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Beware Mascots Wearing Underwear
General rule about mascots: They should either entirely naked, or fully clothed. Emphasizing that sometimes they might take off clothes, and have a life outside of scaring small children at arenas, is just asking for trouble....
Media Approval Ratings: Greg Gumbel
To introduce today's Media Approval Ratings discussion feller, we thought we'd head to Wikipedia and see what fascinating facts we could drum up about Greg Gumbel....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after tripping and smashing a 290-year-old Stradivarius ... • College basketball: St. John's at Cincinnati (7 p.m., ET); Kansas State at Texas Tech (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]. Has Pat Knight won a game yet? • College basketball: Maryland at Duke (7 p.m., ET). Do not anger the turtle. [ESPN] ...
Media Approval Ratings: Chris Mortensen
Mr. Mortensen, ESPN's NFL reporter who isn't a cranky old coot, has been on the air less and less in recent years. We always enjoyed him bickering with Bill Parcells, back when they were on NFL Countdown together. Mr. Mortensen certainly receives some credit for siring an actual, real live football ...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
About Last Night
What you missed while reminding people once again that it's pronounced "Fronkensteen" ... • College basketball: The last time Kentucky lost this badly, ALF and Growing Pains were hit TV series. • College women's basketball: Petition To Investigate The Final 1.3 Seconds Of The Rutgers-Tennessee Game....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you enjoy your free pancakes ... • College basketball: Michigan State at Purdue (7 p.m., ET); Kentucky at Vanderbilt (9 p.m., ET). Please give a big Memorial Gym welcome to the Commodores! [ESPN] • College basketball: North Carolina at Virginia (8 p.m., ET). Game too close to call, ...
In Which The SI Swimsuit Edition Struggles (Again) To Stay Relevant
The 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is out, folks; gaze upon its wonders. And in other news, there's still a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. What year is this again? Aren't naked women on the Internet now? At any rate, our aquatic, clothing-challenged model is Marissa Miller, making he...
Whither Sports Unfiltered With Dennis Miller?
There's nothing sadder than a big blank space where your cable show's programming schedule used to be. Exactly what fate has befallen Sports Unfiltered with Dennis Miller, the Versus series that made America fall in love with elephant polo references once again? It's a mystery (for some reason, Vers...
Media Approval Ratings: Jim Gray
True story: Way back in 1998, when we were a wee lad logging agate text at The Sporting News, one of the magazine staffers sent a company-wide email after Jim Gray's famous Pete Rose interview demanding that all writers sign a petition saying that Gray should be fired. We found this a bit extreme, a...
French Bulldog Wins At Westminster, Later Shoots It Out With Cops
How often do we get the opportunity to mention Patricia Hearst, Jimmy Carter and the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in the same post? Very rarely. It all happened on Monday, as Hearst (or Tania to her friends) and her pooch Diva, the French bulldog, took one of the trophies at the Westminster Kenn...
Latrell Sprewell Could Use A Raft Of Some Sort
In case you have forgotten, in 2005, according to Wikipedia, here's where Latrell Sprewell stood, contract-wise....
John Rocker Destroys Everything You Thought You Knew About Steroids
It will come as a shock, a shock, we tell you, to learn that our friend John Rocker was on steroids. Throughout this book tour, we've been impersonating Rocker at every stop, and we need steroids just to get into character....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you realize that PETA will one day rule the universe ... • College basketball: Villanova at Georgetown (7 p.m., ET); Kansas at Texas (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN]; Saint Mary's at Santa Clara (11 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]. If only there were one more game, I wouldn't have to sleep. • College women's ...
There's No 'I' In 'Douchebag'
Drew over at KSK asked Johnny at Metroville to write a piece about what it means to be a Patriots fan, one week later. We decided it would be a better fit here. You decide....
Introducing The Media Approval Ratings
One of our favorite features ESPN.com has run is the NFL Coach Approval Ratings. We liked watching the fluctuation, seeing a coach go from 81 percent to 20 percent with one loss. But mostly, we liked the collective wisdom of Crowd. We trust Crowd's judgment. Therefore, we've decided to start a new f...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to finds its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
The Patriots Petition: Greatest Hits
Time to check in on the petition for the NFL to investigate the final 1:40 of Super Bowl XLII, as seen on Petition Online.com (and mentioned here on Saturday). Petitions on this site are usually pretty tepid, bewildering affairs: Take for example petition for the betterment of UNC football (26 signa...
Gah, Gah, Gah...Richard Zednik's Throat Slashed
Sure in the next couple hours there will be bloodier, gorier pictures, but the full throat slashing skate accident experienced by Florida Panthers' forward Richard Zednik is....shiver....