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Dan Marino, The Early Broadcasting Years

Leitch — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:45:26 EST

We'd never seen this old video, of Dan Marino, back in the Len Dawson "Inside The NFL" days, making a verbal flub and kind of getting a little pissy about it. (When you've scared Len Dawson, you've scared the world.) It's from 2000, when Marino was first trying out as a broadcaster — and was, and is, better than many might have expected — and he brought playoff-level intensity to the desk. We can tell it's playoff-level intensity, because he screwed up and lost.
Barstool Sports]

Dan Marino May Look Much Different Next Year On CBS

mjdeadspin — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:12:07 EDT

If you're not familiar with PostSecret.com, it's a website that invites the general public to send in their deepest, darkest secrets on a postcard, and then they publish them on their website. It's a popular website. There's a book in publication, and a lot of people, I suppose, find it therapeuatic and comforting to get their secrets out there, even if it's anonymously.

Anyway, the above postcard appeared on PostSecret.com today. And if that is the worst secret that someone is protecting, then I think that person is doing alright. He or she probably isn't alone in this. I can't say that I've ever wished for Dan Marino to lose two limbs, but not a Sunday goes by during football season that I don't wish for someone to drop a piano on Terry Bradshaw.

See a Secret...Share a Secret [PostSecret.com]

Ghosts Of Web Site Past

Leitch — Tue, 23 May 2006 16:15:22 EDT

We don't know why, but we guess we kind of thought that Web sites representing companies that were obviously proven fraudulent and felonius would, as a matter of courtesy, either disgorge themselves from the Interweb, or, at the very least, stop updating.

But apparently not. Here's the official site of Scientific Nutrition For Advanced Conditioning, the fake foundation Victor Conte set up to promote ZMA. That was his zinc product he tried to sell by using testimonials from athletes like Barry Bonds and Bill Romanowski, who were repaid with cutting edge steroids. The famous picture of Conte and Bonds is STILL beaming from the front page of the site, and it's amusing to see that the list of athlete clients is still available. The usual suspects — Bonds, Tim Montgomery, Marion Jones — are there, but some surprising names include Dan Marino, Michael Chang, Jim Courier and Terrell Davis.

Oh, and you can still buy their products too.

Scientific Nutrition For Advanced Conditioning [Official Site]

The Most Loathsome Talking Head of Them All

Leitch — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:53:18 EDT

An enterprising young Atlanta Braves blogger, truly a guy after our own hearts, had become exhausted with screaming at his television set every time he turned on ESPN. As a way to rage against the machine, he set up The Road From Bristol, a 64-person bracket meant to resolve, once and for all, who the most loathsome ESPN personality was. His readers voted on each matchup, and the winner turned out to be ... Stuart Scott! Everyone's favorite boo-yaher sneaked past Stephen A. Smith in the Final Four and Skip Bayless in the finals. We only wish Stuart could give Stuart the trophy himself.

Anyway, now that that's done, our intrepid blogger is continuing to tilt at the proverbial windmill: He's set up a bracket for the most loathsome non-ESPN sports personalities. Currently, Steve "Psycho" Lyons is hammering Craig Sager; earlier, Tim McCarver — an early favorite — drilled hapless Dan Marino. Go vote!

The Road From Bristol (NIT Version) [BravesBeat]
The Road From Bristol (Final ESPN Bracket) [Braves Beat] (PDF)