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Steve Young Gamely Tries To Explain That He Was Just Giving Rick Reilly A "Bro Stare"
Safe to say the one person who emerged from Rick Reilly's "I had that first on Twitter" debacle relatively unscathed was Steve Young, who at least had the presence of mind to get (by all appearances) seriously pissed off at Reilly's crowing over due credit, misguided as it was, with a death stare f...
Racecars Versus The Amish: Last Week's TV Ratings, In Context
A weekly feature wherein we contextualize TV ratings for national sports broadcasts. Data via Nielsen and Sports Business Journal's John Ourand. Viewership numbers represent approximate number of persons tuned to a given program; ratings share refers to the percentage of all households using a telev...
Now Even ESPN's Announcers Are Mocking ESPN's Tebow Obsession
Bob Wischusen and Dan Dakich were calling Butler-Xavier game on ESPN this afternoon as part of the network's tip-off marathon coverage and—naturally—Tim Tebow came up. Wischusen is the Jets' play-by-play guy for ESPN Radio, and as such he is in a position to truly understand Tebow's irrelevance ri...
The University Of Washington Has Put Twitter Restrictions On Media Members
Are you a college basketball or football writer who constantly tweets while covering games? Cut that shit out when you're at the University of Washington. The university has implemented limitations on tweeting about football and basketball games, because...well, we're not really sure. No media memb...
ESPN Camera Catches Rick Reilly Ordering Stu Scott To Credit His Twitter Feed
Producers didn't give ESPN's Monday Night Football crew enough warning before heading out to them live for a postgame wrap-up from Heinz Field, leading to this bit of inside chatter amongst the panelists—most noticeably, Rick Reilly ensuring that Stuart Scott gave him the credit for being "first ...
Chris Berman Apologizes After <em>Monday Night Football</em> Graphic Reads: "Roethlisberger Drink & Drunk"
Ben Roethlisberger may be a "jagoff" notorious for his barroom antics, but when an item showed up in ESPN's televised rundown before Monday Night Football tonight titled "Roethlisberger Drink & Drunk," it caught many viewers by surprise....
How ESPN Ditched Journalism And Followed Skip Bayless To The Bottom: A Tim Tebow Story
In October, Doug Gottlieb, a radio host and basketball analyst who'd decamped for CBS the previous month after nine years with ESPN, went on The Dan Patrick Show and dropped something of a truth bomb about his time in Bristol: ...
ESPN Is Worth $40 Billion
How big a piece of the Disney kingdom has ESPN grown to be? We've know it was vital to the company in general terms, as a corporate "breadwinner" or "revenue driver", but now Forbes has come up with a credible guesstimate about what the numbers are. They are big, big numbers. The Worldwide Leader is...
Did A Camera Operator Just Pass Out Live On <em>SportsCenter</em>? [UPDATE: He's OK]
Amidst the breathless reporting of Chris Broussard's "sources" on the Mike D'Antoni hiring, ESPN managed to squeeze in a cognition-degrading segment hosted by short tie advocate Merril Hoge....
"Ur Probably Rob Ray": Jeremy Roenick's Spirited Banter With The Twitter Troll He Wants To Fight
Yesterday, we brought you the story of Jeremy Roenick exploring the legality of a death match with a Twitter troll. Since then, the troll in question has gotten in touch and sent us the direct messages Roenick sent him. We reached out to Roenick about the authenticity of these DMs, but he never got ...
Editor Of <em>ESPN The Magazine</em> Asks Staff To Vote In Meaningless Online Poll So They Can Beat <em>Sports Illustrated</em> For Meaningless Bragging Rights
Times are tough in magazine land! Ad pages are dropping, magazines are folding, Newsweek is just a pile of bones and vitamin cover stories bleaching in the noonday sun, etc. You know the drill. So there's a little practice that's become very popular in magazine land over the last couple of years tha...
Jeremy Roenick Wants To Make Sure Everything's Legal When He Beats Up This Twitter Troll For Charity
Last week, friend of the site Jeremy Roenick sent out an interesting tweet:...
How Did Samantha Steele Become Erin Andrews's Replacement? First, She Got A Hostess Job At An ESPN Zone.
Samantha Steele graduated from college three years ago and has been with ESPN for just over a year. Now she's Erin Andrews's replacement on College GameDay and has Thursday night sideline duties. How'd it all start?...
Karl Rove In Denial, Melts Down On Fox News, Attempts To Get Network To Rescind Calling Election
It's been a weird night at Fox News, and it got even weirder in the moments after every network, wire service, and amateur mathematician called the election for President Obama. That's because Fox News contributor Karl Rove—who spent millions attempting to get Romney elected—bizarrely refused to a...
A Lansing, Mich., TV Anchor Is Having A Bad Night
Election night is a trial-by-fire for many broadcast (and, increasingly, print) journalists—the rapid-fire coverage and ever-changing projections can throw anchors for a loop, especially younger ones more familiar with reading prepared scripts off a TelePrompTer. So here's Jason Colthorp of WILX i...
No, It Was Definitely A Good Idea To Cancel The New York City Marathon
Last night, ESPN The Magazine's Chris Jones wrote a column arguing that this past weekend's New York City Marathon should not have been canceled, despite the fallout from Hurricane Sandy....
Terry Bradshaw's "Bucket Of Chicken" Comment Was About Jimmy Johnson, Who Apparently Loves Chicken
On Sunday, Terry Bradshaw made a comment about Reggie Bush "chasing a bucket of chicken" while doing the highlights on Fox's NFL halftime show. Today, he went on WFAN to explain that his comment wasn't racially motivated, but rather a reference to an inside joke about fellow analyst Jimmy Johnson's...
Terry Bradshaw Says Reggie Bush Was Chasing A Bucket Of Chicken
It goes without saying that Terry Bradshaw is not very bright. So it is much more plausible that this is a case of an idiot doofus that FOX allows to speak unscripted on live television in a vomit of words unwittingly comparing Reggie Bush running with some strange chasing-after-a-bucket-of-chicke...
Chris Kluwe Leaves The Pioneer-Press After The Paper Publishes An Anti-Gay Marriage Editorial
Friend of Deadspin, Minnesota Vikings punter, and muse for confused idiots Chris Kluwe put his platform where his mouth is today and told the St. Paul Pioneer-Press (for whom he'd been blogging) to fuck off after they published an anti-gay marriage editorial this week. ...
Finally, Next Media Animation Weighs In On The World Series.
Finally, Next Media Animation weighs in on the World Series. If you didn't catch this year's Fall Classic-and, if you're reading these words, there's a good chance you didn't-or if you immediately forgot everything that happened during the Series-and, all things considered, there's a good chance y...