ESPN’s Trey Wingo and Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel spoke to the BW3 franchisee convention in Orlando today.

Wingo and Tressel are contracted endorsers of the bar food chain, which probably saved the company $75,000 in appearances fees. (Wingo: $25,000, Tressel $50,000+)

No problem with guys makin’ that paper, but I’m still a little miffed at not getting an invite from Wingo’s official Twitter account. Not to mention ESPN not clearing the reporter’s on-air name change - Trey BuffaloWildWingo - despite the NFL anchor having satisfied state and federal legal requirements.*

With a handle like ‘Wild Wingo,’ have we finally found the man who will some day ascend to the throne of banned NCAA College Basketball Tournament commercials?

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BASEBALL MUSINGS, via DEADSPIN, lifts ESPN’s embargo on the photographic evidence of Dana Jacobson feeling boozy at that recent ESPN Roast (who was it for again?):

Neil Best of NEWSDAY adds to the fun, reporting that “there is a protest scheduled in Bristol Friday against ESPN’s Dana Jacobson that is based on a comment she made might very well not have made at a roast of some colleagues a couple of weeks back.”

Something called the Christian Defense Coalition is planning the picket.

Do you really think there would be this uproar if ESPN hadn’t made the questionable decision to report Jacobson’s suspension and apology for 48 consecutive hours on all network platforms? If Bob Ley had done the same thing, think the boys in Bristol would’ve piled on like that?

ESPN itself has made this a bigger story than it really is. And we have a feeling Jacobson’s past complaints about the WWL may be playing into this.