Monday Blogdome: ESPN purchases its own Tim Tebow bandwagon
May 24, 2010, 7:00 PM EDT
* Tebow Gets Own ESPN Page… Really. Criticizing ESPN is cliche, and most of the time it seems like the Worldwide Leader is purposely creating awful content as if to say, “Why? Because we can.” That’s why it comes as very little surprise that ESPN.com now features an entire page devoted to articles about Timothy Richard Tebow, aptly titled “Tebow Watch” and featuring the “Tebow Tracker.” [With Leather]
* Nadal to wear $525,000 watch at French Open. Last Thursday Rafael Nadal called a press conference to announce his new Swiss watch sponsor. He was an hour late. Almost as amusing as Nadal’s faulty timing is the price of the Swiss watch he’s now endorsing: $525,000. [SportsbyBrooks]
* Radio station hangs up on Terez Owens. “We broke the Kim Kardashain Reggie Bush story way back. I know there’s been like five rounds of this story, but this was way back when they first broke up. We were probably 10 days before any big media broke it out. Not only did we break the Kim Kardashian story, we broke it about the Kanye West and the whole Kanye West incident didn’t come out for another 9 months after the actual story broke.” [Sports Radio Interviews]
* The Lost finale, quick baseball tie-in. HIM: So what Lost questions do you still want answered? ME: I want to know what’s up with the numbers. HIM: I hear they’re the numbers retired at Yankee Stadium. ME: What? No, I would have heard that before. Plus, there’s all those single digits. No. NO! YANKEES SUCK! [Bugs and Cranks]
* ESPN Security Doesn’t Give A Damn About Your Go Daddy Commercials, Danica Patrick. Things have not been going very well for Danica Patrick lately. First, she was lustily booed by fans at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday when Patrick blamed her crew for her poor performance during qualifying for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. And then earlier today she had to suffer the ultimate indignity of ESPN security personnel not allowing her onto the idyllic campus in Bristol, Connecticut after futilely attempting to utilize the “Don’t you know who I am?” line to no success. [Sportress of Blogitude]
* Nike Unveils Venus Williams Weird Lingerie French Open Tennis Skirt. (Satire) Venus Williams made quite a splash at the French Open on Sunday, generating significant attention for her provacative outfit. Capitalizing on the buzz generated by the story, Nike announced today that it will be producing a Venus Williams Weird Lingerie French Open Tennis Skirt for tennis-playing women across the country. [Tauntr]
* Also: ESPN dumps most of its outdoor programming … Wes Welker Dance Party! … Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! … Don’t crowd Jason Williams … I am sick of these mother******* snakes on our mother******* practice facility!
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