No one is more plugged into college football than Brett McMurphy, the reporter who broke most of the major national stories on conference realignment the past few years.
Len Elmore, a former Maryland and NBA star and Harvard Law graduate, is one of the most thoughtful college basketball commentators on television. And Ed Werder? He's a go-to guy when it comes to reporting on the NFL.
But in what has become a depressingly familiar scenario to all of us in the media, they were among 100 journalists laid off by ESPN last week.
Layoffs likely were inevitable, given the bottom line in Bristol, Conn.