Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 04:38:08 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: ESPN, Fox Sports, television, NCAA, marketing, Dodgers, Odds and Ends (all tags)

Duh duh duh... duh duh duh. It seems that FoxSports has overtook ESPN.com in the Nielsen NetRatings. The 800 lb gorilla has been stepped over. This story is getting a ton of play in the blogosphere because bloggers hate ESPN. While Fox Sports, The Sporting News, and especially AOL Sports embraced bloggers, ESPN gave them the finger.

This news that ESPN.com has been dethroned might have been the reason why ESPN.com's Editor in Chief was relegated to a lesser role yesterday. Seems that the bad karma associated with stealing scoops finally caught up with them. Now if only Versus would get their shit together, we might have an alternative to Sportscenter and Stu "Boo Yah" Scott.

In other news...

[Techdirt]: Why Blacking Out March Madness Online Doesn't Make Sense

[SignOnSanDiego]: when a Terrell Owens or Michael Vick or Antonio Gates jersey is sold, each of the 32 NFL teams gets about 11 cents.

[isporty]: Top 10 Dirty Sports Names (How is Lucious Pusey not #1?)

[Farther Off the wall]: Which Dodgers monkey/intern designed this tshirt?

And finally, we have two random items. First is this excellent video of Ricky Gervais being brillaint. And second is this tidbit from the New York Post: "New York Ranger Brendan Shanahan was blindfolded and ball-gagged as trannies danced around him." Sounds like a great time.

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