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Pouty Bill Simmons Wishes Somebody Would Let Him Talk
Bill Simmons is, still, an NBA panelist for ESPN. You wouldn't know it from tonight's postgame on the WWL, though, as it took them more than seven minutes to finally get around to letting him talk. He didn't seem too happy about it, either....
Bobby Ramos Was The MVP Of Game 3
After getting smoked by the Spurs with a historic shooting night, the Miami Heat had some serious questions to answer. These were not those questions....
Rick Reilly Didn't Always Suck
Rick Reilly published the last column of his career on ESPN.com today. It's not very good, as is the case with most of the stuff he's written since becoming a self-plagiarizing boob. But instead of dwelling on the present, let's send Reilly off by remembering the stuff he used to write before he sta...
Can Jason Whitlock Save ESPN's "Black Grantland" From Himself?
This, I thought in disbelief, is really how I'm going to die. ...
Sportswriter Fired For Calling Louisiana City "Worst Place In America"
Matthew Stevens, formerly the Mississippi State beat guy for The (Columbus, Miss.) Commercial Dispatch, recently got back from Lafayette, La., where was covering an NCAA baseball regional. On his radio show, Stevens had some not-so-kind things to say about the host city:...
Danny Amendola Draws Ire Of Insufferable Boston Media
Boston sports media sucks, and a good way to make it worse is to toss it some mildly controversial chum while the boredom of the NFL offseason has it itching for something to be shitty and annoying about. That's what Patriots wide receiver Danny Amendola did on Tuesday when he hung up in the middle ...
Mariners Announcer's Brain Breaks In The Middle Of Home Run Call
Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager had a huge game last night, smashing two triples, a double, and a three-run home run in five at-bats against the Yankees. The only blemish on Seager's big night was play-by-play man Dave Sims's call on the homer. ...
Blackhawks Twitter Account Tells Mexican President To Fuck His Mother
Sort of! The poor sap who's running the Chicago Blackhawks Twitter account fell victim to the dreaded hashtag autofill trap and while trying to hashtag the above tweet with "#CHIvsLAK," they instead tagged it "#ChingueAsuMadreEPN." The explicit tag was likely an automatic prompt and they didn't even...
A Letter To Derek Jeter's Possibly Born Children
Fox Sports 1's Katie Nolan, who has previously busted on Rick Reilly, has set her sights on the ol' Rickster once again. ...
Screencap Classix: You Are Not The Father
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Which Sports Network Wastes The Most Space With Its Scores Ticker?
When ESPN introduced the "BottomLine" as an experiment on its new ESPN2 channel nearly 20 years ago, few expected the feature to become as ubiquitous in sports broadcasting as it has. Today, nearly every cable sports net has its own version of the scores ticker, and in an industry that clings to con...
Rick Reilly Writes A Love Letter To Derek Jeter's Unborn Children
This is how Rick Reilly's latest column, which is about Derek Jeter, begins:...
ESPN's Darren Rovell Now Just Straight-Out Rewriting Press Releases
Everyone gets what posthuman ESPN sports business reporter Darren Rovell is all about by now. He passes on useless trivia, acts like a cock on Twitter, reminds us that the world is a dark, sad, and terrifying place, and serves as a pure conduit for any business looking to pass on a brand message to ...
A Very Confused Stuart Scott Thought Bob Ley Was In Azerbaijan
ESPN2 aired tonight's USA-Azerbaijan friendly from Candlestick Park, but it seems SportsCenter anchor Stuart Scott wasn't paying much attention—because the veteran newsman thought the match happened in Western Asia. ...
Race Fans Disapprove Of ESPN's Botching Of The Indy 500 Finish
ESPN on ABC's coverage of the thrilling final laps of yesterday's Indy 500 left many viewers upset, as Bristol's repeated coverage of the race leaders' significant others battled that of the actual racing. Here's a comparison of what ESPN aired versus video from the international feed....
Guerrillas Pee On Deck
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I'm No Race-Baiting Troll, Explains Race-Baiting Troll Phil Mushnick
A week and a half ago, Phil Mushnick, a race-baiting troll who writes for the New York Post, published a column in which he compared the treatment of Donald Sterling to a lynching. ...
MLB Network Puts Mitch Williams On Hiatus
MLB Network analyst Mitch Williams is on an indefinite leave of absence from the league-owned cable channel after a series of incidents at a youth baseball tournament that witnesses tell us included the former big-league hurler calling a ten-year-old "a pussy."...
NFL Writers Are Mad At Michael Sam Because NFL Writers Are Clowns
Of the four major American sports, the NFL has the bitchiest and most territorial media, who arrogate for themselves certain rights of access that they decry when granted to someone outside the fraternity. They're dogs who snarl when the cat takes their place on the owner's lap....
ESPN's Darren Rovell Is A Humorless Robot, Part 3,792
ESPN sports business reporter Darren Rovell is best known for being a sensitive penis who lacks a human brain and will believe literally anything. This morning, he once again did his part to solidify that reputation....