Steve, the radio people really are better at games.

Sports didn't used to be a format for the telling of dumb jokes. It's like anything else, the good ones like Madden and Michaels and Johnny Miller are good because they are original. Most of the rest are copycat jokers.

I begrudgingly (mostly because of your "edgy" and "smart mouth" commentary that comes across as strangely "full of itself") have to agree with many of your assessments picker . Many of the ESPN folk are irritating at best.
How Stephen A Smith got his own show...simply wow. It is like watching a really really really bad Arsenio without the freakishly large digits.
Berman thinks that being a caricature of himself is endearing and witty...it isn't. It is more like having a fat, drunk uncle in a loud Hawaiian shirt overstay his welcome.
Stuart's act has gotten just old. He is like the old fella at the club sipping on tanqueray and tab sporting acid wash jeans and a "big dog" t-shirt.
Dan Patrick is class on t.v. and radio. He is bright, funny and brings refreshing honesty and insight. Although not apart of the discussion, how does Jim Rome (Mr. Repeat/ "I can beat a dead horse for hours") draw a paycheck? His popularity to talent ratio is as baffling as Nicole Ritchie.

Surprised to see no Trey Wingo reference. I know you hate him, Picker. Also, in my opinion, Doug Gottlieb is terrible on ESPN. I think he has talent, but he has also adopted this contemporary "make up a controversy as we go to fill dead air" scheme -- the worst thing to happen to sports commentary since Disney bought ESPN. I do think PTI is great on ESPN, but I feel those guys are stuck with a lousy time slot and their show has lost some of the original gusto that made it great. Best moment ever: "Who would you rather be, Brad Pitt or Keith Richards?" Wilbon: Brad Pitt. You are sleeping with Jennifer Anniston (this is dated). Kornheiser: No my friend, you gotta be Keith Richards. At this point, all these drugs you've put into your body mean you'll never die. Not only could you get Jennifer Anniston, you could get her mom, too...

I do like most of the women...although I was thinking about how bad I think Pam Oliver truly is (she is a prettier version of Condy Rice without the gap). She doesnt give any real insight and just lobs near rhetorical questions at those she "interviews." Holly Rowe does a good job of getting the inside scoop and information, but her camera presence is frumpy and unexciting (this is not a personal attack or assault on her appearance...more of how she comes across).
Couldn’t agree more with Linda Cohn and Dales. Think Cohn works really hard to do a great job and it shows.

For my money (not espn, but in general), it doesn’t get better than the bulk of Costas and his takes. Also, I would love to see Rick Reily and Bill Simmons get TV action. I would pay to watch them give their takes on sports.

I heard on Mike/Mike in the morning that they will be doing a Monday night game with Ditka. Actually sounds interesting...to me anyway. I guess they are desperate to try anything.

-May is just so-so. average. nothing more. Seems to mostly just say something to seem edgy. He isn’t Barkley and it shows.
-Rome...like I said before...just...I can't even get started on that topic.
-As pretty die-hard OU fan, I am happy to see him go. He never "torched" us as it were, it always seemed to be the guy that we didn't plan on (if you can give Kelvin credit in the past for "planning" anything). The sad thing is...a lot guys are phenom high school players. A handful are incredible college players. But that list gets even tighter and shorter when we are talking NBA talent. Curry was a phenom in high school and a quality scorer in college. Curry is a great athlete at OSU and terrific all-around basketball player. A second round pick? Not in my estimation. As painful and true to admit, he reminds me a lot of most of OU's players (think Hollis Price) that were great players in college, but NBA superstar...not likely. Perhaps Europe or an NBA bench is most likely.

-oh, even as an OU alumn...I think Gottlieb has gotten better and better. Not nearly as bad as many think.

Tab: I go back and forth with Gottlieb. He's got guts, but a smart mouth. Didn't OSU ban him? Offhand, having guts and an eye for the baloney probably offsets being lippy. Like Tiger's new muscle shirt, Gottlieb's pitiful free throw shooting as a Cowboy shouldn't matter but comes to mind. Tiger, get a grip on more than your short irons. You imagine Nicklaus in something that corny?

Blanche: Welcome. Yeah, you're right, Tillman is sane and sound, maybe a little too business-like once in a while; but it beats the sappy alternative doesn't it.

Steven: Reily on camera is nothing like Reily on the page. On camera, he looks like any other cheeseball looking for glory. The epidemic of writers hitting radio and TV is diluting all the products, the written word, mostly. The best time for writers to be on TV is to talk about what they've written. The best writer on the tube is on the best sports show on the tube, old-school Deford on Gumbel's HBO beauty, Real Sports.

Your blog is terrific, the lack of indenting or paragraphs is not your fault. Here's the way I do it. Where you want a graph, at the end of a sentence after a period, put a lowercase p inside the pointed brackets over the comma and the period.

Getting back to Curry: If you can't get much better and could stay the same or get worse or get hurt, sail when the wind starts to blow. Media pinheads always say stay. Otherwise there would be dead air.

Well Blanche, I think you have to look at it this way. What if you didn't have a TV.

Here's some news you should like Blanche. Given Tiger Woods' new muscle kick, word is, he might wear a tank top during the PGA here in August as the temp hits 118 in the shade.

and now to start my next million dollar idea.

collared tank tops.

step up nike...I am waiting for you to buy me out!

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RR, you're right twice. That Ravich is decent, I completely forgot him. And those saying Curry is making a mistake are just killing air time. Curry can make $250,000 at OSU next year? The guy is as good as he is going to get. Plus he's healthy.

I love the red tank top with a collar look for Tiger at the PGA, Steven. What's with that Muscle Beach nonsense. Smoker with a pot-gut took him at the Open. Tiger couldn't finish in the top five at Southern Hills with a Mulligan on each side.