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The ESPYs Are A Colossal Waste Of Money
It's a nearly annual question in Bristol: Can we finally cancel the ESPYs?...
Paul Finebaum Stupids Up ESPN On Johnny Manziel
Ultra-troll Paul Finebaum, who has mastered the art of spinning his own opinion as the most important of the day on any subject, turned his cannons on Johnny Manziel on Wednesday. Well, Manziel and his phone....
Joe Paterno Interview Transcript: “Yea, I Guess You'd Call It Sexual”
John Ziegler, the Joe Paterno apologist whom even people related to Joe Paterno want nothing to do with, recently published a book that defends Joe Paterno's role in the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal. And by "recently published a book" I mean Ziegler posted some 80,000 words on his website last w...
America Is Ruining Johnny Football
Let's talk about Johnny Manziel's hangover, which is a fun thing to talk about because it ends with Johnny Manziel getting screwed regardless of the truth. If Johnny Manziel really was hungover the night before a meaningless voluntary offseason QB camp session, then NFL people will crush him for n...
ESPN's Mark May Needs To Shut Up About Johnny Manziel
Here's Mark May, responding to the latest bit of news about Johnny Football:...
Johnny Manziel Pleads Guilty To Misdemeanor Stemming From 2012 Fight
Remember that whole mess that started last June, when Johnny Manziel got into a bar fight, got arrested, got suspended from the Aggies, got un-suspended, then won a Heisman? Whatever happened to the actual court case?...
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Johnny Manziel Leaves Mannings’ Camp Early; Hangover? [UPDATING]
Johnny Manziel was one of many college quarterbacks to attend the Manning Passing Academy over the weekend. But he's the only one who was reportedly kicked out of it for being hungover....
Even YES Can't Believe The Yankees Got This Call
It says a lot when even YES Network, the house organ to end all house organs in sports broadcasting, can't justify a call going the Yankees' way....
How Hollywood Ruined Our Best Football Novel
Originally published in 1977 in the Chicago Daily News. Reprinted here with the author's permission....
ESPN Gets Defensive About Ratings Drop
Earlier this week we told you about ESPN's recent ratings woes. The numbers dropped significantly in the second quarter this year. They were down in the first quarter, too, and they were flat last year. Now that the news is getting around, ESPN PR—which usually projects an air of lordly remove in t...
Was Baseball More Fun During The Steroid Era?
That's what John Rocker said on a radio interview, and, messenger aside, he's got a point:...
It's What You Do With The Gift That Counts
There was a good story by John Le Carre in theNew Yorker earlier this year (subscription required) about the making of his novel The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. The piece centered on the tense relationship between the film’s director, Martin Ritt, a left-wing Jew who’d been blacklisted, and its s...
As I Was Saying---
Dan Barry takes the mickey out of John Sterling in the New York Times:...
Don't Look Now, But John Lackey Is Good Again
All of the signs were crossed when the Angels and Red Sox faced off last night. Los Angeles of Anaheim is now the club struggling to reach .500 despite its massive payroll; Boston, lean and mean (in comparison to previous years, anyway) after its salary dumps last August, is back in first place....
Nobody Knows Anything
Via Cinephilia and Beyond, check out this post about William Goldman. It features the following interview with Goldman and John Cleese: ...
Lost in Translation
Dig this blog post by Lawrence Block about the difficulty of adapting books for the big screen:...
BBC Apologizes For Shitty Thing It Said About Bartoli And Her Dad
Today, gentlemen, we were reminded why we lug our reputations as troglodytes well into the 21st century. A woman named Marion Bartoli proved athletic enough to win a singles title at Wimbledon and was thereupon described to BBC Radio 5 listeners as something other than "a looker." Because, you see, ...
John Daly's Pants Are Why God Continues To Bless The U.S.A.
Today we salute the sartorial choice of one John Patrick Daly, age 47, professional golfer, recreational smoker, University of Arkansas dropout, lapband surgery patient, puller of muscles, designer of golf courses, breaker of cameras, personal friend to Hootie and assorted Blowfish, Vegas whale, tos...
How A Great Boxing Novel Got The Movie It Deserved
"Sometimes you only get to win one championship."—Leonard Gardner...