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Your Heart Says No, But Your Eyes Say Yes
Grandpa returns home from the hospital today, and you're throwing a party to celebrate his successful triple-bypass surgery. But what can you serve that's both easy to prepare and economical? Thanks to the genius of And I Am Not Lying, your problems are solved! More »
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Look For The Large Wide Receiver At Your Door Today
You know how Pizza Hut offered to explain the importance of tipping to Lions wide receiver Roy Williams, a notorious avoider of the practice. Well, today, Roy Williams is doing his part to understand how the other 99 percent lives. More »
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Pizza Hut Wants To Be Friends With Roy Williams
You might remember that Lions wide receiver Roy Williams hates to tip pizza delivery guys. Well, it turns out, the president of Pizza Hut has taken notice, and he's offering Williams a job. More »
About Last Night ...
• NASCAR: Jamie McMurray takes Pepsi 400 checkered flag by a bottleneck.
• MLB: Rangers become hoist by the O's Bedard. Horsefly sex down 300%.
• Horse Racing: Panty Raid wins Grade 1 American Oaks, several Tri-Lambdas seen with winning tickets.
• NASCAR: Jamie McMurray takes Pepsi 400 checkered flag by a bottleneck.• MLB: Rangers become hoist by the O's Bedard. Horsefly sex down 300%.
• Horse Racing: Panty Raid wins Grade 1 American Oaks, several Tri-Lambdas seen with winning tickets.
Personally, we don't think any Arena Football League team — from Boise, no less — should ever be allowed to guarantee a victory. [Shakedown Sports]
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ESPN Would Like You To Know That Only Harold Reynolds Harasses People
Probably time to check in on that whole Woody Paige sexual harassment lawsuit business. Not that many new details have been released since yesterday, except that we've learned a bit more about Jay Crawford, amazingly. (Seriously, we didn't think they guy even knew how to read.) We did enjoy the following denials from both ESPN and Atlantic Video (the production company of "Cold Pizza.")
ESPN: "This suit is without merit and we deny the allegations.
Atlantic Video: "This lawsuit is without merit, and we deny the allegations. This matter will be vigorously defended."
Someone's following their talking points! (Though this is not the first time Paige has been accused of something like this.)
Seriously, though: Explain to us how Paige is defended here while Harold Reynolds was canned for allegations that were far less egregious than these. It's almost as if Norby — Norby! — was playing favorites or something. Wonder if it has anything to do with HR being a Mark Shapiro guy, and Paige being more of a Norby — Norby! — guy. Just a thought. Wild guess, really.
ESPN, 'Cold Pizza' Producer Sued For Harassment [Dow Jones]
Woody Paige Sued For Sexual Harassment [Deadspin]
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ESPN, Woody Paige Sued For Sexual Harassment
As if ESPN wasn't having enough troubles, word just broke: The network and Woody Paige are being sued by a former "Cold Pizza" makeup artist for sexual harassment. ("Fire him!") The juicy and terrifying details:
A woman who worked on the set of the ESPN talk show "Cold Pizza" is suing the sports network, claiming she was fired after complaining about sexual harassment by the show's host and one of its regular panelists. In the lawsuit, which also names ESPN host Jay Crawford and sports commentator Woody Paige, Rita Ragone claims that Paige pinched and fondled her and she was subjected to crude sexual comments from Crawford.
Ragone, a makeup artist and hair stylist from the Bronx, claimed Paige once grabbed her backside so forcefully, she was "propelled forward and into the air."
Now THAT'S a pinch! (Paige denies the claim.) We're not sure how one grabs someone's buttocks so hard that it propels them into the air, but if anyone could figure it out, man, it would have to be Professor Paige.
NYC Makeup Artist Sues ESPN, Claiming She Was Sexually Harassed [Associated Press]
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Creeping Fascism Update: Terror At The Ballpark
Be warned, rowdy baseball fans: If you act up at Seattle's Safeco Field, you're just liable to get a red card. Yep. Seattle Weekly is all over the story of the latest trend among Major League Baseball teams; cracking down on rude, loutish behavior in the stands (nothing yet on stifling Gary Sheffield). These days, if you heckle the opposition a little too loudly, and someone complains, it just could get you ejected from the premises. What is this, Russia? It isn't Russia, is it? More »
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Some Morning Fun Time At Fenway Park
So some of you might have seen the video of the infamous pizza-throwing incident at Fenway Park yesterday, but if you haven't — and you haven't heard Jerry Remy and Co's hilarious commentary on NESN — it's above. The NESN announcers didn't have the ability to talk to the fans, though, so The Boston Herald takes care of that. It's ultimately a tale of fans shit-talking each other and one beleaguered Boston girlfriend just trying to keep the peace while her drunken Red Sox boyfriend wants to fight. Boston ladies ... this is pretty much what every day is like, right? More »
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Man, Those 23 Loyal Fans Are Gonna Be Confused Now
So, if you take away a show's staff, and its location, and its format, and, lastly, its name, is it even the same show anymore? And isn't that a good thing? More »
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I Smell A Buddy Cop Movie
There are certain sentences that you just never imagined yourself typing, and here's one of them. Yesterday on Cold Pizza, Michael Clarke Duncan accused Skip Bayless of "putting him on front street." More »
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Clipping Coupons At "Cold Pizza"
We know we pick on "Cold Pizza" a little more than we should around here; it's kind of an easy target sometimes, and besides, since we're here by ourselves all day, it's the only thing on. It's not as bad a show as, say, "Quite Frankly" or "Teammates," which is not to say it will ever be confused with anything good. More »
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John Rocker And Cold Pizza: Two Bad Tastes That Taste Horrible Together
Former Atlanta Braves yokel John Rocker has been in New York City all day today, promoting a new show he has on the Spike Network. ("Look, he's by the 7 Train! Whoa!") More »
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Cold Pizza: Friend Of The Bloggers
Jamie Mottram, host of the Sports Bloggers Live radio show, and curator of his own sports blog, MisterIrrelevant.com, found himself on ESPN2's Cold Pizza this morning getting dirty looks from Skip Bayless. More »
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Introducing Coconut Jones
Hey, look, on "Cold Pizza": It's Coconut Jones! (He may look vaguely familiar to you.) More »
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Montana Honors His Corporate Obligations
So we were watching "Cold Pizza" this morning, waiting for Dana Jacobson to wave or wink or something, when Super Bowl legend Joe Montana and his wacky shirt showed up and started talking about high blood pressure. We thought this was a moment where he would discuss how scary playing in the Super Bowl is, how you have to be calm and make the right decisions. More »
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"Cold Pizza" Now Seen Even Less
As we watched yet another A-list huge Hollywood star attempt to withstand the blistering interrogation of ESPN2's "Cold Pizza" this morning — in this case, Nick Swardson, "star" of Grandma's Boy — we paused to reflect on "Cold Pizza"'s move yesterday to 10 a.m. The ESPN morning show was moved back two hours for "Mike and Mike In the Morning," which, essentially, is a camera in a radio studio. More »
