• How did porn star Jenna Jameson & MMA fighter Tito Ortiz first meet? It was through the modern miracle of MySpace!
• The Nuggets sting the Hornets with a record-tying playoff blowout.
• Bob Knight would appreciate it if the Dutch media wouldn’t f***ing ask him about the f***ing chair-throwing incident.
• Could you stand yet another [...]
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“Who Wants to be a Millionaire” returns to ABC this summer for an eleven-episode “event”: Regis Philbin will reprise his role as America’s money tease in hopes of attracting eyeballs inexpensively with otherwise mundane content presented breathlessly.
(”… and that’s how I parlayed a ridiculous catchphrase into a house in the Hamptons and a production shingle [...]
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• Erin Andrews spends the NFL Draft surrounded by Cosbys (Quan & Dr. Bill, respectively), and hilarity ensues.
(Can’t you just feel the excitement?)
• Jacoby Ellsbury steals home, Red Sox steal three straight from Yankees.
• It seems that NASCAR won’t be happy until somebody gets killed.
• Beer pong? Budweiser wants in on the upcoming table [...]
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I could barely watch Erin Andrews‘ ‘”exclusive” interview of Quan Cosby and “Dr. Bill Cosby” during ESPN’s draft coverage.
(Cosby interview now has Erin considering career in hospice care?)
Cosby, sadly, is now to comedy what Joaquin Phoenix is to rap. Or fences to NASCAR fans.
On the bright side though, I hear Ms. Andrews is now considering [...]
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The NFL Draft has just come to a close, and one of the great traditions of the draft is the crowning of “Mr. Irrelevant,” otherwise known as the last pick of the entire draft. The “winner” of this honor gets to spend a week in Newport Beach and is awarded something called the Lowsman Trophy [...]
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As if we needed proof that the three months of journalistic masturbation that leads up to the NFL Draft is pointless, the first two rounds proved yet again that all the mock drafts and preparatory analysis does little — if anything — to make the draft day picture clearer for fans. In fact, if you [...]
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Hey, ever notice how some unrelated people have the same name, like SPORTSbyBROOKS and Albert Brooks? Isn’t that just the funniest? If you said “yes” to that second question, be sure to tune into ESPN’s telecast of the 2009 NFL Draft and watch former Texas wideout Quan Cosby ride out the draft with legendary comedian [...]
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• The Chicago Bears are concerned about Jay Cutler’s late-night carousing.
(”Aw, man – I need a drink!”)
• You would think home plate umpires deal with enough abuse without having to take a broken bat to the face.
• A couple of Texas Tech football players find relief along the stadium wall.
• Time to get Mist-y [...]
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The NFL draft is coming up, as ESPN has hammered into your skull a thousand times you might have heard, and all eyes have been focused on what Detroit will do with the first pick in the draft. They really only have their choice of about three players; select anyone outside of QB Matthew Stafford, [...]
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One of the oddest stories leading up to the this year’s NFL Draft has been the possible positive drug tests of former Boston College DT B.J. Raji and several other high-profile NFL prospects, as reported earlier by SI.COM and NFLDRAFTBIBLE.COM. While coverage of the story has been muted from, say, the front page of ESPN.COM, [...]
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