Entries Tagged as 'ESPN'

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Irvin: “This is how I joke”

Even though it didn’t get much play in the national media, by now you might have heard how ESPN NFL analyst Michael Irvin recently did his best Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder impression.
As you may recall, Snyder was canned by CBS in 1988 for spouting some rather politically incorrect views on why African Americans were naturally superior athletes. […]

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Christian Slater has lots of football loving friends

While the self proclaimed worldwide leader (ESPN) is having tons of luck with its college football scheduling - who would have thunk “the ville” at Rutgers would be a huge game?? - Its NFL move to Monday nights is sucking gas. And that’s being nice.
Don’t think NBC wasn’t smiling as they showed Manning vs. Brady […]

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Sue you! Sue everybody!

Well, former Seattle Mariners infielder and ESPN baseball analyst Harold Reynolds has decided to sue the entertainment and sports leader for wrongful termination after he was dismissed from his job as an analyst on the network’s Baseball Tonight program.
Far more interesting than the suit itself, though, is ESPN’s news judgement. You see, all the major […]