Long time readers of The Open Man may be aware of our disdain for charlatan “gambling guys” among the sports media ranks, particularly those at FS1. So, it is safe to say myself and The Open Man head honcho Kyle Kensing were not surprised when we saw flagrant sports media gambling violator Jason McIntyre’s website,…
Mike Gundy reaped what he sewed, and it turned into a minor embarrassment for the Big 12 Conference. Like most conferences, the Big 12 conducts weekly teleconferences with coaches during football season. (The Pac-12 this season has cut back to a teleconference every other week - another example of how the Left Coast League is…
Over the last year, the curtain has been fully pulled back on SB Nation's company policy to mislead and screw over aspiring sportswriters. Most in the sports media industry were already familiar with SB Nation's practices: A job opening appears at one of the blogging network's team sites for what seemed like a full-time position,…
The Open Man countdowns to the 2018 college football season with 129 — in honor of the 129 programs participating in the Football Bowl Subdivision this year — things we love (and some we hate) about the sport. Click the 129 Things tag to see every entry. I have a confession: I am addicted to college football…
The Open Man countdowns to the 2018 college football season with 129 — in honor of the 129 programs participating in the Football Bowl Subdivision this year — things we love (and some we hate) about the sport. Click the 129 Things tag to see every entry. For me, it was Bob and Max. I'm sure every…
My wife walked through our living room after making herself a bowl of yogurt and granola Saturday night, and upon seeing me watch the 6-Man Ladder Match from NXT TakeOver: New Orleans, offered an astute observation. "I've never seen you watch so much wrestling." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLn_ghXfkbo Now, I wouldn't say I am a bigger wrestling fan…
On the first official day of March Madness in the era of streaming, we as basketball fans are spoiled with a plethora of options. If you are diligent enough, there is a way to watch every game without ponying up for an expensive On Demand package. The days of March Madness on Demand are relatively…
Another NCAA Tournament begins tomorrow, marking Year 8 of the marriage between CBS and the Turner Broadcasting family. It's a partnership that sparks some entirely justified lamentations, like the insistence on screwing with the Selection Show formula, and the continued use of NBA on TNT talent like Reggie Miller and Charles Barkley, who would be…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The dream of the Big 12 Conference placing 90 percent of its teams in the NCAA Tournament quite likely died during Thursday’s quarterfinals of the conference tournament. Three teams on the bubble lost when they needed to win. Oklahoma State couldn’t beat top-seeded Kansas for a third time, Baylor couldn’t prevent…
Confused? Me too. College Basketball Stock Watch has been around for a few years, at several different outlets, sometimes in relatively short stages of hibernation. Here we now are, at Stock Watch's fourth new home since August. We're going to get to all of that in a second. Important note laced with caveats: Remember that this…
Jay Bilas is a former Duke player and assistant coach. He’s also a lawyer, which means there are three reasons to strongly dislike him. The ESPN college basketball analyst often has an “of course I’m right” smugness when weighing in on hoops issues. But you’ve gotta love a talking head who is outspoken when calling…
A Virginia Beach high schooler took to Twitter this Valentines Day eve to ask Canadian Olympic figure skater Gabrielle Daleman if she would attend his prom in exchange for hitting a certain number of retweets. Now, these stories surface with some regularity -- today marks the one-year anniversary of tennis pro Genie Bouchard joining a…
CBS plans to reboot Murphy Brown, a popular television series that began its initial run 30 years ago and ended 20 years ago. This decision follows NBC relaunching Will & Grace, Netflix picking up the misadventures of the Tanners on Fuller House, the Disney Channel introducing Girl Meets World and ABC planning a Roseanne reboot…
After just one episode, ESPN cancelled Barstool Van Talk, thus ending a controversial and short run in which Barstool Sports and ESPN collaborated to try to capitalize on the success and popularity of the acclaimed Pardon My Take podcast. Barstool Van Talk's short run brought up the question: Which awful shows lasted longer? Friend…
Pro wrestling has long been a form of entertainment borrowing from life. Increasingly, however, life seems to borrow from pro wrestling. Consider this: The current President of the United States is a WWE Hall of Fame inductee who hosted two of the first five Wrestlemanias and managed a performer at a third. The head of…
