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Olbermann Goes After Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton; Defends ESPN
Yesterday, WFAN's morning boys, Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton, went after Keith Olbermann and Chris Berman in an admittedly confusing way while discussing Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin. Apparently Olbermann and Berman are bullies and they're a bunch of hypocrites for talking about this. I...
Fail Better
Earlier this year Jonathan Abrams has a piece about two veteran ball players, Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace:...
Mike Francesa Will Hang Up On You If You Want To Talk Hockey
So don't ask the Sports Pope for his thoughts on Ducks-Rangers....
Why The Hell Does Your Drink Cost So Much?
I'm not ambitious enough to be downright thrifty, but I try to avoid abject retail stupidity. I know better than to buy paper plates when the free magazines and underwear catalogs that clog my mailbox are perfectly capable of supporting even the hammin'est of sandwiches. I drink tap water, and I'm s...
How Would Mike Francesa Have Discussed The Civil War?
After his successful Revolutionary War commentary, time-traveling Mike Francesa is back, this time in the run-up to the Battle of Antietam. The best moment comes around the 2:32 mark, when a caller—Dred, from Scottsville (groan)—asks for Mike's take on Harriet Tubman. Mike responds as if she's Al ...
Mike Francesa And <em>Daily News</em> Reporter Battle To See Who Screams Louder
One of the Daily News's I-Team reporters who's been on the A-Rod beat, Michael O'Keeffe, went on WFAN and YES today to spar with Mike Francesa. The battle lines: Francesa thinks the News has been on a witch hunt against A-Rod, and the News thinks that's crap. The 40-minute or so interview broke Twit...
Mike Francesa Threatens To Go After Wonderful Twitter Parody Account
Mike Francesa's been on a roll lately. The latest incident involves the radio guy threatening the two anonymous dudes who run an exquisite Twitter parody account, @MikeFrancesaNY....
Here's Mike Francesa Spilling Diet Coke All Over His Desk
We've already seen Mike Francesa at his best this week, but he's having a bit of a bad day today. First his cawl-ahs annoyed the hell out of him, uh-kay, and then he accidentally did this to his trusty Diet Coke. The rest of us? We've been rewarded with the wonderful GIF you see above....
Mike Francesa Loses His Mind Over The <em>SNF</em> Theme Song
This is amazing. This is Francesa at his best. His best is when he expresses big, powerful opinions on something of no consequence whatsoever. His best is when he does a close reading of "Waiting All Day For Sunday Night," the SNF opening theme song....
Lowsman Trophy Watch: Another Notre Dame LB Steps Up
Each week, Football Outsiders recognizes the most outstanding college linemen, defenders and other darkhorses from the previous weekend who are habitually overlooked in the hype for that other award (whatever it's called). These are the Lowsmen....
Ex-Eagle Allegedly Received Nude Teen Photos, Created Fake Cop Station
Darrell Beavers was drafted by the Eagles in 1991 and also played in Kansas City and Canada. He eventually bounced out of football and become a cop in Cincinnati, a position he's had for the last 13 years. from June 2013 to September 2013 he allegedly received nude pictures from a 17-year-old and go...
V. S. Naipaul on Writing
"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."...
Genius Impressionist Reimagines Mike Francesa As A 1776 Radio Pundit
This, the work of @BizzaroZaun, is one of the best Mike Francesa impersonations you will ever see. And it's not just Francesa's voice that Zaun nails; everything about this impression—the smugness, the dismissive attitude towards callers, the fact that Francesa would have been a loyalist stooge in...
Mike Francesa Doesn't Remember Cutting Off An On-Air Marriage Proposal
Remember back in July, when poor Moe in Jersey tried to propose to his girlfriend live on Mike Francesa's radio show, and Francesa quickly cut him off to talk A-Rod with Jimmy in Paramus? Yeah, well, Francesa says he doesn't. Perhaps he nodded off again....
Typewriter Love
I know writers who still use a typewriter. One close pal whose neighborhood experiences power outages several times a year recently wrote a story on a portable. He wanted to get comfortable with it case he loses power and can't use his electric machine. ...
Fame And Obscurity
I found this over at Longform (and if you haven't bookmarked this site by now, whadda ya waiting for?)—Robert Draper's 1992 Texas Monthly story on Cormac McCarthy. I'm not drawn to McCarthy's writing but I'm a sucker for profiles of writers and this is a good one:...
WWE Wrestler Spins Opponent By His Legs For 36 Seconds
Professional wrestling might not be a sanctioned sport, but the people involved are still incredibly athletic. Witness the giant swing that Antonio Cesaro performed on Santino Marella on Monday night's WWE Raw. ...