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Fox Sports 1: Be A Cool Bro And Ignore Your Nagging Bitch Wife With Us
In case you had any doubt about the Fox Sports 1 worldview, they dropped this turd on us this week....
<em>Fox & Friends</em> Host Has Annoying Question For Mo'ne Davis
Mo'ne Davis, the 13-year-old girl who led her baseball team to the Little League World Series by being awesome and striking fools out, was a guest on this morning's episode of Fox & Friends. Naturally, co-host Eric Bolling seized on the opportunity to be annoying....
How Rupert Murdoch Could Go To War With ESPN
The blockbuster news that Rupert Murdoch bid $80 billion for Time Warner—and was at least temporarily rebuffed—points to an impending seismic shift in the media landscape. And, as the New York Times points out today, nowhere would that shift be felt more than in the business of televised sports. A F...
MLB On Gwynn All-Star Snub: "Didn't Want To Single Out One Individual"
MLB and Fox issued a joint statement tonight on the much-criticized absence of Tony Gwynn's name from last night's All-Star Game/Derek Jeter slurpfest. Their explanation:...
All 100 Times Jeter's Name Was Mentioned On Fox—And All Zero Of Gwynn's
Lest you forget, Fox was sure to make you aware that this is Derek Jeter's final season in the majors. The Captain's name was spoken no fewer than 100 times on tonight's All-Star Game broadcast, but at what cost? That of remembering people like Tony Gwynn, Don Zimmer, or Bob Welch—none of whom were ...
Mama, We Made It
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How The UFC's Biggest Show Of The Year Turned Into A Fiasco
If you follow mixed martial arts long enough, even at a casual level, and if you are capable of feeling shame or outrage, the sport will eventually embarrass you. For those of us who follow the sport intently, especially those of us who deeply love it, this is a regular, sometimes daily, occurrenc...
Buck & Verducci Are Excited For Baseball's Return To Broadcast TV
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A Letter To Derek Jeter's Possibly Born Children
Fox Sports 1's Katie Nolan, who has previously busted on Rick Reilly, has set her sights on the ol' Rickster once again. ...
Hey, The Bills Won A Game!
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Saturday Afternoon Baseball Just Isn't The Same Without Blackouts
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No, Halfwit, Donald Sterling Isn't The Real Victim Here
Clay Travis, author of Fox Sports's Outkick the Coverage blog, sure is bent out of shape about ... uh, some damn thing. Internet mobs? The Baltimore Ravens? Something called "fauxrage"? The Real Racists? People all thinking the same thing all the time? Sure!...
Mike Francesa Barely Tolerates His Own Network's Draft Analysts
Mike Francesa's daily radio show is simulcast on Fox Sports 1 now, so you might assume that a segment built around two of the network's NFL draft analysts would lead to some good corporate synergy. The Sports Pope disagrees....
We're All Fucked
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(500) Hours of Spidey: <em>The Amazing Spider-Man 2</em>, Reviewed
1. There's a moment in 2004's original Spider-Man 2, directed by Sam Raimi, that represents the peak of what a comic-book movie can do. It's when an unmasked Spider-Man attempts to save a (geographically impossible, but no matter) elevated NYC subway train from careening off the platform and into th...
Mike Francesa Is Not Happy With His Fox Sports Partners
Mike Francesa's afternoon WFAN talk show simulcast moved from YES to Fox Sports 1 six weeks ago, bringing the longtime New York voice to a national audience—that is, when not pre-empted for Champions League soccer on the nascent News Corp (err, "21st Century Fox") network. ...
Bill O'Reilly Questions John Calipari On "Hip-Hop, Rap Stuff, Hustlers"
Kentucky head coach John Calipari appeared on The O'Reilly Factor tonight on Fox News, and managed to keep his cool despite a series of leading questions about the ability to maintain discipline in a "coarser" age of "rap stuff," "hip-hop stuff," and "hustlers."...
Omaha Cable System Cuts Away From Creighton Game To Show Pac-12 Action
Creighton and Xavier are locked up in a Big East semifinal thriller. Bluejays fans back home in Omaha can't watch, though, because we're told Cox Cable switched Fox Sports 1 feeds to the Pac-12 Stanford-UCLA game, which is what follows the one from Madison Square Garden. Fox Sports 1 tweeted quickly...
Reporter Talking Sports Has Best Reaction When He Realizes He's Live
Tom Yazwinski of Q13 FOX in Seattle clearly didn't know that the newscast had sent it over to him for a preview of his report on mudslides. He was talking about the Rangers—Texas or New York?—with someone off-camera....