Versus is preparing to launch “Sports Soup,” a sports-themed takeoff of E!’s “The Soup,” which will air biweekly episodes beginning Oct. 14.

The half-hour show will have the same producers as “The Soup,” but, alas, no Joel McHale.  Instead, the host will be Matt Iseman, who will be undoubtedly familiar to most of Versus’ target male audience, from his appearances on Style Network’s “Clean House.€

Their idea is to give an “irreverent” Soup-style treatment to sports media. “It’s our way of providing a voice to sports fans as the show will say what we are all thinking but no one is actually saying,” Marc Felin, VP of programming production and business operations at Versus, told Variety.

Marc Felin, apparently, has not discovered the Internet.

The show seems to have fallen into the retread TV crap-trap.  First, it transports a great idea, The Soup, into another spectrum, expecting it to be just as successful.  Second, it jumps onto the snarky, sports-media ridiculing bandwagon about a year and a half too late. The result is a show neither novel, nor fresh and one that will probably fail, without spectacular writing.

Congratulations to The Soup producers if they can pull this off. But, could “Sports Soup” be the impending comedy equivalent of Wipeout.