Top 5 Sports Writers I can't stand...

I totally agree with #‘s 1 and 3. Lou Holtz would have to tie Lee Corso in my book. Bill Plaschke usually annoys me on ATH, but luckily he usually gets eliminated early. Steven A Smith used to make me really hate ESPN for giving him a show, thankfully it didn’t last too long.

during the whole BCS controversy he said that OU going over Texas was “rediculous”. He also called Brian Orakpo “the top player in the draft” after the draft was over.

In no particular order:

1. Stewart Mandel
2. Skip Bayless
3. Jay Marrioti
4. Any ESPN college writer not named Bruce Feldman
5. Dick Vitale

Actually, I could make a much, much longer list than this…

1. Len Pastabelly…err, Pasquerelli. He is beyond horrible.

Really like Bill Simmons- very entertaining, in my opinion, and a lover of all things Boston/ NE AND Kevin Durant….Easily one of Durant’s biggest supporters in the media. (and agree about his dog article. Tremendous column, very heart-wrenching.)

Also, like Stewart Mandel. Any reason in particular you don’t like him?

I have a potentially homosexual love for Herbstreet (glad the Internet is anonymous). I hate all other announcers, especially Musberger. Oh wait, Jim Deshais for the Astros is fantastic – anyone who makes references to ’70s comedies throughout the broadcast is my hero. In his first season, the Reds had three outfielders playing – Dmitri Young, Mike Frank, and Chris Stynes. He said the Astros were playing against the deadly outfield of “Young Frank n Stynes.”

Is this post extreme enough for ESPN?

I know this is more local, but he annoys the crap out of me sometime and of course Randy Galloway has to be one of the bigger douches in the Metroplex and let’s not leave out “our own” Richard Justice of the chron who dogs on VY for an article if he has nothing else to write about. Thanks for supporting your fellow Horn.
I hate all boston teams and therefore bill simmons……skip bayless is above him though and probably everybody else.
6. Merrill Hoge…..sucked at rb and played for the steelers….lame! Made his name off of doggin’ on VY.

Let’s not forget the TBS announcer. I can’t remember his name, but he called about 4 or 5 Texas games a couple of years ago. (technically not a sports writer, but annoying none the less.) Without fail everytime he had either lost his voice or was in the process of losing his voice. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t have replaced him. Anyone remember his name?

I actually like Bayless, b/c I remember when he wrote for the Dallas Times Herald. While I didn’t always agree with his opinions, I enjoyed his writing style.

However, Bayless is an Oklahoman who graduated from Vanderbilt, so he worships Barry Switzer. That is going to grate on any texas fan.

Locally, I can’t stand Jean-Jacques Taylor. His very name annoys me, b/c it strikes me as pretentious. His understanding of sports is limited, he had an idiotic take on Rick Barnes’ coaching ability after USC eliminated Kevin Durant and texas from the NCAA Tournament, and his call for the Mavericks to “bodyslam someone” in the opening minutes of Game 2 in the Denver series makes me think he has short man syndrome. He tries too hard to be ghetto, probably to make up for his name.

Chip Brown was the most annoying writer on the DMN staff before he took the job with the texas rivals site. Now he can sloober on Mack Brown and get paid for it without having to try to claim objectivity.

Before he left, Al Carter was the worst writer in the history of the DMN. He was a frustrated novelist who took a potshot at A&M any chance he could, which became especially annoying considering the fact that he was A&M’s beat writer for the DMN for a while. The people in the SID at A&M always treated him well, and he’d turn around and trash the program the next day anyways. Never liked that jackhole.

1. Stephen A. Smith (how has nobody mentioned this guy)
2. Jim Rome
3. Joe Morgan (website!)
4. Lee Corso
5. Rod Babers on 1300 the Zone

Some favorites:

Bill Worrell, Craig Way (how do you not like this guy), Jeff Van Gundy, Erin Andrews

I can think of few people that like themselves more than this guy. Everyone that’s not black is automatically racist. If you disagree with him, racist. He is the Jim Rome of Foxsports. I can only argue that Jim Rome makes me laugh on his radio show, but if it doesn’t happen within two minutes, he gives my brain vapor lock.

Idiot and pervert. No one else comes close.

I can’t believe anyone from the Dallas area hasn’t mentioned Dale Hansen. What a jag bag. I like watching the ABC local newscast, but come time for sports I have to flip over to CBS.

I’m surprised Switzer never made it on anyone’s list…

so I havent been forced to endure the staple prerequisite machoism that is tv sports “journalism” personalities. But outside that box, stewart mandel and the CFN.com guys easily take the cake. I’m not sure if I’ve ever read an enlightened article on CFN that wasnt a rehashing of what everyone has already known since the end of the previous season, and stewart mandel is prone to crashing off the random limb he went out on when he isnt expanding trite tirades and cliches into 2 pages articles.

and I’m still amazed that there is a demographic that still considers themselves regular listeners of jim rome. 3 hours of radio time a day and I never hear him talk about sports.

that said, I’m still a sucker for peter king. insightful, never backs himself into a corner, and always willing to admit when he was wrong and explain how he screwed one up.