Remember when SportsCenter was an essential part of our TV viewing day? Yeah, that was..yesterday..and probably today. OK, let’s try this again.
Remember when you could watch SportsCenter and not cringe at things like DJ Stu Scott, or a game show within the show, or feel the need to put up a salad bar-style sneeze guard between you and the Wega to keep the sweat from flying onto your furniture from Chris Berman?
Craig Kilborn left and we wept. (OK, maybe not wept, but he’s still missed). Brett Haber left and nobody noticed. Robin Roberts ran to Good Morning America and ABC made the horrible decision to give us less Liz Cho. Now, Rich Eisen is leaving, and we wonder…
…will anybody notice?
So why is Rich Eisen leaving? Did they get tired of his weird hair line? Did he get tired of trying to communicate with DJ Stu?
It looks like ESPN decided they’d had enough of Eisen. Which is too bad. At a time when most ESPN anchors are as interchangable as a Spinal Tap drummer, Rich was one of the good ones. I especially liked him after he wrote a column for ESPN.com about his days as an undergad at Michigan and how Notre Dame ruined their football season in the first or second week every year the whole time he was there. But that’s just me.
USA Today is reporting that Eisen and ESPN have abruptly cut off contract negotiations, and that ESPN, incredibly, still holds a right to match any offer he gets from anybody else. So, if you live in Provo, you’ll probably have a new sports anchor next month.
The New York Observer has the scoop on the Eisen-Shuster wedding, but no photo of Suzy–who I remember from the Fox Sports Net World Series coverage (very nice). So instead, how about a photo of Liz Cho?
Dan LeBatard with a piece on Juan Encarnacion not having any friends on the Marlins. It brings up an interesting question. If you or I went to play professional baseball in, say, Guatemala, would we learn the language, or just keep to ourselves and spend our nights in the hotel watching porn? OK, maybe that’s not the question it brought up.
KC Johnson with a good piece on Jerry Krause. KC says Jerry has lost twenty pounds on the Atkins diet. It brings to mind something about the Titanic and some deck chairs.
Northwestern says they destroyed Rashidi Wheeler’s health records shortly after he died. OK, let’s go over the cremation procedure again…you burn the body not the medical records.
The Sox…still bad.
Mark Prior is going to pitch tonight against the mighty Devil Rays and then on Sunday night against the Yankees. Nice.
Did you know Joe Borowski pitched for the Yankees in 1998? Yeah, nobody did.
Groucho says Tim Duncan is pretty good.
Mariotti puts down the doughnut to get all wishy washy about whether the Bulls should get Rick Carlisle. If only the story were as emphatic as the headline.
Greg Couch on the levels of winning. The Yankees and Cubs aren’t on the same level. Surprise!
Rap says that the Sox are typically luckless, and he has the scoop that Todd Hundley may undergo back surgery. He doesn’t need the surgery, just the Demerol.
Peter Gammons on the draft. It’s today, you know. Really.
Jayson Stark wonders why the draft’s not on TV.
The best part about Brian Griese to Miami is that it won’t work and it’ll get Dave Wannstedt fired.
Peter King on Matt Hasselbeck. And, his take on Six Feet Under is wrong. The reason Nate is so distressed about his wife’s disappearance and death is that he wanted it. He feels guilty for wanting it to happen.
Packer lineman Joe Johnson says the car is his but not the pot. Sure, Joe. Whatever.
The Dixie Chicks need to shut up now.
The new Fox show “Keen Eddie” sounds like a funny idea. New York cop in London, blah, blah, blah.
Good stuff on the great HBO show The Wire.
England wants to make fat people and smokers sign pledges to clean up their act in return for health care.
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Psst check the link on the LebRetard article. How much Eisen can one man take!!!
I’m warnin you. If you don’t lay off, I’m gonna get nekked again.
Oops. It’s fixed now. You can read the LeBatard column, and not be subjected to more of the Eisens.
My loss was bigger than Eisen’s.
Gianluca Pagliluca!
Guh!
Helloooooooooooouuuuuuuuu!
Fix my link too – I don’t like it when people confuse me with Mariotti.
That little porker Maines is stupid. "You" doesn’t start with a "u". And nice husband she’s got (I think it’s her second). He’s a little swarthy pud.
Liz Cho was one of People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People this year. But for Asian broadcasters, I’m partial to Sophia Choi (no relation to Big Choi) of CNN.
Toby,
First, your first name is a dog’s name. Or a Jewish girl’s.
Second, you’re a stupid, backwards-ass, inbred, hillbilly retard. Go enlist in the armed forces if you’re so "hoo-uh", tough guy.
You tell him George! The whole "release a patriotic song to exploit national tragedy" thing was MY idea anyway!
I corked my bat with Liz Cho’s wine bottle cork
F U G P.
I had a promising college football career at Oklahoma till I blew out a knee. "General Patton" had a promising career as a homo till he bumped his forehead.
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