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*Newly out NBA center Jason Collins and his twin brother Jarron will be guests on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on May 15. Collins became the first openly gay NBA player when he came out in a Sports Illustrated article last week – and ABC has been on him ever since, with “Good Morning America” scoring [...]
*Sportscaster/journalist, Chris Broussard went on air Monday and totally gay-bashed Jason Collins, the first active NBA player to expose his homosexuality. During an episode of ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” Chris said he “would not characterize the athlete as a Christian,” mind you in front of his openly gay colleague, LZ Granderson. “Personally, I don’t believe [...]
*Sal Masekela is pretty much the Howard Cosell of extreme sports. The 41-year-old son of South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela segued from being an NBA sideline reporter for ESPN to covering its annual X Games and Winter X Games, which features elite competitors in various action sports. NBC wanted in on the “action” and [...]
*When your kid takes up sports, you expect for them to be yelled at a bit, receive some crucial criticisms and maybe even physically pushed to get in position. But, when the coach crosses the line of calling names, kicking, snatching, and hitting your kid, all bets are off! You might even say, “Hell! I [...]
*Khloe Kardashian is defending her husband Lamar Odom and insisted he has never misused any funds raised through his charity Cathy’s Kids. The LA Clippers star was accused on Monday of failing to donate any of the money raised through his foundation to help fight cancer. The organization is named after his late mother Cathy, [...]
*President Barack Obama has revealed his 2013 NCAA Tournament predictions and has picked the Indiana Hoosiers to win the national championship. Revealing his Final Four selections to Andy Katz of ESPN, Obama selected a pair of No. 1 seeds, Louisville and Indiana, to advance to the Final Four in the men’s bracket along with No. [...]
*Many a heated debate has raged over who is the greatest athlete of all time. Is it Michael Jordan? Muhammad Ali? Perhaps soccer great Pelé? According to ESPN, which used its own formula, the answer is football/baseball phenom Bo Jackson, who just narrowly edged out gridiron great Jim Brown. ESPN will show how it came [...]
*Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man who has been publicly identified as being behind the Manti Te’o girlfriend hoax, called a church friend in early December crying and admitted to duping the Heisman finalist, the friend told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” Thursday. The friend, a woman in her mid-20s, agreed to be interviewed under the condition that [...]
*ESPN anchor Stuart Scott said on Monday that he will undergo more chemotherapy treatments for cancer. On Twitter, the ESPN anchor said, “I’m back in the fight. C reared its head again. Chemo evry 2 weeks, but I’ll still work, still work out.” ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys said Scott “plans to continue to work the [...]
*Alabama really put a spankin’ on Notre Dame Monday night. The game ended with a disgraceful 42-14 loss for #1 Notre Dame. They were getting beaten so bad in the first quarter, the commentators got restless and turned their eyes to other things. MSNBC’s Tamron Hall was, as they say in Internet talk, ROFLMAO, when [...]
*Rob Parker, the commentator who created controversy when he questioned whether Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III is a “cornball brother” because he has a white fiancee, has been fired by ESPN. “Rob Parker’s contract expired at year end. Evaluating our needs and his work, including his recent RGIII comments, we decided not to renew,” an [...]
*Charles Barkley likes controversy. It’s a fact at this point. The sports analyst cracked an inappropriate joke in reference to slavery. When co-host Kenny Smith asked the former NBA star to name his favorite president. You already knew it was going to be a hot mess and he probably did too. In response, Charles gave [...]
*ESPN has given commentator Rob Parker a 30-day suspension for comments he made about Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III during a Dec. 13 episode of “First Take.” The suspension comes one day after Parker apologized for his remarks via Twitter. On the show, he was discussing Griffin’s answer to a question about his role [...]
*ESPN contributor Rob Parker slipped up and got too comfortable when he described Washington Resdskins quarterback Robert Griffin III as a “cornball brother.” He then got suspended, and thus learned his lesson. He issued an apology Wednesday, nearly a week after the incident via his Twitter. (Pause … when did apologizing on social media become [...]
*When, exactly, did the Worldwide Leader in Sports become such a den of stupidity? What’s happened to our ESPN? How did the network plunge from its mid-1990s heights to become what it is now – a hollow shell of a channel, filled with and defined by a group of idiotic, blowhard personalities? Just witness their [...]
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