There’s another video coming very shortly in which Wayne tells who he thinks will win the MVP out of Kobe, LeBron and D. Wade.

If you aren’t able to catch it while it airs, don’t trip because I’ll post the video immediately like always…. And if you missed Wayne’s past performance on ESPN you can watch it here!.

“Fresh off his four wins at the 2009 Grammy Awards Sunday night, rapper Lil’ Wayne will be a panelist on ESPN’s Around the Horn Tuesday at 5 p.m. He will match wits with regular reporters Woody Paige, Jay Mariotti and Michael Smith in the 30-minute sports debate program moderated and scored by Tony Reali. Lil’ Wayne, who contributes to ESPNthemag.com and has appeared on ESPN’s First Take and, led performer nominations with nine and won four — Best Rap Album (for Tha Carter III), Best Rap Solo Performance (”A Milli”), Best Rap Performance by Group or Duo (”Swagga Like Us”), and Best Rap Song (”Lollipop”). He will appear on ATH from Los Angeles.”

1. Is Stephen A. Smith the designated guy at ESPN who interviews troubled black athletes? (Terrell Owens, Allen Iverson, etc)
2. It’s funny hearing some fool named “Slugga” repeatedly referenced in a professional styled interview. This is the highlight of his life.
3. I laughed at Pacman saying “I was being ‘rebellion’ in the scrip club”.
4. I highly doubt anyone will pick Pacman up next season.

Boooooooooo… I wanted Wayne to stumble onto the set with a styrophone cup in his hand while quoting Shakespear. Skip kisses Wayne’s ass for a while, and even helps him out when he stumbles (the part about the Titans).

Weezy will be appearing on ESPN the morning of January 6th for a mini debate with Skip Bayless. Those that are familiar with Lil Wayne knows that he’s liable to say anything (and the odds of you actually understanding what he’s talking about is a 50/50 crapshoot). Weezy writes a blog for ESPN.com and this will be his first foray into actually proving analysis on the air.

Much like Lil Wayne, Skip Bayless is also liable to say anything (and it’s usually something crazy for shock value)…. so the odds of their “Debate” being highly entertaining are great… I’m not missing this for the world.

Who remembers the time Skip said Eminem was underrated, yet was unable to name 5 other rappers?

Update – Jan 6th – We’ve got the full video HERE

I watch “NFL Matchup” on ESPN alot, and my eyes are always drawn to Merrill Hoge’s hair… because it looks really weird like he’s wearing a hairpiece. So I head over to google and I take a shot in the dark on Merrill Hoge’s hair and I get a few results. Yes, there are other people in the world who talk about and laugh at Merrill Hoge’s toupee.

But during that search I found something else, a review of the 2003 NFL Draft. The author of this particular article thought Rex Grossman was a fine choice for Chicago, and refuted the claims that Rex would turn out to be a bust for the Bears.

“The biggest knock on Grossman was that he likes to party (who doesn’t?) and that Bill Walsh said in a Sports Illustrated article that he makes “catastrophic mistakes”. This, from the man who just hired Dennis “Mr. Catastrophic Mistake” Erickson to be the Niners head coach.

The defense rests.”

Oh boy oh boy… .was Bill Walsh right or WHAT? Rex Grossman singlehandedly lost the Super Bowl for Chicago a few years ago by committing several “catastrophic mistakes” in the biggest game of his career. If the GM in Chicago had only agreed with Walsh (who is considered one of the greatest football minds ever)…. history may have turned out differently.

The subject of the meeting?

How to ignore the various reports coming out of the media and prevent distractions from the task at hand. ESPN’s Ed Werder has successfully created a story based on “anonymous sources”, and relied on the dysfunctional locker room to actually bring it to life. Brilliant.

This is comparable to you or me finding a married couple with a troubled relationship and whispering “ya know, someone told me that your wife might be doing something on the side”, and then watching the ensuing argument unfold before your eyes. I’m not the only person who believes that the majority of this “controversy” is media created, check out this video of a Dallas fan going off on Ed Werder.

For those of you who aren’t in the know, Terrell Owens doesn’t like Ed Werder, and hasn’t been speaking to him all season. So at the end of the season Ed was the one who breaks this story of T.O. having a meeting with Jason Garrett based on anonymous sources.

Video courtesy of Larry Brown Sports

I do give Mike Golic credit for knowing the song is actually Fat Joe’s and not Lil Waynes. Having kids who are in college has it’s advantages.

Instead of putting the story on their site immediately like they do with everything else, ESPN didn’t bother covering it.

Just to give you a frame of reference, SOMM says ESPN has posted 24 Pacman Jones stories this week. Hell, they even had a story about Marcus Vick’s legal troubles…. talk about scraping the bottom of the barrell for material.

Why is ESPN protecting Favre?
Has the story not been included just because FOX’s Jay Glazer broke the news?

Speak on it.