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This article reviews sports related events recently broadcast on television. In addition to winning seven Grand Slam singles titles, John McEnroe has been a broadcaster, an author, a musician and an art gallery owner. But at age 45 he says his new gig on CNBC, as host of the talk show John McEnroe, is the first time in his life that he's had a real job. Media critics have called him a "buffoon" (New York Daily News) and an "over-the-top ... hoop-head" (Philadelphia Daily News), but Stephen A. Smith must be doing something right. The ESPN pro basketball analyst (and Philadelphia Inquirer columnist) has been everywhere lately: offering commentary on SportsCenter, guest hosting Pardon the Interruption and popping up all over the network's NBA programming. (His funkily acidic pronunciation of SLA-va Med-ve-DEN-KO became a damning criticism of the Lakers' forward.) Smith has occasionally clashed with fellow NBA talking head Greg Anthony, but in on-air punditry, of course, he who yelps loudest yelps longest: Smith replaced Anthony on the network's live NBA draft coverage.