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Shapiro's Depature Makes S.A.S. Sweat
Since the ratings for "Quite Frankly With Stephen A. Smith" — currently lighting it up with a 0.1 rating — have been so bad, and now that head overlord Mark Shapiro is leaving, people are wondering if Smith's show is still safe without Shapiro's protective cover. We're still confused about how Smi...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m.. MLB With Buster Olney: Come on ... you KNOW who's tested positive, don't you? Just tell us. Come on. You know you want to. · Noon. MLB With Steve Phillips: Aw, man, nobody tells Steve Phillips anything. No point in even asking...
Hockey Hides On Channel 122
Currently on The Outdoor Life Network: WHATA CATCH: Yucatan Fiesta. Nope, we don't know what that means either. Coming up later today: Fishing With Rowland Martin, The Swedish Match Tour, AMA Motocross (actually held indoors, but whatever) and a shitload of "Survivor" reruns....
Road From Bristol Enters Final Four
Time for an update from The Road From Bristol, the 64-"team" tournament allowing voters to choose the most loathsome ESPN personality. We're still awaiting results of Dan LeBatard vs. Tony Reali matchup to select the last of the Final Four. But the winners so far:...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 10 a.m.. Ask Stuart Scott: Honestly, does even your wife like you anymore? · 1 p.m. MLB With Gary Miller: We promised ourselves we wouldn't ask about the peeing-on-cops incident. Unfortunately, we don't have any questions now. · 3 p.m....
Shapiro Finally Sets ESPN And Viewers Free
It's official: ESPN overlord Mark Shapiro is leaving the network to run Redskins midget Daniel Snyder's bid to take over the Six Flags franchise. (His last day is October 1. Rest assured, you'll be hearing from him — and us — a ton.)...
Bill Simmons' Continued Blind Spot
We're sorry to pick on him — really! — but we feel obliged to point out that in his new More Cowbell column, which looks at the American League MVP race, our boy Bill says the National League race — a league that Simmons full confesses to "knowing nothing about" — "can be summed up in one word: P...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. Buzz And ShowGirl: Hey, was it difficult to get your career back on track after that dancing movie with Gina Gershon? Do you sometimes wish you'd have stayed on "Saved By The Bell? · 2 p.m.. MLB With Rob Neyer: Just wondering, ...
Fun With Joe Morgan!
We're not the only Web dorks who love making fun of Joe Morgan's sporadic ESPN chats ... but that doesn't mean we don't love it the most....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 10 a.m. Soccernet's Dominic Raynor: Oh, tell us of attacking midfielders and banana kicks and flick headers, you great English poofter. · Noon. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: How many showers did you have to take to cleanse yourself after fo...
ESPN Hollywood Has Finger On Pulse
The following two stories were promoed by The Mario Lopez Network for ESPN Hollywood on SportsCenter this morning:...
Page 3: What More Can One Say?
We don't mean to be mean. We really don't. But to pull a Tom Joad for a moment, as long as Page 3 keeps publishing stories and delaying its inevitable death, dammit, we'll be there....
ESPN Hollywood Looms Ominously
Legimate question: If you move from ESPN2's "Cold Pizza" to another ESPN2 show with Mario Lopez, is that considered a promotion? We're just asking. (Correlary question: Would you rather work with Woody Paige or a guy who used to hang out with Screech? Actually, that's kind of the same thing.)...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · Noon. Ed Bowe, ESPN Golf School: Is it vehicular manslaughter, technically, if it's a golf cart? · 1 p.m. College BB with Steve Lavin: From coaching UCLA to getting coffee for Brent Musburger. Your thoughts? · 2 p.m. College FB with Ji...
More Net Nerds Hit It "Big" Time
We were impressed to see the folks from on ESPN2's Cold Pizza this morning, as much as we can be impressed to see anyone on Cold Pizza. We still don't think Football Outsiders is ever going to quite hit the levels of Baseball Prospectus, if just because people who watch baseball are just bigger c...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. NFL with Chris Mortensen: I see in the Madden '06 video game that you wander onto the field at one point and are decapitated during a Cleveland blitz. Do you get royalties for that? · Noon. NFL with Gary Horton: What could we p...
All Told, Mark Shapiro Would Just Rather You Die
Speaking of ESPN head overlord Mark Shapiro, he had a pretty money quote to SI.com this week. Talking to "media critic" Richard Deitsch, Shapiro explained why the network might have been interested in a Mike Tyson reality show a couple of years ago, but isn't anymore....
Fun With ESPN's Ombudsman
We repeat: We find it hysterical that ESPN has hired an ombudsman — former Washington Post editor George Solomon — to tell it when it's operating outside the boundaries of journalistic ethics. We mean, it's ESPN: Duh. Anyway, Solomon does his monthly tilting at windmills this morning, and as alway...
The Mario Lopez Experience
We are just six days away from the next undignified gallop toward hipdom attempt by ESPN2, ESPN Hollywood, a show about how athletes and celebrity mix. (Yep.) We'll focus more on the show later, but right now we're gonna talk about co-host Mario Lopez....
Baseball Tonight Hijinks
We've become pretty addicted to Fire Joe Morgan, a hideously designed but riotously funny daily rip on ESPN's baseball coverage. Today's rant is on something we noticed as well: The awful, brain-dead banter about the AL Cy Young between analysts John Kruk and Harold Reynolds and anchor Karl Ravec...