ESPN used to be the premiere place to see sports pundits going toe-to-toe with their opinions, with SportsCenter the network’s most lauded hub. These days, that luster is mostly gone, having left through the same door that many SportsCenter icons exited for greener pastures, and social media has only helped make that discourse more splintered. Case in point: longtime anchor Linda Cohn and sporadic anchor Keith Olbermann waged a quickly spiraling war of words online over hockey star Auston Matthews. Sort of, but not really.
