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espngameday Media Movement: Son Of QB Erik Kramer Found Dead, & USA Today Calls Out ESPN On Conference Realignment Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Former NFL QB Erik Kramer’s son, Griffen, an 18yr old senior quarterback at Thousand Oaks High in Thousand Oaks, CA was found lifeless at friends house on Sunday. Preliminary information given is saying the younger Kramer died of alcohol poisoning. For more on the story, hit the Prep Rally blog over at Yahoo, here USA ⇒ Read More soccer-goalie-2011 Media Movement: Tebow, Brian Robinson, Texas Rangers, & FIFA Chooses Fox Monday, October 24, 2011 Tim Tebow’s got the whole world geeked off of a comeback victory over the Dolphins in his first start Sunday at Pro Player Stadium. People are straight tripping over Tebow’s “Will To Win” (including celebrities) after he engineered a late game comeback, then spoke his crazy eloquent inspirational style speech after the game. Check out ⇒ Read More Screen shot 2011-10-12 at 3.59.22 PM Media Movement: Kenny Mayne’s Wider World Of Sports Hits Brazil Wednesday, October 12, 2011 From forever ago, Kenny Mayne has been one of the more likeable ESPN related sports personalities (along with Stuart Scott), and he’s still at it. From J.C. Penny’s campaigns to random appearances around the world with a web series you’ve probably never heard of (but you act like you have). Mayne’s latest media movement has ⇒ Read More r-CHAUNCEY-HARDY-large570 Media Movement: Chauncey Hardy Died After Attack, & A Secret Plot To Break Up The Big East? Monday, October 10, 2011 Chauncey Hardy, American basketball player for Romania’s CSS Giurgiu, died tragically from injuries he suffered after being jumped by men in a Romanian night club. Hardy was celebrating a win with teammates in Giurgiu (Southern Romania) when he was attacked, and was in a coma when admitted to the hospital. Check the Huffington Post for ⇒ Read More Screen shot 2011-09-01 at 11.21.23 AM MEDIA MOVEMENT: NBA & PLAYERS BACK ON SPEAKING TERMS?, BRUCE FELDMAN, & BYU UP NEXT Thursday, September 1, 2011 Tell the NBA players to hold off on the flights to China, we may have a conversation sparking between the NBA and it’s embattled player’s association. Could this mean there will be an NBA season, we won’t hold our breath. But at the very least cats are picking up the phone again. SI.com’s got it ⇒ Read More Screen shot 2011-08-27 at 9.14.39 AM MEDIA MOVEMENT: S.I. WRITERS TAP DANCE ON CRAIG JAMES FOREHEAD Saturday, August 27, 2011 The muscle from SI’s college football department reserved a special space their recent “College Football TV Roundtable” for ESPN’s Craig James. The four man crew that included Stewart Mandel, Andy Staples, George Schroeder and Richard Deitsch, basically wondered aloud how a guy involved in so much recent controversy still has a job. When asked a ⇒ Read More Eagles Redskins Football MEDIA MOVEMENT: ESPN ASKS A BURNING QUESTION Friday, August 26, 2011 In the “WTF, were they thinking” category, ESPN created a Photoshopped image of a white Michael Vick. This of course is outrageous because as you all know, Vick is a black man. The photo was to accompany a column in ESPN The Magazine entitled “What if Michael Vick were white?” Leave it to ESPN (and ⇒ Read More t1larg.kobe.bryant.gi MEDIA MOVEMENT: KOBE HITS 33, ESPN LAUNCHES LONGHORN NETWORK, & PAT SUMMITT Tuesday, August 23, 2011 If it feels like Kobe Bryant’s been in the NBA forever, its because he has. Various online media outlets sent shout outs and/or hate #24′s way as he celebrated his 33rd birthday today. Check out what his hometown paper, the LA Times had posted up for him here ESPN Launches the LHN ESPN banks on ⇒ Read More Screen shot 2011-08-10 at 3.30.53 PM HEY LOVE: HOPE SOLO HINTS AT FEATURE IN ESPN MAG’S NEXT BODY ISSUE Wednesday, August 10, 2011 Hope Solo just did ESPN the Mag a real true solid by tweeting a hint/pic that put the next “Body Issue” on blast. Her @hopesolo account is sure to gain a few thousand more 15 – 21yr old followers in the next few hours. Not to mention the fact that former members of the Umbro ⇒ Read More bruce MEDIA MOVEMENT: BRUCE FELDMAN OUT AT ESPN? Friday, July 15, 2011 Fall out from Mike Leach’s recent memoirs “Swing Your Sword” (pauserelli), have come back around two fold to the books apparent ghost writer Bruce Feldman. The highly respect ESPN journalist has been put on suspension by the network for what could be considered putting Craig James, his son Adam, and ESPN on blast for the ⇒ Read More