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...]

Lane Kiffin: There’s a Stench Emanating from Knoxville and It’s Not the Smell of Burning Mattresses

Tennessee AD Mike Hamilton can't understand why Lane Kiffin would leave the Vols - or so ESPN would have you believe. Why is everyone tripping about Lane Kiffin’s jump to USC? Over 1000 students at the University of Tennessee held candlelight vigils, burned mattresses and other sundry flammable items outside the Neyland-Thompson Sports Complex like it was a 1968 Vietnam-era campus protest [read more...]

Edgerrin James the Father and Man Is “E-Raced” From Sports Headlines

There are no excuses to be made; it is too late. The failure of mainstream or Internet sports news outlet to so much as mention the Edgerrin James story reported August 29 by USA Today’s Nate Davis from an August 28 article by Michael Silver at Yahoo Sports, and mentioned at length here at Sports On My Mind on September 2 is [read more...]

The Ben Roethlisberger Sexual Assault Allegations: Where Do the Honchos at ESPN and ESPN.com Hide Now? Darnell Dockett Blows UP ESPN via Twitter

Update: Darnell Dockett blows up ESPN via Twitter… When kobe bryant got accuse I HEARD ABOUT THAT ISH 50 straight days and he was found not guilty, why haven’t I heard about ben I’m pissedWTFabout 13 hours ago from UberTwitter I don’t care if they showed oit a few times, plaxico was all the news and he shot his own self, and I got [read more...]

Misrepresenting Serena: Jason Whitlock at His Worst

If I was one of those English Euro cats who was one of the old guard, powers that be, overseers, master of all he surveys, I would say something like this… “Tsk tsk, Jason Whitlock. What aaaarrre we go-ing to do with you. You have once again chosen to take one our shining beacons of the sports and entertainment world - [read more...]

NBA Playoff Thoughts: Hornets Quit; Heat in Trouble; Can the Rockets Close? Kudos to Vinnie D. - Boo to Vinnie D.

By halftime the score was 61-29. By midway through the third quarter the game was effectively over; the New Orleans Hornets were done. What happened to New Orleans?  They quit. Before halftime of Game number four of a round one playoff game played at home, they quit. Hornets owners George Shinn and Gary Chouest should quietly fine every player who took the floor [read more...]

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