Notes: ESPN’s and the Press’ Silence Following Greenberg’s “Martin Luther Coon King” Statement Can Now Be Understood (and more)

Danica Patrick's #7 car after her crash in Las Vegas. First up a couple of more acrcane sporting mentions… The Danica Patrick-NASCAR experiment is over for the next four months. After three NASCAR Nationwide Series races, Ms. Patrick is headed back to Indy cars for the next four months. How did she do in her first foray into the 21st century version [read more...]

Jemele Hill, Tim Tebow, and Church: Apocalypse Anyone?

James Dobson, speaking during a "Yes on 8" prayer event held in San Diego in 2008. The ballot initiative banned same-sex marriage in California. For various reasons I generally steer clear of ESPN.com. However, I was sent an e-mail asking me to read Jemele Hill’s latest column. Her subject? Tim Tebow. The headline? “Laud the Courage in Tim Tebow’s Stand,” with [read more...]

Short Note: HuffPo Sports, Daily Beast and Posner? Sure – Meet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss

This is why there is no such animal as an “independent media.” Both Arianna Hufington and Tina Brown of the Daily Beast are sheep-dipped shills for the ruination of American society. Let’s check the quote, sports, headlines for Tuesday’s HuffPo: Florida Sportscaster Charged with Chld Porn Distribution PHOTOS: Did Three MSU Recruits Visit Strip Club? WATCH: Bobsledder’s Bodysuit Splits Before Big Race HuffPo also has [read more...]

Tiger Woods Reported to Be In Treatment for Sex Addiction

Tiger Woods is reportedly seeking treatment for sex addiction. While the vast majority of the mainstream and Internet press looked for clues like crack addicts searching for coke pebbles on the floor, I sought to contextualize Tiger Woods. In that article a wrote that Woods needed to take time to figure out his problems and then seek help for his problems: And [read more...]

Think Sports Media is In Trouble Now? Just Wait… Until TMZSports.com Drops (and you read Sports by Brooks’ defense of them)

The infantile - oops! - infamous, "Brooks." And responsible sports journalism is not necessary?… This is Sports by Brooks: a T&A sports gossip site that features ———- T&A. It is replete with photos of Sports by Brooks skanks who are replete with all the best artificial implants Los Angeles cosmetic surgery money can buy. The website is, how can I say this?…. [read more...]

Whitlock’s Apology; Football Motivation, 21st Century-Style; Paying for Content Is Here

And so Jason Whitlock caved. Though he’ll never admit it – he certainly attempted to put on a brave face in his latest Fox Sports offering – he folded like pretty Christmas wrapping paper around a gift. The only problem is, he packaged himself: Let me first apologize to Rush Limbaugh. Last week in explaining why NFL commissioner Roger Goodell needed to put [read more...]

SOMM Money Bomb Thanks

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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...]

Sports Media Note: Soon Everyone Must Pay for Content

Noting the headline, thank you for those who have recently contributed money to SOMM. With that said, the following represents the overwhelming sentiment of those in mainstream media: The message from some of the world’s leading news providers at the first Beijing international media summit was clear: It’s time to demand payment for online use of content. After free-falling profits and massive [read more...]

Racist Florio Foments Racism, Defends Limbaugh

Almost unbelievably NBC-affiliated resident racist Mike Floro spun his most recent blog post about Rush Limbaugh to defend his fellow racist: Radio host Rush Limbaugh… has begun to launch the kind of effort that he should have launched on Monday in response to a string of inflammatory quotes that have been attributed to him, and that he claims are not his [read more...]

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