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“If ESPN covered the Last Supper, you’ve got to figure they would’ve put Judas on the Budweiser Hot Seat.”
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Couch Slouch: Things to keep in mind while watching sports on TV this weekend. “Who says Hollywood is a tough town? With no prior experience, Michael Strahan got a broadcasting job and an acting job.” [Wash Post]
Two Internet Writers May Have Cost Chris Carpenter the NL Cy Young
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The BBWAA has acknowledged the internet folk of late, but their glasnost hit a snag in this year’s NL Cy Young voting. Both ESPN.com’s Keith Law and Baseball Prospectus’ Will Carroll bucked conventional wisdom slightly, leaving St. Louis starter Chris Carpenter off their...
KKK Planning “Rally” at Ole Miss-LSU Football Game
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LSU-Ole Miss: The KKK is angry that Ole Miss is no longer playing “From Dixie with Love,” so those hooded clowns are going to plan a “rally” in Oxford Saturday when the Rebels play the LSU Tigers. The KKK plans on marching in full robes, which, believe it or...
Bill Simmons is Serving an ESPN-Imposed 2-Week Suspension From Twitter
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Bill Simmons had a book signing in Beaverton, Oregon last night, and a reader who attended wrote in that he “overheard” ESPN’s Sports Guy telling a fan that he was “suspended from tweeting for two weeks” and that all he was allowed to tweet about was his...
Bowl Game You Don’t Want Your Team Playing In
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BCS Announcers: Bad news if your team makes the Sugar Bowl -Thom Brennaman and Brian Billick will be the announcers. We still cringe at the thought of Brennaman slurping Tim Tebow in January. The good news is that Musburger and Herbstreit will call the National title game and the Rose...
Ballin’: Kobe Passes Jabbar, Jerry West Up Next
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Chicago 93, LA Lakers 108: Pau Gasol made a triumphant return for the champs, scoring 24 points and taking 13 rebounds in victory. Kobe scored 21, and in the process passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the 2nd leading scorer in franchise history. Kobe should overtake Jerry West for first...
50 Cent’s Posse vs. Marv Albert
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50 Cent vs. Marv Albert: Marv went on Jimmy Kimmel this week. So did 50 Cent. Too bad 50 Cent’s posse didn’t recognize Marvelous. “As Albert arrived, with an entourage of one, TNT public relations specialist Jeff Pomeroy, there was a sudden scuffle when a multitude...
The Roundup: The Most Overpaid Actors in Hollywood
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Katy Perry … guess what happens when you report that your weed was stolen? … the middle class squeeze continues … Dawson Leery’s marriage ends after six years … Oprah’s show will leave ABC in 2011 … if you were married in Texas over the last...
RIP Stefanie Spielman
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RIP Stefanie Spielman: The wife of former Ohio State football star Chris Spielman lost her 11-year battle with cancer today. She was 42. [TV, Previously]
Thursday Night’s All Right for Running the Ball
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In a matchup that can only be described as even more scintillating than last week’s epic 49ers-Bears tilt, tonight’s installment of NFL Network’s much-plugged Thursday Night Football again features two teams with playoff aspirations. I remember when I was young and...
Here’s Your Chance to Deliver, Bud
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Bud Selig: The clumsy MLB commish plans on “tightening” up baseball’s postseason schedule. Great! Then, he followed it up with, “it’s difficult.” This left Rob Neyer “guardedly optimistic” which might as well be code for, “not happening...
NFL Football Wives: Plenty of Jennifer Walcott and Not Enough October Gonzalez
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E! aired its second installment of athlete wives last night (sorry for the low picture quality; we don’t have E! in high-def). It featured plenty of playmate Jennifer Walcott, the fiancee of former safety Adam Archuleta. The first 15 minutes of the show were dedicated to Walcott...
Rachel Hunter’s Still Attracted to Athletes
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Rachel Hunter: After getting dumped by hockey player Jarret Stoll seven weeks before their wedding, the model who was famous in the 80s has taken up with a former race car driver. “The beauty from New Zealand partied with multi-millionaire former Formula 1 driver Eddie Irvine...
