The Roundup: Bill Simmons, David Letterman, Kimbo Slice, and Shaq’s 26 Nicknames
Baseball, Bill Simmons, College Football, Cougar Love, Courts, Legal, MMA, NBA, NFL, Shady McShady, Television, Video October 2nd. 2009, 8:02am
For 90210 fans: Annalynne-McCord… if you’re a lawyer, or have a friend who is a lawyer, send them this … Senator has affair, then gets the woman’s husband a job … while we’re on politics, how about that fraud John Edwards? … really depressing; hope these guys get the chair … Charlie Sheen is making $875k per episode of Two and a Half Men … claim: humans didn’t evolve from apes …
Bill Simmons on his future at ESPN: “I’ve got a year left at ESPN (on his contract) and then I have to figure out what I’m going to do.” (Star Ledger)
David Letterman. David Letterman. David Letterman. Story broken last night by Variety. (NYT, NYP, NYDN)
WVU beat Colorado last night, 35-24, but allowed a TD pass with :03 left to blow the cover. Noel Devine rushed for 220 yards. (Gazette)
About Kimbo Slice being a TV draw … 6.8 million viewers, which is bigger than the CBS audience for his first fight. (Yahoo)
Headshot or mugshot with NFL players. This is fun. (Second String Fullback)
Bronson Arroyo says he didn’t cheat the other night. (Cincinnati Enquirer)
Big Ben’s lawyer failed to get his civil suit tossed out of court. (Reno Gazette Journal)
Norman Mailer, sneaky guy. See if you get it: (7, (Monozygotic)
Nice read about rooting interests among college football fans. (Seattle Times)
Jack Del Rio put the kibosh on David Garrard’s radio show. (AP)
List! Shaq’s 26 nicknames. (Stepien Rules)
Cougar Mary-Louise Parker, who years ago was dumped by her boyfriend while pregnant, has now stolen the boyfriend of a TV journalist. (Defamer)
Former Packers are pretty stoked to see the franchise take on Favre. (JS Online)
Have we mentioned how big a fan of Don Criqui we are/were? He was outstanding calling football games on NBC in the 80s.
Because Wedding Crashers is being shown on cable this weekend, and we implore you to watch it. Again.
Huge Phil Henderson fan back in the day. Here’s a filthy jam over Mourning. College basketball is rapidly approaching.
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October 2nd, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Jesus made them.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Charlie Sheen is underpaid
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:30 AM
What a cover last night, hit the over and the spread with that TD! to go along with having UAB +9 it was a nice little thursday
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:33 AM
I am really excited for this 30 for 30 series. TBL, are you going to have post for each doc when they come out. The list looks so good. I think we could get some good discussion out of them.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Glad Hawkins got that garbage TD to help me cover. It’s been a fruitful week.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:34 AM
If that’s what’s passing for comedy today Artie Lange’s post may actually be funny.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:35 AM
TBL — c’mon, it’s Friday. Do we really need that Georgia child rape/murder story?
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:36 AM
She’s an attractive girl, can’t the other 99.9% of the readers look?
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:37 AM
wheres a list of the 30?
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Norman Mailer, sneaky guy. See if you get it: (7,
If that’s what’s passing for comedy today Artie Lange’s post may actually be funny.
roeth: after clicking on that link, looking at the blog title and the subject matter, my guess is TBL is giving out a free plug to tyduffy’s newest blog venture
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:39 AM
http://30for30.espn.com/
I think they’ve got 25 and there is still 5 more to do
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Jesus made all the humans and animals at once. Then he got pissed, but two of every animal (including the 900,000+ different types of insects) on a wooden arc made by an fall down drunk and flooded the earth. Then the drunk made all the animals fuck.
Don’t believe that? Well here’s a spike up your butt.
/Intelligent Design Museum’d
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:40 AM
weirdest twitter follower: Matt Barkley? I think it has to be a fake.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:41 AM
That Mailer post is fun.
/kills self
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 AM
It is so disappointing to see what David Letterman has become. His show stinks on ice and the man appears to be the consummate douche. I was such a fan and now I can’t even look at the old Late Night clips on YouTube with the same enjoyment.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Letterman’s ok, but Conan’s the fucking man. I really wish he was able to keep the masturbating bear.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:45 AM
I also outgrew Letterman. I tuned in last night (actually 4am this morning) to watch how he handled himself. I still really like the guy, but he’s not always trying very hard.
