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This Was Not The Best Sideline Report Of Pam Oliver's Career
Hey, at least she gritted her way through it....
NBC Sports Network Cancels NRA-Sponsored Elephant Hunting Show
NBC Sports Network is dumping the show that featured a guy shooting an elephant in the face. The show—hosted by NRA lobbyist Tony Makris—isn't being canceled for that episode with the elephant shooting, exactly (though that didn't help). Instead it's because Makris compared his critics to Hitler ea...
Hey, Everyone, Check Out Pete Prisco's Tim Tebow Impression
Here's Pete Prisco, odious football columnist and wearer of cargo jorts weird shorts, getting into a little tête-à-tête with some Jaguars fans at this month's "Sign Tim Tebow" rally. Prisco, who is staunchly anti-Tebow, can be seen giving his impression of Tebow's style of play. Nice moves, Pete....
"Bodies Not Created To Be Sexually Involved With Lots Of People," Reports NBA Writer
Over on Kingmovement.com, ESPN NBA reporter Chris Broussard writes:...
Grinning Baboon Gropes Reporter's Breast On Live Television
This is a couple of weeks old, but it's getting around today, so blame the internet for being slow in sharing it. That's Sabrina Rodriguez of Sacramento's Fox 40. She did a live report from the Lodi Grape Festival. There was a baboon. The baboon had a real feel for the moment....
Hear A Bengals Announcer Lose His Mind Over The Go-Ahead Fumble Return
Late in the Bengals win over Green Bay, Johnathan Franklin took a fourth-and-one carry only to fumble, see the ball scooped up by Terence Newman, and returned 58 yards for what would be the winning score. Exciting? You bet. Almost too much to handle for Cincinnati's radio color guy....
Former NFL Player Whose House Was Trashed By Teens Is A Bit Crazy
The saga of Brian Holloway, a former NFL lineman who had his house broken into and trashed by partying teenagers last week, refuses to end. After setting up a website to shame the teens who destroyed his house, Holloway found himself threatened with legal action by parents of the partying teenagers...
Pam Oliver Nearly Steamrolled By Ohio State Band
It's been a rough season already for Pam Oliver. She suffered a concussion from being hit in the head by a football in the preseason, and now her producer's set her up in the middle of a marching band's path. At least she avoided this fate....
Kirk Herbstreit Unhappy ABC Showed KSU-Texas To Only 36% Of The Country
This is fun! We got our hands on some raw, off-air satellite backhaul footage from tonight's Kansas State-Texas broadcast on ABC, and in the post-game we're invited to listen in on Kirk Herbstreit and Brent Musburger discussing the day in college football—and, notably, why so few people were able ...
If Arian Foster Is A Prostitute, Is Dick Vitale A Pimp?
Dick Vitale compared Arian Foster to a prostitute last night and apologized for it this morning. ...
Sal Paolantonio's Postgame Andy Reid Interview Was Weird
Andy Reid had every reason to be happy. His Kansas City Chiefs were freshly 3-0 with a win over his former squad in Philadelphia, and the team building the kind of camaraderie that leads to a Gatorade shower in Week Three. Reid did not seem very happy, though, when talking to ESPN's Sal Paolantonio...
BBC Presenter Introduces News Report Holding A Pack Of Printer Paper
We're big fans of the BBC 24-hour news channel around here, but when we saw presenter Simon McCoy introducing a story about drunk tanks while holding a pack of printer paper, we wondered if this was some kind of British journalism tradition that never made its way to our shores....
Mark May's Twitter Broke And Gave Us So Many Hot Takes
Mark May's Twitter account just went bananas, and it was delightful. Judging by the timeliness of the tweets sent, all of May's drafts went out at the same time. We got a good look at all the gems May chose not to send....
Fox Cuts To Halftime Show With A Minute Left In Vikings-Bears
It's a banner day for Fox production. There have been video problems, audio issues, hinky telestrators, rogue tickers. But this takes the cake....
Orlando CBS Affiliate Apologizing To Viewers For Airing Jaguars Game
Oh, that hurts....
This Is The Most Impressive "Pick-Off Throw" You'll Ever See
I mean, it's not even the pitcher and he uses a bat! These pennant races are crazy....
ESPN's Jason Whitlock Craps On Author Of <em>SI's</em> Oklahoma State Story
Jason Whitlock went on the Oklahoma City Sports Animal radio show today to talk about the first part of Sports Illustrated's five-part investigation into Oklahoma State University. He spent a good chunk of time talking shit about Thayer Evans, a former colleague of Whitlock's and one half of the inv...
That Time Jim Harbaugh Broke His Hand Punching Jim Kelly
Coach/angry person Jim Harbaugh is still talking about an incident in yesterday's Niners-Packers game where Clay Matthews took some slaps at the head of Joe Staley during a scrum. "Come with some knuckles," Harbaugh said. He would know....