Outkick.com, the website made famous by Clay Travis and formerly known as Outkick the Coverage, has officially broken one of the most hilarious stories we’ve heard in our short existence here at The Football Beat.
Our editor / publisher, Mitch Lucas, began his career in northwest Alabama / northeast Mississippi, his first job at a daily paper in Columbus, Mississippi named The Commercial Dispatch, and he covered, among other programs, the University of Alabama, Mississippi State, the University of Mississippi, and Southern Mississippi. He got to know a lot of the SEC beat writers as a result: Tuscaloosa News writers Cecil Hurt (now sadly no longer with us), then Tuscaloosa News writer Tommy Deas, now SEC Network personality and former newspaper great Paul Finebaum, and so on.
Outkick.com has a story currently on its website (Former MSNBC Anchor Goes On Keith Olbermann-Like Rant Demanding ESPN Fire Paul Finebaum Over Michigan Commentary) about a former MSNBC anchor and Michigan alum wanting Finebaum dismissed from his position within the SEC Network and ESPN over, apparently, actually having AN OPINION on the ongoing controversy about the Michigan football program stealing signs of its opponents.
You know – cheating.
The Outkick.com author, Dan Zaksheske, is even more tongue-in-cheek with his story, which is so fun to read, and even if you haven’t been following the Michigan controversy, give this story a click. It is such fun. Finebaum’s show, by the way (cheap plug) can be seen every day on the SEC Network at 2 p.m. Central Standard time, and heard on ESPN Radio.
