HBO today announced that it cancelled our favorite show that people stopped watching back in the late ’80s, “Inside The NFL.” HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg: “Inside the NFL has been a hallmark program for three decades on HBO. It has been a terrific franchise. But the television landscape has changed quite […]

WITH LEATHER spots this editorial miscue from the gang at ESPN’s PTI yesterday:

In the past couple weeks, we’ve had the Big East coaches’ media teleconference pranked. The SEC women’s coaches teleconference pranked, and now the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL-SENTINEL reports on somehow even more slap-happy teleconference fun.

During a call to announce a new five-year contract for Packers coach Mike McCarthy yesterday, “the coach’s conference call with Wisconsin reporters was […]

WBZ-TV in Boston has a report that shows the venerable Topps baseball card company knows its way around the public relations block.

To drum up publicity for the company’s new MLB baseball card set, a card showing former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani celebrating the Red Sox World Series victory will be included in the set. […]

Kevin Hart is the poor high school football player in Nevada who thought he’d been offered a football scholarship to Cal, only to realize the his recruitment was a complete fraud.

Yesterday it was reported that the police were looking into the matter, which made us think there might be more to the story.
Turns out we […]

We really love the college football recruiting game. Those *experts* from recruiting *services* are the closest thing we have in real, live sports to professional wrestling managers.

You’re usually either REALLY interested in recruiting, or not at all. We’re the latter. So this is only other piece of speculation we’ll post today about Terrelle Pryor, […]

The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS reports that Jeremy Shockey didn’t show for the Giants’ victory parade yesterday. But the NYDN did fail to report though that the event cut into Shockey’s beard-growing schedule, so his absence is completely understandable.

There’s two things that could going on with Shockey. He doesn’t want to be at a celebration […]

The EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE updates the latest on Shaq’s saunter to the Suns. O’Neal is expected to arrive in Phoenix early Wednesday morning by way of his private jet, and will head straight to his physical.

If Shaq Diesel’s tune-up goes as planned, Shawn Marion & Marcus Banks are off to South Beach to join the […]

Time to break out the earplugs again, as Dick Vitale makes his return to ESPN tonight.

Dickie V will be at the Dean Dome for the North Carolina-Duke showdown Wednesday evening, ready to re-entertain the Worldwide Leader’s viewing masses. The Dickster returns to press row for the first time in over two months, after undergoing surgery […]

Today is national signing day for college-bound recruits, and all eyes are on Terrelle Pryor. Who will the Pennsylvania QB phenom sign with? The Buckeyes? The Wolverines? His home state Nittany Lions?

Neither. For now.
The PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW reports that Pryor will not make a decision on Wednesday about his collegiate plans. The highly-sought prospect says, “I’m […]