I would hope that he boinked female staffers, honestly.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:46 AM
I’m with you. Conan’s “Late Night” actually became better than Dave’s. He’s doing a nice job w/ Tonight, though it is a shame he had to water it down a bit to make it more palatable for the 11:30 crowd.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:50 AM
I can’t imagine anybody under 50 watching either Letterman or Conan (or especially Jay Leno, when he was there) over Colbert.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:51 AM
I’m under 50 and I only watch Stewart and Colbert. But it was pretty great when Letterman invited Mike Vandershank on a few years back to kick field goals in Manhattan.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Oh shit, Simmons has Sepinwall on his podcast this week? I gotta listen to that shit, Sepinwall’s awesome. His commentary (and then re-commentary) on The Wire is must read and a great way to kill time at work.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Can you link for me bsanders?
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:55 AM
It’s on the front page of ESPN.com, about halfway down, right in Simmons’ box (snickers).
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:56 AM
so can letterman not make Monica Lewinsky jokes anymore?
Are JOhn Edwards jokes out of bounds?
You know … since Letterman did the same thing?
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 AM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD It’s a Football Friday WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:58 AM
lot of good ones. rugby one looks good, ali, jordan
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:58 AM
is letterman married?
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:59 AM
David Letterman. Story broken last night by Variety.
Can you really break a story that was broadcast on network television?
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:59 AM
TBL, did you watch it? Letterman took ownership of his issue, and strangled it. He didn’t lie about it publicly (under oath), nor did he pay somebody hush money to keep the paternity test out of the water.
Letterman, who I like and give a lot of leeway, did well in the face of the scandal.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:59 AM
I can’t wait for the Bartman one. I hope it closes with just a frozen image of him giving two middle fingers to Cubs fans everywhere.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:00 AM
and what the hell happened to joel
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Any thought to an NHL preview post? Or did I somehow miss that?
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 AM
is letterman married?
Yes. To a chick he’s been with since the mid 80s and who had his baby in 2003. He got married this year, I think.
Anyway, he was almost certainly banging bitches while he was with this chick.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 AM
so can letterman not make Monica Lewinsky jokes anymore?
Are JOhn Edwards jokes out of bounds?
You know … since Letterman did the same thing?
I heard on Monday he’s got Roman Polanski on to tell that knee slapper on how he gave that 13 y/o Quaaludes and butt-rammed her
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!????!?!?!?!?
/Letterman was last funny in 1990
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 AM
Maybe Hawkins meant they would cover the spread in ten games, not win ten games.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 AM
I hope it closes with just a frozen image of him giving two middle fingers to Cubs fans everywhere.
Seconded.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:04 AM
if Chicago doesn’t get the Olympics, the impact it’ll have on Obama is …
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Nil. He’s not the Sears Tower.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:06 AM
f Chicago doesn’t get the Olympics, the impact it’ll have on Obama is …
I’ll go……negligible. Nowhere near the negative impact he’ll get if the public health care option somehow gets quashed with a super-majority.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:06 AM
Anyone see Jim Tracy being interviewed yesterday? One of the classiest managers in the NL. Hats off to the Rockies, will be rooting for them to take the Series…
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:06 AM
TBL- Was he married when he nailed all those chicks?
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:07 AM
/fixed
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Nothing. Media is blowing his appearance out of proportion since Blair and Putin had to do the same to get the Olympics for their countries.
Rio is going to get it.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 AM
hope they take that angle and dont make it a cubs love fest
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:09 AM
Letterman had an affinity for cankles and blew his load on a fat chick’s dress?
Letterman fucked an ugly bitch while his wife had cancer and promised said ugly bitch that he would marry her and have Dave Matthews as the wedding band?
Letterman’s a jokester (not very good IMO, sometimes), so he can make fun of anyone who’s ever had an affair in a self-depracating tone.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Over/under on Joe Mauer video posts today?
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:11 AM
Because TBL you damn sure hate college football that much? College basketball? Please!
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:11 AM
Nothing is out of bounds when it comes to that asshat. The biggest douchebag in the political world, and that’s saying a lot.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:12 AM
bsanders – who’s the bitch trying to stare a hole through my soul in your gravatar?
