The web series, Mayne Street, returns for a fifth season with ESPN’s Kenny Mayne playing a fictional Kenny Mayne with a fictional ESPN producer, Sarah Morton, played by the always lovely Alison Becker featuring various real ESPN personalities playing a...
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Yes indeedy, it’s a new season of the ESPN.com webseries Mayne Street. In the season 4 premiere, Kenny talks with X Games daredevil Travis Pastrana about what real pain is. ESPN NFL fantasy expert Matthew Berry (why?) and ESPN NFL...
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In the season finale, Kenny and Adam Corolla audition for a movie based on former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach. It ends up disastrous just like many things in Mayne Street. I liked this one. It’s also the last webisode...
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In this webisode, Kenny and Sarah (Alison Becker) are called into a special Sunday meeting with Evan Mintz and his assistant, Robin Gibney, only to find a confrontation waiting for them. Hilarity ensues. Or maybe not. Nice to see Aubrey...
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Here we are with the season premiere of Mayne Street, the ESPN web series that has been quite fun to watch. I’ve enjoyed them for the most part. Here’s the first webisode of the new season. Here, Kenny visits the...
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Let’s finish our press releases with a mishmash of subjects. Lots of stuff to post and they all don’t fit under one particular theme. As we get closer to the start of the NHL season, ESPN tells us that analysts...
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In the last webisode of Mayne Street for a while, Kenny gets a huge scoop. The problem is getting the tape to Bristol for air. Nice to see Alison Becker get a prominent role this time. Chris reminds me of...
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After watching a completely boring Home Run Derby tonight in which I fell asleep in the easy chair, it’s time to post some press releases before I shut off the lights and go to bed. I’ll begin with this release...
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In the latest webisode of Mayne Street, Video Cowboy shows Kenny how he picks winners at the Belmont Stakes. And we get a guest appearance from Jeannine Edwards. Not great. Not terrible. Average. Punch line was seen running from the...
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The newest webisode of Mayne Street has Kenny and Video Cowboy dealing with cutbacks at ESPN. Check out cameos from Brian Kenny and Jeremy Schaap. And we get our first appearance this season from Evan Mintz. Still, not enough Alison...
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I have quite a few releases to post tonight so let’s get to them and hopefully, I won’t fall asleep with the computer on. I’ll begin with Fox Sports which says it will be Tweeting during the All-Star Game on...
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In the latest installment of Mayne Street, Kenny subs for ESPN Radio no-talent hack Colin Cowherd and then has to get revenge afterwards. Of course, the webisode has to plug Colin’s new show, “SportsNation”. Nice cameo by Barry Melrose. This...
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This is going to be a long post. Get ready to scroll for a while. Let’s do this without further delay. Starting with NBCSports.com, it will be streaming Wimbledon live at its website, which is a good thing. “LIVE AT...
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In the latest installment of Mayne Street, Kenny ruins things with Scoop Jackson. This was very funny. Kenny tweeted last week that he liked this webisode more than the season premiere. I can see why. In this extra video, the...
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We have the season premiere of ESPN.com’s web series, Mayne Street. I can’t believe we went to a second season, but to be honest, I was mildly entertained by it, especially when Alison Becker is on. In this webisode titled,...
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In the next to last webisode of the series, Kenny and the gang go out for a meal and as usual, things don’t go as well as planned when more people latch onto their table. There are cameos by chef...
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I guess ESPN is not counting the Robbie Maddison jump the satellite dish as an official webisode in the series and they’re calling this Part 13. Whatever. Actually, this is a pretty funny webisode. First, Sarah’s back. Second, Robin’s back....
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In this webisode, Kenny tries to get motorcycle daredevil Robbie Maddison to jump ESPN’s satellite dishes, but of course, nothing turns out like Kenny wants. Plus, this is a cheap way for ESPN to promote Maddison’s New Year’s Eve jump...
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This is entitled “Beijing”. Kenny, producer Sarah, shooter Cowboy and production assistant Jordan find they can’t go to Communist China for the Olympics so they try to fake it in New York’s Chinatown with some disastrous results. To be honest,...
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After a delay for the Thanksgiving Weekend, Part 6 of Mayne Street is out. In this webisode, Kenny, producer Sarah and executive Robin share a room at a hotel and quickly find themselves foils on a website. Enjoy. Robin is...
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This is the 5th installment of the so-so web series, Mayne Street. I’ll continue to post them through its conclusion. In this webisode, Kenny prepares for SportsCenter five minutes before air just like any good SportsCenter anchor would. We love...
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Here’s the 4th installment of the ESPN web series, Mayne Street. In this episode, Kenny has to conduct a major interview in a clown suit. Watch and you’ll see why. Hmmmm. I’m not seeing the humor in this one. Promising...
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Through all of the BCS news, I almost forgot that the third webisode of Mayne Street was out today. This installment deals with Kenny playing poker with his boss, Evan Mintz, SportsCenter anchor Neil Everett and SportsCenter anchor Chris McKendry....
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Ok, time to provide you with the Part 2 of the Friday megalinks after Part I was done this afternoon. Not only that, I can also provide you with updates from the links that I had provided earlier. But let’s...
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I’ll give you the megalinks in two parts today. Part I comes out now. Part II will come out tonight. As usual, I give you the Weekend Viewing Picks. Football dominates the viewing this weekend with a little college basketball...
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This is the second installment of the ESPN web series, “Mayne Street”. In this webisode, Kenny meets his insane 26 year old boss. Quickie review. It’s not bad. Kenny with the faux homeless guy plugging Louie’s Original Roast Beef was...
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You’re not counting, but I am and this is the 2,400th post of this blog. It comes on Veterans Day where we salute those who have served and the fine men and women who are currently serving in Iraq, Afghanistan...
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