Colin Cowherd trashing Spurs on Stephen A Smith Show.

[TheGoldStandard]

Cowherd is a hack, it's funny how he stays the course of the typical drivel that comes out of ESPN. Most of the ESPN guys are teetering because they sense that the Spurs can actually win this series but some want to remain ignorant and bash what they do no understand.

[Solid D]

Cowherd likes shiny things and stuff that entertains him. The poor soul who buys a product because of how it looks and realizes afterward that it only came with a 30-day warranty.

He said on his radio show once that the Texas Rangers' pitching wasn't good enough to get them into the playoffs...the year they played the Giants in the World Series.

[DMC]

You gotta love guys who discount coaching as if the players on the floor make great, warrior like decisions. They make ty decisions. The Pacers turned the ball over every other possession and still almost won. Truth be told, the Pacers should have been up 2-0 going back home, if not for ty coaching they would be in the Finals now and SA would stomp a mudhole in them.

[Russ]

Couldn't resist . . .

[pikkiwoki]

http://deadspin.com/the-worst-men-in-sports-5748972

Colin Cowherd: Radio host, race-baiting huckster

This fall, Colin Cowherd went on ESPN Radio and called John Wall a ******. A few days later, amid great hue and cry, he went on the air and called him a ****** again. I don't use this word lightly, but what else could Cowherd have wanted us to hear? He talked about "IQ judgment" and Wall's "wild, out-of-control style" and said something about robbing a bank and used the phrase "Yo, dawg, look at me" and referred to Wall's fans as "the wrong people," and I swear, in the sneering way he said "the wrong people," in the little bit of English he put on that middle word, you could read the whole damn history of redlining in America, and then a little later he busted on the kid for not having a dad.

I don't believe Colin Cowherd is a racist. I think he is a radio huckster who understands that there is awesome profit in stopping just short of saying "******" on national radio, in letting his audience make all the foul connections for themselves. And because this is America — where Nothing Is Ever About Race, where anything can be justified so long as it moves the needle, and where our media culture operates on the premise that we are all slackjawed morons — he is absolutely untouchable. He is critic-proof. Just think about that: One of the foremost media personalities in one of the most tight-assed, image-conscious, PG-rated media companies in the land — an outfit that suspended Tony Kornheiser in part for talking about Hannah Storm's skirt, that went into spasms of pretend conscience over airing ads for a slasher movie during a college football game — goes on national radio and whispers "******" and no one in Bristol feels obliged to say anything. And of course no one does. Colin Cowherd moves the needle, they'd only point out. Colin Cowherd speaks his mind. Colin Cowherd gets people talking. (So did Ted Bundy. What's your point?)

The media marketplace will always find room for demagogues and controversialists and crypto-bigots, even for especially dumb ones likes Cowherd. They've been around for so long that hatred is virtually the grammar of radio. For many years, mass culture kept up an uneasy detente with these figures. They were given their margins, and they kept to them, and there was an understanding on both sides that they spoke to a very devoted fraction — a large one, in some instances, but a fraction nonetheless. I don't want to give Cowherd too much credit, because I think he's a stupid man, and I don't pretend that he's doing anything appreciably different from whatever goes down during Skippy and Goatface's Morning Sports Holocaust on your local FM dial, but Cowherd, to my mind, represents the collapse of that cultural consensus. Something in the culture is irreparably ed when its purveyors of mass entertainment look at a guy whispering "******" on his margin and think he trades in common coin. That he's just like everyone else, an everyman with an everyman's frustrations about the world. Colin Cowherd has a CBS sitcom. Something is ed. (Tommy Craggs)

This guy should be beneath our notice.

Cowherd never said the N-word. Whoever wrote that article is oversensitive, paranoid delusional, and butt hurt.

Cowherd is a racist, yet he swings from LeChoke's nutsack like Tarzan? Does not compute.

[Kidd K]

For anyone that doesn't know who Cowherd is, his opinions on every sport are pretty much ONLY what the "popular opinion" is. The mind numbing "Heat won last year, so they will be champs this year" bull pussy stance that lazy fairweather fans usually take when they want to appear relevant.

Cowherd will pick Miami until the Spurs win. Then he'll make excuses. Cowherd was on Mike and Mike too earlier today to "talk about the series", and all he did was blow the Heat and talk about how the Spurs were lucky the Heat were tired and how that's the only reason the Spurs won.

If you were to make a "top 5 worst/dumbest sports personalities", he's on the list. Would probably make the top 3.

[mute]

this is why local broadcast > ESPN

how on earth can u even expect him to watch nba, nfl, golf, mlb and any other sport. straight up talking out of his ass

[Cry Havoc]

I don't believe Colin Cowherd is a racist.

Cowherd never said the N-word. Whoever wrote that article is oversensitive, paranoid delusional, and butt hurt.

Cowherd is a racist, yet he swings from LeChoke's nutsack like Tarzan? Does not compute.

Reading comprehension there, chief. Try reading the entire article.

[FromWayDowntown]

If you choose to be sensitive about what talking heads say and you're listening to Cowherd, you're doing it wrong.

[pikkiwoki]

Reading comprehension there, chief. Try reading the entire article.

Colin Cowherd went on ESPN Radio and called John Wall a (N-word)
.....
I don't believe Colin Cowherd is a racist.



ok chief

[hater]

If you choose to be sensitive about what talking heads say and you're listening to Cowherd, you're doing it wrong.

