It's a safe bet no one in Burbank was laughing during The Late Show last night, and not just because the jokes weren't funny.

"One Final Story: You guys ever heard of Carpet Races? Well let me fucking tell you..." Read more

Move west, purchase tennis channel (which often includes SPEED, and others, as well) for ~$10 and get up early. That way you can keep up with all the hipster euro sports and break up some pleebs' USMNT discussion at the local nano-lambic tap room with a bone-crushing "so did anyone catch Mugello this week?" Read more

SI.com: You have been a critic of jock culture throughout your professional career. Do you consider ESPN to be emblematic of a jock culture on air? Read more

So like much of his stuff, DFW stretched one idea over an interminable amount of pages. Read more

I'm pretty sure David Foster Wallace mentioned in the actual piece that he only spoke to him for that amount of time. Read more

Could DS not find anyone who actually knows something about tennis to write about it? It was clear that Koblin is a complete moron the second he praised the universally hated "Super Saturday". Super Saturday is loathed by tennis fans, the world over. And, by tennis players. It's exactly the kind of stupid spectacle… Read more

Thank God. I hate ESPN's approach to things as much as the next person, but maybe we can get a decent final time now. Read more

It should be Joan Jett. She did it first anyway.

There's a 19 year old who owns a Blackberry? Read more

Get ready for a lot of stories on ESPN fuck ups Read more

I think the main role of the alternative outlets has been one of ameliorating ESPN's ability to cram whatever shit they wanted down our throats. Ten years ago, if ESPN decided that the women's college soccer was the thing that everyone should care about it, they could show 10 games a week and spend 5 minutes of every… Read more

George Solomon's columns when he started out were must-read stuff, but you got the sense that he eventually resigned himself to the fact that ESPN wasn't really a news outfit. Schreiber was worth reading on occasion, too. Everything since then has been much less relevant. Read more

How much autonomy can he expect, I wonder? Like, does he have to run his findings past an editorial board at ESPN, or will they leave him to his own devices? God, I hope it's the latter. Also, that's a helluva demanding job for a 75-year-old. Read more

Considering how long it's taken to read, and how meh the context clues actually are, it's easy to forget what an ombudsman even is at all. Read more

This was a no-win situation for Nantz: if he stays in the booth he gets criticized; and if he hangs from the ledge and drops those 10 feet he still gets criticized. I mean, it's at least a 25 foot drop for Costas. Read more

I don't have a clue what you're talking about here. But I do know that while Duhon was a Chicago Bull, I went out with several friends and him (including one who went to Duke with him, hence the connection). We first went to his pad, where he and his Duke bros were playing beer-pong shirtless. After this mildly… Read more

They just can't help themselves. Read more

Certainly not one of the best back nine shots, but certainly one of the most memorable. (1:08 of the video)