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Do we really need to tell you how moronic Stu Scott is?


Stu Scott has got to be one of the most annoying man on television and he’s proving that his disabilities are far worse than simply having a lazy eye. Mr. Boo-Yah opened his yapper to ESPN the Magazine the other day but instead of the normal horribly scripted garbage that comes spewing out, he shared some of his true feelings about culture in response to an email. We don’t know which is worse.

Emailer: Stuart, you say Pacman isn’t a bad guy, but Imus’ words reflect who he is? Whats the difference?

Stu: ” I didn’t say Imus was a bad person. I do think he’s racist and sexist”

“That makes him a flawed person, like Pacman.”

“Personally, though, I’LL TAKE PACMANS INDISCRETIONS OVER THOSE OF IMUS

Look, Stu, we all know that you can’t see out of that glass eye you’ve got, but it shouldn’t be completely skewing your view of reality. Imus is a documented bigot; nobody is saying he’s a saint, but Pacman?! You do know who Pacman Jones is, right? Please don’t make us go through the entire list of transgressions again, but we’ll remind you that he did spark a shooting after slamming a stripper’s head into the stage in Vegas. Call us crazy, but we’ll take the whole “nappy-headed hos” thing any day over getting an innocent bystander paralyzed.

What makes the cyclops’ comments even more retarded is that he came out after the whole Imus thing broke and said that the term “ho” is a way of being affectionate. Huh? So, how can Pacman possibly be less flawed than Imus when you think that Imus was only being “affectionate” when he called those hos hos?

Go away, Stu, just freakin’ go away.

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[Awful Announcing]: Stu Scott Think Pacman Jones Is A Saint

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May 2 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

Welcome to another episode of Poor Man’s PTI. We review the NFL Draft for the first half hour and then move on to various blog topics.

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This week’s topics include:

  • NFL Draft
  • ESPN coverage of the draft
  • Rich Eisen and Alycia Lane
  • Yankees pitching woes
  • NBA playoffs
  • NBA refs biased against black players.
  • Mets batboy steroid scandal
  • Patriots and Randy Moss
  • Women We Love Nominations

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Odds and Ends: If only Alycia Lane would grace us with some harmless banter

Alycia Lane’s publicist…er… the Philadelphia Inquirer had an interview today with Alycia Lane aka the chick who sent photos of herself in a bikini to Rich Eisen’s wife by mistake. In the interview, Lane tried to defend her photos as “harmless banter between to old friends, and not as an attempt to entire the Los Angeles-based Eisen or break up his marriage…”

Damn, we really gotta get to work on our harmless banter.  Don’t worry, Alycia, this won’t hurt your career one bit.  If anything, you can go national now. (hat tip: Sports By Brooks)

In other news…

[USA Today] The Mets fan who shined a high-powered flashlight at a couple of Braves gets 3 year ban from Shea and 15 days in jail.

[Seal Clubbers]: A nut shot is always funny

[Our Book of Scrap]: This guy is not doing anything for that ‘white men can’t jump’ stereotype

[Brew Crew Ball]: Don’t look now but the Brewers have the best record in baseball

[Blazers Edge]: Brandon Roy is your NBA Rookie of the Year.

[Hardaway Hates Pittsburgh]: Joe Thomas’ Aunt.  Wow.  Just… wow.

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14 fans banned from Talladega


You probably heard about fans being really upset about Jeff Gordon passing Dale Earnhardt (if you ain’t got a 3 with angel wings on the back of yo truck, you ain’t a real fan!) in career wins after Gordon’s victory on Sunday. Just as they did the week before when Gordon tied Earnhardt, a bunch of debris was thrown onto the field, mostly beer cans, and 14 people were arrested. Well those fans have been banned for life from buying tickets to Talladega.

Buying tickets? So that basically is no sanction at all because those fans can basically get their tickets via a third party. The logical move would be ban those 14 fans from attending races but it’d be impossible to pick out 14 from a crowd of 100,000.


Superspeedway president Grant Lynch said identifying other fans who threw objects was harder than he had imagined.

“At a baseball game where everybody is sitting down, it’s easy to see someone stand up and throw an object onto the field,” Lynch said. “I was looking at a section that probably had 300 people in it, and they were all standing up. Plus they all have mullets.

OK, we made that last part up. But could you imagine picking out 14 mulleted rednecks out of a crowd?

Links:
[Houston Chronicle]: Talladega bans 14 from buying tickets

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Who knew Rich Eisen was such a stud?


We’ve always liked Rich Eisen — he’s funny, goofy, and compared to his counterparts over at ESPN, he’s actually enjoyable. But we never really thought of Eisen as a ladies man. Still, when you’re getting emails from one of the hottest anchorwomen in Philly, you’re doing ok for yourself.

