Kirk Herbstreit Admits To Florida Football Website He Was Dead Wrong About Gators

• HERBSTREIT HUMBLE WHEN IT COMES TO UF FAUX-PAUS: GATORCOUNTY, via AOL FANHOUSE, has this exclusive admission by Kirk Herbstreit about his myriad misgauging of the Univ. of Florida last football season:

Kirk Herbstreit


If they want me to say I was wrong and I was a moron … no problem … I was dead wrong. I was an idiot.”

• The NATION OF ISLAM SPORTSBLOG is reporting that Jason Whitlock is departing AOL and will soon take his bookmarks and traffic to FoxSports.com.

Jason Whitlock


• C.J. of the MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE reports that being the butt of an octogenerian’s joke landed Bruce Bowen an appearance on Jay Leno tonight.

• After his (soon-to-be-former) wife went after him on Tampa radio earlier this week, Elijah Dukes had the good sense to make a complete ass out of himself on the same station this morning.

• THE BIG LEAD reports today that former LAT columnist J.A. Adande is landing at ESPN.com - after spurning advances from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED.