The 4th Estate is welcoming it’s largest member ever. Shaq spent yesterday at a Broadcasting training class at Syracuse University. The program, for athletes looking to make the jump, is taught by ESPN’s Dave Ryan.Â
Shaq already scored a big interview, talking to Greg Paulus about his decision to play football for the “Cuse. First question: How’s my ass taste?
Let’s hope this goes better than the big Aristotle’s last adventure in “the real world,” When he accidentally busted down the wrong door during a raid as a Miami sheriff’s deputy.
Kevin Casey is known for his skills in the ring rather than his rapping ability. But this music video for “No Surrender” just made my day. Not necessarily for the song itself, rather for the cameo by none other than Spencer Pratt. In my opinion “The Hills” star stole the show.
You might ask how the two became such buddy buddy. It seems that Spencer is producing a reality show about the up and coming MMA fighter. You have to watch this for yourself after the jump.
So when you go from stud USC quarterback to the 4th pick in the NFL Draft and most likely win the starting job in the biggest media market in America, it would only be a matter of time before magazine editors would start calling. It also doesn’t hurt to have the good looks of Mark Sanchez either. In this months GQ, the new NY Jet shows everyone that if football doesn’t work out he could have a future on the runway. It also helps when you work with the gorgeous Hilary Rhoda. Eat your heart out Matt Stafford.
SNL decided to spoof the TNT Basketball Studio team and the affinity of the network to place so many in game ads. Very clever and Will Ferrell dustbusting a baby was too funny.
Keenan Thompson played Charles Barkley and since there was no other black guy on the cast they didn’t have anyone to play Kenny Smith.
Who can ever forget David Wells and the day he pitched himself into baseball immortality at Yankee stadium. Eleven years ago today, Wells became one of seventeen pitchers in major league history to pitch a perfect game. He blanked the Minnesota Twins, 4-0, despite claiming he was hungover after a night of heavy drinking.
As the Yankees face the Twins today in game 3 of their 4 game series, let’s hope AJ Burnett is hungover and able to channel David Wells for a perfect game…although I’d be just as happy if he can get a win.
Jack Kerouac recorded player stats, analyzed their performance and wrote about them in a homemade newsletter. Sound familiar? The only difference of course is that Kerouc made up his teams, the athletes, and their stats.
In looking over his roster I wouldn’t mind trading BJ Upton to the Fords for Pancho Villa. Upton has been awful this year and I hear there is a lot of potential upside with Villa.
Alltime Sacks leader Bruce Smith was arrested early this morning for driving drunk in Virginia. Its the third time he’s been charged with DUI in his life, with previous incidents in 1997 and 2003.Â
David Ortiz is not getting it done this year. There has been talk in Boston about possibly dropping him in the lineup. He’s hitting just .220 with only 15 RBI on a very good offensive team. Perhaps more alarming for Red Sox Nation is that Ortiz hasn’t gone deep yet. In fact, his last homerun was hit on September 22nd of last season.
The 4th Estate is welcoming it’s largest member ever. Shaq spent yesterday at a Broadcasting training class at Syracuse University. The program, for athletes looking to make the jump, is taught by ESPN’s Dave Ryan. 
Alltime Sacks leader Bruce Smith was 
