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SprtsCntr: And Now, Deep Thoughts With Eduardo Perez
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ESPN Employee Denies ESPN Report That Said ESPN Employee Was Offered A Consulting Job With The Eagles
Sal Paolantonio reported one of those stories this morning that forced Philly's football media to ask the kind of question Eagles coach Andy Reid might actually have to answer. According to Sal Pal, the Eagles had tried to bring in former Browns coach (and current ESPN analyst) Eric Mangini to jog ...
SprtsCntr: The Boston Media, According To Nomar Garciaparra
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BC Athletic Director: ESPN Is The Kindest, Bravest, Warmest, Most Wonderful Company I've Ever Known
Gene DeFilippo, addressing this: "I spoke inappropriately and erroneously regarding ESPN's role in conference expansion." [@PeteThamelNYT]...
Hank Williams Jr. Gets Much-Needed Public Support From Kid Rock
Detroit native Kid Rock celebrated in the Lions' locker room after their 24-13 win on Monday Night Football last night. "I'm Detroit 'til I die," he told gathering reporters....
ESPN Is Now Trotting Out Anyone It Can To Tell You It Had Nothing To Do With Boning The Big East
The folks in Bristol are getting a little defensive over those rather inconvenient comments made by Boston College AD Gene DeFilippo, who said ESPN had influenced the ACC's decision to expand by swiping Pitt and Syracuse from the Big East. An unnamed spokesman for the Worldwide Leader has already i...
SprtsCntr: Winning Over Hearts, Minds, And Hannah Storm's Fist
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Tim Tebow Gives Us Our First Total QBR Kerfuffle
I've been pleasantly surprised with my lack of exposure to Total Quarterback Rating, ESPN's proprietary formula for measuring QB that's supposed to be more accurate, or at least more complete, than passer rating. After the preseason blitz, I absolutely expected it to be shoved down my throat. But it...
Hank Williams Jr. Has Recorded A Rollicking Obama/<i>Fox & Friends</i>/ESPN Diss Track Called "Keep The Change" (Updated)
You know what's inherently lame? Country music battle songs. In aggressive country music battles, the only gauge for how "bad" someone is is how angrily they can say "America" or "U.S.A." while still maintaining a legitimate twang. Nevertheless, disgraced "Are You Ready For Some Football?" singer ...
Did ESPN Bone The Big East Because They Wouldn't Sign A TV Deal?
Boston College AD Gene DeFilippo, who was part of the ACC's expansion committee that lured Pitt and Syracuse away from the Big East, says something that shouldn't be a big shocker: realignment is about money. But to see it put so blatantly, and to see the four-letter network invoked so unapologetica...
SprtsCntr: Stephen A. Smith Pushes The Panic Button On The Eagles
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SprtsCntr: The Yankees Lose, In Their Own Words
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Homemade Infographic: Where Are ESPN's Naked Jocks Hiding And Tucking Their Bits?
The conceptual problem with ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue leads directly into the practical problem with it. Conceptually, as soon as you strip off the athletes' clothing to call more attention to their forms, you diminish the function that's supposed be integral to those forms, and you call attent...
Whatever Nyjer Morgan Is On Right Now, We Want Some, Too
Nyjer Morgan joined Dan ESPN2's son-and-pop show Dan Le Batard is Highly Questionable this afternoon. He adopted his Tony Plush persona for the interview, and also debuted Antonio Picante in celebration of the Le Batards' Cuban heritage....
A Hank Williams Jr. Discussion Turned ESPN's OTL Into <em>The Morton Downey Jr. Show</em>
I mean, I think this conversation was about Hank Williams Jr. It was less than a minute old when Paul Finebaum, an Alabama radio personality, said Dave Zirin had uttered the "single stupidest [statement] [he's] ever heard in the history of this program." After that, Bomani Jones made some hilariou...
ESPN Cuts Ties With Hank Williams Jr., Which Is Like The Nazis Breaking Their Non-Aggression Pact With The Soviets
Says ESPN, regarding Hank's analogizin' the other day on Fox and Friends: "We have decided to part ways with Hank Williams, Jr. We appreciate his contributions over the past years. The success of Monday Night Football has always been about the games and that will continue."...
SprtsCntr: The Squirrel Heard 'Round The World
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This Evening: If You Plan To Bury ESPN In A Time Capsule In Your Backyard, Please Include This Photo
Your p.m. roundup for Oct. 5, the day an ESPN The Nudie reader pointed out that it "certainly appears that the top of [Alicia Sacramone's] right nipple was omitted." Photo via The Sports Hernia. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
The Hank Williams Jr. Apology Reads Like An Internet Comment In Which Someone Would Compare Obama To Hitler
Hank Williams Jr. posted this apology (for a bizarre Fox News appearance in which he invoked Hitler's name in an Obama analogy) on his Facebook page yesterday, but we hadn't been aware of it until today. Man, oh man, is it a treat. ...
CORRECTION: It's Hope Solo Butt-Naked Watering The Lawn In ESPN <em>The Nudie</em>
Whoops. In a previous post, Deadspin misidentified U.S. soccer goalie Hope Solo as either Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews or his brother, Casey, back-up linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles. Thanks to the many, many readers who helped us solve this mystery. Here are some emails we recei...