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Esquire talked to dozens of industry experts to gauge which current players are best suited to shout clichés and pass off conventional wisdom as shrewd analysis in a future life. Cue the laugh track. [Esquire] More »
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The network had offered him a multi-year deal to stay, but Rome turned it down. Rome Is Burning had been on ESPN since 2004, and Rome is said to be getting an "expanded role" at CBS Sports Network. Maybe ESPN can replace him with a show that includes Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless. Oh, wait. [The Big Lead] More »
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Back in May, we got a tip from a reader named Alex who, bored one night, found himself watching a rerun of HBO's Real Sex with some friends. If you're unfamiliar, Real Sex is one of the many proto-reality TV artifacts from the 1990s in which people wearing flannel shirts talked openly about penises. (This was the era when Kurt Loder became something like our national sex-ed teacher. An entire generation of Americans learned about genital herpes from a guy who interviewed Jewel for a living, as well they should have.) Anyway, Alex wrote: More »
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As the year-end lists filter in this month, remember this: Not many people have had a more humiliating year than NBA free agent Kris Humphries. A year ago, Humphries was known as a mediocre pro basketball player who came off a mediocre bench for the mediocre New Jersey Nets. Now, after a 72-day marriage with Kim Kardashian, he is known as a mediocre free agent who was mercilessly used by a family of reality stars to orchestrate a made-for-TV wedding with a $17 million payout. More »
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When David Beckham left Real Madrid five years ago for what was billed as a "million-dollar-a-week" deal with the L.A. Galaxy, he said that he had two goals: He wanted to win an MLS championship, and he wanted to use his name to help raise the league's profile. More »
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The NBA lockout is nearing the end of its fifth month, and there is no end in sight. This sucks for players, who will miss paychecks; it sucks for fans, who will be forced to find other ways to occupy their winter nights; it really, really sucks for TV networks that carry local NBA games and now have to account for three and a half hours of replacement programming. With that in mind, we present to you the first edition of The Shit Replacing Basketball On TV Tonight. We'll check back in on the miserable television listings soon. More »
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Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck have been staging an on-air protest against the NBA lockout for the past week or so. How did we miss this? Perhaps because we are more familiar with Saturday Night Live's version of The View than we are with the actual The View. More »
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My God, my God, thou hast forsaken me. [Deadline, h/t Patrick] More »
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It's October (almost)! And you know what that means: everyone you know will now pretend to have cared about baseball for the past six months so that they can safely pretend to care about it for the next month. Prepare yourself for those unendurable office talks with the guy who just learned that the "J" in Pujols is actually pronounced Spanish-like, and for all of Florida to realize that it has a baseball team or two. But this is America, where everyone is welcome! Here's your guide to finding baseball on a screen for the next four weeks. More »
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"Saturday's Game May Be Televised". Tiger Fever! Catch it and die! More »
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Returning from a commercial break, FOX announcer Chris Myers believed his mic was off when he thanks an unknown individual and then specified "bourbon on the rocks." In-game drink order? Post-game plans? What he drank six of last night and that's why he threw up on broadcast partner Tim Ryan's shoes? The world may never know. But let's just assume in-game drink order. More »
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There is a show called Shark Tank that exists. It has something to do with entrepreneurs and their business ideas and inventions, and Mark Cuban is on it sometimes, and he knows people in basketball. Therefore, here is Bill Walton dressed as a water bottle. [Twitter] More »
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This may surprise some of you: Entourage, that show about rich men and their cell phone conversations, is still on the air. It's the final season, and so the producers are really going all out: there's a pro athlete cameo (or five or ten) in just about every episode. Last night's show, "Second to Last," included Mark "Cuuuuubes" Cuban, Mark Texeira, Amar'e Stoudamire, Michael Strahan, and Alex Rodriguez in just over 20 minutes of air time. Here's a memorable clip. More »
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Back in April, Panthers owner Jerry Richardson told the Charlotte Observer that he's never wanted a "roster of 53 choirboys" on his football team, which is a very nice and almost renegade sentiment for a 75-year-old millionaire to share. But he also doesn't want a quarterback with tattoos, piercings, or long hair. More »
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Television changed this morning the moment when actor Michael Kenneth Williams stated via Twitter, "For all the community peeps out there it's official look for me in up coming eps." Translation: Omar from The Wire is comin' to NBC's Community. It's nice to see he made it through the whole Kenard bullet thing. More »
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Just six weeks into his retirement, Shaquille O'Neal has agreed to a multi-year deal with TNT to be a member of Inside the NBA. He'll join Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Kenny Anderson Ernie Johnson in the cavernous studio next season, and because he is very weird — and as long as he doesn't encroach on any of the overly-established repartee — he should be a very good fit for the show. More »
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Before the decade is out, sports will exist only on ESPN. More »
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Our tipster grabbed these photos and videos of the Brothers Manning filming in Greenpoint, Brooklyn last month. (He then promptly gave them to TMZ, which posted them much faster than we did.) More »
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CBS revealed its 2011-12 primetime schedule today. We already knew it would lack the wretched Colin Cowherd pilot, but we now know that it doesn't have that god-awful Schlereth show either. More »
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Tweeted Cowherd, "Network passed on my sitcom. On to plan B. In talks with Charlie Sheen for new show 'Almost Winning.' Taste that CBS." More »
