Horrible news today out of Jacksonville concerning current Alabama and former Tennessee offensive lineman Aaron Douglas, who was found dead in a Jacksonville beachhouse this morning.  no news as to cause of death at this point, but thankfully, ESPN was there to focus on the most important aspects of this tragedy, its impact on the [...]

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We are riding for Lane! Making all mothers that have sons living in their basement proud, FOTP made a sparkling 8 second debut on ESPN’s SportsNation yesterday.  The site was featured as the SportsNation “Site of the Day”, which will seem like a really prestigeous honor for us unless I find out that today’s honoree is this site (SFW)…then [...]

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Big site news today.  The World Wide Leader has seen fit to feature Friends of the Program on SportsNation at 4 PM ET on ESPN2 as its “Site of the Day”.  We’ll try and clean ourselves up a bit for our big debut…comb the hair, iron our “Sunday shirt”, and maybe put on a little splash of [...]

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On the heals of the news that ESPN analyst Steve Phillips is being suspended by the network for having an affair with a production assistant, Deadspin (who was told by ESPN on previous occasion that there was nothing to such a story involving Phillips) is taking off the gloves and telling tales about other ESPN [...]

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Just a reminder that Erin Andrews is servicing all your sideline dugout reporting needs on ESPN at the 2009 College World Series in Omaha. Getting interviewed by EA is dream for any college baseball player, or their dad. As for this game, Texas beats Southern Miss 7-6 on a walkoff walk.

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Go to ESPN.com right this very instant and type in the old Contra cheat code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, enter…and then just keep pressing enter) and experience something almost as magical as 30 extra lives. UPDATE: They fixed it…alas, ESPN was only Planet Unicorn approved for a short time. UPDATE [...]

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After a long day of eating turkey, we were thankful to see the lovely Erin Andrews gracing the sidelines for the Texas-Texas A&M game on Thanksgiving night. We are truly blessed. 

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