While Clumsily Attempting to Cross-Promote Splash, Sportscenter Anchor Kevin Negandhi Joked About ‘Tan’ People Jumping in the Water
ESPN has been relentlessly attempting to cross-promote ABC’s new diving show, Splash – radio, TV, it’s everywhere – and this may have been the best attempt yet. Sportscenter anchor Jay Harris joked about his co-host, Kevin Negandhi, jumping off the diving board. What followed was a humorous exchange between the two.
Jay Harris: What do you think it would take to get Kevin Negandhi on a diving board?
Kevin Negandhi: Nothing. I’m tan, I don’t jump in the water.
Harris: [Jokingly serious] What you trying to say? [laughter]
Negandhi: [Tapping Harris on the arm] I’m halfway there, I understand! (laughter)
Maybe it’s because I’m an Indian-American like Negandhi, but I laughed. I thought this was tastefully done and injected some life into Sportscenter. Chemistry and jokes will always trump shouting and debate. I’m curious how the rest of the internet reacts, if at all. [H/T reader JD]
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March 20th, 2013 at 11:18 AM
What?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:19 AM
I’m terrible at figuring out what peoples’ racial makeup is.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:19 AM
Humanized.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:19 AM
Color
March 20th, 2013 at 11:20 AM
I have no idea where the joke was in all that or who Harris or Neghandi are to know if I missed some inside joke.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:20 AM
If you’re white, I suggest you avoid the use of blackface in your makeup choices.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:20 AM
Uhhhhhhhhhhhh…
That’s literally all I got.
Also, the “around the network” links should just be called “Pictures of Girls”
March 20th, 2013 at 11:20 AM
Cum?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:21 AM
i also laughed, this joke was orientaled ri…
/sniped
March 20th, 2013 at 11:21 AM
Now that’s funny.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:21 AM
I’m terrible at figuring out what peoples’ racial makeup is.
Ms621 hides behind the internet to cover up his blackness. Tis a shame, but it is what it is.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:21 AM
I got a feeling I know what the reaction would be had a white republican said it.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:21 AM
March 20th, 2013 at 11:21 AM
I’m not sure what this even means. I’m confused or this went right over my head. Probably both. Wednesday, weeeeee!
March 20th, 2013 at 11:22 AM
yea, but you can kinda tell based on his pinterest page.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:22 AM
Also, the “around the network” links should just be called “Pictures of Girls From Six Months Ago”
March 20th, 2013 at 11:22 AM
As the tannest man on earth, John Boehner gets a pass.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:23 AM
Also, the “around the network” links should just be called “Pictures of Girls From Months Ago“
Get off my turf, Nada!!!
March 20th, 2013 at 11:23 AM
I’m confident that I am the whitest dude on TBL.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:23 AM
It’s a little forced, in that I don’t think there’s a big stereotype that any group with some pigment doesn’t swim. That Harris went along with it and seemed to find it genuinely funny should make it a non-issue.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:24 AM
Why would a white republican say that he is tan.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:24 AM
Brad Faxon does not enjoy pro-ams:
“Pro am update Handicaps,27,27,26,19 At least it’s starting to rain”
“Another update Pro am partner playing Titleist Tour Balata X out. Says its his lucky ball”
March 20th, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Yes
March 20th, 2013 at 11:25 AM
now im thinking this should be a huge issue…because i have an irrational (well, it’s very rational to me) extreme hatred of jay harris.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Well, to be honest, the robe does add to the whiteness.
/ Wait, that’s Kaiser, sorry
March 20th, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Joe Frazier. Swimming legend.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:26 AM
this dude’s a fucking connoisseur.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:27 AM
hey golfies…just talked to a mizuno brand manager. all i got
March 20th, 2013 at 11:27 AM
I did not know this.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:28 AM
Al Campanis and Jimmy the Greek concur.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:28 AM
I’ll shoot you my address. Have him send me anything.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:28 AM
Weird since he’s on Sportscenter and that makes him really well known or so I’ve been told?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:28 AM
Weird since he’s on Sportscenter and that makes him really well known or so I’ve been told?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:28 AM
Reasoning? I don’t love him, but he’s never been a guy I’ve had a problem with.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:28 AM
Wonder if it’s a shamble or a scramble. I played in a pro-am last year and was disappointed to see that it was a shamble. I wanted to play my own ball. Then I saw why they do that. The other 3 amateurs in our group were terrible. We used my drive on 17/18 holes. It would’ve taken 3 days to finish that round playing out every shot.
