Here’s a tip for any ESPN employee looking to engage in some good old-fashioned questionable behavior: you may want to time your transgressions to light sometime during the third week of the month. Why? Cause then you can fly under ombudsman Don Ohlmeyer’s radar for at least 30 days.

Being Phil Mushnick ought to be exhausting. His “Equal Time” column, a cranky collection of gripes that generally coalesce around the topic of sports media, runs thrice weekly in the New York Post. That’s a lot of outrage for one writer to manufacture!

CNBC can be a tough slog these days: the frantic noise of the past year has settled into a dull roar, and the endless hours of Congressional footage can make the network seem more like C-SPAN. Punctuating the monotony, though, are the colorful segments by Sports Business Reporter Darren Rovell. Katie Baker interviews Rovell inside.

Serena Williams

Last night while Nadal was changing his shirt after his match a man ran out on court and hugged him. The way it was filmed it looked like it was a family member or something (and I think Nadal thought maybe it was too, the way he initially reacted) and then two security people pulled the guy away and I felt really uncomfortable because everyone’s good naturedly comparing it to the time a gremlin pranced out and shook up Federer but what I thought of was the time a guy lunged out and stabbed Monica Seles.

I was standing ankle-deep in shredded paper on lower Broadway back in February of last year, and the money float — the one with Eli Manning, Michael Strahan, and the Vince Lombardi trophy — had just driven by to much rejoicing and fist-pumping. I assumed that another marquee player couldn’t be far behind. “I can’t [...]

Just in case our mandate of covering the media is not recursive enough for you, we gather here today to watch the watchmen watch the watchmen. In other words: How did ESPN’s new ombudsman Don Ohlmeyer do in his first column for the World Wide Leader in Sports? The answer: pretty good… if you could make it far enough into the nearly 4,000-word column to get to the point.

I can’t say I started crying during the opening credits of the upcoming HBO documentary By The People: The Election of Barack Obama, but only because I got to the theater five minutes late. The film — which will air on November 3 on HBO — begins in Iowa in 2007, eight months before the caucuses and light years before today, and spends nearly half of its two-hours focusing on the state and the young supporters populating its campaign headquarters.

Yesterday, Sam Sifton was named successor to Frank Bruni as New York Times food critic. Despite laments at Bruni’s departure, devoted foodies may welcome the choice: where Bruni is an eater, Sifton is a chef: the former writes in Born Round of inhaling cold sesame noodles on his futon, while his successor will teach you how to make them.

I’d like to apologize to Erin Andrews. Apparently, my lifelong obsession with professional sports — the tears I shed when the Giants won the Super Bowl and when the Mets lost the Subway Series, the John Starks “Dunk” poster I had on my bedroom wall, the tiny radio I kept in bed with me, tuned [...]

Even non-tabloid readers have heard that Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is the subject of a civil lawsuit, filed by a casino hotel worker in Lake Tahoe, that accuses the two-time Super Bowl champ of forcing her to have sex after a celebrity golf tournament in 2008.

They may have heard about it from any number of outlets, just not the self-proclaimed World Wide Leader in Sports, ESPN.

Overlooked amid the adulation of Roger Federer after his record-breaking 15th career Grand Slam title at Wimbledon on Sunday was a painful post-game exchange between him and Andy Roddick that was broadcast live to both televised viewers and the crowd at the All England Club.