We’ve got nothing against ESPN analyst Trev Alberts. He seems like a nice enough guy, and the way he took a stand against ESPN management in 2005 — costing himself his own gig there — was both strong-willed and honest. Nonetheless, all the nice things you can say about Alberts don’t make his appointment as [...]

CBS may not own any NBA TV rights, but they can at least now own this:

Not that it’s anything new for LeBron. He did the same thing for Powerade:
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However, expect this guy to remain unimpressed:
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After the Beijing Olympics, 17-year-old Shawn Johnson suddenly has one of the world’s most recognizable faces. She’s young, she’s an Olympic gold medalist (she would have won more than one of those, if not for Alicia Sacramone), and she’s had her own official fan club since before her 15th birthday. In fact, that’s part of [...]

Hey, how about this year’s March Madness? Yeah, I haven’t found it that exciting, either. No Cinderella stories to courageously follow. No interesting or intriguing personalities to keep me glued to the set. There’s been more action off the court than on it. Maybe because there’s no more Billy Packer to universally hate. So the [...]

• Jenna Jameson & Tito Ortiz are the proud parents of twin baby boys.

• New disturbing details of the missing NFL boaters situation – survivor Nick Schuyler said the others “freaked out”, and one started throwing punches.
• If more American players keep getting hurt in the WBC, Davey Johnson is taking his baseballs and going [...]

Will 2010 be the last hurrah for March Madness on CBS? The NCAA is currently in an 11-year, $6 billion deal with the network to broadcast its men’s basketball tournament through 2013. However, the NCAA has an opportunity to exercise an option to get out of the deal after next year’s tourney.

(No more Cinderella stories [...]

Yes, we realize that the above headline makes absolutely no sense. Or at least it shouldn’t make any sense. The sad part is that it’s absolutely the truth: Billy Packer did, in fact, hire a psychic to find the murder weapons O.J. Simpson used to kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, audio which then [...]

Hey, sports fans! Thought you had seen the last of Tom Arnold doing anything sports-related after he left “The Best Damned Sports Show Period”? (Assuming you were one of the 20 people who actually still watch.) Well, MEDIAWEEK says that he’s back on your TV, sort of, as he’s set to star in a Web [...]

It’s probably not the biggest shock in the world, but ESPN really wants the NCAA men’s basketball tournament rights. You can’t blame them; it’s one of the most-watched TV spectacles every year, it stretches across three weeks and draws viewers & advertisers like nothing else outside of the Super Bowl. Still, CBS has owned the [...]

Saturday, I’ll be coming to you on SbB live from inside and outside the L.A. Coliseum, reporting on the USC-Ohio State game, with assistance from our Managing Editor Jason Kaifesh.

(The Autumn wind is a butt pirate)
We’ll take you in and around the Coli with a genuine cutty sark-stained boots-on-the-ground perspective, and also have in-game [...]