shots.bostonsportsmedia.com - 10/13/2008
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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
We’ve had to push back the Shots Sabbatical (see prior post) to allow for this entry featuring an email back and forth between Shots and Michael Wilbon regarding Wilbon’s recent on-air at ESPN comments regarding Kimbo Slice specifically ...
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mma.fanhouse.com —
The mainstream media has hit EliteXC harder than
Seth Petruzelli hit Kimbo Slice this week, with prominent...
sports writers and commentators saying the MMA promotion is no better than pro wrestling and that Kimbo's loss to Petruzelli was fixed . Today ...
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EliteXC Official Rips Media, Says Kimbo Slice- Seth ...
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Fang's Bites —
... David Scott of the Boston Sports Media Watch breaks his sabbatical for one quick update as he has Michael Wilbon's comments about Elite XC's Kimbo Slice being a fraud. My best to you, David and I hope you come back soon. You'll be missed here at Fang's Bites. ...
Media News & Notes
The Big Lead —
... “In a Vikes-Saints pregame segment, Ron Jaworski got pumped about the Saints’ improved “red zone” offense in 2008. To illustrate this, Jaworski did a show-and-tell of the Saints scoring against the Falcons .. the Saints, this season and in the preseason, had not yet played the Falcons. The footage used to illustrate the Saints’ 2008 offense wasn’t from 2008.” (Mushnick)
Wilbon defends his “the fight was fixed” logic. (Scott’s Shots)
Knicks lose Kenny Smith’s announcing skills ...
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Deadspin —
... • Fixed fights? That's unpossible!: Michael Wilbon is not backing down from angry MMA fans. Just because they have a thirst for mindless bloodsport, that's no reason to appease them. [Scott's Shots] ...
Wilbon Sticking By His Comments On The Kimbo Slice Fight Being Fixed
AwfulAnnouncing —
Michael Wilbon cause quite a stir in the MMA community last week when he decided to say that the CBS Elite XC fight between Kimbo Slice and Steve Petruzelli was fixed and even compared the Sport of MMA to professional wrestling. Well David Scott, of Scott's Shots, followed up with Wilbon via email and actually got a response back from the PTI co-host. After Wilbon had explained his feeling on the Sport and about the fight itself, in the first email, there was a second exchange between the two. Here's what went down... SHOTS ...
Michael Wilbon exchanges e-mail with blogger about MMA
The Zone Blitz —
... ESPN's Michael Wilbon exchanged e-mails with David Scott of Boston Sports Media Watch blog concerning Wilbon's comments on the Kimbo Slice fight. Wilbon said he thought the fight might have been ...
Elevator? No Thanks, I'll Take the Stairs - Daily "Linkin' Logs" (10/14/08)
The Bad News Bloggers —
... Jensen talks about Matt Stairs moment in the lime lights of L.A. Tony Romo will be out for 1 month with a broken pinkie. Its either Brad Johnson or Brooks Bollinger. Yeah, its pretty funny. Giants pummeled by the Browns...wow SSReporters is pissed and thinks you broadcasters could learn a thing or two...or three...or four AwfulAnnouncing's got the battle a-brew-ing between Mike Wilbon of PTI and David Scott of Scott's Shots. Was Kimbo's fight fixed. Is MMA even real? Over the next 6 hours, we'll ...
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Kimbo Slice goes Nickelodeon
blogs.chron.com 11/25/2008 —
Kimbo Slice. Pro Elite photo.
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mma.fanhouse.com 10/21/2008 — EliteXC, the mixed martial arts organization that made a splash by putting Internet sensation Kimbo Slice on live network television, has gone out of business. Josh Gross of Sports Illustrated reports that the organization has told his fighters that ...
Kimbo-gate and the plight of the MMA journalist
epiccarnival.com 10/18/2008 — by The Prophet , The Savage Science I was peacefully sleeping in my bed at the Hotel Arts Barcelona a few weeks ago when there was a knock at my door. I tried to ignore it at first but then it became more and more insistent... "GO AWAY," I yelled ...
