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The Skinny On The Harold Reynolds Lawsuit
Mr. Balk mentioned this yesterday, but we'll never stop having fun with The Smoking Gun's copy of Harold Reynolds' suit against ESPN. For a document put together simply to defend Reynolds' high moral character, it's full of juicy details. Some highlights:...
ESPN Will Give You Fries With That, Not Much Else
How nicely does ESPN treat its employees? We've been forwarded a memo that demonstrates their level of appreciation to a crew that has to endure an association with Tony Kornheiser:...
Harold Reynolds Should Have Gone To Outback Steakhouse
As is usually the case, The Smoking Gun swoops in and gets the documents filed against ESPN by grabby announcer Harold Reynolds. We don't have much to add except to say that we would have been more upset by being taking to Boston Fucking Market than by the actual "innocuous hugging." Happy readin...
We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ......
Harold Reynolds Is Taking ESPN's Ass To Court
We know we're supposed to be taking the day off, but, sorry: This is too beautiful to comprehend resisting....
Cultural Oddsmaker: Who's The Next Page 2 Hire?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to tell him what you think....
ESPN Rewards Its Employees With A Small Beverage
Monday's "Monday Night Football" game between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants, perhaps because of the possible midfield suicide of Terrell Owens, scored a 12.8 Neilsen rating, the highest cable television rating in history. This is a cause for celebration in Bristol, obviously, but we had...
Page 2 Hands Out The Lucre
Well, it appears Page 2 is filling in some voids left by the Whitlock/Shanoff/Bayless exodus: According to The Big Lead, they have hired the Orlando Sentinel's Jemele Hill to a two-year deal....
Stephen A. Loves His Birthday, Apparently
Ordinarily, we try to ignore the New York Post's Phil Mushnick; he's the gnattering old guy constantly yelling at the kids to get the hell off his porch. (Not that we have an inherent problem with this; Dr. Z has made a career out of it. But at least he's a nasty wine drunk, and that goes a long w...
It's Like ESPN.com, But Without All The Trappings
They haven't made an official announcement on their site yet, but ESPN's big new "Web presence" thing has launched in beta form. It's called MyESPN, and it's pretty much what you'd think it be. In fact, it's pretty much like every other customizable Web program we've ever seen. Pick your favorite te...
"You'll Be Saying, 'Not So Fast, My Friend'"
Sometimes genius is apparent, so definitive, so blinding, that all you can do is just present it to the world and get out of the way....
The MNF Crew, Sadly, Is Getting Worse
The Big Lead says this morning what we've all kind of been thinking: It's probably time to write off the "Monday Night Football" broadcast crew a disaster....
Jay Mariotti Might Be Somewhat Sensitive To Criticism
We have a lot of respect for the folks at Wikipedia. It's an immeasurably valuable resource that we use every single day. And we can't imagine it's easy dealing with what's certainly their biggest headache: People logging onto their site just to post random crap and mess with the entries. You know, ...
Coming To You Live From The "Underground"
We make fun of ESPN a bit around here, but it's all in fun: We recognize that it's still the station that sports fans watch more than any other, mostly because of the healthy discourse and thought-provoking analysis of Colin Cowherd, Stephen A. Smith and John Kruk. They are open and forthright and d...
Kirk Herbstreit Hates Your Funky Dance Moves
I promised you more Kirk Herbstreit vitriol, and here it is. During Thursday night's Virginia Tech/Boston College game, Herbie delights in verbally lighting up Virginia Tech linebacker Brenden Hill....
Woody Paige Enters Mode Of Retreat
We've made fun of "Cold Pizza"'s and "Around The Horn"'s Woody Paige around these parts, if just because we're one of the 13 people on Earth who actually watches "Cold Pizza." (Unless they're playing Plinko on "The Price Is Right.") Also, because Paige isn't against the notion of eating dog food on ...
Steve Young Can't Take It Anymore
We're sure, in the wake of a ridiculous $1.7 billion dollar deal, the folks at YouTube won't let this stand very long, but if you watched "SportsCenter" this morning, you say Michael Irvin — shockingly! — ramble on like, well, a retard for about five minutes about why the Ravens belonged in the top ...
Parents Sentence Son To Lifetime Of Ass-Kickings
As The Mighty MJD mentioned on Sunday, Leann and Rusty Real of D'Iberville, Miss., have named their kid ESPN Montana Real. That's pronounced "Espen," as in, "Mrs. Johnson! The other boys have run Espen's pants up the flagpole again!"...
Eric Byrnes Showed Up To The Set On Time, At Least
All right, so we understand that it's kind of cool to be able to active athletes on your studio preview shows during the postseason, because they're not playing anymore and don't have much to do. The Blue Jays' Vernon Wells was on a couple of days ago, and we enjoyed him, though it was odd to watch ...
Us Against The Music
Little housecleaning matter here: Tomorrow night, right before the Tigers begin securing their 2-0 ALDS lead on the Yankees — sorry — we will be reading things aloud. Using our voice, and perhaps some spackle....