Sports talk radio is the place where announcers and analysts take off the masks and tell us how they really feel about the sports they cover and the people playing them — because they really don’t think anyone is listening. Last month, Justin Gimelstob used a D.C. radio show to spew against Anna Kournikova. Now, we get Fox’s lead baseball and football announcer, Joe Buck, admitting to ESPN’s Colin Cowherd that he just doesn’t enjoy baseball as much as he used to.
AWFUL ANNOUNCING has the recorded audio, and is appropriately flabbergasted at the whole mess — because he’s right: this is why fans hate so much of the sports media right now.
SI’s Richard Deitch reports that the recently retired lineman will be joining Terry, Howie, Jimmy & Curt Menefee in the Fox Studios in Los Angeles this fall. A press conference is scheduled for Tuesday to make the official announcement.
Strahan has been looking for big opportunities on the small screen since jettisoning himself from the Giants roster. And signing with Fox could help Michael achieve his long-term goal - to host a late night talk show.
I have a hard time feeling sorry for famous people. It usually makes me break out in a rash and induces vomiting. But anybody that’s going to lose 75 out of every dollar he earns deserves a bit of sympathy.
Such is the plight of noted sports jock Tony Bruno, who has chirped on the airwaves of ESPN and FOX SPORTS, who implied in a recent interview that part of his decision to remain unemployed was based on a $12,000 monthly alimony payment he’d be making to his ex-wife. Read more…
Is TMZ working on a sports division? This season, they’ve been all over Tom Brady and Tony Romo, and now they’re working the low end of jock DUIs. Now better known as the brother of former USC QB John David Booty, former LSU QB Josh Booty was busted for DUI in Orange County yesterday, and then tasered later for being less than cooperative.
Since TMZ’s lacking a bit in actual info, we go to the ASSOCIATED PRESS, citing a sheriff’s lieutenant that Booty “fell to the ground, struck his head on the table on the way to the ground and sustained a black eye”after being Tased during the booking process.
SPORTS COLUMN serves up video of a guy taking a 50 m.p.h. tennis ball to the groin - all in the name of science!
The clip comes from the Fox Sports show “Sport Science”. Apparently, the experiment was to determine how the anticipation & pain of getting hit in the nads affects the heart rate. (Surprisingly, it goes up.)
This tennis ball test to the testes also presents additional scientific benefits - such as giving folks something to watch now that “Jackass” is off the air.
We discovered something rather interesting today. Fox TV’s “Best Damn Sports Show” is still airing original episodes. Seriously, we had no idea until we received a press release this week touting Amanda Beard as a new, permanent “correspondent” for the show.
Not surprisingly, GoDaddy.com is all over her appearances for the FSN production, which we quit watching when they got rid of that cool Rolling Rock basement bar-looking set.
Safe to say having Beard on the show will be an improvement on the current “Best Damn” output (so long as she’s breathing). Especially based on what we hear about her role on the show (thankfully, there’s no serious reportage).
Jeanne Zelasko isn’t going to let a little thing like thyroid cancer keep her from doing her job.
Tom Hoffarth of INSIDE SOCAL diagnoses that the Fox Sports reporter will do her duty covering the Cotton and Orange Bowls, despite the discovery of a bump on her gland. Doctors have told her that the growth is in its very early stages, so she’s suspending surgery until after the bowl season.
We can’t blame her for not wanting to miss out on the games, especially the the Kansas-Virginia Tech matchup in Miami. How could she resist the chubby charms of Mark Mangino?
Zelasko hopes her announcement will encourage others to keep an eye on their own health issues. For example, she suggests, “Routinely checking your thyroid is something you can do in traffic…unlike a breast exam that might get you a few odd looks.”
…but no shortage of volunteers to help. Or to take cell phone pics.
Zelasko is the second sportscaster in the past few days to reveal a personal cancer battle. Stuart Scott returned to ESPN on Friday, after a month-long absence while dealing with an intestinal illness.
Coincidentally, both anchors share the same agent - Jackie Harris of William Morris. Jeanne joked, “I told her we have to add her to the list of things that cause cancer.”
The HONOLULU ADVERTISER reports that Fox sure knows how to keep those damn Hawaiians down, especially when it involves tiki bar-based investigation.
Fox is broadcasting the Hawaii-Georgia Sugar Bowl game on New Year’s day on and Fox Sports said that it “has already ‘put a stop to one’ … viewing party in Hawaii where admission was to be charged and will continue to ‘discourage’ the practice as the game approaches.”
Fox Sports VP/Communications Dan Bell said, “We want as many people as possible to watch the Sugar Bowl, it is just the instances where viewing parties are advertised using the logo and marks of the schools and admission is being charged that we want to discourage.”
And after hearing this appalling news, someone needs to sick Dog The Bounty Hunter on David Hill. Our message to Hawaii fans in the Islands: Go f’ing crazy. Enjoy it, since our Bulldogs will be ruining your party later that day anyway (hehe).
