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ESPN earned 30+ Emmys using fake names for on-air talent

Updated Jan. 12: According to a report by the New York Post, ESPN’s former senior vice president of production Lee Fitting’s dismissal was directly tied to the fake-name Emmy scheme....

If you’re not watching Coco Gauff, you’ve got Spectrum

After a week of US Open coverage, two things are apparent: You need to see Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz in person to really appreciate them, and for some tennis fans, that might be the only option. A carriage dispute between Charter Communications and Disney led to the Mouse pulling all its channel...

ESPN’s <i>College GameDay</i> has its new resident jackass — and he’s not the worst

In its heyday, College GameDay was the de facto No. 2 studio show behind Inside the NBA. Pregame shows are notorious for filling the air time with a panel of experts struggling to find opportunities to make points or move the conversation into a meaningful discussion. I challenge you to watch the Su...

The internet finally killed ESPN Classic

I guess I’m old enough to start a column with “kids these days” because I actually have a “kids these days” moment. Before you could break down, clip and analyze every pick and roll of a Wednesday night Pistons-Wizards game, kids these days don’t know how hard it was to rewatch your favorite games l...

Of Course Two White Guys Got the Job

What must it feel like to be a woman covering football at ESPN to see this latest news from Bristol....

Chris Fowler Would Really Like Everyone To Be Nicer To Pizzagate Truther Tennys Sandgren 

When it became clear late in the third set that American Tennys Sandgren was probably going to lose his Australian Open quarterfinal match to South Korean 20-year-old Hyeon Chung, ESPN commentators Chris Fowler and Patrick McEnroe decided it was the time for a perfunctory discussion of how Sandgren ...

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Kirk Herbstreit Scared Shitless By Zombies

Chris Fowler played a wonderful prank on Kirk Herbstreit tonight, surprising the ESPN analyst with some characters from the Eastern State Penitentiary haunted house during halftime of tonight’s Notre Dame-Temple game. It’s the first time a zombie has been on Saturday Night Football since Eminem’s ap...

Report: Rece Davis To Replace Chris Fowler On <i>College GameDay </i>[Updated]

Chris Fowler, host of ESPN's immensely popular College GameDay for the last 25 years, is out, according to James Andrew Miller:...

Fowler Falls For Fake Website, Makes Crazy Claims About Tennis Star

Tonight's Australian Open coverage on ESPN2 featured announcer Chris Fowler explaining to the audience that Japanese pro Kei Nishikori is, among other things, the highest-paid tennis player in the world and the owner of a restaurant chain, a soccer team, and clothing and perfume lines. None of tho...

Wake Up!

It's Saturday. College GameDay is in Oxford. SEC Nation is in Starkville. (There's probably soccer being played somewhere, too.) The rest of your Saturday crew will be here shortly. ...

Jesse Palmer Saved Chris Fowler's Life With The Heimlich Maneuver

Jesse Palmer is more than a pretty face, impossible hairdo and your mom's favorite. He's a hero! Just listen to Chris Fowler....

Lee Corso Called Kansas State QB Collin Klein "Calvin" And Chris Fowler Absolutely Lost It

Longtime viewers of ESPN's College GameDay have come to expect the occasional misstatement or malapropism from Lee Corso; the reality is that Coach hasn't been 100% since his 2009 stroke. Today's mistake, though, was funny enough that Chris Fowler broke down on the set Jimmy Fallon-style, taking a...

We're Searching For The Greatest Clip In <em>College Gameday</em> History

Back when I was going to school in the early 1990s, watching College GameDay was one of the highlights of my week. It still remains a rare diamond in the ESPN shitpile, left relatively unchanged since the early days of Chris, Lee, and Kirk (adding Desmond Howard to the mix was bullshit). But the sho...

ESPN Will Now Attempt To Be Kind Of Honest About Its Personalities' Endorsements

The ESPN transparency project, otherwise known as the giving of a different name to public relations, otherwise known as "Front Row," released the company's new endorsement policies last week and came out with a list of its commentators' "endorsement relationships" this morning. We documented a fa...

ESPN Personalities Have Shilled For A Lot More Than Just Nike: A Video Compilation

Last week, The New York Times reported that three ESPN College GameDay anchors — Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, and Lee Corso — have had shoe contracts with Nike. We've known about Erin Andrews's endorsement deal with Reebok for some time, but the news that these three have worn Nike and agreed t...

Chris Fowler Feels Clemson Fan's Pain (Not Really)

If you watched Georgia Tech beat Clemson two weeks ago, you might have noticed this Tiger fan's Oscar reel for Most Distraught Football Fanatic and the announcing crew's on-air sympathy. Of course, off the air was a different story....

Chris Fowler, Mrs. BodyShaping

Remember "BodyShaping?" That old ESPN show that featured, uh, people in Spandex lifting things and hopping around at a location of indistinguishable but distinctly beach-like flavor? Well, the host of that show was a woman named Jennifer Dempster, and, as MJD touched on this weekend, she recently ma...