Who is this chick from ESPN.com???

[crazzedcats22]

Never heard of her in my life...

http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/chatESPN?event_id=19414

Robbie (Huntsville, Al): Hello Dana. What will Kentucky have to do to get to the big dance? Thanks!

http://assets.espn.go.com/i/sn2.gif Dana O'Neil: (2:22 PM ET ) Robbie: Win the SEC Tourney and get an automatic bid.


Kurt (Cleveland, Ohio): Dana, who you got in Rupp tomorrow, Kentucky or Arkansas? Is Jodie Meeks playing?

http://assets.espn.go.com/i/sn2.gif Dana O'Neil: (2:24 PM ET ) Kurt: Not sure about Meeks. And still not sure why he played against Vandy. Bizarre. I like Arkansas.

[IAM4UK88]

Don't know Dana, but she's off on both answers. If UK wins out at home, and takes down SC on the road, it won't matter what happens in Knoxville: 'Cats at 12-4 and SEC-E-2 would be a lock. That's L-O-C-K, regardless of SEC Tourney success.

First, of course: Beat Arkansas!

[BOURBON TOWN CAT FAN]

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/16154

a former Philadelphia Daily News writer who covered Nova basketball.

[ontheroadto8]

Unfortunately for ESPN, they are experiencing what all "growing" companies experience...a thinning of the "talent pool". Ten years ago, ESPN was about 1/10th their current size and were able to hire top quality talent at every position. Now, the job openings are outpacing the talent pool.

Similar thing happens in sports...take pitching in MLB. The league has gone from a 4 man rotation to a 5 man rotation and expanded the team count from 24 to 32 in the past 30 years. You end up with 64 starting pitchers who wouldn't have made the league under the previous format.

[macdon]

She is/was a sportswriter for the Philadelphia Daily News.

Any 'knowledge' she has of UK basketball is surface at best.

[Will Lavender]

She is a sportswriter for the Philadelphia Daily News.

Any 'knowledge' she has of UK basketball is surface at best.

I'd say she's seen a few box scores, watched pieces of games -- but really, how do you know much about a team unless you watch them? How could she follow Kentucky when she writes about Villanova? They would play on the same nights more of the time!

This is the real problem with sports journalism. The reporters (or the "experts") don't know as much as we do about these teams because they don't watch them. They analyze paper, not performance.

[IAM4UK88]

The reporters (or the "experts") don't know as much as we do about these teams because they don't watch them. They analyze paper, not performance.
But really, who cares? You know what you know, and your opinions are informed by things you've seen and experienced. Does a reporter's lack of knowledge take anything away from you? They're better ignored.

[wildcat74]

Is she the wasted one that went off at the roast recently?

[UKhoov]

Is she the wasted one that went off at the roast recently?
I asked the same thing in another thread that had something about her.

No that was Dana Jacobsen, that does the Cold Pizza show on ESPN in the morning