In general I like ESPN's new format, it just has some weird features that are kind of annoying. It's better than in years past, where they just didn't devote enough resources to the site and occasionally you'd get a "try back later" message, or pages would hang indefinitely.

In general, I think ESPN's web team overuses the javascript. When I load one of their player pages and click on "stats" there's an approx. 5 second delay before the page is completely rendered (on a 2.4ghz P4). During that time my CPU load spikes to 100%. I don't know what the hell they're doing, but I know I could probably do without it.