Al Michaels reportedly arrested, charged with DUI

Written by Matt Yoder on .

Discouraging news in the wee hours of Sunday morning as one of the top announcers in this or any era was reportedly arrested in Santa Monica on suspicion of DUI Friday night.  TMZ broke the story that NBC's Al Michaels failed a field sobriety test after being pulled over and was placed under arrest...

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Viewing Picks for April 21, 2013

Written by Ken Fang on .

All Times Eastern

College Baseball
Illinois at Ohio State -- Big Ten Network, noon
Lafayette at Navy -- CBS Sports Network, 1 p.m.
Texas A&M at Arkansas -- ESPN2, 2 p.m.
Mississippi at Tennessee -- ESPNU, 2 p.m.
Kansas State at Oklahoma State -- Fox College Sports Central, 2 p.m
Southern Illinois at Creighton -- ESPNU, 5 p.m.

College Lacrosse
Penn State at Johns Hopkins -- ESPNU, noon

College Softball
Iowa at Michigan -- Big Ten Network, 3 p.m.

Formula 1
Bahrain Grand Prix -- NBC Sports Network, 8 a.m.

F1 Extra -- NBC Sports Network, 10 a.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Open de España, Valencia, Spain
Final Round -- Golf Channel, 9 a.m.

PGA Tour
Heritage Classic, Hilton Head, SC
Final Round -- Golf Channel, 1 p.m./CBS, 3 p.m.

Champions Tour
Greater Gwinnett Championship, Duluth, GA
Final Round -- Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

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Jack Edwards compares Matt Cooke to Sirhan Sirhan

Written by David Rogers on .

Emotions were running high following a moving pregame ceremony as the Boston Bruins hosted the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday afternoon, just hours after an extensive manhunt for one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects concluded. 

Unfortunately, this emotion apparently got the best of NESN announcer Jack Edwards as he made an inappropriate (and bizarre) comparison between Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke and Sirhan Sirhan, the man that assassinated Robert F. Kennedy, just over 10 minutes into the first period.

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David Ortiz proclaims: "This is our f*cking city!"

Written by Matt Yoder on .

Before today's Red Sox game in their first game back in Boston, David Ortiz unleashed a raw, emotional, awesome speech thanking the Boston police department and fans.  He ended by saying "This is our f*cking city!" and encouraging a packed Fenway Park to stay strong.  I think this is one time few people are going to complain about letting that get through the network censors.

UPDATE: Here's the official FCC response:

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MLB Network airing postponed Red Sox game today

Written by Matt Yoder on .

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The Boston Red Sox return home today for their first game in Boston since the marathon bombings and manhunt for Dzhokar Tsarnaev came to a triumphant conclusion Friday night.  The city of Boston returns to life after being shut down for the length of the day Friday after Thursday night's shootout and subsequent hunt for the younger brother.  Both the Red Sox and Bruins were supposed to play last night, but those games were postponed until this afternoon.

MLB Network will air the Red Sox-Royals game from Fenway Park at 1:00 PM ET in what is sure to be an emotional scene that will parallel Wednesday night's Bruins-Sabres game.  In addition, both MLB Network and ESPN will have live pregame coverage from Fenway.  ESPN will have coverage anchored by Jeremy Schapp while Greg Amsinger anchors MLB Network's coverage.

NHL Network will also provide national coverage of today's Penguins-Bruins game at 12:30 PM ET.

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Viewing Picks for April 20, 2013

Written by Ken Fang on .

All Times Eastern

Arena Football
Chicago Rush at Utah Blaze -- CBS Sports Network, 10 p.m.

Australian Rules Football
West Coast Eagles vs. Carlton Blues -- Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 a.m.

Boxing
Fight Night, New York
Tyson Fury vs. Steve Cunningham -- NBC, 4 p.m.

Championship Boxing, San Antonio, TX
WBA/WBC Super Welterweight World Championship Unification
Canelo Alvarez vs. Austin Trout -- Showtime, 10 p.m.

