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Jeremy Lin Sleeps On His Brother's Couch

Jack Dickey — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:10:00 EST

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Seeing Jeremy Lin At The Garden Was The Best 11 Bucks I Ever Spent On Pro Sports

Kyle Wagner — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:05:00 EST

Casey Chan turned to me yesterday and asked, "Are you going to the game tonight?" What? "The Knicks game. Lin's starting." What? "Yeah, StubHub's at like 11 bucks." We're going. More »

Asian Harvard Grad Somehow Succeeding In New York; Or, Why I Love Jeremy Lin

Emma Carmichael — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:54:43 EST

A remarkable thing has been happening in New York's Madison Square Garden the past few days: Jeremy Lin, a charming 23-year-old with an economics degree from Harvard College, has somehow become the city's ultimate underdog and talisman. More »

The Ballsiest Call In Super Bowl History

Brian Burke — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:41 EST

We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries. More »

Now Lanny Davis Has Penn State Talking In Circles

Dom Cosentino — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:35:00 EST

Try to follow along: Tim Curley, the on-leave Penn State athletic director, told the grand jury investigating Jerry Sandusky that Cynthia Baldwin, Penn State's counsel at the time, was present as his lawyer when he testified in January of last year. But Lanny Davis, the attorney Penn State hired in December to guide it through this mess, now says Baldwin was there that day on behalf of Penn State, and that she wasn't representing Curley or Gary Schultz, the two PSU administrators charged with perjury and failure to report abuse in connection with Sandusky's alleged crimes. More »

Ted Leonsis Has Had It With The Washington Post "Harboring Criminals" Who Resell Wizards Tickets, The Way The Wizards Do

Dom Cosentino — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:50:00 EST

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As long as Dan Snyder is around Washington, Wizards and Capitals owner Ted Leonsis won't ever be the city's most thin-skinned sports owner. But with his Caps and Wizards turning in disappointing and horrifying seasons, respectively, Leonsis has been showing the strain. More »

Very Short Debate: Is Bill Belichick Quietly The NFL’s Best-Dressed Coach?

Barry Petchesky — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:40:00 EST

No. More »

No One Knows Exactly How Boxing Broke Ken Norton's Brain

Hamilton Nolan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:36:23 EST

LAS VEGAS—Ken Norton never fell down in 39 rounds of professional boxing with Muhammad Ali. But Ken Norton did fall down on Jan. 23, 2012, while posing for a picture after a press conference at the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas. I saw it happen. Ken Norton, the esteemed special guest at the press luncheon, shuffled to the front of the room amid the Cleveland Clinic doctors and public relations representatives, let go of his walker, and slowly, oh so slowly, tilted backward and fell through the step-and-repeat backdrop. The doctors helped him up. There's not much else they can do for him. More »

Does The Success Of An NFL Replay Challenge Depend On Which TV Network Is Broadcasting The Game?

Timothy Burke — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:30:00 EST

NBC's 40 cameras should give officials an unprecedented number of angles to analyze in the occasion a replay challenge is issued during Sunday's Super Bowl. While it makes sense that the biggest game of the season would have more replay resources, there are also differences in the video coverage of regular season games—specifically, in the formats used by the various networks. Does the broadcast format of the network covering a particular NFL game affect the outcome of replay challenges? More »

20 Rules For Your Super Bowl Party

Drew Magary — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:15:00 EST

Originally published Jan. 29, 2009. More »

How The New York Times Fumbled Its Case Against The Yale Quarterback

Jack Dickey — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:15:00 EST

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Last week, The New York Times told a new story about how Yale quarterback Patrick Witt's candidacy for a Rhodes Scholarship ended. While the public was following the drama of Witt declining his Rhodes interview to play in the Harvard-Yale game, the Times reported, the Rhodes Trust and Yale had suspended his candidacy because of an accusation of sexual assault. More »

"They're Just Waiting Until We Die": Former NFL Players Suing The League Describe Its Indifference Toward Injuries

