H8R
Celebrities including Eva Longoria, Barry Bonds, Leah Remini and Kat Von D will go head-to-head with everyday people who don't like them in a new CW reality series called H8R.
Episodes featuring Jersey Shore's Snooki and Kim Kardashian have already been shot. The Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss, Extra host Mario Lopez, and Lisa Gregorisch-Dempsey executive-produce the show. Lopez said if the show has a message, it's "Hate is not cool.
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Barry Bonds
Former Major League baseball player Barry Bonds was convicted on one count of obstruction of justice in a San Francisco court Wednesday, CNN reports.
The verdict shows that jurors believe that in December 2003, Bonds, 46, lied in his testimony to a grand jury, claiming that his trainer never...
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Barry Bonds
The star of Ken Burns' The Tenth Inning — besides baseball itself — is Barry Bonds.
"He had to be," Burns says.
While Babe Ruth did it on hot dogs and beer and Hank Aaron on a diet no one ever questioned, Bonds is suspected to have set baseball's all-time home-run record on steroids. So Bonds looms large throughout the four hours of Burns' follow-up to his Emmy-winning 1994 documentary series Baseball.
Burns and partner Lynn Novick — whose credits include the masterful The Civil War and Jazz — expansively cover the last 16 years of the sport, including...
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Ausiello's imaginary girlfriend Keri Russell is being courted to play Adam Sandler's would-be squeeze in Bedtime Stories, a Disney comedy in which the bedtime stories a Realtor tells his niece and nephew start coming true.... Bull Durham director Ron Shelton has been signed by HBO to helm the movie version of Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the book Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports. Expect a shorter title by the time the pic unspools.... Slumming Bruce Davison has agreed to play the heroine's father in NBC's backdoor Knight Rider pilot. — Ben Katner
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John Kruk, Baseball Tonight
As the national pastime approaches mid-season, Baseball Tonight (10 pm/ET, on ESPN) analyst John Kruk weighs in on Bonds, A-Rod and the game's other hot topics.
TV Guide: You never had a chance to play for a Wild Card playoff spot. How do you think that has changed players’ and teams’ mind-sets entering July and August? John Kruk: Well, it gives everyone a chance, but it’s more confusing to me. You look at the divisions and say, "This team’s out, that team’s out.... Oh, wait a second." The Phillies have been in back of the Mets all season but always have that Wild Card [chance]. It’s good for players because you stay motivated and have more meaningful games. The bad thing is that too many teams can’t realize what they have as a team, so they keep guys and t
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Question: Your ego is bigger than Barry Bonds' head. You devote 50 percent of your column to Gilmore Girls, 35 percent to your ego, 10 percent to yawning bunnies and 5 percent to actual inside dirt. Your column is a sham, and I wonder how you live with yourself sometimes.
Answer: Did you go back and research past columns to come up with that breakdown, or was that off the top of your head? Either way, your percentages are eerily accurate. I'm not kidding. You pretty much nailed my top-secret formula for AA.
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Turns out that Barry Bonds will speak to allegations of steroid use on his upcoming ESPN reality show, Bonds on Bonds. "We're shifting slightly to align the content with people's expectations," a producer tells Variety. Translation: We like ratings.
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Bonds on Bonds, ESPN's reality show shadowing Giants slugger Barry Bonds — who is now smack-dab in the middle of an alleged steroids-use controversy — will go on as planned, debuting April 4. "ESPN remains squarely behind the series," a show producer tells the New York Post, adding, "While these allegations were never our focus, we will certainly address the issue in the series."
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