How do they get the largest paper in the Country to do a 1,600 word feature story on an analyst!?

Um, money, or favors.

Yeah, that USA Today paper sure has integrity, they're always on that integrity kick.

My first reaction isn't "ESPN paid for that article." My reaction is "Who is Doug Gottlieb's agent?"

"when he ran up charges on a credit card that wasn't his."

Nice way of putting it, huh?

How about:

when he stole someone else's credit card and made fraudulent purchases on it. Despite this crime, he works for ESPN, a working environment where criminal behavior is the norm.
"At least he hasn't taken a picture of his junk and text-messaged it to me," said one high-ranking female ESPN employee.

That's a good point. Nobody else would have wrote it like that.

I was sitting two seats to the right of this photo. Fwiw. (Not much, I imagine.)

Gottlieb has made no secret of the fact that he fucked up at Notre Dame, and has always been very contrite about it. And I like the fact that he speaks his mind. I'd rather listen to him than Vitale any time.

Gottlieb is so smug. He also hates on Cuse big time. It's probably because Boeheim never recruited him. He's a cheat.

I enjoy Gottlieb way more than most of their announcers. I think Len Elmore is pretty underrated too.

How old was Gottlieb when he fd up? It is unfair to hold things against him from a long time ago.

Speaking of USA today, that one dude basically writes a ESPN PR piece in his meida columns.

Mac G- he was a freshman at ND.

Gottlieb and Tom Brennan are fantastic together. Two people that truly love the sport that they cover.

You mean he went to Notre Dame and got a job at ESPN? Incredible!

too bad DG doesnt know anything about basketball. except that he sucked at playing it.

Just the opposite... he thinks he was great.

Well, there is an element of greatness if you lead the nation in a major statistical category. Don't get me wrong, he won't go down in history or anything. But it's not as if we're listening to, say, Cherokee Parks doing color commentary.

Really, I think he's great. I didn't like him as a player, and that made it easy to just dismiss him once he got a job as an ESPN pundit/talking head/analyst/radio host. Once I actually started listening to him, it became clear that he is not only entertaining, he actually knows what he's talking about. He has a way of expressing his opinion without sounding like he's doing it just to be an inflammatory character (Skip Bayless comes to mind).

I've always wondered about how many appearances some of the analysts do in one day among the TV networks and all the radio affiliates who want/need an expert to update the masses on what's going on in the sport. I empathize with them, even with the TV money, to come across as informative and energetic after a few AM meatheads toss Q's their way.

when did Wonder Years come back on the air?

/Winnie Cooper