According to the NY Post, Alycia Lane sent a bunch of emails to Rich Eisen including some with photos of herself in a bikini. Unfortunately, she sent it to an email account that Rich shares with his wife. Doh! Eisen’s wife, Suzy Shuster, was not pleased and fired off a response to Lane:


Boy, do you look amazing in a bikini . . . congrats! Whatever you’re doing, (Pilates? yoga?) keep doing it – it’s working for you. Anyway, sorry but those seven e-mails you sent to my husband, Rich, well, oops, they came to the e-mail address we both use from time to time, but no worries, I’ll forward the beach shots as well as the ones of you dancing with your friends on to his main address. Do you have it?

Good for you Suzy! But remember, next time Suzy, don’t just reply to the email, cc us at [email protected]. We need to verify that Alycia Lane does in fact look amazing in a bikini.

We imagine Rich couldn’t have come out of it unscathed. Maybe he can interview various NY Giants for marital tips.

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[Page Six]: BIKIN-E-MAILS RATTLE TV WIFE

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Do you like your sports news with or without nuts?


Some people like to spend their well deserved vacation time traveling the country or world, others like to catch up with their world outside of work, and lots of folks like to just take it easy and eat Fritos on the couch for hours on end. But if you’re sports writer Mike Penner of the Los Angeles Times you spend your days off in a hospital undergoing serious surgery to transform yourself from Mike to Christine. Yup, Penner’s a transsexual and he came out to the world in an article this morning.

During my 23 years with The Times’ sports department, I have held a wide variety of roles and titles. Tennis writer. Angels beat reporter. Olympics writer. Essayist. Sports media critic. NFL columnist. Recent keeper of the Morning Briefing flame.

Today I leave for a few weeks’ vacation, and when I return, I will come back in yet another incarnation.

As Christine.

Well, that’s one way to bust down the door of that closet he’s been living in. Knowing the type of society we live in today, we’re pretty sure that this decision is going to be met with some serious hostility from some typical testosterone driven, meathead sports fans. But personally, we prefer the comical reaction that Penner’s boss gave after hearing the news for the first time.

When I told my boss Randy Harvey, he leaned back in his chair, looked through his office window to scan the newsroom and mused, “Well, no one can ever say we don’t have diversity on this staff.

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[LATimes.com]: Old Mike, new Christine

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April 25 2007 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

Welcome to another episode of Poor Man’s PTI. We go over a bunch of topics in the first half hour, then we discuss the NFL Draft for the second half.

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This week’s topics include:

  • NBA Playoffs
  • Sebastian Telfair (should he go to the Knicks?)
  • Sad tale of Quincy Carter
  • Is Vince Young one of the top 5 QBs in the league?
  • David Stern fixing the 1985 NBA draft
  • baseball talk
  • the 2007 NFL Draft
  • Overtime: television shows and the Godfather

Hope you guys enjoy the podcast.  If you did enjoy it, please give us a good rating below so we can rise up in the rankings. If you didn’t, send us an email ([email protected]) and give us some suggestions. Thanks for listening.

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Sam Malone: "I" on Sports

This clip has been missing from the blogosphere for way too long. It’s time to rap about a g-g-g-groin injury.


Sam Malone – I On SportsWatch today’s top amazing videos here

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How can a sportswriter get laid? Slip her a mickey


You know, it’s hard out there for a sportswriter. All the ladies throw themselves at professional athletes while you are left with the dregs after last call. Plus, by an large, sportswriters are ugly as hell or fat from the free buffets. So what’s a poor middle-aged balding sports writer in the UK supposed to do?


A journalist invited three young women to his home and drugged their chocolate dessert in the hope of sex, Croydon Crown Court heard.

The Daily Telegraph writer Christopher Davies, 58, laced their chocolate desserts with diazepam, a type of Valium, it was claimed.

[One guest] claims Mr Davies entered her bedroom wearing a t-shirt and underpants and started stroking her hair and kissing the top of her head.

Davies is claiming that he didn’t intentionally do it and the drugs must have accidentally dropped in the pudding while he was preparing it. Right. And he accidentally lost his pants and started stroking the guest’s hair when trying to tuck her in.

Hey listen, if all she suffered was some kidding and stroking of the hair, she is pretty lucky. This could have turned out with Davies yelling down to her, “It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.”

Links:
[Steroid Nation]: UK bad boy sportswriter uses performance enhancing drugs to bury his lead
[Metro UK]: Journalist ‘drugged’ guests’ pudding

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April 18 2007 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

Welcome to another episode of Poor Man’s PTI. This week we have Eric McErlain from Offwing Opinion and NHL Fanhouse on with us to talk about the NHL playoffs. Lots of great NHL talk this week as we fill up our allotment for the year.

You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 70 mins) or subscribe to the feed.  

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This week’s topics include:

  • Virginia Tech and the media coverage
  • Vince Young and the Madden curse
  • Joey Crawford and Tim Duncan
  • the NHL Playoffs
  • The Boston Pizza Party

Hope you guys enjoy the podcast.  If you did enjoy it, please give us a good rating below so we can rise up in the rankings. If you didn’t, send us an email ([email protected]) and give us some suggestions. Thanks for listening.