Video of the Day: ESPN Staffer Says What Everyone Outside Thinks on an ESPN Show

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This is easily the highlight of the day. A great way to wrap up what's otherwise been a crappy week.

We and many, many other blogs have often called out the folks at ESPN for an "East Coast bias" or in some cases just picking favorites or creating stories where stories don't exist.

And guess, what. One of their own called them out on it. On one of their own TV shows.

Watch what happens on the lame ESPN show called "Numbers Never Lie". (Yeah, we've never watched it either)

Anyway, filling in today was ESPN radio host and ESPN Women writer Sarah Spain who was on the panel with Michael Smith and Jorge Something or other.

For some reason, the subject of the show became Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks. A team not in the playoffs and who had a crappy season. Yet the two male co-hosts could only talk about what the Knicks could do if they were in the playoffs.

That opening was all Spain had to hear. She tore into the pair and into ESPN's "East Coast Bias" saying they'd rather talk about a New York team out of the playoffs than any of the teams in the playoffs. And that nobody cares about the Knicks right now, we can talk about them when we talk about NEXT season.

And she's right. Nobody outside the Northeastern U.S cares right now. Nobody.

Watch and smile like we did.

The Spiral Continues: ESPN Asks Hugh Douglas To Leave

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Well, that experiment didn't last very long.

It appears ESPN has fired football analyst and former Philadelphia Eagle Hugh Douglas on the heels of a loud and public argument between Douglas and his now former "Numbers Never Lie" co-host Michael Smith at the NABJ convention in Orlando just over a weeks ago.

There were various reports of what was said, most saying Douglas used some unpleasant language in the dispute.

The Numbers Never Lie show is one of many ESPN shows struggling in the ratings. Several reports say July TV ratings were down 8% and for the year they are down considerably.

Add that to the impending arrival of FOX Sports 1 and NBC and CBS pushing their own Sports Networks and suddenly some cracks in the once impenetrable ESPN armor are beginning to appear.

As for Douglas, nobody is sure what the future holds, though he appears to have released a Tweet saying he will address what happened in the future at the appropriate time.