Why do non-golfers insist on playing in those things? Most don’t even get drunk enough to have fun with it. They just stone cold sober through a horrible round.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:29 AM
?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:29 AM
but Kaiser has fallopian tubes.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:29 AM
Talked to him about…?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:30 AM
Wait really
March 20th, 2013 at 11:30 AM
whenever i take an iron, i always think about kill bill…”i need hattori mizuno japanese steel to take out vermin golf course.”
March 20th, 2013 at 11:30 AM
That’s pretty funny. The guy that has a “lucky ball” is the same guy that uses his early 90′s PING “putting ball” on the green. I’d go insane with this guy after 2 holes.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:30 AM
Brad Faxon does not enjoy pro-ams:
What an ass. Pro-ams comprised the bulk of small tour stop budgets for years. Maybe you can regale the players with stories from your major wins or your great Ryder Cup record. OH WAIT BITCH YOU BLEW. Fuck off Faxon.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:31 AM
Weird since he’s on Sportscenter and that makes him really well known or so I’ve been told?
I would have to be told that. I haven’t watched a full episode of Sportscenter in a decade. I am cool like that.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:32 AM
top 5 putter ever. season record for putts per GIR with 1.7 and all-time record for putts per round with around 28. perfect technique. love faxon.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:32 AM
I also learned that Lee Janzen is an asshole in that same tourney.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:34 AM
irony or lack of awareness that a racism discussion turned to golf?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:34 AM
Me thinks Jason misses the First Take crew this weekend and is compensating for this loss by trying to create a kumbya moment off of this throw away line.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:35 AM
a story on a new display they have that can accomodate running shoes, golf shoes, bats or irons. they have a new promotion called ‘play famously’…something to do with amateur players
anyway, i learned about where they retail….pretty much just at pro shops, not big stores
March 20th, 2013 at 11:37 AM
That’s great spencer but it has nothing to do with the point of scripty’s post.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:37 AM
Ha. Faxon came in 68th place on the grandpappy tour. Made a grand last week. Go away you bitter old fuck.
Brad Faxon was Loren Roberts’ bitch on the greens.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:38 AM
irony or lack of awareness that a racism discussion turned to golf?
Vijay Singh is so winning this weekend.
/no clue if he still plays
March 20th, 2013 at 11:38 AM
natural progression.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:38 AM
Also, resales on ebay.
So….scripty is in Faxon’s pro-am group, right?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:38 AM
sure it does…dude scraped out a career despite being a horrible ballstriker on the strength of something he did extremely well.
boss of the moss? another fantastic putter, but “bitch on the greens?” that’s a lil much.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:39 AM
Apaprently, there are two fellas named Dick Mast and Bob Niger on the Senior Tour. Both are better than worthless piece of shit Brad Faxon.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:40 AM
But does he swim?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:40 AM
I have a Mizuno rain jacket with zip off sleeves for running (also great for golf). Probably the best piece of clothing I own, fits me the best, great design… can’t find another anywhere. I think they made a single one and discontinued it.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:40 AM
Scripty going @IronSheik on Faxon. Deservedly.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:40 AM
I’m a 13 handicap and way too fucking poor for a pro-am.
/puts my change from morning coffee in jar to fund my 2016 Bandon trip.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:40 AM
Faxon is my all-time favorite golfer.
Rhode Island’s greatest pro athlete since…???? Marvin Barnes? Gabby Hartnett? Nap Lajoie? The lovely Jill Craybas?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:42 AM
Gil Morgan is beating your ass Brad Faxon. He’s 65 and had time to become a fucking eye doctor.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:43 AM
Just make sure you know what KIND of Indian, or else you get banned.
/Bulldog
Though now that I realize that Jason is the other kind of Indian (I think), I see the joke.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:43 AM
Yeah, but Faxon was a great table tennis player. So there!
March 20th, 2013 at 11:43 AM
Also, resales on ebay.
does that mean their golf stuff sucks?
no clue, not a golfer
husker, i never ask for product doing stories, it sometimes is offered. but at the end of the chat they asked me if i golfed or ran and what my shoe size was, what i was using now. they don’t have a shipping address for me so i might skate ethically, but if a package showed up, i’d forget how to ship it back
March 20th, 2013 at 11:44 AM
i feel like this criticism is backwards…shouldnt we be criticizing gil morgan for being a shitty eye doctor?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:44 AM
Isnt Billy Andrade from Rhode Island?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:44 AM
FUCK NO…mizuno’s irons are the best out there and their wedges are phenomenal as well (tho they need more bounce and grind options…not buying their one-bounce/grind-fits-all approach).
