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Grab 'Em By The Saban: Your Baton Rouge <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
ESPN’s College GameDay went to LSU today. Here are some signs fans brought to the broadcast—with some help from SEC Nation....
Free Mustache Rides: Your Salt Lake City <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
ESPN’s College GameDay aired live from Salt Lake City this morning. Here are some signs people brought to that event. Yes, Mormonism is involved!...
Doug Gottlieb Is Too Soft To Stand By His Incorrect Takes
Here is a timeline of events:...
Randy Moss Could Probably Get A Kicking Job With The Cardinals Or Seahawks<em></em>
I mean, if he can do 28 yards in dress shoes, I’m sure he can double that in cleats, why not?...
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A Tuscaloosa <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
ESPN’s weekly native advertising broadcast known as College GameDay set its temporary roots in Tuscaloosa today for the big aTm-Bama game. People brought signs, yes, and they also had signs in Lexington where SEC Nation was broadcasting its superior program....
ESPN’s Darren Rovell: I’m A Robot, I Pity The Humans<em></em>
This evening, at 10:21 p.m. EDT, Darren Rovell reached his terrifying final form....
Report: Chris Broussard Is Leaving ESPN For Fox Sports
ESPN basketball analyst Chris Broussard is finalizing a deal to decamp for Fox Sports, according to Sporting News’s Mike McCarthy, where he is likely to pair with former NBAer Jim Jackson on FS1. McCarthy previously reported that Broussard’s ESPN contract was expiring in mid-September, and I have be...
Story On Fox Sports 1 Ratings Reads Just Like A Fox Sports 1 Press Release<em></em>
Nielsen’s television ratings determine almost alone whether a TV show is considered successful, whether it stays on the air, and how much advertisers pay to run commercials during it. They are incredibly important to everybody in the television business, and reporters breathlessly cover them, from t...
This Rude Tweet About The Knicks Is Factually Wrong But Spiritually Correct
ESPN’s NBA-focused Twitter account @ESPNNBA has been doing that thing where a Twitter account counts down the days until the beginning of some new season with photos that correspond to whatever number of days is left until the start of whatever is being anticipated. Today, the account tweeted an ima...
Skip Bayless Is Gaining On ESPN In A Ratings War That Doesn't Matter<em></em>
ESPN’s flagship shoutfest, First Take, has long and rightly been reviled for degrading everyone and everything it touches. Until co-host Skip Bayless departed earlier this year, that didn’t seem to matter at all to its loyal core audience, which happily tuned in each day no matter how repulsive or j...
ESPN's Ed Werder Is Extremely Offended By Newspapers Accurately Quoting Presidential Candidate
ESPN reporter Ed Werder takes great offense at media outlets accurately reporting the content of a recently-leaked video featuring Donald Trump—namely, to outlets quoting the Republican nominee on one of his preferred methods of interacting with women, to “grab them by the pussy.” The fact that new...
Jeff Van Gundy Advocates Zero-Tolerance Policy For Domestic Violence Offenders
The Houston Rockets and New York Knicks met in the preseason this evening, and ESPN announcer Jeff Van Gundy used the occasion of Derrick Rose’s first appearance with the Knicks to make some points about domestic violence and how Adam Silver and the NBA should deal with players who are convicted of ...
ESPN Runs Memphis Grizzlies Puff Piece Written By Guy The Grizzlies Just Hired<em></em>
This morning, ESPN published a positive and forward-looking profile of new Memphis Grizzlies head David Fizdale, focusing on his first practice yesterday. It was written by veteran NBA writer and ESPNer Michael Wallace—an awfully strange choice considering that last week Wallace announced that he wa...
Eduardo Pérez's José Fernández Remembrance Was Incredible
If you’re waking up today to the news that José Fernández is dead, and perhaps don’t quite understand how influential the Marlins pitcher and Cuban refugee was to people in Miami and to baseball fans around the world, you need to watch ESPN analyst Eduardo Pérez’s appearance on the network this morn...
"I'm Falling Off The Chair" [Update]
Chris Hassel’s day running ESPN’s Goal Line coverage is not going so well; the anchor cannot even manage to sit in his very stubborn chair....
Peyton Manning's Hairline Is A Lie
Eagle-eyed reader Jim writes in that an ad campaign on ESPN.com features multiple Peyton Manning hairlines scattered amongst inane takes by Stephen A. Smith and fantasy football promotions. The former NFL QB is shilling for some brand you’ve never heard of, and when we checked for ourselves we found...
Tebow Jokes: Your Knoxville <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
Good afternoon. Here’s the best, and worst, of today’s College GameDay signs from Knoxville—with some help from SEC Nation:...