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Have we mentioned how big a fan of Don Criqui we are/were? He was outstanding calling football games on NBC in the 80s.
me too. Two things that will make people irrationally hate him on here: he grew up in Buffalo and went to Notre Dame
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:13 AM
TBL just found a video of Mauer stealing signs in the stands while wearing a nice hat. Also, Mauer said he’s going to have hourly updates on the situation. So put the line at 2,812.5
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:14 AM
The olympics? Who cares.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:14 AM
The one, the only Kristin Kreuk.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:15 AM
talking to some guys about nhl coverage. thinking how to make it work.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:16 AM
paolo and i agree on something. fight the strong fight, brother.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:16 AM
and now hes reduced to calling browns games
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Put all the NHL posts in the old soccer posts slots. Win/win.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Letterman’s a jokester (not very good IMO, sometimes), so he can make fun of anyone who’s ever had an affair in a self-depracating tone.
I’m bracing myself for the sordid details to leak out of the glorious 3-way between Dave, Larry “Bud” Melman and Paul Schaffer in 1985
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:18 AM
Has there ever been an actor to have made so much for never being funny on a comedy or otherwise when cast as “funny”? Candidates please?
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:18 AM
just saying…tyler perry has made over $100 million.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:19 AM
The one, the only Kristin Kreuk.
the Cablinasian!
/Rome’d
and now hes reduced to calling browns games
and ND games on the radio
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:19 AM
Brooks is awful as a commentator. He could be pretty good down the road, but he’s not there yet.
That being said, can we maybe, MAYBE, not rush these former players to have on air roles?
/looks at worthless degree.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:20 AM
racist.
You ever hear of a man named Michael Strahan? Jim Belushi?
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:21 AM
someone hasnt seen hot shots
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Very true. He is a fucking slimeball. I remember reading that members of his inner circle were preparing a plan to scuttle his campaign if it looked like he would win the Dem nominaiton. What a fucktard.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:23 AM
So, there’s now no doubt that Letterman retires within a year. I’m as big of a Dave apologist as there is, but I’ve never seen him look more feeble. The countdown is on.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Never been a Letterman fan but I think the handled it the right way. I really could care less about celebs and or politicians and sex scandals. I just assume that any famous/powerful/rich guy who is in his fifties and has been married or with the same woman for a long time is getting some strange. I just don’t think these stories are so rare anymore as to be of any interest.
On the other hand if I hear about a potential sex tape of an attractive female celebrity I am scowering the net for it.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:25 AM
who ever thought john edwards was anything more than a fraud? those r the people that we should be worried about
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:25 AM
The naivete here knows no bounds? Dudes, if a guy is on TV regularly, he is solicited by chicks a lot whether or not married. And yes, more married guys on TV, especially out of Hollywood, are having extra on the side.
Of course this does not excuse the numerous usually ninnie bitch types playing as if they are “modern educated” women having shit done to them on the side, but they just cover it up better overall I think.
It’s noteworthy that the media have a strong bias against the cheating husband compared to the typical slutty wife who is cast as if she is the “ailing, afflicted” woman in search of healing and true love.
For example they have a whole fuckin’ channel called Lifetime dedicated to that sorry cause.
These folks are all cheaters, but in the US the guys are the ones largely really screwed in popular political and media perception and in the end in the courts.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Has there ever been an actor to have made so much for never being funny on a comedy or otherwise when cast as “funny”? Candidates please?
this could be an entire blog (or at least a post). How about the cast of “Friends”? Their last season, EACH cast member made $1 million/episode ($18 million EACH in 2003 or 2004), plus syndication royalties)
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Oh and speaking of Charlie Sheen, I wonder how much of his 875k per episode salary he is spending on hookers.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Letterman wasn’t married when he slept with those girls. He was very against marriage, even when she had the kid. They’ve dated since about ‘80. So basically he cheated on his girlfriend, which isn’t as bad.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:28 AM
He has extra now that he doesn’t have to buy Denise Richards her 50,000 gallons of hand sanitizer.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:32 AM
@TBL,
If you do soccer posts, then Hockey posts should be at least once a day during the weekdays.
Caps game last night was awesome. I think I am becoming a fan of this local team.
/Thinks the NHL is slowly making a comeback.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:34 AM
No public option, no Olympics as his lame attempt to save face, nothing for this future talk show host who will top Dr. Phil and Montel Williams to become the male Oprah.
All Obama has been good for, as with most of Congress now for that matter, is talk. Talk, talk, talk teleprompter or not.
