Archive for September, 2006

NBA Players Chasing Strippers? No Way! Talkin’ Hoops with SI.com’s Kelly Dwyer

Posted September 27, 2006, 11:10 pm by Jason McIntyre (2 Comments)

We’re about a month away from the start of the NBA season, and to get you pumped/geeked/stoked for all the madness of LeBron and D Wade and Kobe, we decided to interview SI.com’s Kelly Dwyer, a hoops junkie who parlayed a blog into a pretty sweet gig. He also probably wishes he had a cool [...]

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It’s Official: The Whitlock-ESPN Marriage Is No More

Posted September 26, 2006, 2:10 pm by Jason McIntyre (8 Comments)

So we’re the sports blog that got Jason Whitlock fired from ESPN. This is a fact we are not proud of. If you’re a first-timer to the site, here is our Q&A with him last week that started the shitstorm. As we’ve stated before, Whitlock was a joy to watch on the network when filling [...]

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Oh Damn, Did Whitlock Really Say That? A Q&A With Jason Whitlock

Posted September 22, 2006, 4:29 pm by Jason McIntyre (No Comments)

What does it take to secure an interview with esteemed columnist Jason Whitlock? After repeatedly dodging our emails, he finally consented to a Q&A – but only after we threatened him with illicit photos of JW fluffing Jeff George before the quarterback tried out with the Raiders. You�ve read his pot-stirring columns on ESPN.com and [...]

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Tiger Woods, Subhuman? No Way! An Interview with Chris Jones

Posted September 13, 2006, 6:19 pm by Jason McIntyre (2 Comments)

If a white boy from Canada named Chris Jones is cool enough to hang out with Clinton Portis in an all-black club in Washington, DC, he’s cool enough for us to interview. Whatever your job is, Jones likely has you beat – one minute he’s interviewing Matt Leinart, and the next, he’s on a private [...]

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More Changes at ESPN Signify the End of the Boo-yah Era

Posted September 11, 2006, 5:23 pm by Jason McIntyre (68 Comments)

Sources inside the Worldwide Leader tell us that the NBA Shootaround team is the latest casualty in the ESPN bloodletting that is being characterized around the Bristol campus as the “End of the Boo-yah Era.” In a deal that is nearing completion, host John Saunders, along with analysts Greg Anthony, Tim Legler, and Stephen A. [...]

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‘You Can Have My Jersey After the Match.’ ‘I’d Prefer Your Sister, Thanks.’

Posted September 5, 2006, 2:32 pm by Jason McIntyre (No Comments)

It wasn’t a terrorist comment that set off the headbutt heard ’round the world; nor was it a ‘Your Mom’ joke. Just a harmless throwaway line about banging Zinedine Zidane’s sister. Materazzi reveals details of Zidane exchange (Reuters)

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