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Bruce Feldman Leaves ESPN for CBS Sports, Then Goes on the Dan Patrick Show and Unloads on ESPN

Posted September 1, 2011, 11:50 am by (84 Comments)

Bruce Feldman has left ESPN after 17 years and taken a job with CBS Sports. Feldman, who was involved in a major dust-up with ESPN brass this summer due to his participation in a book with former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, went on the Dan Patrick radio show and unloaded on his former employer.

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Rick Reilly Imagines Himself as a Reporter and Brett Favre as a Waffler

Posted July 30, 2011, 11:45 am by (13 Comments)

Problem is, when you’re Rick Reilly and you have a reputation for writing news, people think you might be serious when you write about a real person from a real place and mention actual NFL teams.

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Lawyers Laughed and Ripped ESPN’s Lester Munson For His Barry Bonds Trial Analysis

Posted April 15, 2011, 11:25 am by (31 Comments)

Lester Munson: ESPN’s legal expert seems to think the prosecution side was victorious in its case against Barry Bonds. Lawyers disagree. From Above the Law: “The jurors wanted to convict him of perjury but couldn’t do it because the prosecutors couldn’t meet their burden, but the defense went 0-for-4? WHAT THE F*** IS THIS MAN [...]

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Kevin Ding of the OC Register Accuses ESPN Anchor of Plagiarism

Posted December 29, 2010, 3:00 pm by (35 Comments)

ESPN Plagiarism Claim: Kevin Ding, a columnist at the OC Register, claims an ESPN anchor lifted the first few paragraphs from his column and then read them on air. “Hey, Will Selva of ESPNEWS. Glad you liked my last column so much. Try not to plagiarize it next time. I got back to my hotel [...]

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ESPN 30 For 30 Review: “One Night In Vegas”

Posted September 8, 2010, 2:30 pm by (115 Comments)

Mike Tyson and Tupac Shakur were friends. This is the basic premise of the latest episode of ESPN’s 30 For 30 documentary series. One Night In Vegas was a random mixtape of angry spoken word poetry, comic book illustrations and seemingly random interviews that were all tied together using stories we’ve already heard and footage [...]

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Yahoo’s Charles Robinson, The Latest Human Furious With Rick Reilly

Posted July 25, 2010, 4:16 pm by (49 Comments)

The latest intrepid installment of the aptly named “Riled Up” by ESPN’s Rick Reilly has quite obviously caught the ire of Yahoo’s Charles Robinson. The segment in question entailed Rick Reilly taking his assman parade to Pamplona, Spain, where he ran with the bulls. As highly expected, it was wilder than Craig Sager’s suits. Video [...]

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Because Not Enough People Have Hammered LeBron’s “Decision”

Posted July 9, 2010, 1:30 pm by (40 Comments)

LeBron’s Decision: Gene Wojociechowski of ESPN.com writes, “we got 27 minutes of TV appetizers, followed by eight seconds of LeBron steak … followed by 33-plus minutes of Worcestershire sauce. The whole thing was semi-ridiculous, although it did reveal a vain, self-absorbed side of James that’s as attractive as braided nose hair.” Richard Sandomir writes in [...]

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