The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

ESPN columnist Bill Simmons got into trouble for some critical tweets he made regarding the ESPN show First Take and its back-and-forth between the always-wrong commentator Skip Bayless and Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman. At one point in the back-and-forth, Sherman told Bayless, "I'm better at life than you." Simmons responded to the segment by tweeting the following messages: "It's amazing to me that people get so worked up about First Take. Who cares? Just don't watch it. There are like 800 TV channels." and "I am not defending this segment - youtu.be/j6x-O3kb1sI - I thought it was awful and embarrassing to everyone involved. Seriously." and "But what bothers me about the reaction to that segment is people saying Richard Sherman 'won.' Nobody won. Everyone lost. Including ESPN." I'm sorry, ESPN, but Simmons is right. That show is awful, especially the before-mentioned segment. Unfortunately,...

ESPN commentator (I will never refer to him as an analyst), Skip Bayless, was at it again on Monday - meaning, he was making yet another outrageous comment that even made deaf, blind mimes say, "What the hell?" Bayless, the same guy who bashes LeBron James more than Snoop Dogg smokes grass and praises Tim Tebow more than Tebow praises Jesus, made the following comment with regard to Washington Redskins' rookie quarterback, Robert Griffin III, on Monday's First Take : "I'm going to throw it out there. You also have the black-white dynamic and the majority of Redskins fans are white. And it's just human nature, if you're white to root for the white guy. It just happens in sports. Just like the black community will root for the black quarterback. I'm for the black guy. I'm just saying, I don't like the dynamic for RG3. It could stunt his growth in the NFL." First off, Skip's following claim I find to be rather humorous on a cer...

I really wish the Broncos' defense would cut it out. For the fourth time in Tim Tebow's six starts with the club this year, the Broncos yielded 15 points or less, in holding San Diego to 13. But, of course, it was Tim Tebow and that explosive Broncos offense which was the main reason for the team's 16-13 overtime victory. I'm sure the defense is getting a little tired of Tebow being heralded so much, as they've hardly gone noticed in the team's recent victories. Excluding the 38 points the Broncos scored against Oakland, they have put up the following point totals with Tebow under center: 18, 10, 17, 17 and 16. Yup, that's it. Can we please just tell it like it is? Tim Tebow is not losing games for the Denver Broncos. That's it. He's been a more athletic version of Trent Dilfer when he was with the Baltimore Ravens. Tebow isn't the fastest guy in the league, but is a big, powerful runner, who has turned the ball over just one time in his six st...