by Ben Koo | Apr 24, 2015
On Tuesday, we shared the news that it appeared that ESPN was looking to do a 5 hour (you heard that right) 30 for 30 on OJ Simpson. Details were scant at the time but since then Awful Announcing has learned more about the project, most specifically the film’s...
by Matt Zemek | Apr 24, 2015
Any television viewer who wants to be captured by a great dramatic series remembers the moment. What is the moment? It’s the point in time when a show makes that leap from “merely” being tremendously entertaining and well-crafted to something much...
by Matt Zemek | Apr 24, 2015
Any television viewer who wants to be captured by a great dramatic series remembers the moment. What is the moment? It’s the point in time when a show makes that leap from “merely” being tremendously entertaining and well-crafted to something much...
by Andrew Bucholtz | Apr 24, 2015
There’s an ongoing identity crisis at ESPN between serious sports journalism and everything that doesn’t meet that standard (whether that’s embracing debate or puff pieces), as we saw again this week with the radically different ways the...
by Kevin Causey | Apr 24, 2015
Here at The Student Section we are having a little bit of fun before the weekend. Yesterday, we had some fun with football and pop culture by looking at fictional football coaches from television and the movies that we would want to lead our teams. Today, we need some...
by Matt Yoder | Apr 24, 2015
The ESPN Awards show created by ESPN and bearing ESPN’s name will no longer be televised by ESPN. ESPN announced this week that that 22 years after its inception (seriously, the ESPYs have been around longer than Marcus Mariota has been alive) the ESPYs would be...
by Matt Yoder | Apr 24, 2015
The ESPN Awards show created by ESPN and bearing ESPN’s name will no longer be televised by ESPN. ESPN announced this week that that 22 years after its inception (seriously, the ESPYs have been around longer than Marcus Mariota has been alive) the ESPYs would be...
by Food And Sports | Apr 24, 2015
Have you ever wondered if there was a new and dangerous way to serve tacos at a sporting event? Yeah, me neither. But wonder no more, because something extremely fun with just a hint of danger is coming to a sporting event near you … if you’re in Omaha....
by Food And Sports | Apr 24, 2015
Have you ever wondered if there was a new and dangerous way to serve tacos at a sporting event? Yeah, me neither. But wonder no more, because something extremely fun with just a hint of danger is coming to a sporting event near you … if you’re in Omaha....
by Matt Birch | Apr 24, 2015
Mike Tyson is a boxer turned dancer, apparently. He recently appeared on LL Cool J’s Lip Sync Battle, and he sang and danced like a boss. He performed Salt N Pepa’s Push It, and he certainly was not lacking any energy. Tyson—who has a show on Adult Swim,...
by Matt Birch | Apr 24, 2015
Stephen Curry does things on the court that many other NBA players can’t do. And if his opponent is nursing a three-point lead at any point in a game, they’d better make sure to deny him the ball, because he will erase that deficit quickly. The Pelicans...
by Matt Birch | Apr 24, 2015
Kevin Love turned in an efficient performance in Thursday night’s 103-95 win over the Celtics. He dropped 23 points and knocked down eight of 16 shots. The Cavaliers have now taken a 3-0 lead in the series, and seem poised to sweep the C’s. And one Boston...
by Joe Lucia | Apr 23, 2015
The Kansas City Royals were once again involved in a benches clearing incident on Thursday night, and Yordano Ventura was again at the center of the chaos with the Chicago White Sox. In the bottom the seventh inning, Ventura forced Adam Eaton to hit a comebacker to...
by Tim Starks | Apr 23, 2015
This is hilarious, because it’s ridiculous. We know whose side the earthly celebrities are on with Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao on May 2 — thanks, video feature! But Mayweather vs Pacquiao is big enough that, somehow, God’s allegiance is under...
by Matt Zemek | Apr 23, 2015
Two schools of thought do not exist for every single topic under the sun, but most of what we pursue as human beings can certainly welcome opposing points of view. Such is the case with the enthralling Western Conference playoff series between the San Antonio Spurs...
