they didn't want to make this commitment when @grahamhays was let go by the company a year ago.

ESPN needed someone sane to counter the insanity coming from Monica McNutt!

Kudos again to Alexa & ESPN for hiring her. I was also a big Graham Hayes fan-- for both his WBB & USWNT coverage.

Unfortunately, I think far less of Michelle Voepel & Monica McNutt. Former has a clear anti-UConn bias & latter is virtually unwatchable in studio: spastic, mistake-prone, talks over analyst(s), poor elocution.

 

[Vowelguy]

Michelle voepel is anti UConn? Lol

 

[Dganga]

Actually if you follow Michelle’s writing’s over the years, not too hard to imagine she has an anti-UCONN bias. She hides it well in professionalism and masked comments/slants. Maybe she’s responding to ESPN drumbeats but really glad Alexa is over there.

 

[eebmg]

Alexa had a significant on-air assignment tonight on ESPN Sportscenter reporting on Paige's comeback. No negative UConn Bias on this one.