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Hannah Storm heading to ESPN morning

Cuzoogle posted 5/12/2008 from www.tvsquad.com

ESPN is going to announce tomorrow that Hannah Storm will anchor a new, revamped SportsCenter morning edition. SportsCenter is already on every morning, so you have to assume that by adding Storm to the mix, the folks at Disney (ESPN's parent company) are looking to pump up the old format and maybe bring in some new viewers -- like maybe those who used to watch Hannah on CBS.

Johnny Quest Thinks Rick Reilly Is A Sellout

The Big Lead found this 5/12/2008 on www.tiricosuave.com

Fucking sue me, I listened to Less Than Jake back in ‘01. But the song really says it all. As we all know, Ricky took a deal from ESPN that offers a “ridonkulous” salary, which is roughly $2 million a year. Well, we knew that ...

What Rick Reilly Used to Think About ESPN

FanIQ Blog found this 5/12/2008 on thebiglead.com

As we near the much-anticipated June debut of Rick Reilly’s work at ESPN, Tirico Suave brings us this video from 2004 in which Reilly, then a globe-trotting columnist at Sports Illustrated, said the following about the WWL: ...

Will Leitch Isn't What He's Cracked Up To Be

MoonDogLeft posted 5/12/2008 from moondogsports.com

Will Leitch, editor of Deadspin.com and author of the book God Save The Fan has become the face of the blogosphere and I'm not down with that.

Simmons: "Certain Promises Were Not Kept" [Bill Simmons]

Signal to Noise found this 5/14/2008 on deadspin.com

We're not the only ones who noticed that Bill Simmons hasn't written a column in two weeks — until today , anyway — and hasn't been featured much on the home page of ESPN.com. We figured it was nothing; the man has taken extended breaks ...