ESPN college football analyst and NFL Hall of Famer Bob Griese has been suspended one week by the network after a remark he made about NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya.
During Saturday’s Ohio State-Minnesota game, ESPN ran a NASCAR graphic and co-analyst Chris Spielman wondered where Montoya was, since his name was not in the Top [...]
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Bob Griese suspended for taco comment
Jon Gruden’s homoerotic moment
New ESPN NFL analyst Jon Gruden may be a candidate to join Phil Simms in the homoerotic announcing Hall of Fame. I already have heard him enthuse about a player’s physical traits and talk about “sticking it in there.” My friend Matthew sent along this gem from the Vikings-Packers Monday nighter:
Situation: Packers need the first [...]
Video: Amazing baseball prediction comes true
Mike Blowers is an analyst for the Seattle Mariners baseball broadcasts. Each game he picks who he thinks will be the player of the game. Sunday, he highlighted little-known Matt Tuiasosopo, predicting he would hit his first Major League home run. Into left-center field. Into the second deck. On his second at-bat. On a 3-1 [...]
Erin Andrews and the sex obsessed
Without checking elsewhere, how many of you know who Erin Andrews is and why her story is all over the blogosphere and has spilled into the mainstream media?
Give up? Keep reading.
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Fox screws up Obama’s first pitch
Leave it to Fox Sports to screw up what should be the easiest shot in baseball: The ceremonial first pitch. But that’s just what the bozos did at tonight’s All-Star Game in St. Louis, when we saw President Obama, clad in a Chicago White Sox jacket, throw the first pitch.
Except, we never saw the whole [...]
Good news of the day: Kornheiser out at ‘MNF’
Tony Kornheiser has resigned his post as “analyst” for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” and will be replaced by Jon Gruden. I have no idea how good Gruden will be, but being better than Kornhieser will basically require him just to breathe. The week is off to a great start!
Kornheiser said he was leaving because he’s [...]
Baba Booey: In running for Worst Pitch Ever
Gary Dell’Abate (Baba Booey) from the “Howard Stern Show” threw out the first pitch at Saturday’s Pirates-Mets game. He was there to raise awareness for autism, but all he did was raise awareness that he throws worst than any stereotypical girl. He said on the show Monday that at least his pitch stayed in the [...]
Video: Reporter sees rat on ice, freaks out
Ten seconds of hilarity, courtesy of Comcast’s Lisa Hillary during an on-ice segment prior to the Penguins-Capitals game. Watch the video.
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MLB Network clown apologizes
Last year, one or two of you may recall, I watched and reviewed for this blog a broadcast of every major league baseball team as well as ESPN, TBS and Fox. Generally, I was (and continue to be) disdainful of the “new-school” announcers who are too busy being clever and cracking one-liners instead of concentrating [...]
On-air talk about sex, sex, sex and the ‘N’ word
The few people who shelled out $9.95 for a webcast from Saturday’s Southern Mississippi spring football on station Rock 104 game heard a lot more than they ever bargained for, including commentary such as, “What’s the weirdest thing you stuck yer dick in?”
If you missed Southern Miss’s internet broadcast game, you missed a graphic discussion [...]
The Voice of the Phillies is silent
At right is a picture of me (wearing the Outsports cap) with Phillies broadcaster Harry Kalas, taken at the Phillies Phestival charity event in 2003. The impression I came away with from that brief meeting was that, besides being such a terrific play-by-play announcer, he was truly a gentleman in every sense of the word.
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Obama questioner gets announcing gig
As soon as I saw 19-year-old Julio Osegueda ask President Obama a question Tuesday at a town hall meeting in Florida, I knew he was going to be a media hit (see video here). He was ultra-hyper and a bit goofy in an endearing way as he asked about getting benefits for his job at [...]
Bob Costas leaves HBO for MLB
Like a new baseball team trying to make a splash with a big free-agent signing, the new MLB Network has added Bob Costas to its on-air roster. Costas has signed a cable-exclusive deal with the network, which made its debut on January 1. This means Costas he will no longer appear on HBO (or CNN, [...]
The ‘pansification’ of the NHL
CBC hockey commentator Mike Milbury is in hot water with a gay-rights group over his coining of the term “pansificiation.” He has used it a couple times on air to describe what will happen to the NHL if the league kowtows to calls for a ban on fighting. Egale Canada is picking up the fight, [...]
Barkley off TNT after DUI for BJ
Turner Sports announced today that Charles Barkley is taking a leave of absence from his TNT duties for at least a few weeks in the wake of Barkley’s New Year’s Eve arrest on suspicion of drunk driving in Scottsdale, Arizona. Barkley had a blood alcohol level of .149, almost twice the legal limit in Arizona.
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