'Sports Soup' ingredients: clips and commentary with bite

Presenting still more sports media notes after spending part of yesterday asking your forgiveness for the past year's transgressions in print and on the Web: •On Tuesday, Versus - motto: "We're so much more than hockey; we run movies you don't care to watch, either" - debuts a show that has been a good idea just waiting to happen. Here's hoping the execution matches the anticipation. Sports Soup will run Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 p.m. It's a version of E!'s The Soup, which, in the versions called Talk Soup with Greg Kinnear and John Henson, and now again with Joel McHale, has replayed clips of outrageous television shows - mainly of the talk and reality variety - and offered hilariously snarky commentary. Sports Soup plans to apply that formula to sports programming. It won't exactly be highbrow, but this is sports, after... [read full story]