It had been a few days since our thoughts drifted to the man better known as Schrutebag, but within the last hour, we’ve had a flurry of emails from readers about said jerkoff. Eric Allen walked off the set of his show! One of his media buddies in Vegas blew him this morning with a massive puff piece! Olbermann just trashed him on Dan Patrick’s show! Cowherd hurled racial comments at a stripper in the early 1990s! Ok, that last one was in an email from a reader, and at the risk of running into a Dan Rather-type situation here, we’ll slap a big allegedly onto that debacle. First, the other updates:

* West Coast power Sports by Brooks destroys the massive blowjob delivered by Cowherd’s Vegas buddy, Bill Taaffe. There’s no point in reading the piece, for it can be summarized in this mind-blowing sentence: ‘Now that Don Imus has self-destructed, with a huge assist from CBS chairman Leslie Moonves, who waited to see which way the wind was blowing before firing him, Cowherd could be the most controversial national voice on commercial radio.’ Right.

* A reader listening to Dan Patrick’s show sent this in:

‘Keith Olbermann KILLED Shrutebag on the Dan Patrick show today (around 2:45 or so). Apparently, Shrutebag had railed against Olberman on his show for being chosen as the new co-host for NBC’s Sunday Night Football, saying who was too liberal to connect with football fans and other such nonsense. Patrick played Shrutebag’s diatribe for Olbermann, and Olbermann commenced to lay into him for about ten minutes. Besides constantly asking Patrick to remind him of who this ill-informed peon was, Olbermann pointed out that his entire argument was framed on Shrutebag just pulling stuff out of his ass and that Shrutebag was clearly suffering from a case of sour grapes.’

* And lastly, the stripper story. After he wiped us off the map, plenty of slam-jobs on Cowherd came in from all of his frenemies and even co-workers in Bristol. Clearly, he’s not well-liked. We resisted posting many of them because we just wanted that story to go away. But this seems like a fine time to mention one of the stories: According to a reader, the year was 1991 or 1992. Cowherd was in an NL-only fantasy baseball league with other members of the Las Vegas media (and ad agencies). There were 12 teams in the league, and at the draft after-party (held in a printing company board room), a stripper was hired. She was not white. ‘Only Colin acted like a dick. He is so not the guy he pretends to be on air.’ We won’t be posting the alleged remarks he made, but ‘he suggested we go to a topless place where the hookers were hotter.’

We know everyone boozes it up and acts like an ass when strippers show up, but the reader who sent this was most upset because all of Cowherd’s recent comments about Don Imus using the word ‘ho’ were a complete contradiction of how he apparently is in ‘real life.’ We don’t know what his comments about Imus were because frankly, we don’t listen to the show.

To recap: bloggers detest Cowherd, plenty of folks at ESPN can’t stand the guy, and now Keith Olbermann clowned him. Seems like such a great guy!

[Sorry, forgot to add a link to the talk of Eric Allen walking off the set. It can be found here, although recently, some posters are backing off the 'walking off the set' and altering it to 'abruptly leaving at the end.']