*Breaking* George Michael, Sports Television Pioneer, Dies

George Michaels, 1939-2009. George Michael, whose Sunday evening Washington, D.C. sports show, “The George Michael Sports Machine” was the model for ESPN’s SportsCenter, died of cancer today: George Michael, a high-rated and hyperanimated Washington sportscaster whose use of game highlights on his syndicated sports program became the model for successful broadcasters such as ESPN, died Thursday morning at Sibley Memorial Hospital, according [read more...]

“If I Could, Why I’d”… Well, She Did

I‘m taking care of family biz and writing today. I didn’t know what I was going to do for a post when I saw an e-mail form Miranda. I DVR’d this video when the incident occurred and watched it at least 50 times. If you’ve already seen it – it’s been everywhere – hell, enjoy it again. If you haven’t [read more...]

Juan Williams Crashes OTL and President Obama’s Chicago Olympics Bid

ESPN’s Outside the Lines Wednesday show featured talk centered around President Barack Obama’s efforts to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago. The show was hosted by former investigative reporter for the New York Daily News, now ESPN part-time show host, T.J. Quinn. The guest panelists were Chicago Tribune Olympics columnist Philip Hersch, Washington Post sports columnist, Michael Wilbon, and Fox News [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...]

NBA Playoff, NFL Draft Thoughts

How do you not foul John Salmons and allow him to pass to “The Commissioner”?…. “We wanted it more. Before the second overtime I said, ‘let’s stop playin’ and win this thing,’” Gordon said after the game. Gordon’s hyperbolic statement aside, how could you not foul Salmons at the end of the first overtime? And then, how you could you not be [read more...]

One Shining Moment: Boomer Esiason Uses the “H” Word

Here we go again. On WFAN Sunday morning former NFL quarterback Norman “Boomer” Esiason called Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels “littler Hitler.” Esiason is one of the guys who is said to ‘tell it like it is,’ and who ’spares no one with his wrath.’ And similar positive spin blasther attached to his being a verbal bully. So, will Esiason gat the “he [read more...]

Why White People Tend to Pout, Part 2

And you thought images like this could only be used to depict Barack Obama - guess again. Too many white people think black people come from a different values system - as if we are not really Americans - and that allows them to think what they like about us and then make those thoughts come to fruition. It is a [read more...]

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