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Let's Marvel At The Perfect Absurdity Of This ESPN Guy's HOF Ballot
Here's the ballot mailed in by Barry Stanton, ESPN news editor: Jack Morris, Edgar Martinez, Tino Martinez, Don Mattingly, B.J. Surhoff. I shit you not. B.J. Surhoff....
There Is Footage Of ESPN's Adam Schefter Singing In <em>West Side Story</em> For Sale
This is one of the odder items up for bid on the scuzz-money marketplace, yet it's still so intriguing. Apparently ESPN's NFL high-fivin' workhorse used to get all Sock 'n' Buskin as a youngster....
Even The ESPN Announcers Were Tired Of Watching That Orange Bowl
ESPN3's online feed does away with commercials entirely, leaving dead silence in their place. Except sometimes they forget to cut the announcers' mics, leading to awkward exchanges like last night's between Jaws, Gruden and Tirico....
SportsCenter Anchors Celebrate Eric Mangini Getting Fired
We know it's exciting that the Mangenius is gone in Cleveland, but that's no reason for Hannah Storm and Adam Schefter to high-five over it. They quickly apologized, but still: high-five!...
The Wonders And Weirdness Of ESPN In 3D
Patrick Sauer recently attended a viewing of the first-ever NBA telecast on ESPN's new 3D channel, and it was a glimpse into our strange future: floating heads, precision celebrity high-fives, and lots and lots of really unreal detail....
An ESPN Anchor Maybe Plagiarized A Newspaper Column
ESPNEWS's Will Selva's lead-in to Lakers highlights bears an uncommon resemblance to Kevin Ding's OC Register column. Ding cries plagiarism. To be fair, there's only like three different Christmas-themed ledes....
Time To Put The ESPN Ombudsman's Photo On Milk Cartons
Number of ESPN columns praising Don Ohlmeyer in the last 68 days: one. Number of Don Ohlmeyer's ESPN Ombudsman columns in the last 68 days: none....
UConn, espnW, And The Welcome New Stupidity In Women's Sports
This month's coverage of UConn's win streak, and the record the Huskies may or may not have set, presented a new — but refreshingly familiar — storyline for women's sports coverage....
The Office Horndoggery Of A Longtime ESPN VP
This was a minor blip for most of us not fully entrenched in the sports media universe, but the departure of ESPN's Senior VP of Programming and Acquisitions, Len DeLuca, to "pursue other opportunities" last fall was a little surprising....
30 Years. 30 Movies. 30 One-Sentence Reviews.
If you missed any of the films in ESPN's 30 for 30 series, this collection of on-point one-sentence reviews is a handy guide. (On Without Bias: "The Vitamin C of the 1980s did not prevent scurvy.") [Hellafied Gangsta Lean]...
Merril Hoge Will Say "Factorback" As Often As He Damn Well Pleases, OK?
Reader Andrew, tired of hearing ESPN's Merril Hoge say "factorback" as if the word actually meant something, recently decided to send the man an email through his website. Soon, Andrew got a testy reply, signed "Merril (Factorback)."...
ESPN Launches Site For Women
espnW launched today, the worldwide leader's new site for the ladies. Go take a look and report back with your findings....
Who Stole The Giant Lee Corso Head?
Suspicion initially fell on OSU since the head disappeared from the College Gameday set in Corvallis. But then this photo of Corso wearing a Ducks shirt emerged. Chief Inspector Erin Andrews is on the case. [UPDATE: They found it!]...
Stuart Scott's Unfortunately Timed And Therefore Highly Ironic F-Bomb Gaffe
Stu Scott was hyping an upcoming replay of Derek Anderson's meltdown last night when, in describing the cough button that "bleeps" out curse words on TV, Scott accidentally used a curse word on TV....
Mike Leach Sues ESPN
The former Texas Tech coach has filed suit against ESPN and the PR firm repping Craig James alleging both libel and slander. Leach was fired after allegations he mistreated James's son Adam. Someone unfreeze the ombudsman! [AP]...
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....
Wilbon Leaving The Newspaper You'd Forgotten He Still Worked For
Mike Wilbon is leaving the Washington Post to devote more time to being a faintly tolerable presence on ESPN. The newspaper's memo is below....
The One Where Kenny Mayne Jokes About Brett Favre's Penchant For Public Nudity
T'was a simpler time when ESPN's Kenny Mayne pitched a witty skit into which he led, "Legendary is faint praise for Brett Favre when he quarterbacks in the bitter cold of Green Bay. It's then that No. 4 elevates to immortal....
Radio Show Sends Random Listener To Bristol To Ask Trey Wingo About "Radio Raheem"
"Clemson Tom" got into the ESPN offices with zero credentials. He was recorded asking a gate attendant if Wingo, whom he described as a "wiry little fella," is in the building. Giggling excerpts from 1010 Sports after the jump....
ESPN Book Promises To Reveal "The Rowdiest Frathouse In Sports TV"
So we happened to get our grimy little hands on the Little, Brown's catalog that teases the upcoming Shales/Miller oral history of the Worldwide Leader. It appears to promise many more casualties than our ESPN Nagasaki attack....