I've found a thread on another Mac forum with easily another 200 people with the same problem and it's been found to have in fact been espn.com. The simplest fix at the moment seems to be to restart and never go to espn. Once you do it crashes your broswer and then any other flash intensive...
Today I was on Safari just surfing the web and it froze up with the spinny ball. I figured no big deal, it happens every now and again, I'll just reopen it. I do and I start surfing again. It freezes again about 2 minutes later. I try it once more with the same result. Finally I switch to...