Cutting the cable, lets talk options and media setups

Cox has been sending me notes for months about my home phone service being disconnected if I didnt upgrade and this week was the deadline. Used it as a chance to cancel my cable subscription at the same time - will go down to internet only on Monday, so I am going to be coming back to this thread a lot I think.

I am not all that tech savvy so I've never heard of a lot of the services I'm reading about in this thread - I was assuming I will need something like Sling or Hulu or DirectTv now if I want things like ESPN?