This Guy Seems Upset Josh Pastner Went to Memphis
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Josh Pastner: He’s been the toast of the college hoops coaching world this week - labeled a prodigy and a magnetic recruiter for a) Nearly upsetting No. 1 Kansas on Tuesday, and b) Hauling in a wicked good (the best?) recruiting class for next year. Everyone loves him …...
College Football: The First of Two Mostly-Family Weekends
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This weekend isn’t great. Couple of things to figure out in the Pac-10, a few to determine in the ACC, some clouds in the BCS picture that likely won’t be resolved until around 11 pm on December 5, and the beginnings of two rivalry weekends back-to-back. It’s always...
Mark Mangino: Not Fired (Yet) But Now He’s Fat and an “Abusive Bully”
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Mark Mangino: “Mark Mangino is an abusive bully. He’s been one from the moment he stepped on campus at Kansas. He used bully tactics to build a winning football team in 2007 and intimidate anyone on campus who dared to stand in his way. Abusive bullies are dangerous, and leaders...
Five Years Ago Today: A Beer-Throwing Lout Ignited the Pacers-Pistons Brawl in Auburn Hills
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We’ll start with an unpopular opinion: Ron Artest isn’t to blame for the Malice at the Palace.
* As Bill Waton on the replay, it wasn’t that hard of a foul on Ben Wallace. Clearly, Wallace overreacted.
* Was Artest foolish to lie down...
The JaMarcus Russell Experiment Has Finally Ended
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Bruce Gradkowski, New Oakland Raiders QB: He’s from outside Pittsburgh, the same area that produced Hall of Famers Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Joe Namath, and Johnny Unitas. Supposedly, Gradkowski posted better high school stats than all of them. Gradkowski has not thrown a TD pass...
France Beating Ireland: It was the Ref’s Fault, Not Thierry Henry
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Thierry Henry controlled the ball with his hand. He flicked it to William Gallas who headed it into the net. The goal, scored in extra time, sent France to the World Cup. On the surface it’s an unrequited romantic narrative. The heroic Irish were felled by dastardly Frenchman...
ESPN Ombud Finally Weighs in on Steve Phillips
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ESPN Ombud Misses Overall Point: Finally, ESPN Ombudsman Don Ohlmeyer has reacted to the Steve Phillips morass. It is rambling and underwhelming. “A number of mailbag contributors questioned what steps ESPN was taking to ensure that a “Phillips situation” wouldn&...
Ronnie Brown is Out for the Year
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Ronnie Brown Out For the Year: Miami’s leading rusher and the linchpin of the successful Wildcat offense, has been lost for the year due to a right foot injury. By season’s end, Brown will have only played in 32 of his last 48 games due to injuries. This is actually bad...
Michael David Barrett, the Creepy Erin Andrews Stalker, Was a Persistent Little Bugger
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“Michael David Barrett, 48, called seven different hotels in Columbus, Ohio, in January 2008 to find the broadcast beauty and set up shop in an adjacent room, new court documents reveal … In Nashville, the door peephole into Andrews’ room was altered with a hacksaw...
Jeremy Shockey: LeBron Could Never Play in the NFL
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Jeremy Shockey vs. LeBron James: The Saints tight end dropped a strange gauntlet on twitter last night. The uninformed Shockey must have had one too many energy drinks - James was an accomplished high school football player, is perhaps the most freakish physical specimen in NBA (sports...
Derek Jeter and Minka Kelly Swimming in St. Barts
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Derek Jeter and Minka Kelly are in St. Barts, frolicking in the transparent blue water and presumably sipping drinks with tiny umbrellas in them. It appears as if, in the photo on the right, Jeter is lobbying the Friday Night Lights star to get a dog. [NY Post; Previously here and here]
Shaq Ducks Arenas Awkwardness With Shoulder Injury
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November NBA is probably the best thing going down tonight. The Cavs have won five-straight and they’re going against the Wizards who have lost six in a row. This would have been far more intriguing, if Shaq had been playing.
Wilt, Kareem, Shaq all ended up with the Lakers. What...
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