The Roundup: ESPN’s Barry Melrose Ventures into Newark, Kevin Garnett Feels Disrespected by ESPN Poll, Vick Sentencing Day!
Uncategorized December 10th. 2007, 7:54am
A happy 30th birthday goes out to the imminently likable Emmanuelle Chriqui … great way to prevent people from driving drunk … pretty solid A-list turnout for Floyd-Hatton … more on that blog about the sad Death by Myspace story … pretty funny commercial from the early 80s … at what point does David Eckstein worry about the Mitchell Investigation? … it’s been awhile since we’ve dropped the R word around here, but to all of you still in denial about it … old, but definitely worth a look: Mark Kotsay’s wife …
ESPN’s Barry Melrose ventures into Newark, gets the business from the fans. (CBS TV)
Page 2 with a massive screw-up – a poll asking if readers would like to see KG blow out his knee. (Boston Herald)
CBS is smart to ride that Patriots ratings wave, while FOX, ESPN and NBC are down. (USA Today)
The hack who didn’t vote for Tebow on his Heisman ballot explains himself. We’ll have a Heisman post shortly. (News-Tribune)
Can anyone get their hands on these photos of Penn State pricks who dressed up for Halloween as Virginia Tech shooting victims? (MSNBC) Thanks to a reader, here’s one of the dumb kids.
About that USA Today list of college football moments. (The Arena)
Buckle up for the Mike Vick sentencing today. (Yahoo)
At one point Saturday, Mayweather had knocked himself out! (Fan IQ)
Presenting the Timmy Chang award nominees. (This is not Sports Journalism)
Unreal: Boston’s Jacob Ellsbury is now being represented by Scott Boras, so he’s charging $125 per autograph, plus you can’t take a photo with him. Boras – Biggest. Douche. In. Baseball. (Extra Bases)
Good news (we suppose) for Brian Urlacher – that stripper who he had a kid with owes the Michael Flatley (Lord of the Dance) $11 million after a court decided her rape claim was false. (Sun-Times)
Sketchy – South Carolina defensive lineman stabbed in the neck by a bottle or knife during a fight with drunk locals. (The State)
Since you won’t be thinking about the BCS teams for three more weeks. (Cake Rocks the Party)
You mean you didn’t want a Todd Marinovich jersey for Christmas in 1992? (You Been Blinded)
Just one of the reasons we kept raving about Nick Young back in June. (Mister Irrelevant)
22 Responses to “The Roundup: ESPN’s Barry Melrose Ventures into Newark, Kevin Garnett Feels Disrespected by ESPN Poll, Vick Sentencing Day!”
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December 10th, 2007 at 8:28 am
I’m not saying Boras isn’t a douche, but at the end of the day he works for the player. Don’t you think Jacoby Ellsbury could say, “Hey, I’m just some rookie with 33 games under my belt, maybe I don’t need to be a dick about making people pay $125 for the privilege of my autograph”?
On the other hand, if you’re retarded enough to cough up $125 for Jacoby Ellsbury’s signature, you were probably going to piss that money away on something stupid anyway.
December 10th, 2007 at 8:32 am
I have a really sick sense of humor, but when I saw that KG thing on ESPN, I was really shocked.
Anyone see that 60 minutes story on LT? The NFL needs more players like him.
December 10th, 2007 at 8:36 am
if you’re retarded enough to cough up $125 for Jacoby Ellsbury’s signature
I got a Kevin Maas autograph free at an Orioles game once.
December 10th, 2007 at 8:50 am
McGrath is an inconsistent writer — and his piece defending his ballot was indicative of that. It’s not surprising that he included Dennis Dixon on his ballot (most voters probably didn’t have Dixon on theirs, could be a case of ‘Northwest Bias’), he went with the MVP of college football (at least that appeared to be his argument). However, the selection of Daniel ahead of Tebow, was what hurt his argument. Sure, Missouri had a great year, but so did Florida. Tebow is better than Daniel.
Hiestand acutally had a good column today. Having the NHLPA head Paul Kelly say that ESPN and the NHL need each other is a great quote, but then Kelly follows it up with “I mean, I’ve seen their programming.” Classic.
Glad Hiestand called out Bryant Gumbel, he’s been terrible. I just wish he didn’t rely on the lazy argument that New England is the main reason CBS’ NFL ratings are up — perhaps just an excuse to use a Les Moonves quote (good job not crediting your staff for the increase Les, that’ll endear you to them). I’ve got to believe that CBS having better announcers and better teams (although the gap between the AFC and NFC is closing) has something to do with it as well. When you don’t have to rely on getting useless sideline reporters facetime you can actually concentrate on calling the game.
December 10th, 2007 at 8:58 am
I’m officially done with the four letter after the Page 2 deal. I didn’t understand McGrath’s argument as to why he voted the way he did.
Mark Kotsay’s wife is one of the HOTTEST I’ve seen and there are always hotties on here. And being that I love dark haired women, she has to be really hot as a blonde.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Kevin James was at The Ultimate Fighter Finale. Does that count as A-list?
December 10th, 2007 at 9:21 am
This just goes to prove how retarded Entourage is. Any man that would just walk away from Emmanuelle Chriqui is not based in reality.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Platts – if you like Kotsay’s wife, you’ll love our next post.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:36 am
And those aren’t even good pics of Kotsay’s wife. There are a few in the back of the A’s program every year and anyone I know who’s seen them is stunned by her hotness.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Chriqui is just ridiculous.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:44 am
I get McGrath’s argument for Dixon and against Tebow but then he put McFadden as his second pick. If you are not going to go for Tebow because of stats than you can’t pick McFadden ( I like McFadden and Tebow by the way). I can not take the Heisman seriously anyway. It says its for the best player in college football but rarely does a defensive player go to NY and he never wins. Either say its for the best offensive player or make it and MVP award and get everyone in it. If it is for the best college football player then Chris Long and Glenn Dorsey should have gotten the real Heisman attention and if it is an MVP award Dorsey definitely should have been up there.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:47 am
I always thought it’d be funny to tune in to Friday Night Fights on ESPN and see C and D-list celebrities in the audience – as if the level of competition determined the level of star who attended. Picture Emmanuel Lewis, Ralph Malph from Happys Days, and Mr. Belding with their posses.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:54 am
I saw this photo of the psu costumes, what pricks.
http://www.drudgereport.com/vt2.jpg
December 10th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Don’t look now, but there’s ANOTHER Mike Vick writeup from Lenny P!
December 10th, 2007 at 10:27 am
I thought douches chucking beers at Chris Fowler was detrimental to the PSU student body, but I was wayyyy wrong, its good to see that everyone here in state college and everywhere else is fuckin pissed at these dumb cunts.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Is next year’s Triple-A All Star Game going be interrupted by an announcement that Jacoby Ellsbury wants to be traded?
December 10th, 2007 at 11:27 am
What pieces of shit those PSU kids are. Fuck em.
December 10th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
We sure do live in an overly-sensitive society. So what if two P$U kids want to be idiots and dress up in a manner that isn’t funny to you or I?
Is it really worth getting upset and angry over?
December 10th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
I bet Urlacher is loving the fact that he is indirectly paying Flatley. Double bag that shit, brah!
December 10th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
CleveRock– It’s beyond not being funny. It’s offensive and insensitive to the extreme. Would you be cool with someone dressing up as a 9/11 victim? Or a prisoner from a concentration camp? How about a rape victim?
December 10th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
How about a rape victim?
Brian, you should probably try to steer clear of Law & Order SVU.
December 11th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
“Law & Order” is not playing the victims for laughs.