Scott Van Pelt suspended for saying what everyone else was thinking about Selig’s $18.5...
ESPN bald talking head Scott Van Pelt's afternoon radio show isn't particularly interesting, insightful or amusing, but Monday it was all of that when Van Pelt nearly "choked on his own vomit" after learning baseball commissioner Bud Selig made an $18.5 million salary in 2007. His nearly six-minute rant about Selig's pay earned him a suspension from the show and the devotion of many die-hard baseball fans who wondered the same thing Van Pelt said.
Daley asks for second NFL team or one college basketball team in city
On a recent appearance on "Monsters in the Morning" -- a new show on Comcast Sportsnet -- Mayor Richard Daley told hosts Mike North and Dan Jiggets he would welcome a second NFL franchise to Chicago.
ESPN fires Dusty after one hour on the job
Quick to hire deposed Cubs skipper Dusty Baker over the winter, ESPN was just as swift to cut ties with the former three-time NL Manager of the Year Thursday, canning him after only one-hour on the job.
Irvin mourns ESPN firing with coke and whore binge, which is the same way...
ESPN has told NFL analyst Michael Irvin that they will no longer need his services. Irvin, who worked for ESPN since 2003, didn't seem too disappointed in the network's choice. The former Dallas Cowboy mourned the decision with a three-day binge that included drugs, sex and more drugs, which was the same way he celebrated getting the job three years ago.
