Links: Gassy Clayton, Merkle’s Boner and Golden Boy Stole My Idea

News and Links for September 23, 2008…
Anyone else notice that Golden Boy and Affliction stole my idea for a mixed event pay-per-view card? I know I wasn’t exactly inventing the wheel, but I hadn’t heard anyone else mention a cross-sport MMA/boxing card much before. See the last paragraph. I’ll be expecting my [...]

DIRECTV Viewers Denied US Open Final on Local CBS

The local CBS affiliate in Las Vegas has told DIRECTV customers they’re out of luck when it comes to watching today’s men’s final of the U.S. Open between Roger Federer and Andy Murray. KLAS has instead opted to put a feed of the event on local Cox Cable channel 19 (Las Vegas One), a [...]

Links: Crazy Cuban Kicks Taekwondo Referee in the Head

News and Links for August 23, 2008…
A crazy Cuban taekwondo-er flipped out and kicked a referee in the head after getting disqualified from his bronze medal match. Angel Matos and his coach have been banned for life for the move.
Deadspin takes a look at ESPN’s coverage of Gene Upshaw’s death, asking just who the [...]

Reggie Miller’s Looking Good…

Everyone’s favorite Internet hero, Brian “Boom Goes the Dynamite” Collins, is now gainfully employed as a news reporter in Waco, Texas. If you don’t know who the “boom goes the dynamite” guy is, then I truly feel sorry for you.
Collins was hired by KXXV in Waco, and had the balls to speak to Dan [...]

In Honor of the Olympics

Sure, I’ve expressed my displeasure at the Beijing Olympics, specifically NBC’s terrible coverage of them. But having watched nearly a whole minute of synchronized swimming today, I felt the need to share one of the all-time great “Olympic” videos in existence.

So, rather than tell you once again that NBC has ruined the Olympics, [...]

Olympic Update: NBC’s and China’s Clinic in What Not To Do

This tape delay is killing me. Really, NBC seems to have spent $894 million to make the New York audience happy. As for those of us that are so unfortunate to be living outside of the Eastern Time Zone, well, we’re pretty much screwed.
It sure is nice to be watching Friday Night Fights [...]

Dear NBC: Thank You For Ruining the Olympics

The following is the text to the letter I’ve just emailed to NBC. If you are on the West Coast and are as sick as I am of the tape delays that we are subjected to over and over again, I recommend also contacting NBC and letting them know. This is ridiculous.
Contact NBC [...]

Rick Reilly Just Doesn’t Get It

I used to enjoy Rick Reilly’s column at the end of each issue of Sports Illustrated. It was usually harmless. Maybe a feelgood story about someone you’d never heard of, or tales of his escapades on the golf course, but rarely anything one would find offensive. Sure some of them were stupid, [...]

Olympic Update: Team America is Good at Olympic-ing

I’ve watched plenty of the Olympics. I’ve watched some women’s gymnastics, women’s beach volleyball, women’s regular volleyball, women’s field hockey — you know, all of the sports that are “easy” to watch. Of course I also watch the real sports — boxing, baseball, track and field, powerlifting, maybe a little basketball. And [...]

Giambi Loses Mustache, Growing New One

News and Links for August 4, 2008…
Since when is it news when an athlete shaves off a mustache? Since Jason Giambi made mustached men proud once more, no longer only considering a ’stache a symbol of policemen, porn stars and child molesters. Giambi cleaned off his upper lip, but have no fear, he’s [...]