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An Interview With Jim Everett About "Teeny, Tiny" Jim Rome's Departure From ESPN
With all this business about Jim Rome leaving ESPN today, we figured we should check in with Jim Everett, the Rams, Saints, and Chargers quarterback whom Rome repeatedly called "Chris" on ESPN2 in 1994. Everett charged Rome. The video endures on YouTube. Everett is now a financial professional in...
Also Thinking He's Off Air, Kevin Harlan Talks About How The Saints "Kicked The Shit Out Of" Teams
Charles Barkley wasn't the only one caught last night talking into a hot microphone that was picked up by NBA.tv during a TNT commercial break. Here, play-by-play man Kevin Harlan makes an eloquent case for how well he thinks the New Orleans Saints play at home....
An Insider's Guide To Chop Blocks
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Jim Rome Left Partly Because Of Stuff Said About Him In The ESPN Book
So Jim Rome is going from ESPN to CBS Sports Network even though the Worldwide Leader had offered him a multi-year extension for Rome Is Burning. According to a source, Rome wanted out at least in part because of comments made by an ESPN executive in Those Guys Have All The Fun, the oral history pu...
Even The Trains In New Orleans Dislike Tom Rinaldi
Blanche: What you are talking about is brutal sappiness—Sappiness!—the name of that tear-jerking streetcar that bangs through the third hour of College GameDay, up one old narrow street and down another, accompanied always by soft piano music. [ESPN]...
LaVar Arrington Is More Upset Penn State Didn't Consult Him Before Hiring A New Coach Than He Was About Penn State Covering Up Child-Rape Allegations
After unleashing a series of venomous tweets last evening in which he declared himself to be "done" with the "corrupt, disgusting" entity that is Penn State University, former Nittany Lion linebacker LaVar Arrington attempted to backtrack today during his radio program on DC's 106.7 "The Fan."...
Was Ron Jaworski The Puppetmaster Behind Penn State's Odd Coaching Hire?
Yahoo's Pat Forde, late of ESPN, had an interesting aside in his column today, a piece otherwise devoted to blasting Penn State for hiring Bill O'Brien, the chin-holed rookie Patriots offensive coordinator, as its new head coach:...
Precocious And Horrifying Four-Year-Old Kills Two Deer With Shotgun
Ohio or Florida? Trick question; it's Virginia, one of the few states that doesn't have a minimum age for hunting. Little James Futrell, returns after winter break having grown up faster than his pre-kindergarten classmates. He has stalked the beast, and bathed in its blood....
NBC Reporter Charged With DUI After Partying With Jerry Sandusky's Lawyer "Pleaded" With Police Over Blood-Alcohol Test
We told you last month about NBC television reporter Jay Gray's arrest for DUI two nights before Jerry Sandusky's preliminary hearing near State College, Pa. At the time, the Pennsylvania State Police did not release any additional details, but TMZ reported that Gray had been at a party at the home...
East Carolina University Will Not Abide Dong On Front Page Of Student Paper, Fires Innocent Man
Two months ago, John Sieglinger of Raleigh removed his raiment and ran across the field at halftime of the East Carolina University-Southern Miss football game. Three days after that, The East Carolinian student paper published uncensored photos of Sieglinger's Streak on its front page and its websi...
I-Team: Why Does New Penn State Coach Bill O'Brien Have A Hole In His Chin?
New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien agreed last night to take the head coaching job at Penn State. O'Brien, like Joe Paterno, graduated from Brown and has since coached at Georgia Tech, Maryland, and Duke. He's never before had a head coaching job and ran the Patriots' offense fo...
Are The Atlanta Falcons Really The Dirtiest Team In The NFL?
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
ShortCenter: How Many ESPNers Does It Take To Tell Us Penn State Has A New Coach?
Eight. Eight ESPNers....
At The World Hockey Juniors, Canada's Mark Visentin Made One Of The More Amazing Saves You'll Ever See
Your morning roundup for Jan. 4, the day we learned being ridiculously rich can be a real drag. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Top Football Recruit Makes College Decision On Live Television, Much To His Mother's Visible Displeasure
Landon Collins is the top football recruit from the state of Louisiana, and the defensive back was heavily recruited by top college programs. Having narrowed his commitment decision to LSU and Alabama, he chose the Crimson Tide live during ESPN's broadcast of the Under Armour high school all-star ...
Thinking He's Off Air, Charles Barkley Says His Weight Watchers Endorsement Is A Big Scam
Via Eye On Basketball, what was a commercial break on TNT was shown live on NBA.tv's stream. With a secretly hot mic and a live camera, Charles Barkley shed some light on his contract with Weight Watchers:...
The Ragin' Cajuns Beat Western Kentucky In Overtime By Playing 6-On-5
We're not surprised the Sun Belt officials escaped the court quickly after this blunder, where they allowed Louisiana-Lafayette to enjoy the rare basketball power play, in which they clearly put six men on the floor for their final possession of overtime—allowing them to score the winning basket ...
"We Are Taking Control Of The Narrative," Said PSU President In Stupidly Triumphant Sandusky Memo
The AP got its claws on four internal memos circulated among Penn State's board of trustees and the school's new president Rodney Erickson mere days after charges were filed against accused child rapist Jerry Sandusky last November. More face. More egg. The memos are about damage control, money, and...
The Kings Have Canned Paul Westphal After The Weekend Brouhaha With DeMarcus Cousins
Cousins complains to Westphal, coach benches him and says DeMarcus asked to be traded. DeMarcus said he did not request a trade. Cousins plays in the Kings' next two games, scores four points in one and 26 in the other, Sacramento loses both, coach canned. Westphal was an impressively bad 51-120 dur...
A Confusing NHL Racial Controversy Gets Muddier, As Banana Reference Nets A One-Game Suspension
We thought this one was going to be cut-and-dried. We thought Krys Barch said something hateful and racist and unacceptable to P.K. Subban, and the NHL would come down with all its disciplinary might to show that there's no place for racism in hockey, and then we'd all move on. Naturally, nothing's ...