ESPN 1140

ESPN's AM affiliate broadcasts sports talk that assumes listeners care about statistical depth and argument, not cheerleading. The station covers NFL, NBA, college athletics, and the edges of the sports calendar - that's European football analysis at odd hours, tennis during Slams, combat sports when the rest of radio ignores them. Hosts rotate between the bloviating hot-take crowd (some of it forced, all of it loud) and analysts who clearly spent a decade in actual sports journalism before landing here. The difference shows instantly. You get thirty seconds of genuine insight followed by an h…