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Award-winning author Buzz Bissinger voiced his displeasure about
blogs on last week’s Bob Costas HBO special. In
a contrite and fairly candid interview with us, he sums up his television performance thusly: “I am a man of passion, and my ...
Among the highlights: He talks about the value
of crack in the hood; His mother never smoked
crack, and he never said that she did; and last but not least ... "When did I get in trouble for domestic violence over the last year and a half?"
A mini-earthquake rocked the blogging world late last
night - the founder of the most popular sports
blog on the net , AOL Fanhouse , lost its fearless leader, Jamie Mottram (aka Mister Irrelevant ). Where was he going? What was he doing? Sports ...
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Yo. So by now, you may have heard
- ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd knocked us out
of the blogosphere Thursday. In an unprovoked attack, the bombastic host screamed, ‘wouldn’t it be great if we could blow up a website?’ and then urged his ...
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This is a must see video of an
8 year old doing his best Reggie Bush impersonation
on the football field.
Expect this to be the hot story Monday
when sportswriters wake up from a weekend slumber: Denver
Broncos running back Travis Henry (seen here diving at the feet of the Cowboys defensive line) has fathered a staggering nine children with nine ...
Jake Peavy pulled a Kenny Rogers and has
a substance on his hand
On the rare occasion your thoughts drift to
DeShawn Stevenson, what comes to mind? The statutory rape
he was accused of? He was 20, she was 14. Losing the shooting contest to Gilbert ? The mysterious shooting at his Orlando home? Add this one to ...
TBL interviews Mike Wilbon.
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Up until precisely this moment, Minnesota Timberwolves guard
Marko Jaric had been known for two things: Entering
an NBA game with his jersey on backwards , and being on the receiving end of a vicious Kobe Bryant forearm shiver . Those two incidents ...
Whitlock isn't pandering to the Imus witchhunt....are you?
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According to a tipster, this is Tennessee coach
Bruce Pearl having a blast this summer. We’re not
going to talk about the woman in question (or his divorce, or our blind item). And definitely don’t go to any Tennessse fans with this. ...
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a
week after Dan Patrick announced his departure from ESPN,
the Chicago Sun-Times buries a scoop - Patrick supposedly already has that syndication deal everyone’s been speculating about . Also on ...
According to a media source, the buzz in
college basketball circles is that Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson
will be fired Friday for violating telephone restrictions and then lying to both the school and the NCAA . Our source says that the school is ...
Somebody, somewhere, once stated that major events happen
in threes, and in the sports newspaper world, a
sad trifecta is about to take place: On the heels of Chicago Tribune NBA encyclopedia Sam Smith taking a buyout , and Boston Globe sports staple ...
ESPN’s intrepid Pedro Gomez, the man with the
awkward assignment of following around the every move of
Barry Bonds for the last few years, nearly missed the money shot . Which would have been depressing for him, but comical for the rest of us. ...
So we decided to get all journalisticky upon
hearing the Rick Reilly news, and emailed around to
see what the chatter was about why the most famous sports journalist was leaving the one-time sports bible, and where he was going. The answer is simple: ...
Sources have confirmed that Jacobson, a co-host of
“First Take” on ESPN2, currently is serving a one-week
suspension because of her behavior at a Jan. 11 roast for ESPN Radio personalities Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic at Atlantic City, N.J.
You know what’s happening, right? A year or
two ago, all these sports blogs you read while
surfing the net at work were fun and cute and a neat exercise in writing, where random people with keyboards - all together now, say it loud and say it ...
We think this might be exclusive, since it
won’t hit the SI website (and mailboxes) until later
today, and newsstands Thursday, but this week’s cover is pure genius. Jinx much? The Cubs are in first - write it down, April 29, 16-9, ...













An Interview with Buzz Bissinger