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Paterno Apologist Reveals Identity Of One Of Jerry Sandusky's Victims, Says He Was Hacked [UPDATED]

We told you yesterday about filmmaker John Ziegler's lunatic shouting tour to promote his jailhouse interview with Jerry Sandusky. Ziegler had hoped to use that interview to help rescue Joe Paterno and other Penn State officials from allegations that they covered up Jerry Sandusky's sex crimes again...

This Will Be Tim McCarver's Last Season At Fox

Whoa, it actually happened. Tim McCarver's 17-year-reign at Fox (and at CBS and ABC before that, and in our autumn nightmares every year) is all over. The 71-year-old poet of the obvious will stop calling games for Fox at the end of this season, the network announced today. This is especially good n...

Who Is This Paterno Apologist Who Keeps Making An Ass Of Himself On TV?

If the name John Ziegler doesn't register with you, enlighten yourself by reading the late David Foster Wallace's lengthy 2005 profile of him in The Atlantic. Ziegler, a former talk-radio host who's now a documentary filmmaker, has been making the media rounds the last couple of days because he rece...

Buzz Bissinger Admits To Shopping Addiction, Dabbling In Gay Sex, Experimenting As A "Dominant Leather Master," And More in <i>GQ</i>

So, how about that Buzz Bissinger personal essay in GQ today, huh? The man loves beautiful and expensive clothes. His new lifestyle has been somewhat apparent for a little while now, popping up in a magazine profile (EW, May 2012: "With his metal-studded leather jacket, brown cowboy boots, and hoop ...

Which College Basketball Analyst Has The Least Terrible Bracket So Far?

Republished with permission from PunditTracker.com...

Steve Nash "Knows How To Rub Off A Man"

Not with speed, necessarily, but with—actually, just forget it. If you need me, I'll be in the corner giggling with my 13-year-old-sense-of-humored peers. ...

Overpaid Sportswriter Salutes Underpaid Football Player

Below are two recent news items. The first is from Sports Illustrated's Peter King; the second is about Sports Illustrated's Peter King. ...

Please Keep Craig Sager Away From Heavy Machinery

A <em>New York Times</em> Story About Georgetown-FGCU Required Some Great Corrections

Is there anything better than an assiduous Times correction notice? Everyone is writing quickly during the tournament, but this one could have used another pass, if only to catch the Eddie Murphy thing. After all... ...

A New Mexico Beat Writer Actually Quit His Job Because Of The Harvard Loss

Dennis Latta is the editor of Loboland.com, a site in the Rivals.com network that is dedicated to covering University of New Mexico athletics. He has been covering the men's basketball team for 33 years. Somehow, during all that time, he never learned how to handle his favorite team losing like a gr...

Dude likes his popcorn....

Talking Shit About Vince Wilfork's Wife Is Not A Good Idea [Update]

Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork loves his wife, Bianca. Anybody who watched this interview, which aired prior to Super Bowl XLVI, knows this. Vince Wilfork is also a very large man who makes his living by knocking the crap out of other very large men. So it's probably not a good idea to call...

Peter King Making Up To $1.5 Million A Year For "Kinglandia"

It's not exactly ridonkulous but it's good enough....

Tim Tebow Insists On Being Protected From Questions And Flash Photography

This handy sheet of dos and dont's was handed out to media members who were covering the Miracle League of Corpus Christi’s “Celebration of Collaborations” event on Wednesday. ...

Lou Piniella Made A Super-Awkward Reference To Rape During Today's Yankees Broadcast

So the Toronto Blue Jays took a lot of talent from the Miami Marlins during the last MLB offseason. One could probably find lots of words to describe the trade effectively. "Raided." "Pillaged." "Ravaged." "Pilfered." "Devastated." "Looted." "Purloined." One would probably not want to say "raped." ...

Kendall Gill Suspended From Broadcasting Job After Trying To Beat Up Colleague

Pundit fight! Last night, former NBA player and current Comcast SportsNet Chicago Bulls analyst Kendall Gill started a physical altercation with Tim Doyle of the Big Ten Network, after Doyle made some disparaging remarks about Gill's analysis....

This Is Awful: Jay Mariotti Has A Really Long Story On ESPN.com, For Some Reason

So, Jay Mariotti's no-seriously-I-have-a-girlfriend-in-Canada-I-met-her-at-summer-camp freelance project? Turned out to be real. ESPN allowed Mariotti to write more than 5,000 unforgivable words on Kobe and the Lakers....

The National Sport Of Afghanistan Is Called Bukkake, According To Clueless Pittsburgh Sports-Talk Hosts

Ron Cook and Vinnie Richichi hold down the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. slot on Pittsburgh's 93.7 The Fan. Four hours can be a lot of time to fill for five days a week, even in a town with a hockey team on a winning streak, an NCAA-bound college basketball team, the Steelers just being the Steelers, and someth...

Bill Walton Made A Ray Lewis Limo Joke And Referenced Bill Simmons's Twitter Suspension On Tonight's ESPNU Broadcast

Bill Walton's on-air behavior has been consistently weird this college basketball season, and that didn't change tonight as broadcasting's biggest Grateful Dead fan launched into numerous questionable tangents during ESPNU's Pac-12 tournament coverage of Washington-Oregon from Las Vegas....

ESPN Suspends Bill Simmons From Twitter After <em>First Take</em> Criticism

Apparently Bill Simmons is not beyond reproach....