CBS Sports Radio Host Plagiarizes 3-Month Old Tony Romo Article

Chris Arnold is the house "emcee" of Dallas Mavericks games and co-hosts "G-Bag Nation" on 105.3 The Fan. He also was the center of a failed 2011 Super Bowl concert that was supposed to feature three scholarship winners performing with Erykah Badu and Prince (there are conflicting reports about whether Prince ever flew into Dallas or not, or even signed the contract). Now he's written an article defending Tony Romo, which he promoted on Twitter.

Keep Calm... @dallascowboys fans. thx for making my blog go viral. "The Truth About Tony Romo" read & RT if u agree. http://t.co/4aJFI7cThk
— Chris Arnold (@MrChrisArnold) October 11, 2013

The problem? That article was written by Scott Kacsmar. In July. The first clue being some of the stats weren't even adjusted to include this season. More after the jump.

Is This The Beginning Of The End Of The "Hump Day" Meme?

Uh-oh! Guess what day it is?? Guess what day it is! Huh…anybody? @BretBielema ! Hey…guess what day it is?? GAME DAYYYY!
— Big Red (@BigRed_UA) September 7, 2013

Say it ain't so, slow-ass camel.

Blog On Fox-Owned Network Slams Speed Channel Fans

Awful Announcing is a blog that's self-described as "putting announcers on notice since 2005." They're also a part of Fox's Yardbarker network. So it should be no surprise there's been little criticism from the blog who's whole purpose is criticizing the sports media. So on Thursday, Awful Announcing chose the tried-and-true method of trolling - publishing internet comments.
More after the jump.

Bleacher Reports' Eight UFC Commandments

Deadspin, never one to take the high road, has had a beef with UFC recently. The main issue appears to be they want to put videos of PPV fights on their site during the events, and the guy who gets paid by that doesn't. So when they got their hands on an internal memo from Bleacher Report listing ways to stay on Dana White's good side, they jumped all over it. An abbreviated list:

• "Don't delve too deep into Zuffa financials. This goes for fighter pay, revenue, money donated to political campaigns. This is Dana's biggest pet peeve."
• "Don't 'report' things unless you have two very credible sources. Don't take a rumor and post it as fact."
• "Don't report something a manager tells you unless you have verified it with someone who is not a manager. Managers will often use you to get their message out."
• "Don't be a mouthpiece for a fighter, either. They'll use you in the same way managers do when trying to send a message to the UFC."
• "Don't talk about Dana's history with his mom."
• "If you're writing an opinion article with a negative slant on Zuffa, make sure it's clearly worded as opinion...Dana has told me personally that he doesn't care if you write negative opinion stuff, so long as people know it's opinion."
• "Don't be negative just to be negative or edgy."
• "And finally, always remember this: you would be SHOCKED to learn how much they pay attention to when it comes to MMA media."

Most of these aren't bad (use credible sources, don't trust everything the talent says, and don't just criticize to criticize), although the financial stuff and mother issues are odd ones. It also shows Dana has no problem with opinion, which when running an MMA outfit is a good attitude to have.
So credit to Deadspin, who will soon bring you how much Dana White tips and what horrible bands he likes.
Read more at Deadspin.
Image courtesy Babble.

Attorney To Teach Football Players How To Not Get Caught Raping

West Virginia U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld watched the Steubenville Rape Case, where two football players were convicted thanks to tweets and Instagrams of the incident. So his solution?

"We thought, 'Let's start calling athletic directors and coaches to see if they're interested.' That investment of time hopefully will pay dividends down the road, not only because you hope the kids are going to stay out of trouble. Social media creates so many distractions off the field for coaches. Maybe we can help them avoid that situation as well."

Yes, the program is going to focus on the role social media played in the case. It's a great service for football players:

"We bring the perspective of 'OK, if you do this, this is what can happen. We don't want to see you in court,' " Ihlenfeld said.

Among the football programs who will learn how social media impacts your ability to rape will be "Brooke, Cameron, Hundred, John Marshall, Magnolia, Wheeling Central, Wheeling Park, ...Oak Glen, Paden City and Weir high schools." Invitations will also be sent to other high school and college programs in the 32 counties covered Ihlenfeld's district.
Read more at the Charleston Daily Mail.
Image courtesy West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

Bill Murrray And Harry Carey At First Night Game For Wrigley

Yes, this happened. This is what gold the internet was made for. Video courtesy MLB.com.

