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How To Make Everyone You Know Want To Kill You
In a description of the upcoming ESPN Mobile program, which will give Sprint customers easier access to sports scores while they're bashing their phones against their heads because they're not working because they're Sprint, ESPN Mobile senior vice president Manish Jha described some of the other ...
ESPY Mania!
Are you like us? Did you spend last night with your eyeballs rubber-cemented to the television screen, desperate to see who was going to win the ESPYs? Could Lance Armstrong three-peat? Who would win craziest play? What exactly does Curt Schilling look like in a tux? These are important questions....
ESPN Spreads Its Terror Across The Land
Those who were up to watch SportsCenter this morning know that ESPN's already obnoxious "50 States, 50 Days" promotion has begun. The idea, in case it hasn't been sucked down into your soul by now, is that SportsCenter will be at a different location every day for the next 50 days, or pretty much ju...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... 10 a.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: I've been having those dreams again about Astros closer Brad Lidge. Can you help me? 11 a.m. MLB with Buster Olney: Now that you're not on that beat anymore, could you write a snarky book ripping the Yanke...
The Bitch-Slapping Of Skip Bayless
Considering that Charles Barkley has openly said that ESPN talking head doofus Skip Bayless is "evil" and "one of the two people [he'd] like to kill," it's not that surprising that Bayless would have plenty of enemies in the world of sport. (A number that pales, of course, to the number of enemies h...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... 11 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: You know what my fantasy is? To go two freakin' weeks without someone mentioning A.J. Feeley. Noon. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: I just subscribed to ESPN Insider. I must be missing something; on what button d...
The Bill Simmons Backlash Continues
We thought we were the only ones making fun of ESPN bad boy Bill Simmons, but apparently not: The Sports Frog weighs in with a devastating missive at Big Bill's column about Clippers forward Bobby Simmons that ran yesterday....
Bill Simmons Translator: Bill Swoons, Fawns
Whoa! A bonus Bill Simmons column, from the magazine this time. It's all Bill, all the time over here today; we're like The Sports Gal today, except we don't have to go to sleep wondering if we're gonna have to wake up in the middle of the night to take care of one of Bill's nosebleeds. It's Bill ...
More Cartoon Hilarity From Bill Simmons
Sometimes we wonder if our boy Bill writes the scripts for these things on a cocktail napkin while watching mid-'70s Celtics highlights on a treadmill. Here's this week's cartoon fun:...
It's Slap Joe Morgan Day!
ESPN analyst Joe Morgan has long been an object of derision among computer nerd baseball analysts, particularly in the online community, where his chat sessions have become legendary (he remains confused about who actually wrote "Moneyball"). In a pretty damning profile in San Francisco Weekly, Mo...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters · 11 a.m. ESPN Golf School: Want to hear my haiku? "Behold the water/Set in blue stillness, sleeping/My clubs rest there peacefully." · 1 p.m. Special Guest Jennie Finch: Can the Chicago Bandits stay solvent on your poster sales alone? · 2 p...
We Have To Ask ...
Possible questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. NFL with Gary Horton: Sitting at a computer all day making up stuff sure beats two-a-days in Bourbonnais, Ill., doesn't it, Gary? · Noon. Buzz and Showgirl: Do you do bachelor parties? · 2 p.m. 2012 Olympic Chat: Um, anyone ther...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... 10 a.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: Ever hear of an entire team going down in a fantasy plane crash in the mountains, and resorting to fantasy cannibalism? Yep, happened to me. 11 a.m. MLB with Rob Neyer: I've just been beaten up by Kenny Ro...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · Noon. ESPN Golf School: Cell phones on the course — would you smash them with a wood or an iron? · 3 p.m. College Football With Ivan Maisel: How come we never see you at SEC games anymore? · 4 p.m. Recruiting With Tom Luginbill: Which ...
Bill Plaschke: Original Confidence!
The fantastic satirical folks at Yard Work have the best impression of a column by the LA Times' Bill Plaschke that we've ever seen. It has all the hallmarks: fear of technology, six word paragraphs, awkward usurping of pop culture and, best, hideous metaphors:...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. NFL With Gary Horton: When you're charting and ranking grown men in tight pants, do you sometimes think, "You know, this is not how I thought life would turn out?" · 3 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: You're not an ESPN pers...
Bill Simmons Picks His Own Greatest Hits
With tonight's NBA Draft just about five hours away, our main man Bill Simmons clocks in with the50 greatest moments in NBA Draft history. Of course, that's not really what it is; what it really is is a collection of Bill's favorite one-liners from all his draft diaries. One imagines Bill staying...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. MLB With Rob Neyer: Now, don't take this the wrong way, but would you say Bill James is a pitcher and you're a catcher, or vice versa? Because we have a guess. · 2 p.m. NBA Draft With Chad Ford: Hey, so who is new Cavs general ...
OK, Sometimes Peter Gammons Freaks Us Out A Little
From today's Peter Gammons column:...