I don't think anybody in this thread listens to Cowherd on a regular basis tbh

[pgardn]

1) Cowherd ALWAYS says controversial . It's his schtick.

2) My 2 1/2 year old knows more about the Spurs, NBA, or the sport of basketball entirely than him. His takes on anything but college football have always been and will always be utter garbage.

These are people who are paid to be prepared. There are many reasonable points he could have made to back up his pick. The first thing might be to know the opponent. The guy clearly knows very little to nothing about the Spurs. Blowing Leonard off like he has no attributes, misstating his weight...

He could still be right about Miami winning, but that does not change the fact he knows nothing about the Spurs. Tim Duncan is not a mismatch, seriously?

[Man In Black]

I heard Cowherd spewing that same rhetoric on his own show today. He even went so far as to say that he's successfully predicted the last 8 NBA Champions and the last 5 Super Bowl winners. This arrogant prick thinks the he knows his better than most. This is the same guy that predicted the Spurs to lose to the Fakers, Warriors and Grizzlies. Of course he doesn't bother the mention that.

When the Spurs win the le, I'm going to pull up a chair the next day and listen to him try and explain how he got this prediction wrong. It'll be fun listening to him try to explain himself, while trying to pull his foot out of this mouth and munching on a plate of cold crow.

He sucked at college hoops.

2nd to last:
http://blog.pundittracker.com/march-...cket-rankings/

[Budkin]

Wow you thought Colin on SAS was bad... Listen to the Miami deep throat on the Herd show this morning. Bigot Broussard comes in near the end and obviously agrees and said the Heat could have blown it open had they brought their "A Game." Ironically the Miami ESPN guy picked the Spurs in 6.

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=9352360

[rayray2k8]

Who gives a ?

[Cry Havoc]

Colin Cowherd went on ESPN Radio and called John Wall a (N-word)
.....
I don't believe Colin Cowherd is a racist.

ok chief

That's exactly what he's saying. He's saying Cowherd said what he said for pageviews, not out of a sense of hate or prejudice. Race-baiting and racism aren't the same thing.

[dbreiden83080]

He also said last week that if the rumor of Dwight going to Golden State was true, it would match the league changing magnitude of the Miami trio coming together. A once in a decade event that changes the course of the NBA. Stephen curry and Klay Thompson with Dwight is entirely unstoppable for years to come. Miami should watch out. The greatest inside outside threat in league history. LOL

What in the name of holy is he talking about?? Klay Thompson looked like a god damn scrub once the Spurs actually paid attention to him.. And Miami should look out for the Bulls and the Pacers next year.. Oh yeah and the Spurs right now..

[Budkin]

Who gives a ?

It's because most people talk about the Spurs because they don't watch them and heard they're boring. Here is a situation where dumbass watched the game and still thinks the Spurs are a joke after beating his team. He doesn't even give them an iota of credit. I think this thread is so long because it's so outrageous.

[BillMc]

God! WE MUST WIN THIS SERIES! I hate this smug guy.

[michaelwcho]

I know this is a Texas board and all, but Cowherd is basically sports version of Rush Limbaugh, tbh.

[Gino-Step]

As expected this Dude is still hating on Spurs. Saying it's about the system as if using a system is cheating.

[Kidd K]

I'm kind of surprised some of you guys still haven't realized that people like him (and guys on Around the Horn, etc), will ALWAYS pick the popular/hot team and sink with the ship before they give a small market NBA team props. They do it with other sports too, but they are extremely guilty of it in the NBA.

So often you see their preseason predictions almost always include the "favorites" for the next year are just the two teams who were in the Finals the year before. . .regardless of age, changing teams, and health changes. Their next season predictions usually center around splash impact of flashy names, not proven track records of guys being winners or being able to work with eachother.

Cowherd is pretty much the worst kind of the lot. They do next to no research, barely watch the games, and probably sits through a 2 minute power point to base his takes on everything around. And I may be giving him too much credit by assuming it's as long as 2 minutes.

Here's an example of Cowherd's takes:

Who do you think will win the le this year?

Cowherd: the miami heat

Why?

Cowherd: they were there last year

Is that it?

Cowherd: they have LeBron James

What about the other teams?

Cowherd: They aren't the Miami Heat, they don't have LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.

Seriously, is that it?

Cowherd: *repeats exact same things he just said, and probably acts like the person asking is stupid for not believing his ty take immediately*

Cowherd and his takes in a nuts .

[CGD]

I'm an SVP and Russillo guy, but I don't totally hate Collin. His points about the business of the NBA aren't exactly wrong. The problem is that his mind set is for the regular season, where things like showy dunks and Blake Griffen actually matter (82 games is a long ass time!).

The last two rounds of the playoffs aren't really geared toward that; rather, it's about the sport as a craft, team, and attrition. Really I think if you ask the casual fan many tunes out basketball around time, and why things like the draft, trades, free agency, and Dwightmares are probably as, is not more, popular than the finals.

[LakerLanny]

He is an idiot. Ignore him.

[Harry Callahan]

He is an idiot. Ignore him.

Not only is Cowturd an idiot, I think he's got daddy and mommy issues (each one married/divorced 4 or 5 times). He locked himself in an attic for ten years pretending to be play by play guy due to the parental neglect and couldn't cut it. Nothing but a tool. I listened to his less than entertaining show a little bit last week while on business in LA and Vegas.