NCAA's Store Keeps Getting Dumber

NCAA Shop site selling Joe Paterno 400-Win gear: http://t.co/fG5cmer80a The "culture of football" ain't so bad when you profit off it, huh?
— Jay Bilas (@JayBilas) August 8, 2013

Yes, Bilas found a shirt celebrating 400 wins - 102 of which were vacated by the NCAA itself - on their online store. Also, Larry Brown Sports found an autographed picture of a Reggie Bush photo.

Images courtesy Deadspin and Larry Brown Sports.

Are Merch Dealers Dropping Dimes Over Johnny Football's Trademark?

Last year, Johnny Manziel's family took out a trademark on "Johnny Football." People who file for trademarks like to protect them, and e-Bay protects other people's trademarks because they don't want legal issues with them. So after the trademark came down, e-Bay swept through, removing any Manziel-related item and suspending accounts. One of those was Tampa's Rob Rudolph, who lost 400 items because he had six or eight items related to, but not signed by, Johnny Manziel. Rudolph's a small time operator, but he told CBS Sports "I am quite sure for people whose livelihood are this business, that was crippling. If anyone has an ax to grind, pick any of those people."
When Rudolph does do autographs, it's with pro players, often for cash, without any cameras around. Which is why he's surprised there's video of Manziel signing items, saying "I can't believe that a college player would be that dumb quite honestly."
Read more at CBS Sports.

Jay Bilas Broke The Manziel Jersey Story, And He Didn't Stop There

Go to http://t.co/qpH4tNnIpH, type in "Manziel" in upper right search box, hit enter. This comes up. pic.twitter.com/N7KNvXIu24
— Jay Bilas (@JayBilas) August 6, 2013

For whatever reason, Deadspin took Jay Bilas' tweet about the Manziel online section at the official NCAA online store and gave no credit. But no matter, because going through his timeline, he went to town, swinging on the NCAA like it was batting practice. More after the jump...

Tom Emanski's Kickball World Fundamentals

This internet spoof is classic, but it fails miserably on one thing: where's Crime Dog and his five-inch high trucker cap?

Prime Directive #5 - Score Chicken Nuggets

Commercials from foreign lands are already weird with odd celebrity cameos, but RoboCop breaking into a house and jacking an icebox for some chicken nuggets just stands out. Probably because it's dead-on with all the capitalism parodies you see in the first films.
Prime Directive #6 - For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.

The Ravens Got To Have Ice Cream

It's not just because they won the Super Bowl: they've had Mr. Tastee roll through training camp before. That's right, Patriots: their coach is way cooler than yours. When did he ever let you have ice cream?

Liverpool FC Has A List Of Unacceptable Words

The Fenway-owned Premier League side distributed a list of words commonly found offensive to their employees, which was later leaked on Twitter. Of course, they'd save themselves a lot of trouble by just selling Luis Suárez.
Read more at The Guardian.

Move Over, Johnny Football - There's A New Infamous Tweeter In The SEC

Crimson Tide defensive lineman Dee Liner (yes, that's his name) posted a picture on his Instagram that's been getting press. The image shows the 18-year-old Liner (on the left) flashing a healthy wad of C-notes. The image has raised more than the eyebrows Johnny Manziel got for tweeting his cash: many Auburn fans remember Liner verbally committed to the Tigers in 2011, but signed with Alabama this spring. So it's safe to guess what Tiger fans are posting to their message boards.
Read more at College Football Talk.

DudeBros Riot At Surfing Tournament

No one knows what made these DudeBros go ape at the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, California. Perhaps local stores had run of Axe Body Spray or shirts that come with the sleeves already cut off. Maybe officials banned barbed-wire tats or Ed Hardy shirts. Perhaps they were upset at being unable to park their tricked out Honda Civic, or their slammed Chevrolet Silverado's with the fart can. Or maybe their girlfriends couldn't come so they had to swing at somebody. Either way, things went sideways in SoCal Sunday.