All Access: Mayweather vs. Guerrero: Episode 2 -- Showtime, 9:30 p.m.

College Baseball
Rice at Houston -- Fox Sports Net, 1:30 p.m.
Louisville at St. John's -- CBS Sports Network, 2:30 p.m.
Texas A&M at Arkansas -- ESPNU, 8:30 p.m.

College Football
Notre Dame Blue/Gold Game -- NBC Sports Network, 1 p.m.
Michigan State Spring Football -- Big Ten Network, 2:30 p.m.
Alabama Spring Football -- ESPN2, 3 p.m.
Wisconsin Spring Football -- Big Ten Network, 5 p.m.

College Lacrosse
Bucknell at Colgate -- CBS Sports Network, noon
Princeton at Dartmouth -- Fox College Sports Atlantic, noon
Villanova at Notre Dame -- ESPNU, 2 p.m.
Navy at Johns Hopkins -- ESPNU, 4 p.m.

College Softball
Florida State at Virginia Tech -- ESPNU, noon
South Carolina at Auburn -- ESPNU, 6 p.m.

Formula 1
Bahrain Grand Prix, Sakhir, Bahrain
Qualifying -- NBC Sports Network, 7 a.m.

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Screengrab Snafu: Braves beat... Chiefs?

Written by Matt Yoder on .

If you've ever wondered what it's like to see how the world outside the US views American sports, Sky Sports in the UK offers pretty consistent coverage of the NFL and other professional leagues.  I know because I have the site bookmarked for my EPL and darts coverage.  However, this headline went awry earlier this week when they mixed up their Kansas City sports teams.  Although, in fairness, the Chiefs might have just as good of a shot masquerading as the Royals than they would masquerading as an NFL team.

H/T to whoever sent the link in to us hundreds of Twitter replies ago. You know who you are!

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Ranking all 48 primetime games on the 2013 NFL schedule

Written by Brad Gagnon on .

The 2013 NFL schedule has been released, complete with 48 primetime games and 51 nationally-televised games. One more Week 17 game will be added to the prime-time slate when NBC gets its final Sunday flex, and there's a chance the final six Sunday Night Football games on the current sked change on the fly as a result of flex scheduling. In the meantime, though, here's how we rank the 48 primetime options we currently have to work with...

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Jose Canseco's AMA is just as bizarre as you'd expect

Written by Jaymes Langrehr on .

Ed Note: The following appears courtesy Bloguin's national MLB site The Outside Corner.

The "Ask Me Anything" threads on Reddit are a pretty good example of modern social media providing access to celebrities that wouldn't have been possible just a few years ago. Sometimes they're informative, sometimes they're funny.

Sometimes, they're just plain weird, like Jose Canseco's AMA today.

Of course, if you're familiar with Canseco's work on Twitter, that probably doesn't come as a surprise to you. His AMA was much like his Twitter feed -- bizarre, not always safe for work yet oddly entertaining. There were even some reasonably coherent responses, like when he was asked if taking steroids during his career was worth it:

--jc7264

steroids cost me millions ,not worth it because cocaine ,liquor,marijuana and other drugs r more accepted than steroids even though they can help u

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The best (worst) of Mark May's Twitter page

Written by Joe Lucia and Matt Yoder on .

ESPN college football analyst Mark May sure loves to spout off opinions on Twitter. Last week he drew widespread attention for a pair of tweets going after Ohio State and Arizona State. Before that he called former colleague Doug Gottlieb a "JACKWAGON" and may have inspired ESPN's latest social media memo.  He even threw a barb at Bill Simmons as well.

When you dig through Mark May's tweets, you realize why ESPN has to send panicked, crochety social media memos.  Mark May's Twitter account is like a bad parody account, except it's real and it's spectacular.  He checks every box that would keep ESPN up at night considering he has a platform to say anything at anytime.

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