Jim Weber
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Handicapping the Candidates to Replace Maria Taylor on ESPN’s “College GameDay”
With Maria Taylor’s soap opera departure from ESPN now official, The Worldwide Leader is left scrambling to replace its female College GameDay co-host and ABC Saturday Night Football sideline reporter position for the second time in four years. This is not only an extremely visible and prominent role at the network, but also has been Read more... → Read More
Your 2018 NFL Draft drinking game
The NFL Draft has reached a whole new level of absurdity this year. Deemed unworthy of even being televised 40 years ago, this year’s event will be hosted in the 100,000-person monstrosity that is AT&T Stadium, broadcast in prime time on not one, not two but FOUR separate TV channels and span as many days. Read more... → Read More
Awful Announcing's Super Bowl LII drinking game
As has become tradition here, we couldn’t let you watch Super Bowl LII between the Patriots and Eagles without an accompanying drinking game based on the more tiresome storylines and buzzwords to get you through the five-hour marathon telecast. Without further ado, here’s our toast to America’s biggest unofficial holiday: [Note: Don’t be a moron: Know your Read more... → Read More
Predicting the 2017 Weekly Locations of ESPN’s “College GameDay”
The long, torturous wait is almost over. The 2017 college football season begins at the end of the month. As such, we take a look at the premier games of the season and predict where ESPN’s “College GameDay” will make stops each week along the way to the College Football Playoff. Week 1: Florida State Read more... → Read More
Your 2017 NBA Draft Drinking Game
Only a week old, this NBA offseason is already proving to be vastly more entertaining than the actual NBA season that just concluded. And we haven’t even gotten to tonight’s 2017 NBA Draft, in which picks and trades will be flying around the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn. Because every sports event is made better with Read more... → Read More
Mystery Man: The Legend of PFT Commenter
Comment sections are generally known as the cesspools of the Internet. But if nothing else, they also gave birth to the funniest Twitter parody account in sports: PFT Commenter. The idea was simple enough: A satirical Twitter account mocking sports’ “Embrace Debate” media landscape and the dimwitted everyman often found in the comments of the Read more... → Read More
How “Pardon My Take” took over sports podcasting
Over the past year and a half, Barstool Sports has gone from a niche blog with a cult following to a major player in sports media backed by a full-blown movement. And nowhere has Barstool’s crossover into the mainstream media been more evident than the meteoric rise of the wildly popular podcast, “Pardon My Take.” Read more... → Read More
Your 2017 NFL Draft Drinking Game
Let’s face it: Aside from trades and your team’s picks, the NFL Draft is a colossal bore. The three-day, 16-hour extravaganza is a name-reading marathon and can put even the most ardent NFL supporter to sleep. As such, we’re providing NFL fans (watching on ESPN, that is) with an accompanying drinking game to pass the Read more... → Read More
Handicapping the Candidates to Replace Sam Ponder on ESPN’s “College GameDay”
It was shocking enough when Sam Ponder left college football’s preeminent pregame show to host “Sunday NFL Countdown.” But then likely successor Kaylee Hartung left ESPN and the SEC Network for CNN just days later, throwing a monkey wrench into who will serve as a “GameDay” co-host and “Saturday Night Football” sideline reporter this fall. Read more... → Read More
Mel Kiper’s Top 10 NFL Draft Blunders
It’s April, meaning it’s time for Mel Kiper to be being cryogenically unfrozen to call the NFL Draft for ESPN for the 33rd year in a row. When you’ve been on a job that long, it’s only natural to make your share of mistakes along the way. But something makes Kiper’s gaffes innately more funny Read more... → Read More
Twitter Jail: The Guantanamo Bay of the Internet
For the second time in seven months, I am back in Twitter Jail and it’s starting to feel a lot like the infamous Gitmo. One minute I’m excitedly tweeting about the NCAA tournament and the next, a black bag has been put over my head, I’ve been renditioned to Twitter jail and am held indefinitely Read more... → Read More
Gus Johnson's Top 10 March Madness moments
Gus Johnson’s Top 10 March Madness Moments This is the sixth straight year that fan favorite Gus Johnson will tragically not be calling the NCAA tournament for CBS Sports after leaving the network for FOX Sports in 2011. Per the tournament’s agreement with CBS and Turner running through the year 2032, it’s fair to wonder Read more... → Read More
Bleacher Report proves credibility takes years to earn, but one month to lose
It took years for Bleacher Report to go from an Internet laughingstock to one of the biggest and most respected sports media companies in the business, but only a month for them to piss most of that credibility away after a February that can only be described as an unmitigated disaster. It started when B/R announced Read more... → Read More
It’s beyond time to retire the question, ‘Did Team A Win or Did Team B Lose?’
"Did the Patriots win, or did the Falcons lose?" is a question popping up everywhere today, and it's just a little too cliche and lazy in this day and age. → Read More
Your Super Bowl LI announcer drinking game
The Super Bowl: America’s unofficial holiday to celebrate its own awesomeness. With the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons set to play on Sunday with over 100 million viewers across the country, we here at Awful Announcing are honored to enhance the country’s biggest sporting event with an announcer drinking game that parodies all the … → Read More
Brent Musburger’s third year in exile at SEC Network is a travesty
I hope you cherish watching Brent Musburger call the Clemson-Auburn game this weekend on ESPN, because unless you’re an SEC die-hard, it’s probably the last you’ll see of him in 2016. That’s because after Week 1, Musburger will be exiled to the SEC Network for the third straight year. Over the last two years there, Musburger … → Read More
How a GIF of Aly Raisman's floor routine got me permanently banned from Twitter
Twitter and the International Olympic Committee cracked down on GIFs of the 2016 Summer Games, resulting in a writer's account being suspended. → Read More
Cam Newton’s GQ ‘controversy’ is exactly why people hate the media
Let me be blunt: The Cam Newton GQ “controversy” over him saying the United States is “beyond” race is total and complete bullshit. It’s nothing new for the media to manufacture controversy to feed the 24-hour news cycle. Just six months ago it spent two whole weeks asking the question, “Why do people hate Cam … → Read More
Tim Tebow: you’ve already got a successful pro career in broadcasting, don't squander it
When Tim Tebow announced last week that he is pursuing a pro baseball career and will host a workout for all 30 MLB teams later this month, my first thought was, “You’ve already got a dream job you’re great at: Talking about college football for a living!” Apparently I wasn’t alone: So apparently Tim Tebow … → Read More
‘Any Given Wednesday’s problem? It’s just Bill Simmons’ columns & podcasts with video
Bill Simmons' new HBO show, Any Given Wednesday, is off to a poor start. What can change about the show to make it watchable? → Read More