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Mike Finds New Mike Named Trey
The Mikes of ESPN’s Mike & Mike will soon split apart and become simply Mike and Mike, and reports out of Mikeville have indicated that the Mikes don’t really like each other. Both Mikes insisted that they were cool despite the rumblings and the imminent end of Mike & Mike, and now ESPN has finally ...
DraftKings And FanDuel Scuttle Planned Merger
Daily fantasy giants DraftKings and FanDuel have reportedly been planning to merge for almost a year, a move which would have consolidated power such that around 90 percent of the daily fantasy industry would belong to one mega company. The Federal Trade Commission opposed the merger on the grounds ...
Watch Skip Bayless Debate Himself, If You Dare
Second Take host Skip Bayless is perhaps the most unshakeable sports yeller out there, and he’s certainly the clear debate champion among FS1's band of squawking misfits. The future of FS1 is fewer Ken Rosenthal gems and more cantankerous opinion-havers yelling at each other for some reason, and Bay...
Ken Rosenthal Now Writing On Facebook Because Fox Sports Sucks Ass<em></em>
Ken Rosenthal, who has been at FOX Sports since 2005, tweeted this afternoon that he is “wait[ing] to find a new writing home” now that FoxSports.com is all-video. Yikes....
WFAN Caller Tells Chris Christie To "Put Your Fat Ass In A Car" And Go To A Public Beach
It didn’t take long for someone to berate Chris Christie on radio today. Infamous WFAN caller Mike in Montclair took him to the cleaners, and the New Jersey governor’s defense amounted to a bunch of spluttering....
All Hell Breaks Loose At The Tour De France
When Tour de France organizers set up a course that featured fewer traditional opportunities for set piece racing and fewer direct chances to take time from one’s rivals on mountaintop finishes and time trials, they did so to intentionally stoke aggressive, exciting racing. They never could have dre...
You Can Call Chris Christie And Berate Him On The Radio Today
New Jersey’s governor is going to spend nine hours of his time this week yakking about sports for WFAN, in hopes of transitioning to a full-time radio career once his term ends in 2018....
Ornery Columnist: Snacks In Youth Sports Are Making America Soft
Snacks: Are there too many of them? I don’t know—when I look in my pantry, I am often disappointed by how few snacks there are. If you ask me, there should be a lot more snacks around me at all times. Snacks are good is a broadly popular opinion, judging by the contents of aisles four thru six of my...
Fox Sports' Pivot To Video Killed Its Advertising Deal With <i>Sports Illustrated </i>
In the wake of Fox Sports’ recent decision to lay off most of its writers and editors, and this week’s firing of Jamie Horowitz amid a sexual harassment investigation, there remain a whole lot of unknowns. We know that the grand plan in getting rid of writers was to “pivot to video,” and that even t...
Why Is Ashley Wagner Apologizing For Her Sport In <i>ESPN The Magazine</i>'s Body Issue?
I think figure skating has this stereotype as a sport for little girls—that we are these pretty porcelain dolls ......
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Brazilian Soccer Club Rocked By Locker-Room Double Handjob Video Scandal [NSFW]
Sport Clube Gaucho are a Brazilian third-division side who haven’t been relevant since they briefly made the first division in the 1980s. That changed, though, when four players had their contracts rescinded after a video showing one of them jerking off two of his teammates in the club showers leake...
Report: Fox Sports Head Fired In Sexual Harassment Probe<em></em>
Fox Sports has fired president of national networks Jamie Horowitz, according to Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand. ...
The NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship Is Becoming A TV-Friendly Event
The NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Committee just announced that it’s changing the format for the national championships to make it more hospitable for TV broadcast. Who knew that NCAA sports had anything to do with money?...
The Best Soccer Story Is This Portuguese Team Accusing A Rival Of Hiring Witch Doctor
Porto and Benfica are the two biggest clubs in Portuguese soccer, and as such harbor a fierce rivalry. There is no step these clubs wouldn’t take in their never ending struggle to best the other. Including, according to Porto’s communications director, resorting to witchcraft....
Portugal's Horrendous Penalty Shootout Performance Sends Chile To Confed Cup Final
After a lively though scoreless 120 minutes of Confederations Cup soccer between Portugal and Chile, the South Americans advanced to the final on penalty kicks thanks in part to Claudio Bravo but mostly to Portugal’s penalty takers, who were shockingly bad....
The Future Of Fox Sports Is A Snake Eating Its Tail, Shitting It, And Eating It
Words: They’re so pesky. You might be reading this right now while thinking, Why should I have to move my eyes to understand the stuff on the screen? It’s truly unfair. Can’t there be a better way? Good news: Jamie Horowitz, the media executive who brought you ESPN’s Embrace Debate era and assembled...
Clinton Portis Says He Wanted To Murder Financial Advisors Who Swindled Him
Sports Illustrated’s Brian Burnsed published a lengthy profile of former Washington running back Clinton Portis today, which tells the story of Portis’s tumultuous post-NFL career life, and all the medical and financial ruin he has gone through to finally find steady ground. In his playing days, Por...
There's A Nationwide Shortage Of Youth Sports Referees, And It Could Get Worse
If you’ve ever seen a youth official get jeered by a crowd after a close call and thought, “Why does anyone want to be a ref?” you’re not alone. Across the country, high school athletic associations are getting more desperate as they try to recruit qualified officials for their sporting events. ...
NBC Has Totally Fucked Its Premier League Coverage
Have you been loving NBC’s amazing English Premier League coverage these past few years, as they’ve coupled smart and engaging studio and commentary teams with unparalleled access to the matches through multi-channel broadcasts and a streaming service that brought every single league game live to yo...