Chew on this nugget over the weekend: ESPN not only debuted live morning SportsCenters this week, but it’s online baby, ESPN.com, also began hiring 12-year-old YouTube Comment Writers to add some online emotion and excitement. FANTASY!!!

RELATED: This instance actually brings up a very important public service announcement for the upcoming football season (punctuated frequently to express importance):

I. Do Not. Give. A. ****. About. Your. Fantasy. Team. Period.

On that note, have an excellent weekend. Lance will be running the show, unless mother nature thinks otherwise. She’s always a bitch.

SportsCenter anchor Stuart Scott, allegedly born on the street, performed his karaoke rendition of Edwin McCain’s “I’ll Be” at the annual Jimmy V Classic afterparty.

And let’s just say, Scott wasn’t as smooth as the other side of the pillow.

Like the way us mortal non-SportsCenter anchors karaoke this song, it sounded really, really horribly. And there’s video to prove it:

[Via SbB & Dave's Football Blog]

Thanks for wasting 31 days of my life.

ESPN pulled a Roger Clemens. No, it didn’t misremember. It was caught in a cheating scandal.

The Disney-owned ESPN has asked its local affiliates to stop airing an ad for AshleyMadison.com, an online dating site that promotes cheating on significant others. “Life is short. Have an affair,” is the site’s trademarked slogan. Scaaaaaandalous.

The president of the Web site, Noel Biderman said he thought a double standard was applied to his company because ESPN runs beer commercials and the like. He’s also spending more than $1 million in advertising on other channels such as CNN, MSNBC, FOX, FOX NEWS and SPIKE.

There’s no doubt AshleyMadison.com will take a huge hit as a result of being cut from ESPN, which has a large viewership from men and women alike. And Spike TV, which mainly targets men 18-49, is going to make the site suffer if it ever cuts it off. But why the hell are the news channels involved? If you want to target horny, cheating Internet lovers, hit up VH1, MTV and UPN.

And get wired into Clemens’ house, Kobe Bryant’s house and most certainly Alex Rodriguez’s house.

Ever wonder how ESPN sideline goddess Erin Andrews likes it in bed?

Sure you have.

She recently told Sporting News that she can do without all the stuff that usually goes on beds — like pillows, the blanket and the comforter.

Just a flat surface, really.

“When watching Gator football or basketball, I have to be upstairs, sitting on my bed. My bed has to be totally cleared of the pillows, comforter and the blanket.

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Terrell Owens can give mixed signals to the media more often than a 15-year-old high school cheerleader can to her classmate after she winks at him in class then ignores him in the hallway later that day.

Exhibit A. Exhibit B.

After the ESPY awards were filmed on Thursday night, sportswriter Sam Alipour was hit by a car, screwing up the windshield and everything. Pretty Hollywood, actually. The writer took advantage of the situation and got an ESPN.com column out of it, enlightening the public about the fact that, once again, T.O. was a mystery to the media.

First the receiver helped the writer and stuck around until he could get medical attention. But when Alipour went to thank his “hero,” T.O. had bounced, most likely to Justin Timberlake’s late-night party. And can you really question him after knowing what he’s been like to the media in the past?

 T.O. wasn’t your hero, dude. He was just as curious as the bum that asked you for change. He may have been a very nice person, but “hero” is too strong of a word.

T.O.’s the pretty cheerleader who winked at you and got your hopes up. Everyone saw it, too. Then he ignored you in the hallway, leaving you high and dry. You should probably get a new hero.