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Brady Hoke's Dangerous Incompetence So Bad ESPN Announcers Denounce It
Michigan quarterback Shane Morris took a nasty, and illegal, hit to the skull in the fourth quarter of last night's loss to Minnesota. Not only was Morris immediately re-inserted into the game, but Wolverines head coach Brady Hoke claimed " I didn't know if [Morris] had a concussion or not."...
Get It? Because Michael Sam Is Gay
(Replacing subtle racism with overt homophobia is not progress, South Carolina!)...
We Hope He Meets Charlie Strong At A Coaching Clinic
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The Sports Guy Vs. ESPN: How Bill Simmons Lost Bristol
It was, he would later tell a confidant, like something out of The Godfather. Bill Simmons was meeting with two of the most powerful executives at ESPN, John Skipper and John Walsh, in a conference room in ESPN’s then-unfinished Los Angeles office hard by the Staples Center. Within three years, thi...
How Do Other Notable ESPN Suspensions Compare With Bill Simmons's?
ESPN dropped a three-week suspension TV personality and Grantland honcho Bill Simmons last night, somehow working that large stick even deeper into its collective anus. How does Simmons's punishment compare with other notable suspensions handed down by the ever-suspension-happy ESPN in the past?...
Man, Is ESPN Gonna Be Surprised When Nobody Shows Up For <em>GameDay</em>
(That's Tillman Hall, on the campus of Clemson University, which is not the University of South Carolina and is not in Columbia.)...
ESPN Suspends Bill Simmons Three Weeks Over Goodell Criticism
Bill Simmons practically begged ESPN to suspend him, and the oafish and epically tight-assed media behemoth did just that Wednesday night, giving him three weeks for coming to the same conclusion about NFL commissioner Roger Goodell that just about everyone in the thinking public has....
Here's Every Edit ESPN Has Made To Its <em>OTL</em> Ray Rice-Ravens Report
We noted earlier today that Friday's bombshell Outside The Lines report included some odd, paraphrased quoting of supposed text messages to Ray Rice. That, alongside the wild—later retracted—claims about the Revel Casino providing a copy of the tape to the Ravens and NFL security led us to examine e...
Ravens Owner Fires Back At ESPN Story, Says "Nobody's Losing A Job Here"
The Ravens took the weekend to marshal a response to ESPN's big Ray Rice story, and it's here—in the form of a press conference by owner Steve Bisciotti and an online rebuttal to points made in the ESPN report. Bisciotti claims that all the anonymous sources on the Ravens' alleged mishandling on t...
Adam Schefter: NFL Players Had Access To Rice Video Weeks After Incident
It seems like each day brings a new piece of information making it very, very hard to believe that the NFL and the Baltimore Ravens never saw video of Ray Rice knocking out Janay Palmer before TMZ made the tape public. Today's bit comes from Adam Schefter, who went on Mike and Mike and revealed that...
ESPN Showed Jameis Winston Onscreen 48 Times During FSU-Clemson
Viewers of last night's Clemson-Florida State overtime thriller couldn't help but notice how often ESPN's broadcast on ABC showed suspended FSU quarterback Jameis Winston. Indeed, after every big play it felt like the cameras went to Winston to see the Heisman Trophy-winner's reaction. But how much ...
Women > Winning: Your FSU-Clemson <em>GameDay</em> Sign Roundup
GameDay finds itself in Tallahassee for tonight's marquee ACC matchup (if such a thing can exist) between Florida State and Clemson. FSU fans took the opportunity to sound off a variety of issues, but of course the plurality of the signs were about Jameis Winston. Some of them expressed support for ...
ESPN Reports, Then Unreports, That Casino Gave Rice Tape To The NFL
So ... this is very strange....
Brandon Marshall's Pissed, But What Did ESPN Do Wrong, Exactly?
ESPN's newsmagazine show E:60 broadcast a segment on Bears receiver Brandon Marshall tonight and he is pissed off about it. Marshall took to Twitter to air his grievances before the show even began:...
Washington Players Break It Down In Background Of ESPN's RG3 Reports
Washington players, presumably in a good mood after yesterday's 41-10 win over the Jaguars, walked into the background of two of ESPN Skins reporter John Keim's spots, dancing and having a grand time....
Emotional Cris Carter On Child Abuse: "My Mom Was Wrong"
It couldn't have been easy for Cris Carter to say, but it was necessary in the face of all the people defending Adrian Peterson's alleged abuse of his young son. "My mom did the best job she could do," Carter said, noting that he was hit as a child. "My mom was wrong."...
ESPN's Hannah Storm: "What Exactly Does The NFL Stand For?"
ESPN anchor Hannah Storm signed off this morning's SportsCenter with thoughts on covering the NFL and their handling of Ray Rice, and essentially questioned if the league she enjoys actually cares about female fans, families, or the issue of domestic violence....
Yeah, Screw You, Jeff Allen
(We have nothing against Jeff Allen. Get that elbow healthy, buddy.)...
That's A Bad Look, Fargo
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