Most folks outside of his urban and some suburban support enclaves see him for the weak showman he is more than anything effective.
Even closing Gitmo has hit snag after snag. Obama’s out of his league with regard to the embedded incestuous Neocon/Military-Industrial/Trial Lawyer’s Association/Other Strong Lobbyist power base that runs Washington in the country — never that “by the people for the people horseshit” too many still believe or tolerate.
Again, I said it here before and I’ll say it again, Obama will NOT be re-elected. Though that awful Bush was a puppet just like Obama and really Cheney and his men ran the show, enough of a power base figured out that Bush was worth more to them than to get rid of him, but Obama for the unwitting talking puppet he is has no such support and will be disposed of electorally if not otherwise.
Note that I had predicted Clinton’s failure back in April 2007 and Obama’s win, to the tune of $100 in my pocket, in April 2008.
And for you liberal and delicate types fuck no I did not vote GOP.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:36 AM
the Caps are going to be a fun team to watch all year.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:39 AM
@battlin’
They are fun to watch, but it is hard to give up my allegiance to the Wild even though they are still new to the league.
/Still bitter about the North Stars
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Speaking of the Wild, I’m tempted to get one of their 3rd jerseys. They really do have some of the best uniforms in sports.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:50 AM
you’re going to be jersey wearing guy?
how gauche.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:53 AM
@Battlin’ and Spence
Hockey sweaters are somehow ok in my book. Basketball, football, and baseball jerseys should not be worn by grown men.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:55 AM
hockey sweaters are the worst offenders of them all. you look like a fucking canadian redneck wearing a hockey jersey. look at the kind of people that wear hockey jerseys on the regular…james hetfield and kid rock. DO YOU WANT TO BE LIKE JAMES HETFIELD AND KID ROCK?
didn’t think so.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:56 AM
I said I was tempted. I do not own a single hockey jersey. There is just something wrong about wearing the name of another grown man on the back of your clothes.
Rugby jerseys, however, are completely acceptable.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:57 AM
i’d say soccer jerseys are too. as long as it’s not an MLS team…you look like a WNBA fan if you wear an MLS jersey.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Spencer also has Sergio Garcia feety pajamas
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Low blow. Harsh.
I agree.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:00 AM
they’re really comfy…don’t hate.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Minnesota North Stars jersey > Minnesota Wild jersey
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:03 AM
i’d say soccer jerseys are too. as long as it’s not an MLS team…you look like a WNBA fan if you wear an MLS jersey.
lemme get this straight. People who wear hockey jerseys (the most rugged of all sports) are losers, because people like James Hetfield and Kid Rock wear them, yet wearing a soccer jersey, the gheyest sport and worn in competition by human HIV donors and STD spreaders, is OK?
/brainsplosion
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Yes.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:05 AM
no shirt on and being mauled by a polar bear > throwback hockey jerseys.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:06 AM
pretty much, yea.
there’s just no way to make a hockey sweater look cool unless you’re a player. i will say that a hockey jersey on a naked hot chick that’s been all glammed up is quite attractive though.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:07 AM
They really HAD some of the best uniforms in sports.
/Buffalo Sabres and Bills’d
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:09 AM
I can agreewith that statement.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 AM
There is just something wrong about wearing the name of another grown man on the back of your clothes.
I have never agreed with another comment as much as this one.
Soccer and Rugby Jerseys are still cool. I still have an England Soccer Jersey from 2001 and almost every time I wear it, people ask me where I got it.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:13 AM
A chick in a hockey jersey on without any pants pwnes the dress shirt look from the early 90’s
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Soccer and Rugby Jerseys are still cool. I still have an England Soccer Jersey from 2001 and almost every time I wear it, people ask me where I got it
What? The Aids virus?
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Wedding Crashers fucking sucks.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:46 AM
It was awesome until the end. They should have ended it with some serious boning or something, but how do you end a movie like that one without it sucking?
And those two chicks were overrated, but I’ll go with Vincent’s freak girl over the budding ninnie.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:57 AM
The screenwriter of Wedding Crashers spoke in one of my film class. He’d just about agree with you, moleman and definitely with you Paolo. He absolutely hated the ending.
By the time it was over, he wanted them to close by driving off a cliff ala Thelma and Louise.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:59 AM
The only part I enjoyed was the tit montage, and yeah, I’m sure that will be shown on cable!