So it's Halloween, and you don't have a costume. You were going to be Kanye West, but the friend you were counting on to be your Taylor Swift got swine flu at the last minute. Then, it was going to be Sarah Palin, until you remembered that that's what you were last year. Then, you were going to dress up as Balloon Boy, but you realized that all of your friends, neighbors, and extended family members were planning to as well. What to do?

Fortunately, Mediaite has come up with some costume suggestions for you. Pulled straight from the headlines, these are guaranteed to be hits:

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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. (more...)

developing What was first an "extended leave of absence" is now a permanent one - ESPN announced late tonight it had fired baseball analyst Steve Phillips. Update on Monday morning: Hundley has been let go as well. Last week the New York Post broke the story that Phillips had an affair with 22-year-old ESPN production assistant Brooke Hundley, who then contacted his wife and family. But questions still remain about Phillips' future - and Hundley's. (more...)

video After Steve Phillips' sex scandal broke earlier this week, one of the leading sports blogs, Deadspin.com (owned by Gawker Media), felt personally slighted by the New York Post story after feeling mislead by ESPN PR the month before. So they began publishing other tips, unverified unconfirmed, about ESPN employee sex scandals. Now the relationship between the Worldwide Leader in Sports and Deadspin seems severely damaged. (more...)

video Today's New York Post has an exclusive, excruciatingly detailed account of ESPN analyst and former New York Mets GM Steve Phillips' "Fatal Attraction"-like affair with a production assistant. And that's just the beginning - there are websites digging up info and pictures of the woman in question - and now one blog is ready to empty their inbox to expose other potential ESPN sexual trysts. (more...)