Tennis star Maria Sharapova was here yesterday.

ESPN, which sees a bunch of sports stars on a regular basis without batting an eye, just about completely lost its shit for her being here to shoot a "SportsCenter" ad and do some interviews.

She's tall, she's pretty, she's blonde, she's Russian, won Wimbledon at 17, poses in Sports Illustrated's ( Read more... )

The tickers all set up for the day, I take my afternoon constitutional.

I figure I'll see if my superior boss is in his office, so I take a trip through the campus to that building. He's on the third floor, so I wait for the elevator.

Soon a giant man comes around the corner whom I instantly recognize as the Redhead himself, Bill Walton. Named ( Read more... )

The 2001 World's Strongest Man Competition is on ESPN Classic right now ( Read more... )

I am back on the workout horse ( Read more... )

I never update enough on this thing, do I?

Work is going fine. I feel that I am beginning to really get the the hang of it. I know how to do the everyday tasks now, and now the challenge is being able to anticipate what needs to be done, and coordinating things so that they are done orderly.

But Monday night, this did not go well.

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So I didn't have much of a weekend report like everyone else here, since I work weekend nights ( Read more... )

Last night went really well at work, I think ( Read more... )

On ESPN2 (aka here as "the Deuce," very similar to "Dodgeball"'s ESPN8: The Ocho), they're playing competitive jump rope. With all-white double dutch teams.

Wait.

All-white double dutch teams?!?!

Now I've seen everything.

I'm being paid to watch the Phillies ( Read more... )

The Young Rapscallion, coming to you live from ESPN's Bottom Line Productions ( Read more... )