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Sportsline recaps the 49ers/Seahawks game from September 30th. Can you spell pivotal?

The Editors Must Have Taken a Vacation

I'm sorry, but you can't get away with what Sportsline did today. For those who don't know the story, Houston Texans player Cedric Killings had a scary injury (resulting in a fractured vertebrae) against Indy on Sunday, but today, he has shown signs of improvement. This is what the headline looks like from Sportsline:

Texans thrilled to see Killings up, walking

Whatever happens in Texas is fine with me.


ESPN.com, which is about as reliable as Microsoft Excel 2007 for math, found a way to screw up the description on my iGoogle page.

Killings, despite fracture vertebrae, leaves hospital

Houston Texans defensive tackle Fredric Killings, who fractured a neck vertebrae, is being discharged from a hospital.

So they can't spell Cedric, and can't correctly put together the term "fractured vertebrae".


So to the editors over at Sportsline and ESPN, great job.

A teaching moment with Mookie

Toronto FC acquire Buddle from Galaxy - TSN.ca

Goal.com

Toronto FC acquire Buddle from Galaxy
TSN.ca - 30 minutes ago
TORONTO (CP) - Toronto FC acquired an all-star defender Wednesday, trading forward Edson Buddle to the Los Angeles Galaxy for Tyrone Marshall.
TFC trade Buddle for defence Sportsnet.ca
Toronto FC obtains Marshall from Galaxy for Buddle International Herald Tribune

Let's review then. Acquire means to receive. Edson Buddle plays for Toronto FC. It is impossible to acquire a player you already have! The title should read "Toronto FC acquire Marshall from Galaxy". Great job by TSN, who by the way, is the sister company of ESPN.

You're Kidding!

Late last night, I was watching the replay of the whipping of Arturo Gatti against Floyd Mayweather. The fight was on ESPN, and instead of using the HBO commentators, they used some recorded commentary with Joe Tessitore and Joe Mesi. So at the 3rd or 4th round, Tessitore tells us this.....

"Floyd Mayweather is the nephew of Roger Mayweather, his uncle."- Joe Tessitore

Now believe it or not, if Floyd is the nephew of Roger, we already know that Roger's the uncle! That's almost the same thing as saying that a guy is a homosexual, and is married to a man. But just to fill air time, Tessitore brilliantly points out the obvious. On the other hand, I could be listening to Jim Lampley, who has found a way to butcher the English language with words like "tireder".

I kid you not

This is the headline on the www.seattletimes.com.

I haven't fooled around with this quote. I'm telling the truth, seriously, this is 100% true.


"Seattle's Felix Hernandez strikes out San Diego's Russell Branyan with the bases loaded to end the fifth inning. But the M's still trailed behind, and the Padres stayed ahead to win the today's game."


Ok, let's go in a little closer.

But the M's still trailed behind.

Excuse me, but what was that again?

trailed behind.

Yeah, as opposed to trailing ahead?

Great one Seattle Times.

Goofy mistake

This mistake is from TSN, a Canadian Sports Channel that is owned by ESPN.

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Highlights: DAL 0, VAN 2

Marty Turco elevated his play in Game 2, holding off the Canucks and stealing a win in Vancouver.

One problem with this scoreline, the Dallas Stars BEAT the Vancouver Canucks 2-0, not lost 2-0. It completely contradicts their summary, but we know Canadians have so much hockey knowledge. Way to go staff of TSN, keep it up!

This isn't the 1st time SI has messed up

The guys at Sports Illustrated seem to mess up quite a bit. Below is the infamous Romo fumble game headline, just before the Cowboys were supposed to sink the Seahawks.

nice catch by shrug from Field Gulls

Sports Illustrated slips up

Look at the 4th line, since when does Johann Santana pitch against his own team?

Thanks to Awful Announcing who pointed it out first.

6th Man Sports Wear: Spelling Geniuses

Tell me that the players noticed this.

Reggie Miller: Math Genius

I couldn't find a video, but in last night's Warriors/Suns scorcher, Steve Kerr said something at the 5:56 mark of the 1st quarter about the remarkable number of points scored by Golden State in only half a quarter. I do remember Reggie Miller replied to Kerr "Yeah, 7 Minutes."

WHAT?! Reggie, as much as I admired you in your playing career, half of a 12 minute period in Basketball is 6 minutes. Has he been this removed from b'ball since his retirement? Or was it just a slip of the tongue on a simple subtraction problem? Either way, it's still not good to NOT even change what you just said.