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The MLB video war continues, quietly, even though we've kind of been actively ignoring one another for some time now. We received a lot of initial interest in our plan to take down the iron-fisted video regime, but then I guess it rained everywhere in America for two weeks and everyone's practice was canceled and some people decided that their kids probably shouldn't be on the internet, even if it is for a heroic cause. But Rick and his kids, J (four years old) and M (two years old), persevered. Rick, J, and M have reenacted for you both Robin Ventura's charge onto the mound after getting hit by a Nolan Ryan pitch, and the Ray Fosse and Pete Rose collision from the 1970 All-Star Game. More »
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We're truly inspired by how many of you are interested in mocking the MLB video policy by reenacting its highlights each week. We've heard from volunteers from T-ball teams, high school teams, plenty of "beer-drinking softball teams," and one from a guy who isn't "allowed within 200 yards of a school," but who runs a beer league kickball team that is "up to the challenge." And we've heard from a man who has two daughters, aged five years and 18 months, "and 6 horses" and can therefore "stage what ever you need." With horses. More »
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We've been playing a fun game with the MLB video team for the past few weeks. It goes something like this: We post a highlight video from a game; they promptly email us with an informal cease-and-desist note; we take down the video and complain about it. More »
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Back in February, we brought you the Awful Pilot for Colin Cowherd's Awful TV Show. It was doubly awful. Read it here if you're so inclined. More »
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Premier League justice is worse than Sheriff Goodell's. More »
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Global Toronto reporter Mark McAllister had a Serene Branson moment on air earlier in the week, as he attempted to report on Canada's involvement in the Libya effort. McAllister is reportedly doing fine after experiencing what the network called "a moment of disorientation," so it is probably safe to enjoy our subtitled interpretation of the report in the above video. And we sincerely hope McAllister is feeling more oriented today. More »
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This is a clip from an Around The Horn episode about a week ago, in which the four journalists du jour took on the March Madness selection process — a topic that seemed to be on everybody's mind. "How much difference between the innies and the outies?" wondered show host Tony Reali. "What do you think of the job the selection committee did," he asked, "and what do you think of the whole process?" Here are the illuminating responses — from Woody Paige, Tim Cowlishaw, J.A. Adande, and Bob Ryan — all at once. Don't say you didn't learn something today. More »
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Day One of the 2011 NCAA tournament was The Best Day One Anyone Can Remember, which no one ever says! But there were four buzzer-beaters and a sad bird, which is a pretty damn good day. Here's your guide to watching in the workplace, along with an updated broadcast-announcer schedule for today's action. It starts with Oakland (of Michigan)-Texas at noon on CBS. More »
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Since we did our very best to ignore the play-in games, the NCAA men's tournament officially kicks off with Clemson-West Virginia today just after noon EDT on CBS. In the olden times, watching the opening game required a 3D television (and by that I mean, of course, one that was more than three inches wide). No more. The television network demigods have been especially cruel to American employers this year: Turner Sports and CBS have made every single tournament game available for online streaming at the NCAA's website, March Madness On Demand (MMOD). We know you're probably dexterous enough to hastily click out of Deadspin windows in the office, so this shouldn't present any real problems. More »
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CBS has ordered a pilot for Home Game, a sitcom about Mark Schlereth, ESPN analyst and former Broncos/Redskins guard. Why? It's unclear. More »
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Know what's amazing about this whole Charlie Sheen fiasco? That no one who actually watches Two and a Half Men seems to give a shit that it may never come back. Usually, when the future of a TV show is in doubt, you get fanboys waging massive grass roots campaigns to keep the show going. They send bags of pistachios to the studio, because the main character liked pistachios or something. And that's for shows that no one even watches. But here's the number one comedy on television, and it's been number one for years now, and I'm not even sure people who like that show have even fucking noticed. You'd think they'd be sending angry missives to Sheen to get his act together, or protesting outside CBS studios to hire Sheen back, or starting some Facebook campaign to get Scott Baio to take Sheen's place. But there hasn't been any of that. More »
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A tipster has sent along the script for the first episode of Colin Cowherd's "relationship" sitcom, which is being developed for CBS and which is roughly The Honeymooners meets Frasier meets the really insightful parts of Bedtime for Bonzo. Here are some highlights. More »
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]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5735980&view=rss&microfeed=true The CBS affiliate in Cincinnati only yesterday canceled their long-scheduled "Bengals Playoff Special," which was set to air tonight. More »
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File this under things we wish we didn't know, and wish we didn't care about. But Kroy Biermann has knocked up one of the Real Housewives Of Atlanta. More »
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Not knowing Tim Duncan is vaguely understandable, but field hockey? We know black and white photos aren't visually arresting sometimes, but c'mon, guys. More »
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Yesterday, How I Met Your Mother featured a LeBron James joke. It wasn't like the LeBron James jokes we've seen elsewhere on TV because it was just lazy as all hell and made me realize how tired I am of Cleveland's martyrdom. More »
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The time is now to declare that College Jeopardy contestants just might not know very much about sports trivia. More »
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CBS is developing a show based on the life of Colin Cowherd, from the producers of "Two And A Half Men." In it he adopts John Wall, desperately need of a father figure, and teaches him how to be a leader. [Variety] More »
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