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Where Stuart Scott's Most Famous Catchphrase Came From
Stuart Scott's memoir, which he completed before dying last month at the age of 49, comes out next month. The Washington Post quotes a passage from the book, in which Scott dates the origins of "Boo-yah" to his high school days in North Carolina:...
Screencap Classix: Lil Wayne Devastates Jay Mariotti On <i>ATH</i>
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Report: Rece Davis To Replace Chris Fowler On <i>College GameDay </i>[Updated]
Chris Fowler, host of ESPN's immensely popular College GameDay for the last 25 years, is out, according to James Andrew Miller:...
Kevin Durant Calls A Basketball Writer A Dumbass
The Oklahoma City Thunder gave forward Nick Collison a two-year extension today, and NBA reporter Chris Palmer criticized the contract and the team. So, Kevin Durant called him a dumbass....
Dan Patrick Calls Out Colin Cowherd For Having "ESPN Muscles"
ESPN radio host and frenulum with eyes Colin Cowherd really likes to waste air time on his show by letting everyone know what a savvy sports radio veteran he is. Yesterday, he went on one of his rants about what it takes to make it in "this business," and while doing so talked some shit about Dan Pa...
Screencap Classix: We're All Disgusted
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Sources: ESPN Really Has No Way To Tell Who Changed Draft Rankings
After Sunday's announcement from ESPN that the network remains unsure who modified Chad Ford's NBA pre-draft rankings years after the fact, we immediately asked, "How is that possible?" Nearly every known content management system tracks changes, and we're told ESPN's usual process is especially w...
The NFL Wants Monday Playoff Games
NFL playoff expansion is coming, and probably within the next couple of years—there's too much money in it for it not to happen, once the league and the union can figure out how to split up the take. But more playoff teams means more games, and that means the weekends simply won't be big enough to c...
Chad Ford Says He Didn't Edit His Draft Rankings, & ESPN Believes Him
ESPN NBA analyst Chad Ford says he's innocent of charges he brazenly edited his pre-draft rankings years after the fact, and while the network acknowledges the edits happened, it is absolving Ford of responsibility—for now:...
Chris Berman Has Had It With This Pro Bowl Bullshit
Safe to say Chris Berman was not a fan of the Pro Bowl halftime show performed by Nico & Vinz. Here's his pissed-off reaction after ESPN's lackluster broadcast....
Update: ESPN Quietly Deletes Chad Ford's Retroactive Edits
Hours after the revelation that ESPN insider Chad Ford's NBA prospect rankings had been edited years after the drafts they purported to reflect, ESPN's draft rankings pages have been reverted to their original versions....
ESPN's Chad Ford Has Been Retroactively Editing Draft Boards For Years
This website has been using ESPN NBA analyst Chad Ford as a punching bag for nearly ten years. And we don't feel a bit sorry for it after discovering tonight (upon unearthing by those Reddit rapscallions) that Ford has been retroactively re-ranking his NBA draft boards years after the fact....
Sal Paolantonio Has Found The Real<i> </i>Victim Of Ballghazi
We still have nine days until the Super Bowl, everyone. Mark Brunell getting upset over the possibility of Tom Brady fibbing is not the nadir of Ballghazi, though that'd be nice. On this morning's Colin Cowherd radio atrocity, Sal Paolantonio remixed a classic hand-wringing angle—Think of the ch...
Mark Brunell Almost Cries Over Deflated Balls
This is what we get for having two weeks before the Super Bowl. Stern questions at press conferences over the size and firmness of balls. Unironic tweets explicitly comparing the NFL's investigations to actual police work, despite the fact that last September, we received a big lesson about why it's...
John Walsh, The Godfather Of ESPN, Will Step Down
John Walsh, who is probably more responsible than anyone else for making ESPN the behemoth it is today, will retire at the end of the month....
FCC Fines ESPN $280,000 For <i>Olympus Has Fallen</i> Spot
Olympus Has Fallen—the 2013 movie about a White House attack that wasn't White House Down—got some TV networks into trouble with its advertising. The FCC dished out hefty fines for one spot's use of the Emergency Alert System sound. You can hear it at the beginning, right before the "THIS IS NOT A...
ESPN Finally Corrects Story That Misquoted Doug Baldwin
Yesterday, we brought up an ESPN report by Seahawks reporter Terry Blount that profanely misquoted Seattle wide receiver Doug Baldwin. For whatever reason, Blount incorrectly inserted a few "motherfuckers" into Baldwin's postgame rant. Last night, ESPN finally got around to correcting the story, a...
Fowler Falls For Fake Website, Makes Crazy Claims About Tennis Star
Tonight's Australian Open coverage on ESPN2 featured announcer Chris Fowler explaining to the audience that Japanese pro Kei Nishikori is, among other things, the highest-paid tennis player in the world and the owner of a restaurant chain, a soccer team, and clothing and perfume lines. None of tho...
ESPN's Dave Pasch Outs Self As Creationist After Receiving Darwin Book
We've noted previously that college basketball games called by Dave Pasch and Bill Walton on ESPN can get especially weird, but we never imagined that it would be Pasch who would lead viewers to ask themselves, "Did he really just say that?" ...
Aaron Boone Goes Knuckle-Deep On ESPN Megacast
Aaron Boone is one of a number of ESPN personalities featured on tonight's Megacast "ESPN Voices" broadcast on ESPNU, which has mostly consisted of allowing viewers to watch talent eat food. Or in Aaron Boone's case, watch him pick his nose....