Talk About Credibility! Stephen A. Smith Voted AA And AOL Sports Worst Announcer

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STEPHEN A. SMITH IS ON TOP OF THE WORLD
Published 12/5/2007 at With Leather
... this poll wasn't some bit of trickery by untrained average joes without credentials.  It was done by AOL Sports.  That means even AOL users hate Stephen A, which is saying a lot.  Those people are usually only online to vote for American Idol and find a mate on eHarmony because they can't afford any more cats. NOTE: Dude, Shannon Sharpe?  People would rather listen to someone who can't speak English than Stephen A. Smith. [Awful Announcing] 

High Five
Published 12/5/2007 by Fornelli at Foul Balls
A quick look around the interweb while waiting for the White Sox to do something. Turns out nobody likes Stephen A. Smith! Seriously, people prefer Shannon Sharpe. [ Awful Announcing ] College football players have gone mad with power. [ ...

Thursday’s Basically Top Five Blog Links
Published 12/6/2007 by Jamie Mottram at Mr. Irrelevant
... dumps such as The Roundup and Saint Andrew’s Net, and the name honors our friend Brian the Bull, who says “basically” and “top five” a lot. The former means he’s lying, and the latter means he’s embellishing. It’s your job to decipher which is which. Anna Rawson is all the rage. She earns her LPGA card and suddenly appears on every blog in the blogiverse. Of course, Chris found her three years ago. So … first! Stephen A. Smith is America’s worst sports announcer. Considering his commentary on my ...

Thursday Footnotes
Published 12/6/2007 by TZ <info@sactownroyalty.com> at Sactown Royalty
More incredibly fun mapping from BallHype's Jason Gurney. The 1970s were Sacramento's high school basketball peak. An unsurprising victor in a largescale 'Worst Sports Announcer' bracket. Kevin Martin hasn't had his MRI yet. Assumedly, that MRI could give us a more exact return expectation. But with groins, it also tends to be an inexact science. Shoals looks at double standards when it comes to familial tragedy for good guy/bad guy athletes. As such, the limited press on Ron Artest's situation with his daughter Diamond is ...

Published 12/7/2007 by Aaron at AaronGleeman.com
... of America's Sexiest Sportscaster. I continue to believe that Bonnie Bernstein and my NBC Sports colleague Shana Hiatt were robbed. Someone really needs to put together a local version of the contest, if only so that the millions of Marney Gellner fans can be heard from. Presumably FSN will be contacting me any day now to establish a similar partnership. When he's not forcing people to turn off their televisions, getting fired from his newspaper gig for sub ...

Linkage: Worst Sports Announcer
Published 12/7/2007 by Larry Brown at Larry Brown Sports
Stephen A. Smith voted worst sports announcer [Awful Announcing] Does anyone want the Arkansas coaching job? [SPORTSbyBROOKS] Paul Davis gets paid to get dunked on [With Leather] Some of the best/worst Chris Berman nicknames ever [100% Injury Rate] Lute Olsen done for the year at Arizona [Storming the Floor] Who’s been injured more, Evel Knievel or Steve McNair? [Deuce of Davenport] Insensitive people cashing ...

Intentional Link Dump: News For A Slow Day
Published 12/7/2007 by Chris at Intentional Foul
... - And finally, our news of the obvious: Stephen A. Smith has been voted as the worst sports announcer. Color me surprised. The next thing you’ll tell me is water is wet and the sky is blue. ...

Stephen A. plays politics
Published 1/10/2008 by Howard Burns at SPORTS COUCH POTATO
... The ESPN NBA analyst and Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist — winner of an election himself last month as the leading vote-getter in Awful Announcing and AOL's Worst Sportscaster tournament — reiterated his support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and suggested racism may have played a part in the discrepancy between pre-election poll numbers and the actual results of Tuesday's Democratic Primary in New Hampshire in which Obama was defeated by Hillary Clinton. ...