May have to move quickly on this.

ESPN.com may go back to its regular home page sometime today. Or will, if and when the execs there recover their scruples/ethics/sense of shame.

Here is the link to the Web site, if you don’t want to type it in.

Have you seen it? Talk about whoring out yourself. A home page surrounded by advertising. The Kobe-LeBron vitaminwater box. The banner across the top, the photos on either side, the banner at the bottom of your screen … and the link to the facebook chat in the lower-right corner.

Sure. Let’s sell half our home page to a cheesy faux-news thing.

This is awful. This is intrusive. This is what separates newspapers, even in their straitened state, from Web sites. (Oh, that’s right: The L.A. Times had that Page 1 advertisement-disguised-as-news a month or so ago.

Anyway, are times that tough at espn.com that they have to do this? Do something that annoys me and, presumably lots more of their readers?

Geez.  Just when you think advertising couldn’t be any more intrusive, some soulless bastard comes up with something more offensive. More disgusting. More overpowering.