This weekend word got out that LeBron James received 119 of a possible 120 MVP votes, falling just short of becoming the first unanimous MVP in league history.  Immediately, the conversation turned to who the joker was that "robbed" James of the honor and possibly could have watched this season thinking LeBron was not the best and most valuable player in the league.

Enter noted Miami Heat homer and ESPN personality Dan Le Batard.

While Tim Tebow isn't drawing a lot of -- or any -- attention from NFL (or even CFL) teams as a free-agent quarterback, he's certainly getting more than his fair share of attention from the media outlets that cover the NFL (and CFL). 

And so you have to start wondering if the world's most famous backup quarterback might eventually be forced to resort to a backup career plan by joining the media world. Such a move would make a lot of sense when you consider that Tebow has become the megastar he is today thanks mainly to that industry. 

Later today Fox Sports will officially announce the hiring of sports anchors Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole from TSN.  The popular SportsCentre anchor pairing will be making the move south across the border to be integral figures in Fox Sports One's nightly studio show, Fox Sports Live, that will be a direct competitor to the American version of SportsCenter on ESPN when the network launches in August.

News of Onrait and O'Toole's departure from TSN broke late Friday afternoon and all reports indicated Fox Sports One as their landing place.  While many American sports fans may be skeptical of the Canadian imports, the duo are as synonymous with the Canadian SportsCentre as the glory days of Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann were in the states.  Just how successful are Onrait and O'Toole?  This December excerpt from Toronto Life best captures their je ne sais quoi:

All Times Eastern

Beach Volleyball
Women's Grand Slam Gold Medal -- Universal Sports, 5 p.m. (same day coverage)

College Baseball
Maryland at Clemson -- ESPNU, 7 p.m.

College Football
College Football Live -- ESPN, 3:30 p.m.

Cycling
Giro d'Italia
Stage 3: Sorrento-Marina di Ascea -- beIN Sport, 9:30 a.m.

English Premier League
Sunderland vs. Stoke City -- ESPN2, 2:55 p.m.

Fox Sports has been on a spending spree of late. In the final quarter of 2012, it purchased a minority stake in YES to gain the righs to the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets and also bought Sports Time Ohio to reobtain the rights to the Cleveland Indians which is it lost in 2006. Fox also narrowly lost to Time Warner for the Los Angeles Dodgers media rights.

However, Fox is apparently not done in its spending and is looking for another East Coast MLB team for its expanding portfolio. The Boston Red Sox are firmly entrenched with NESN, the New York Mets are on Comcast/Time Warner's SNY plus the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals aren't leaving MASN. So the logical choice for Fox would be the Philadelphia Phillies. 

"Stay calm, and you'll all get out of this alive!"

You know you're getting old when you hear about an intriguing new venture like the SEC Network and your first thought is, "How much is this going to cost me?"

Welcome to my world. Creaky joints. A malingering sense of ennui that comes from growing up listening to grunge. Bitching about having an extra 80 cents tacked on to your cable every month.

Unfortunately, you do start sounding like your parents, too. As in, “What’s wrong with the college football you’ve already got?”

All Times Eastern

Australian Rules Football
West Coast Eagles vs. Western Bulldogs -- Fox Soccer Plus, 2:30 a.m.

College Baseball
South Florida at Notre Dame -- CBS Sports Network, 11:30 p.m.
Georgia at Tennessee -- ESPNU, 1 p.m.
Kansas State at Texas -- Longhorn Network, 2 p.m.
Alabama at Mississippi State -- CBS Sports Network, 2:30 p.m.

College Football
Inside College Football: Spring Special -- CBS Sports Network, 9 p.m.

College Lacrosse
Ivy League Championship, Ithaca, NY
Yale vs. Princeton -- ESPNU, 11 a.m.

NCAA Lacrosse Championship Selection Special -- ESPNU, 9 p.m.

MLB has announced their broadcast plans for the 2013 Draft on MLB Network in its never-ending quest to make the casual fan care about their draft a fraction as much as they care about the NFL and NBA Drafts.

NBC's coverage of the Kentucky Derby comes your way later this afternoon.  As part of the build up to the race, NBC sent Michelle Beadle up to the broadcast booth to call one of the many races that take place in the lead up to the Derby.  With Fox attempting to turn Gus Johnson into a soccer announcer, it's NBC's turn to up the ante in the announcing game.  The results show... potential?

When you write multiple articles a day for a sports blog, there's an easy temptation to use a lot of hyperbole and hype.  Every clip has to be either the funniest or the most shocking or the most surprising.  Every moment or soundbyte or screengrab has to be the best or worst EVER so people will be motivated to click and share.  Sometimes you may even be tempted into using all caps in a headline to convey some kind of extra interest.  It's some kind of game within the game within the game for sports bloggers to stir up interest in the slow drip of content pushed out ever day.

Having said that, what you are about to see is by far THE BEST AND FUNNIEST AND MOST AWESOME MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF ESPN AND MAYBE EVEN TELECOMMUNICATION.

I give you, the many faces of Bob Ley...