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    Marvel: No Road Rage Here

    Earlier, we reported — as much as we "report" anything — that ESPN.com "executive editor" John Marvel had left/been forced out of ESPN after an incident in the ESPN parking lot. Marvel apparently has his Finger On The Pulse Of The Sports World, because he saw the item and wanted to clarify some matters. First off, he denies any road rage story — as well as a few other rumors floating around — and says he's starting a new gig soon. More »

    1:43 PM on Wed Sep 14 2005
    By Leitch
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    Executive Editor Bounced From ESPN.com

    johnmarvel.jpgDo you know this man? His name is John Marvel, and he was vice president and executive editor of ESPN.com until very, very recently. But now the Bristol folks have canned him/asked him to resign, and a reliable tipster tells us it's because of what they're calling a "road rage incident in the ESPN parking lot." We're not sure what that means, but, well, we're curious. (We hope he hijacked something that belongs to Jackpot Jay. Just because.) More »

    9:23 PM on Tue Sep 13 2005
    By Leitch
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    Some ESPN People Aren't That Horrible

    vanpelt.bmpWe rip on ESPN a lot here, so we feel like we should point out that some people actually like a few of the anchors over there. Some radio DJ has compiled a list of the "personalities" he actually doesn't hate. Included are Scott Van Pelt, Dan Patrick and (cough) Mel Kiper, Jr. The Sporting Fools chime in with their own list, which pops in Shelley Smith, Michele Tafoya and (ahem) Brian Kenny. More »

    1:43 PM on Fri Jul 29 2005
    By Leitch
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    Checking In On ESPN's Worst

    It's been 24 hours, so we feel we have to check in on BravesBeat's Road From Bristol, which allows visitors to vote in a 64-person bracket to decide just who truly is the most loathsome ESPN personality. More »

    3:18 PM on Wed Jul 27 2005
    By Leitch
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    Who's The Worst ESPN Personality Of Them All?

    espnflag.jpgThe folks at BravesBeat are making the world a better place. They have created an official 64-man tournament bracket to decide who exactly the most loathsome ESPN personality is. It's a doozy of a bracket: No. 1 seeds include Stephen A. Smith, Chris Berman, Stuart Scott and Dick Vitale. (No. 2 seeds, if you're curious, are Lee Corso — who was already upset by Tim Legler — Skip Bayless, Michael Irvin and Joe Morgan.) More »

    11:18 AM on Mon Jul 25 2005
    By Leitch
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    How To Make Everyone You Know Want To Kill You

    In a description of the upcoming ESPN Mobile program, which will give Sprint customers easier access to sports scores while they're bashing their phones against their heads because they're not working because they're Sprint, ESPN Mobile senior vice president Manish Jha described some of the other services that will be provided when it launches next year. The highlight: More »

    11:13 AM on Wed Jul 20 2005
    By Leitch
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    ESPY Mania!

    Are you like us? Did you spend last night with your eyeballs rubber-cemented to the television screen, desperate to see who was going to win the ESPYs? Could Lance Armstrong three-peat? Who would win craziest play? What exactly does Curt Schilling look like in a tux? These are important questions. We had to know, and fast. More »

    11:48 AM on Mon Jul 18 2005
    By Leitch
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    ESPN's Cool Podcasters

    From DesignTechnica News this morning: More »
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    ESPN Acknowledges It's Sucking The Life Out Of Sports

    The New York Post's resident prude Phil Mushnick digs up an internal memo at ESPN that admits they're constantly stealing scoops from other non-ESPN journalists and claiming them as their own. We've noticed this several times — we almost expected a crawl this morning that said "ESPN's Marc Stein reports that the Spurs have won the 2005 NBA Finals" — and are kind of touched that ESPN even looked closely at itself to notice. From the memo: More »

    10:16 AM on Fri Jun 24 2005
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    Latest by Trackback: It looks like we can add the UConn athletic department to the growing list of people who think ESPN is more »

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    ESPN Pretends It Cares

    espn.jpgIn a job that has to be the equivalent of being the head of the Nevada Gaming Commission, ESPN has hired George Solomon as its ombudsman, writes Michael Hiestand in USA Today. He will write a monthly column for ESPN.com pointing out "conflicts of interest" at the Worldwide Leader. Considering the contracts the network has with every major sport, and considering the lack of air time to run corrections, and considering ... well, jeez, considering that EVERYTHING ESPN DOES IS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST, well, Solomon's first column should be about the length of 10 Bill Simmons mailbags. (Though with fewer references to his children.) More »

    3:45 PM on Wed Jun 1 2005
    By Leitch
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