So when you’re arguably the greatest football player who ever lived, you get to pretty much say what you want and people will at least listen. Which is awesome because the great former player in question, Jim Brown, happened to say some really great things on the radio.
Sports Media
Media Guy for the New York Football Team (Giants) Can’t Bring Himself to Say ‘Redskins’ in Congratulatory Tweet
By Dylan Gwinn | December 28, 2015 | 9:03 PM EST Just like the old saying goes: “If you can’t beat em,’ then take lame, snarky shots at them on Twitter.”
By Dylan Gwinn | December 23, 2015 | 6:26 PM EST
The left’s war against inanimate objects continues unabated. Except this time it appears as though they’ve enlisted a major sports league in the cause.
By Dylan Gwinn | December 22, 2015 | 9:51 PM EST
So what exactly is Deadspin? Here’s how they describe themselves on Twitter: “Sports News without Access, Favor, or Discretion.” Okay, cool. This jives nicely with how I always viewed them. But then I saw this story that Deadspin ran on Monday.
Profiles in Cowardice: CBS Sports Host Gottlieb Deletes His Anti-Gun, Anti-Constitution Tweets After Tirade
By Dylan Gwinn | December 21, 2015 | 11:34 PM EST Apparently the Doug Gottlieb Constitutional Law/Anti-2nd Amendment forum has now closed. As we wrote last night, CBS Sports’ Doug Gottlieb launched into one of the more bizarre and insanely dumb twitter rants you’re ever going to see.
By Dylan Gwinn | December 21, 2015 | 2:41 AM EST
Something weird happens when lefty sports talk show hosts have more than enough sports to talk about. For some reason they decide to shun their veritable cornucopia of meaty sports topics, and instead dive into constitutional law.
By Dylan Gwinn | December 14, 2015 | 10:48 PM EST
Bob Costas thinks that football has a bigger problem than any supposed “war on football,” or any behavior/disciplinary issues off the field. He thinks the problem is the game itself.
By Dylan Gwinn | December 12, 2015 | 10:34 PM EST
The most terrible, hurrible take in sports this week for once did not belong to Stephen A. Smith or Skip Bayless. Instead that “honor” belongs to Charles Barkley. In advance of the GOP Debate on Tuesday night, to air on his sister network CNN, Barkley was asked on TNT’s “Inside the NBA” for his thoughts on, and explanation for the rise Donald Trump.
SHOCKER: ESPN Analyst Believes Racism Explains Why a Black Player is Treated Differently Than a White Player
By Bruce Bookter | November 30, 2015 | 4:53 PM EST Because racism is seemingly the answer to everything at ESPN, analyst Robert Flores was able to easily ask and answer his own question during a highlight reel on SportsCenter when he openly wondered why the Chief’s Travis Kelce wasn’t getting the same amount of criticism for his end zone celebration as Cam Newton received for his.
By Tom Blumer | November 29, 2015 | 11:53 PM EST
The Walt Disney Company filed its annual 10-K report with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.
The "getaway day" timing of the filing may not be a coincidence, at least as far as its 80 percent-owned ESPN subsidiary is concerned. That's because the report contains bad news which Disney would surely want to see downplayed. Confirming problems yours truly observed in NewsBusters posts in September and October, Clay Travis at Fox Sports' "Outkick the Coverage" blog observed that annual subscriber revenue at the the sport network's various entities— even before considering likely accompany advertising losses — has declined by about $700 million dollars in the past two years (HT Instapundit; links are in original; bolds are mine):
By Dylan Gwinn | November 29, 2015 | 10:36 PM EST
Tim Tebow’s relationship with former Miss USA model Olivia Culpo is over. Because, according to reports, Culpo is upset that the couple isn’t having sex, since Tebow has decided to remain abstinent until marriage.
By Dylan Gwinn | October 29, 2015 | 5:53 PM EDT
Arizona State University, home of the Sun Devils and Alma Mater to American hero Pat Tillman, is going to have Tillman’s name on the back of the jersey of every player when they take on Oregon tonight.