The Chicago sports media is covering all different angles of the Cutler trade, real and imaginary.  In general the reaction seems to be positive with some understandable cynicism after years of poor quarterbacks.  Rick Morrissey over at the Tribune obviously took an extremely negative view, but that’s expected from a douchebag like him.  The Sun-Times, [...]

The Sports Emmy Awards are coming up later this month and Awful Announcing listed the nominees for this year’s event.  Some are solid choices, but as always there are some absolute head scratchers. A few of the awards are event driven, or show driven, which I suppose is hard to argue with.  The Super Bowl [...]

NQTC has a sort of love for Jay Mariotti.  And by love I mean we hate the guy.  There is no bigger douchebag in all of sports media (I guess that’s arguable, but as a Chicagoan Jay pretty much takes the cake).  We make a special effort to cover anything that mocks Mariotti, as you [...]

Last month Stormin’ Norman expressed his delight that the comments section on Jay Mariotti’s columns over at FanHouse were not disabled.  To the gratification of everyone everywhere, they are still up and running.  I won’t waste any more of your time typing things that are not hilarious, so here we go: From Jay’s column on [...]

Jay McGwire’s intention to write a book revealing the “McGwire family secret” was big news yesterday. The story led Sports Center and amazingly contained a credit to Deadspin, the original source. I’m not an expert, so I don’t know if Deadspin, or any other blog has been credited on ESPN’s flagship program before. The guys [...]

Rod Marinelli said his goodbyes to the Detroit media today at Senior Bowl practice in Mobile, Alabama. According to Tom Kowalski on Mlive.com, as three reporters from Detroit approached Rod at the practice, Marinelli waved them off, pointing his thumb over his shoulder and saying “goodbye ladies.” Oh Rod Marinelli, we hardly knew ye. Kowalski [...]

As in, whose brow will be part of the “Mt. Rushmore of Sports”? In case the ridiculousness of the idea didn’t give it away, this will be ESPN’s new fan-driven gimmick that we all will hate after…well, we already hate it. Awful Announcing fittingly has the release from ESPN: SportsCenter, ESPN’s flagship news and information [...]

One of the best things on ESPN’s website is the column by the Ombuds(wo)man Le Anne Schreiber. It’s her job to call ESPN on all of their crap, not to mention sift through the e-mounds of complaints that the world-wide leader receives every day. She really does a great job and I highly recommend reading [...]

This Saturday has been a fantastic day for football. Army-Navy early, USC-UCLA and the SEC Championship this afternoon and the Big 12 Title game to cap it off. However, for the last three years, one thing has made the SEC Championship game difficult to watch, or at least to listen to. Gary Danielson has to [...]

Sports coverage has changed significantly in our lifetime. A lot of it has been good, but there are some things that have gone horribly wrong. Every week I’ll be taking a little time to whine about one of these things with no hope whatsoever that anything will change. Somehow when I think of the new [...]

Sports coverage has changed significantly in our lifetime. A lot of it has been good, but there are some things that have gone horribly wrong. Every week I’ll be taking a little time to whine about one of these things with no hope whatsoever that anything will change.This week’s column takes us to the front [...]

Sports coverage has changed significantly in our lifetime. A lot of it has been good, but there are some things that have gone horribly wrong. Every week I’ll be taking a little time to whine about one of these things with no hope whatsoever that anything will change. This week I want to spout off [...]

Sports coverage has changed significantly in our lifetime. A lot of it has been good, but there are some things that have gone horribly wrong. Every week I’ll be taking a little time to whine about one of these things with no hope whatsoever that anything will change. I’m admittedly no expert when it comes [...]

I came across this last night and it made me yearn for the days of Kobe vs. Shaq or thirty straight minutes of Celtics coverage to start Sportscenter. Fans really don’t give a shit if a player would go to Europe to play basketball. Oh, wow LeBron would think about going? If they paid him [...]