So if you head over to ESPN.com right now, the website of the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader in Sports, there's a story you won't find coverage of.
Sure, there's plenty about Hideki Matsui's walk-off home run last night, a blown call in the A's game, the Cotto/Pacquiao fight coming in November, and the latest rumors about where Roy Halladay will wind up.
But there's something missing.
Here's what I saw when I looked at Deadspin this morning.
Oh, no.
No.
Say it ain't so, Ben.
(That's me doing my Jim Nance impersonation, a man who, along with Bob Costas and the rest of the dinosaurs, speaks about Roethlisberger--a mediocre quarterback who just happens to be lucky--like they're golf buddies instead of, you know, strangers.)
Now, it looks like NBC Sports is who broke the story.
WATE in Pittsburgh saw fit to cover it, along with The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Along with Yahoo Sports.
And Sports Illustrated, and by default, CNN.
But for some reason, the Worldwide Leader just didn't see fit to put it above the fold, so to speak.
Now, unless this turns out to be a hoax or erroneous, in which case I'll apologize, not covering the news of sexual assault charges being brought against the star QB of the defending Super Bowl champions isn't just a case of dropping the ball, it's damn-near criminal. And let's see what other athlete-friendly sportswriters like Peter King have to say about this. We'll see if the the media goes after Big Ben (oh, the places that nickname can go now) with the same vigor that they went after Kobe.
But for right now, shame on you, ESPN.
More soon.
JS
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