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Jim Rome Left Partly Because Of Stuff Said About Him In The ESPN Book So Jim Rome is going from ESPN to CBS Sports Network even though the Worldwide Leader had offered him a multi-year extension for Rome Is Burning. According to a source, Rome wanted out at least in part because of comments made by an ESPN executive in Those Guys Have All The Fun, the oral history pu...

Keith Olbermann Insists Suzy Kolber Was Just As Toxic At ESPN As He WasBelow is an excerpt from Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside The World of ESPN, which is finally in paperback so those readers anxious for more Bristol back-biting don't have to carry around the cumbersome hardcover. The new version includes more bitchy anecdotes from Bill Simmons, further details a...

ESPN Has Found Its Answer To Problems Like Bruce Feldman And His Book From the network that never lets its business interests interfere with its coverage: "Of note is that ESPN, as a matter of policy, will no longer grant permission to write as-told-to books with sports personalities." It's a conflict of interest, you see. Except when it isn't. [Front Row]...

ESPN Book To Become Future Major Motion Picture About Bristol Guys Having Fun

According to an insider from one of the major talent agencies, Hollywood has expressed significant interest in turning the Miller/Shales oral history of ESPN into a blockbuster movie. It's in the very early stages but, according to our source, one lucky studio will make a major financial investment...

The Deadspin Guide To The New ESPN Book

The new ESPN oral history, Those Guys Have all the Fun, is now available in stores. We've been having some fun with the book in recent days. Mixed in with our usual sober analysis of satellite transponder rights and ESPN's dual-revenue-stream model, we've also brought you many tales of ESPN people s...

All The Unkind Things Bill Simmons Said About His Colleagues In The ESPN Book

One of the most interesting characters to emerge from the ESPN book is the formerly inscrutable Bill Simmons, if only because we've never heard him be so (openly) self-aware before. He again whips out the big swinging dick in some more excerpts....

This Quote Is Why Chris Berman Remains A Vile Piece Of Shit

I haven't been able to peruse the new ESPN book yet, as Daulerio and the others have, but I was struck dumb by a quote from the book that was excerpted by Richard Deitsch over at SI.com. This is what Berman said in regard to the NFL forcing the network to cancel its Playmakers series:...

ESPN And Publisher Alike: None Of These Guys Are Having Any Fun

Not two days since the embargo was lifted, the giant dragon fart of a book known as Those Guys Have All the Fun has left both publisher and subject alike strategizing about a new defense. Yes, ESPN officially threw together a semi-emergency town hall meeting ("tent"!!!!) earlier this afternoon for s...

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The Decision About LeBron's <em>Decision</em> Was An Orgy Of Self-Interest, With Jim Gray On Top

There's a brief section about The Decision in Those Guys Have All the Fun, and if the details aren't exactly fresh, the takeaway is somewhat new: Everyone involved was using everyone else for their own ends to produce what amounted to a massive orgy that they all came to regret the next day. And LeB...

by Emma Carmichael|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

We Will Always Remember Dick Ebersol For That Thing He Said In The ESPN Book About Hitler And Penises

Dick Ebersol is leaving NBC Sports, as you may know. Let's not think about the bad times, though. Let's think about the fun we had. Like yesterday, when we came across this quote in the excellent ESPN book that we're currently dry-humping up and down the site:...

by Tommy Craggs|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

What We've Learned From The ESPN Book So Far

A copy of Those Guys Have all the Fun has landed on our desk. We're still picking through it, but here's what we've learned about our colleagues at ESPN:...

by A.J. Daulerio|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Chris Berman On <em>You're With Me, Leather</em>: "Mr. Kornheiser Chose To Run With It."

While the long-standing Kornheiser-Berman beef doesn't have the same initial draw of, say, Beadle-Andrews, its appearance in Those Guys Have All The Fun does lead us to the alleged root of everyone's favorite alleged pick-up line: You're with me, Leather....

by Emma Carmichael|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Bill Simmons, Big Swinging Dick

Here's a fun passage from Those Guys Have All the Fun, addressing Bill Simmons's two-week suspension over his tweeting in 2009. ...

by A.J. Daulerio|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

ESPN Book Will Make Things Even More Uncomfortable Between Michelle Beadle And Erin Andrews

Michelle Beadle freely admits that she's not a fan of Erin Andrews. "Everyone who knows me knows that," she tells me. It hasn't affected any of the hierarchy at ESPN at this point, but Beadle's admission in the new ESPN oral history that she watched Erin's peephole vid could put the WWL in the preca...

by A.J. Daulerio|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Let The ESPN Freakout Begin

Back in August, we wrote that the forthcoming ESPN book, Those Guys Have All The Fun, will make many ESPN employees crap their pants. Well, here comes the onslaught: The book's publisher has lifted the embargo on releasing details from the book. You'll certainly hear more about the "rowdiest frathou...

by Jack Dickey|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

New Bits From ESPN Book: "A Lot Of Drugs," "Quite A Bit Of Screwing"

Entertainment Weekly has some new snippets from Miller and Shales' forthcoming ESPN book, Those Guys Have All The Fun. Publisher Little, Brown lifted its embargo on writing about the book earlier today....

by Jack Dickey|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

ESPN Book Excerpt: Keith Olbermann, The Asshole Genius

GQ called dibs on the first exclusive excerpt of the gigantic Miller-Shales ESPN oral history, Those Guys Have All The Fun, but we've been given an excerpt of their excerpt just because nobody wants us running any more unapproved excerpts. We'll play along. So read this, then pop over to GQ for the...

by A.J. Daulerio|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Some ESPN Talent Officially Nervous As Oral History Tell-All Emerges"

Erin Andrews. Chris Berman. Suzy Kolber. Those are just a handful of the names who'll have some anxiety-ridden weeks ahead of them as published (and excised) material from Those Guys Have All The Fun leaks to the public. Here's a snippet of unpublished nastiness we acquired....

by A.J. Daulerio|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

A Day At The Rug Races: A Filthy, Hooker-Filled Excerpt That Was Cut From The Upcoming ESPN Book

Next week, excerpts from the long-awaited ESPN oral history Those Guys Have All The Fun will start trickling out, including one next week when the June issue of GQ drops. There are a lot of very nervous people in Bristol right now, and if the following passage is any indication of the book's conten...

by A.J. Daulerio|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Embargoed ESPN Book Already Being Shopped To Checkbook Journalists

Although it's still months away from hitting the book stores, the Miller/Shales bomb-throwing oral history of ESPN, "Those Guys Have All The Fun," is already being peddled on the internet black market....

by A.J. Daulerio|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

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