{"id":3721,"date":"2009-01-04T23:08:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T07:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:33:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T19:33:33","slug":"goodbye-expn-hello-espn-action-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3721","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye EXPN, Hello ESPN Action Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/espnaction.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/espnaction.jpg','popup','width=970,height=731,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/espnaction-tm.jpg\" height=\"324\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Espnaction\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming but it looks like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a><\/strong> has finally begun to treat action sports as a part of their sporting news mix and not just some kind of fringe &#8220;X&#8221; thing out on a site by itself.  Starting today <strong>EXPN<\/strong> is gone and in its place is <strong>ESPN Action Sports<\/strong> at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The new, nicely uncluttered subsection of the ESPN.com site is reportedly much more Google friendly and will be bringing &#8220;shitloads of traffic, bro.&#8221; It was supposed to have its own promo on the homepage of ESPN.com but we couldn&#8217;t find any and the new section doesn&#8217;t currently have an RSS feed (it should be up by the end of the week according to inside sources). A link to the Action Sports page is, however,  listed under the ALL SPORTS menu in the main navigation of the ESPN site (three spots from the bottom of the list behind Rugby and just ahead of &#8220;bassmaster.&#8221;) Apparently the nav is ranked by importance to the average ESPN.com visitor.<\/p>\n<p>While we don&#8217;t exactly consider &#8220;rally&#8221; an action sport, the new index does give each of the sports their own sub-sub homepage which will technically allow visitors to deep link straight to the content they&#8217;re interested in. Still, this &#8220;segregated part of the whole sports world&#8221; idea does result in a page with a couple snowboard stories right next to a big promo for the <strong>Gridiron Playoff Challenge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Guess some things will never change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com\/action<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming but it looks like ESPN has finally begun to treat action sports as a part of their sporting news mix and not just some kind of fringe &#8220;X&#8221; thing out on a site by itself. Starting today EXPN is gone and in its place is ESPN Action Sports at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3742,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions\/3742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}