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These days, being a beat reporter has all kinds of rules. But one of the bigger ones? Please don't ask the players for their autograph. It would destroy the delicate illusion that reporters are actual impartial observers who just happen to cover some of the most famous people on the planet. A Japane...
When Fabricated Quotes Are Taken Out Of Context
Yesterday, I mentioned in the Blogdome about how a sports talk radio show made a crucial mistake none of us seasoned sports blog readers ever do: take an Every Day Should Be Saturday post seriously. Continuing this trend, Sports Illustrated appeared to have taken a satirical riff on the NBA Draft di...
Bad Day For Hockey. Worse Day For Hockey Writers
(Rick Chandler, in addition to being Deadspin associate editor, is also a journalist in the Bay Area. So we asked him to opine on some new disturbing press news out there.)...
About Those My Wish Segments ...
As you've surely noticed, "SportsCenter" is running its yearly "My Wish" campaign with the "Make-A-Wish foundation" all this week. We covered our thoughts on this little segment last year, when we said, "First off, it should be obvious that we have no problem with sick and/or needy children getting ...
Stuart Scott Is The Broadcasting Equivalent Of Hudson Hawk
As Awful Announcing reported yesterday, tonight, ESPN will bring you a Very Special "SportsCenter" featuring Bruce Willis, Live Free Or Die Hard and all kinds of WACKY HIJINKS....
Our Interview With Harold Reynolds
Friday afternoon, we accepted an invitation to MLB.com's offices in Manhattan for an interview with ... Harold Reynolds. This is the first SHOTY nominee we've interviewed — save for the imaginary conversations with Barbaro that go on in our head every day — and we talked for about an hour on a varie...
Sportsline Columnist On Suicide Mission To Fly
So you know those wacky videos they show every year of some Red Bull event where silly folks try to fly their homemade "airplanes" off a 30-foot cliff? (The 10 best crashes are here.) That's called The Flugtag, and this year, Clay Travis, of CBS Sportsline Claynation fame — and our own Tennessee Tit...
Have You Heard About This Clemens Fellow?
Roger Clemens is making his 2007 baseball debut today for the Yankees at the Stadium. He will be paid roughly 1 jillion dollars* per start. (* - Rounding up.)...
Lemme At 'Em! Lemme At 'Em!
Twice a year, members of the New York media play members of the Boston media in baseball. This is surely amusing to watch — fat guys fielding grounders is always a reliable source of comedy — but yesterday, at Fenway Park, there was a truly beautiful happening: They almost had a bench-clearing brawl...
How A-Rod Changed Everything, And Nothing
Of all the pleasures of this whole A-Rod business — and there are many — the best has been watching media outlets like ESPN and the New York Daily News dance their way around the story while still embracing it and licking its ear. "SportsCenter," in a move that would have been unfathomable five year...
A Day's Worth Of ESPN Classic
Now that ESPN Classic no longer shows "original" programming like "Classic Now" or "Cheap Seats," the channel is supposedly back to its roots of showing historic sporting events ... you know, the reason the channel existed in the first place....
Tom Verducci Really, Really Wants To Play Baseball
You might remember, from a couple of years ago, when Sports Illustrated baseball guru Tom Verducci played for five days with the Toronto Blue Jays during spring training. It was a clever idea, and well-written, as was his piece this year about serving as an umpire. But, like an athlete who has been ...
Welcome, Jezebel: Turn To The Worship Of Her God Baal
The classy, bombastic lovely ladies seen here are the editors of the newest site from our benevolent benefactors at Gawker Media, Jezebel, which launched today. The basic premise of the site is mapped out in a manifesto about the five biggest lies that women's magazines spew. Personally, we've alway...
In The Face Of Breaking Wind, You've Just Got To Soldier On
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Hey, Everyone In Bristol Will Be Twinkies Tomorrow!
It shouldn't be difficult to spot any ESPN employees walking down the street tomorrow: Look for the guy/lady with the Arena Football shirt and that "sweet God someone please shoot me" look on their face....
Yet Another Way ESPN Makes You Gassy
You thought your life was caused enough pain every time you went to the gas station these days? (We still don't have a car, but it makes our heart ache every time we even look at a gas station anymore.) Well, it's about to grow far, far worse: Now, at certain gas stops, you're gonna have to hear rum...
Sean Salisbury Eventually Will Be Doing High School Games In Boise
Citizens of Chicago, your long civic nightmare is over: Your morning radio "star" Sean Salisbury is no longer haunting your airwaves. The Chicago ESPN Radio affiliate isn't sure what they're gonna do with Salisbury yet — he might end up with the plum spot of doing pregame for Bears telecasts — but i...
Staff Announcements At The LA Times Are More Interesting Than Where You Work
Not that this is shocking news or anything, but it is a bit bracing when you log on to a major daily's sports site — expecting to catch up on some soccer news, and maybe some baseball and whatnot — and are hit with this. Yes, we'd say the following is heavy on the whatnot....
Get The Cheerleaders ... Out Of My ... Brain ...
There's a certain sublime beauty in the notion that the FBI is investigating an anonymous letter writer to ESPN and ABC who was complaining, of all things, about cheerleaders....
David Halberstam, R.I.P.
We, like anyone who has even a passing interest in the world of journalism, deeply lamented the passing of David Halberstam, who was killed in a car crash yesterday in Menlo Park, Calif. He was 73 years old....