The Media Drop

A colleague of mine, Anna, pointed me to a great article on SI.com from Peter King, where King details a conversation he had - via text message - with Miami Dolphins QB Trent Green in the hours after Green was taken off the field with a concussion after hitting Houston Texans DT Travis Johnson in […]

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The Associated Press is reporting that the National Football League will be offering high definition replays to officials to utilize during reviews taking place in games. Why is this just happening now? Oh, wait, it’s not cheap. My bad.

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You can thank Tony Stewart for whatever fun news or fine we get to hear about after he praised his fans for supporting him and the fact that they “take all the bullshit.” Expect something amusing to come out of this, perhaps a fine or something along those lines.
The best part of those things […]

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Okay, so the first time I saw Prince behind the sheet working his guitar, I didn’t really notice anything out of line. Needless to say, what happened was enough to draw a phone call from my pal Cheryll to see if I had noticed anything particular about how he was doing that particular working of […]

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Phil Simms just made what has to be the best comment of the game so far when pointing out David Spade and the cast of CBS’ “Rules of Engagement” sitting out in the rain at the Super Bowl, that if the “show was already a hit, they’d be in a suite.”
HA!

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On Monday morning, I’d received a tip from a friend of mine who works in the mixed martial arts field, about how Buck Woodward at pwinsiderxtra.com had received an internal memo from ESPN that discussed the removal of all mixed martial arts advertisements from Disney and ESPN’s networks as a whole. After pinging David Singer […]

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After a little bit of an incident on the air during Friday night’s A’s-Tigers baseball game on FOX, baseball broadcaster and former Major Leaguer Steve Lyons was fired by the network over the weekend. “Psycho,” as he is fondly referred to by those in and out of the game, is most notably known for forgetting […]

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Just posted over at Netscape that ESPN has fired Harold Reynolds from his duties as analyst on Baseball Tonight. No word yet as to why he was let go, and it’s definitely disconcerting as Reynolds was one of my favorite personalities not only on the show, but on the network as a whole. More details […]

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Something I haven’t seen blogged or discussed that much but is very, very cool is that ESPN has allowed for free use of its ESPN 360 product for free at this address through July 19. You know you want it.

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The PiPress‘ Gordon Wittenmyer writes about this week’s “Monday Night Football” as being the sixth-to-last of the decades-long series of football games that ABC has broadcast to Americans from coast to coast. When the MNF shift is completed, we’ll have ESPN covering that night’s games, and ESPN giving up its Sunday Night Football programming to […]

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