Notes: Tony K. Suspended Over Hannah; WADA (& the USADA) – Presaging a Surveillance State, Tomlinson for Westbrook?

Hannah and her sausage casing. The hardest working man in sports business, Tony Kornheiser, was suspended by ESPN Monday for two weeks his remarks about an outfit worn by ESPN SportsCenter anchor, Hannah Storm. Pardon the Interruption co-host, Washington Post columnist, WaPo podcaster, and radio show host, Kornheiser made his remarks on his radio show last week. Of Storm’s red knee-high [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...]

NFL Week 8 – Parity NFL Style: 7 Good Teams, 7 Bad Teams, 18 about.500; Replay Officials Keep Iowa In BCS Hunt

Indiana head coach Bill Lynch disputes a bad spot in the Hoosiers game against Iowa. First, kudos to ESPN for their Sunday Outside the Lines segment on Tom Cable. The Oakland Raiders head coach has an obvious history of abuse, toward women and now his assistant coach, Randy Hansen, who claims Cable broke his jaw. —————————— Next up, boo to ESPN for [read more...]

The Daily Skip Bayless: A T.O.-Induced Doozy

The daily Black foils for Skip Bayless Monday morning were the “Two Live Stews,” Doug and Ryan Stewart. The subjet matter: Terrell Owen’s press conference after Sunday’s Buffalo Bills 27-7 loss to the New Orleans Saints. The press in attendance after the Bills’ loss to the Saints was not satisfied with Owens’ failure to supply them with fodder for their game [read more...]

Cheating and Racism at Roland Garros: Ahhhh, It Must Be Spring in Paris

Let me just put it like this:  Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez you stinking, little racist, cheating bitch. you know the ball went off your arm, at full speed you could see that it did. When the replays were shown is was apparent that not only did the ball hit your arm first, but it never touched the racket - at all. [read more...]

How the OJ Mayo Affair Got Out of Hand

If only they could run fast, jump high, and dunk hard, Tar Heels and college hoops as a whole would still look like the 1924 UNC hoops squad. USC Trojans basketball coach Tim Floyd appears to be in a heap of trouble. According to Marlen Garcia of USA Today, Floyd directly paid $1,000 in February 2007 to Ronald Guillory, the man [read more...]

The Election of DeMaurice Smith: Call It a Conspiracy

Call it synchronicity. Well, since esteemed commenter “Miranda” and I are on the same page - literally! - I will begin today’s “Notes” with a follow-up story. Recently, I wrote about what I consider are the odd circumstances behind the NFL player’s election of a new NFLPA executive director. Just yesterday, after a long conversation with a mainstream columnist, I wrote that [read more...]

Politics: Stop Crazy-Chasing and Start Hypocrite-Hunting

Happy Election Day, everyone. As we await the results of the election today, in what is most likely an Obama-Biden victory (congratulations to his supporters who comment here!), I have to finally get a post out that has been reverberating in my head for months. My passion is to address a severe problem destroying our ability to hold a national [read more...]

Weekend Think Links: Manny Being Slammied; Olympic Swimmers

Some quick hits on the events of the past weekend: Adding a bit to D-Wil’s early post on the Manny Ramirez trade, and Boston Red Sox management’s general habit of tarnishing or diminishing the character of their former players almost immediately after trading them, here is a recap of the stories out of Boston, and LA, since the trade. Almost immediately after the [read more...]

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