Wait Wait Wait…. WTF did Mike Greenberg Say?!

The one morning I missed this fool he says this?! Believe me, there’s more to come…. …the “more to come…. Robert Littal of Black Sports Online is willing to give Mike Greenberg the benefit of the doubt? Littal writes: Mike Greenberg needs to address this immediately and not just with an apology, but an explanation of how it happened. Words like “Coon” are not [read more...]

Mark McGwire: A Peek Behind the Veil of Former Slugger’s “Admission” of PED Guilt

A not-quite tearful Mark McGwire during his interview with Bob Costas. So Mark McGwire is trying to throw ca-ca in the game. He didn’t use steroids to get stronger or hit more home runs, he, like Andy Pettitte used them the drug “only” to heal. But he, as did Pettitte, used HGH, too. Now, ESPN’s John Kruk reamed McGwire, saying the slugger cheated [read more...]

Tiger Woods: Lessons Not Learned – Again

How mass media forms public opinion. Let’s get this straight first: Tiger Woods’ platelet-rich plasma treatement is not “controversial.” Anyone who says or implies it is can be perceived to be disingenuous. —————————— Despite the fact that only one woman’s alleged trysts with Woods has been substantiated, Tiger Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren, is said to be seeking a divorce. Nordegrin was seen recently [read more...]

More Tiger Woods & the Media: Which Truth Will Set You Free?

But, but Deadspin said they were all telling the truth!.... After three commentaries about Tiger Woods, the thought here was that the Woods issue was a done deal. Unfortunately, some sports writers and websites alleged to cover sports are as content with being perceived as media versions of Jaime Grubbs. They search for new “angles” to Woods’ “transgressions” like common sidewalk [read more...]

Eric Mangini and His Madcap Jig to Save His —- Job

Eric Mangini looks to be on the outs in Cleveland. Esteemed SOMM commenter Miranda pointed this story out to me in an email and not only did I fail to respond to it, after reading the initial reports I didn’t think it was that big a deal…. until I found this: It’s possible that [former New York Giants GM, Ernie] Accorsi would [read more...]

MLB Quick Note: McGwire Named Cardinals Batting Coach?!

Tony LaRussa will return next season as the St. Louis Cardinals manager. His new hitting coach will be ———- Mark McGwire. For this utterly pompous, ‘in your face MLB’ move, LaRussa should be summarily fired. Mark “And-roid” McGwire? The zit-bombed faced monster? The Syringe Brother? They guy who intimately knows every bathroom stall in the majors and who has plugged them all [read more...]

Stephen A. Smith, Mike Greenberg, and the Daily Skip Bayless (they all fit together)

An appearance on MSNBC’s The ED Show, a commentary on CNN.com ———- and now an appearance alongside Michael Meyers, a long-marginalized and forgotten, dusty, shaggy-ass lawn jockey, and founder of the New York Civil Rights Coalition (an oxymoron if there ever was one) on Fox News with Sean Hannity. While Meyers sprayed into the air right-wing odes to idiocy – “da libero [read more...]

Happy 30th ESPN: The WWL Lionizes Black Athletes (just not in the way the headline suggests)

Well people, after 30 years of ESPN we all should see it pretty plainly now. Thirty years ago Bill Rasmussen had an idea that one day his television network would be the sports fan’s first and final destination for sports; that his network would be the first and last word in sports. Look at it today. It is the television network for [read more...]

MLBPA Receives Favorable Court Ruling on “The List” - for Now

The Major League Baseball Players Association celebrated the 9th U.S. Circuit court of Appeals ruling stating the Jeff Novitzky-led DEA raid on the laboratory housing the infamous 104 PED test results was unconstitutional:   An appeals court in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that federal agents were wrong to seize the infamous drug list and samples of 104 Major League Baseball players who [read more...]

Plax; Memphis Punished - SEMO too; A Too Buff Byrd… 92 PED-Positive MLBers? Kincade-Vick…

Okori: You’vre read SOMM enough to know that I have defended the weightlifting angle and been blasted for doing so. You also can see that I can see when players do things they shouldn’t do with the bat (e.g. Ankiel - see the links in the below comment on the PED list). Byrd has muscled up along with many Rangers, [read more...]

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