Fox Sports Tape Delays NASCAR Race Without Warning

On Wednesday night, NASCAR ran it's first national tour race on a dirt track since 1970, with the Truck Series Mudsummer Classic at Eldora Speedway. It was a memorable event that a lot of NASCAR fans were hoping to share on social media - until those who logged onto Twitter saw the results of a race they were watching on TV. Fox's Speed Channel, soon to become Fox Sports 1 next month, had chosen to tape delay their coverage without informing fans.
The decision came within a week of NASCAR announcing they would no longer allow aerial cameras such as CamCat, the system Fox was using until one of its cables broke at the World 600, causing damage to cars (including leader Kyle Busch) and injuring 10 fans.

Gawker Publishes Tweets Complaining Of Bilingual Home Run Derby Interviews

During Monday night's Home Run Derby on ESPN, Pedro Gomez interviewed Aroldis Chapman and Yoenis Céspedes. Neither speak English, so Pedro spoke to them in Spanish and translated the interview. As with anything that ever happens in the world, people complained on Twitter. Now Deadspin's Timothy Burke is publishing any tweet (with username) that's negative on his sports blog. Timothy Burke has published tweets in this manner before, recently for anyone defending Paula Deen, any racist tweets about Sebastien De La Cruz's national anthem, and people complaining of a ESPN Deportes broadcast on the main ESPN channel.
Read more at Deadspin.

Sharknado, Hype, And Twitter

With all the coverage on news shows, radio shows, and the tweets leading up to it's airing, you'd think "Sharknado" scored record ratings Thursday night. As a matter of fact, with more than 600,000 tweets during primetime (that's two tweets for every three humans), it surely had to be a blockbuster.
Um, no.
In fact, only one million people watched "Sharknado", and SyFy scored a 0.4 in the 18-49 demo. According to Bloomberg Business' Claire Suddath, that's not only a TV bust, but "[m]ost Syfy originals have an average viewership of 1.5 million people, with some getting twice that."
The Atlantic compared the twitter and viewership numbers of "Sharknado" to the Red Wedding episode of "Game of Thrones:. As you can see on the right, tweets don't equate to eyeballs.
But don't cry too much for SyFy: they make around 24 of these movies a year, at a cost of $1.5M each, paying companies who used to be direct-to-vi
deo before the market dried up. That's not even 1% of what Disney paid for "The Lone Ranger."
Read more at Bloomberg Business and The Atlantic. 

Pats Tight End Involved In Urkel's Twitter Feud

 
It's a weird time to be a tight end for the New England Patriots right now: one's in-and-out of surgery, another's being chased by news choppers, and there's always a chance Tebow faces reality about his wounded duck throws. But for Jake Ballard, it got weird on Wednesday when Jaleel White tweeted him to let him know he'd be a good pick in fantasy this year.

#lifehappens @TheJakeBallard It's becoming obvious to some you could be in for a monster year sir #notthatiplayfantasyoranything #first
— Jaleel White (@jaleelwhite) June 19, 2013

Ballard retweeted, and USA Today's Mike Garafolo recognized the weirdness.

6/19/13 3:47 pm: Jake Ballard retweets Steve Urkel telling him he'll have a big year. We've officially reached ridiculous offseason levels.
— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) June 19, 2013

Which, of course, set Urkel off.

Hey Bruh don't be an ass @MikeGarafolo Do ur job & maybe get some #rogaine for that head of urs. Jake's a solid talent ✌@espn
— Jaleel White (@jaleelwhite) June 19, 2013

don't be a bitch and edit my tweets either media guy @MikeGarafolo just retweet it, it'll get your swag up 😉
— Jaleel White (@jaleelwhite) June 19, 2013

You mad bro? pic.twitter.com/oo55IWkOPp
— Jaleel White (@jaleelwhite) June 20, 2013

And now Ballard's just sitting there as Jaleel goes Original Gangster Dog on a Gannette writer. Shit's weird in Foxboro this year.



Top image courtesy Mr. Breakfast.

Sebastien Ain't Sweatin' It

So what did 11-year-old Sebastien De La Cruz think about the racist tweets following his NBA Finals Game 3 national anthem performance? Nothing, because he's just going to ignore them: "With the racist remarks, it was just people how they were raised." He's even thankful for the "learning experience." De La Cruz also commented on his traditional costume, saying "When I started mariachi, I knew there was gonna be a lot of politics. And I'm just a proud American, to be honest."

So the kid's not going to let you get him down, and even sang before Game 4.



Read more at KENS 5 News.