Third and Five
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
I’d love to credit that photo of skateboarder Marc Johnson, but I don’t read Russian. For whoever took it, kudos. Nice work.
I post it in the absence of original art because I’m currently rocking Marc’s signature model (the MJ3) from Lakai and it might be the best shoe I’ve ever owned. Fully recommended.
No, I haven’t skateboarded in several years. Your point?
On to the goods…
The Portis Chronicles, Volume Two
Wherein he bends my mind in beautiful ways: If you know what I’m capable of, you know I’m on your team. If you go over our roster, you know people are going to look and say, ‘We’ve got to stop Portis.’ Give them the opportunity to stop Portis.
I say get him 35 touches a game and make him press secretary.
Axe to Grind
Three broadcasters found themselves in hot water this past week, and as far as I can tell only one of them really deserved it.
First, Fox canned Steve Lyons, then Miami did Lamar Thomas likewise. Today news broke that (Fox-owned) Speed Channel’s Ray Dunlap has been suspended one race for “inappropriate” comments.
By now I think everybody knows the Lyons firing was ludicrous. If it was, as most suspect, mostly about the cumulative effect of a series of questionable comments, say so. Failing that, at least pick a better “reason” for letting him go. And if whatever Dunlap said was really that bad, then why wasn’t he fired as well?
Thomas, on the other hand, is an idiot. An amusing idiot, yes, but an idiot nonetheless.
Mobile 2.0
So ESPN has launched their new MyESPN service, and even though it’s still in Beta I think we can all agree that an indifferent shrug is the order of the day. From the looks of things it’s just a less-robust, sports-centric Netvibes. Anyone who’s both interested in this kind of service and savvy enough to use it will probably already have something better. Much like what happened with this ill-fated venture.
Under the Big Top
This is the time of year when every weekend is a big sports weekend. The World Series starts, the wheat and the chaff begin to move to opposite sides of the cafeteria in both college football and the NFL, NASCAR gets down to the wire, the NHL just started, college basketball practices just opened…in other words, saddle up. We’ll cover as much of it here as we can feel like covering.
Speaking of which, baseball stuff is coming. I’m listening to Mets-Cardinals game 7 on the radio right now, and sometime tomorrow I’ll put up my comprehensive thoughts. Expect to see the name John Maine.
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