March 20th, 2013 at 11:45 AM
Still confident your gravatar image is your actual driver’s license photo.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:45 AM
Gil Morgan, first man to get to 10 under in the US Open. Legend.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:46 AM
Well we have a title for Spencer’s R Kelly parody video
March 20th, 2013 at 11:46 AM
Yes. And Dana Quigley.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:47 AM
like this wwos?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:48 AM
He’s an optometrist. That’s being a doctor like a chiropractor is a doctor… with an “okay, sure” and a patronizing pat on the back. Not a whole lot of training to ask someone to look at an eye chart and read a letter.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:49 AM
No, mine has sleeves that zip off and looks less like a running jacket. Though I do want another vest, but something a little warmer, so I may look into that.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:49 AM
Obviously
March 20th, 2013 at 11:50 AM
Completely forgot that Loren Roberts lost to Ernie Els at Oakmont. Lost on the 20th hole of the playoff.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:50 AM
no athletes in this site’s top 50 famouse RIers
March 20th, 2013 at 11:51 AM
No. I love Mizuno. Play their MP-59 irons…that I bought off ebay.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:51 AM
And yet, he still insisted that the TV announcers called him “Dr. Gil Morgan”.
/probably not
March 20th, 2013 at 11:51 AM
Moe Norman > Your heroes.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:52 AM
this site has some scary RI natives pictures
braces, hartman?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:52 AM
Seriously Spencer… I want to see a rough storyboard for that video by Friday.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:52 AM
Throw in psychiatrist to this discussion, and we found something you and Duffy can bond over.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:53 AM
man, meredith viera has a great rack
March 20th, 2013 at 11:55 AM
davey lopes, mark van eeghen, lou lamoriello, konerko
wikipedia comes through
March 20th, 2013 at 11:55 AM
Psychologist, sure. Psychiatrist has to go through the same medical school as everyone else… the path just varies after the get an MD
March 20th, 2013 at 11:55 AM
link?
March 20th, 2013 at 11:56 AM
brian burke, rocco baldelli
March 20th, 2013 at 11:58 AM
im struggling to try and make it funny without peeing on people.
March 20th, 2013 at 11:58 AM
pretty much just at pro shops, not big stores
Obviously
this is where the term ‘pretty much’ comes into play
March 20th, 2013 at 11:59 AM
Pee in the sand trap then cover it with sand up using your 56* high-bounce
March 20th, 2013 at 12:00 PM
We don’t take credit for Konerko. Van Eeghen played at my rival HS. My dad played baseball against Lopes back in the day.
Right now in college basketball, we claim MCW (St. Andrew’s HS) and the Murphy brothers at Duke/Florida.
We’re a small state, so we follow our athletes closely since they’re so rare.
March 20th, 2013 at 12:01 PM
Golf and running equip companies have really tight retail price control. There’s not much shopping around. Unless you are going to some less well-known websites, prices are all the same everywhere. Even most online places. Kind of like how Apple does, the best ‘deal’ you can get is they can offer you gift cards or something, but the stores have to keep the sales price the same.
March 20th, 2013 at 12:01 PM
man, meredith viera has a great rack
link?
there’s a video here that is like a hihglight reel of her. there’s one shot that will make you say ‘titties!’
don’t worry it’s in like the first two minutes. purple dress and she shouts ‘the view’ while pointing at her cleavage
March 20th, 2013 at 12:02 PM
/fixed
March 20th, 2013 at 12:02 PM
Wow, I had no idea the can of worms I would open by the mere mention of Brad Faxon
March 20th, 2013 at 12:04 PM
/tries to think of lyrics with “kitty litter” involved
March 20th, 2013 at 12:08 PM
htown, the list of RIU pros is distingushed by its indistinguishable athletes. lamar odom is the only one i recognize
March 20th, 2013 at 12:15 PM
I laughed out loud at P.H. Horgan III. I totally forgot about that guy. One of the all time ridiculous names.
March 20th, 2013 at 12:19 PM
weeze, i think Parfait Bitee stands out
March 20th, 2013 at 12:22 PM
a minor quibble, vez. it’s uri, not riu.
March 20th, 2013 at 12:30 PM
Gill Man > Gil Thorpe > Gil Morgan
March 20th, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Vince Gill > Gill Man > Gil Thorpe > Gil Morgan
March 20th, 2013 at 12:36 PM
Nope. Heard he forgot to bring along the deer antler spray.
March 20th, 2013 at 12:37 PM
Vince Gill and Amy Grant, philanderers for God.
March 20th, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Thought Kaiser has the brown shirt, no?