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The most scandalous things to happen at the Super Bowl

The NFL wants you to watch the game on the field, but sometimes the most memorable things about the Super Bowl are incidental to the game. The media fanfare, halftime show, and colorful cast of hangers-on make for endless possibilities for moments the NFL would rather we forget....

Astros, Rockets Suing Comcast Over Failed CSN Houston Network

In 2010, MLB’s Houston Astros and the NBA’s Rockets held $550 million in equity of their then-flagship network, Comcast SportsNet Houston. Four years later, DirecTV bought the network’s assets for a mere $1,000. Those four disastrous years have now resulted in a massive lawsuit brought by the profes...

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Comcast Decides World Series Is PERFECT Time For Emergency Alert

Apparently Omar Infante hit a two-run home run in the 6th inning, which was followed by Salvador Perez and Hunter Strickland shouting at each other and the benches emptying. I say apparently because I—like all other Comcast customers in the DC area—was instead shown an emergency alert test during th...

Comcast Is Living In The Past

It's been a while since we've featured something under the once-venerated ComcastChaos tag, so here's a contribution from reader Casey showing a Comcast program description of this Saturday's Syracuse-Virginia game on ESPN. The description comes from a game more than six years ago. ...

Tennis Channel CEO: Comcast Battle Like "Being Raped By Brutal Captor" [UPDATE]

Two weeks ago, a federal appeals court ruled that Comcast did not have to put Tennis Channel on its basic cable service and could, instead, throw it on a more-expensive sports tier. The court overturned an FCC ruling in the process. Tennis Channel was unhappy about this. In fact, Tennis Channel CEO ...

Phillies Reporter In Trouble With The Government After Five Babies Died In The Baby Recliner She Invented

Leslie Gudel was Philadelphia's first full-time female sports anchor, spending more than a decade with Comcast SportsNet. A couple of years ago she left the desk to report on the Phillies, where she continues to this day. But in her spare time, she created the Nap Nanny, a foam recliner meant to red...

Cheer Up, Eagles Fans: According To Comcast, You Made The Playoffs

Be sure to tune in Sunday, where last season's matchup of 10-6 Philadelphia and Green Bay will apparently be happening again. (Depending on where you live, Baltimore may be facing Kansas City, too!)...

Man Arrested For Allegedly Inserting Porn Clip Into 2009 Super Bowl Broadcast

Citing Comcast's "significant economic losses" and the fact that many children were subjected to 37 naughty seconds of pornography during Super Bowl XLIII, federal and state officials announced the arrest of a 38-year-old Marana, Ariz. man last night....

Chicago Reporter Fired, Possibly For Dating A Player

Jen Patterson was let go by Comcast SportsNet Chicago, a week after her relationship with Blackhawk Nick Boynton became public. That's a quick fall for one of CSN's "rising stars."...

Fans, Media Recruited (And Manipulated) In Fight Over Televised Sports (Updated)

Some media outlets want you to rage against a new lobbying organization that claims to represent sports fans, but is actually a front for satellite companies looking to destroy cable TV sports. But who is really manipulating who here?...

Meet Tristan Kingsley, The Super Bowl Porn Girl

So the only winners in the big Comcast Super Bowl porn snafu have to be the Jenna Club and its new inadvertent sex flick superstar, 22-year-old Tristan Kingsley....

Comcast: Sorry For The Porn, Here's Ten Bucks

Comcast is vowing to catch the saboteur who spliced porn into the Super Bowl broadcast to some 80,000 subscribers in the Tucson area on Sunday. But in the meantime, here's a $10 coupon. Porn credit!...

Update: Comcast Sends Hapless PR Rep Into Our Comments Section

What's a worse public relations move than airing 30 seconds of porn during your Super Bowl television broadcast? Dispatching some poor sap into our comments section to apologize for it. That's Comcastic!...

Comcast Customers in Philly Swing, Miss at Seeing Home Runs

We started receiving rather angry emails just after midnight. No, our ex-girlfriend hadn't left her Mail Goggles off accidentally. (She never leaves it off accidentally.) The emails came instead from angry viewers in and around Philadelphia, describing their anguish and rage over missing the back-to...