Dom Cosentino — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:40:00 EST

On a coffee table at his suburban Dallas home, Tony Dorsett recently laid out two pages of color-coded images for a reporter from the Associated Press, saying they show how his brain is slowly dying. The images were brain scans, and Dorsett said doctors told him the red parts indicate his brain's left lobe—which affects organization and memory—is getting insufficient oxygen. More »

The Prospects For Craig James's Senate Campaign Are Getting Even Worse

Dom Cosentino — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:50:00 EST

"He is by far one of the most hated men in West Texas." Now that's a catchy campaign slogan. [The Post Game] More »

By Bolting For The Tampa Bay Bucs, Greg Schiano Is Fulfilling Rutgers's Football Dreams

Dom Cosentino — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:55:14 EST

Adam Schefter is reporting that Greg Schiano and the Buccaneers have reached terms on a five-year deal that makes Schiano Tampa Bay's next head coach. But by leaving Rutgers in the lurch with National Signing Day for football recruits coming next week, Rutgers will be right where it always wanted to be. More »

Madonna's Halftime Act Will Reportedly Be "Bringing Gay To The Super Bowl"

Dom Cosentino — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:35:00 EST

At least that's what the New York Daily News' gossip moles overheard one of her dancers say at a party the other night. But before James Dobson can shift uncomfortably in his chair to craft a press release, somebody really ought to tell him Madonna's 20 years behind the times. More »

Billy Cundiff Rushed His Kick Because Of An Error On The Gillette Stadium Scoreboard

Stefan Fatsis — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:37:35 EST

Things That Killed Joe Paterno, According To The Internet

Tommy Craggs — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:48:39 EST

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Before It's Made Public, Louis Freeh's Independent Investigation Of Penn State Will Be Reviewed By Penn State

Dom Cosentino — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:15:00 EST

That's according to what two members of the university's Faculty Council who had met with Freeh last week told ESPN. Freeh, the former director of the FBI, had promised "complete independence" when he was hired by the school in the weeks after the Jerry Sandusky scandal broke. This is from ESPN: More »

How Could Penn State's Trustees Have Been Blindsided By The Sandusky Case?

Dom Cosentino — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:00:00 EST

Thirteen of the 32 members of Penn State's Board of Trustees sat down with The New York Times yesterday to finally tell their side of the story. The resulting published narrative walks us through how the board reacted in the immediate aftermath of the release of the Jerry Sandusky grand jury presentment, culminating with their decision to fire Graham Spanier and Joe Paterno on Nov. 9. More »

Joe Biden Congratulates The San Francisco Giants "On Their Way To The Super Bowl"

Emma Carmichael — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:10:00 EST

Like everyone, we love a good Joe Biden gaffe—especially when it's about sports. More »

Craig James's Senate Campaign Is Going About As Poorly As You Expected It To Go

Dom Cosentino — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:05:00 EST

The Houston Chronicle has the former ESPN analyst polling lower than Michele Bachmann in Iowa in his run for a Texas U.S. Senate seat. When James made his intention to run known last month, his "name recognition" figured to be among his assets. So how's that working out? More »

"Am I Sick? Are We All Sick?": Overwrought Things The Media Wrote To Auburn's PR Guy During Cam Newton's Wild 2010 Season

Tommy Craggs — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:20:51 EST

A few months ago, we asked Auburn for all correspondence between the media and the football team's spokesman, Kirk Sampson, during the Tigers' 2010 season. We weren't looking for anything specific; we only wanted to get a sense of what it's like on the inside when the press descends on one story—in this case, a national championship run featuring the best player in college football—and instead finds itself covering something very different—a play-for-play scandal involving the same player. More »

Oh, Dwight Howard Decided He's Now Open To Playing For The Clippers Too

Jack Dickey — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:00:00 EST

I bet, when you heard that Dwight Howard asked for a trade from Orlando to the Lakers, Mavericks, or Nets, you thought he was a front-runner. (OK, the Nets aren't so "front," but they do offer nearly unlimited access to Jay-Z and Howard could live in Manhattan.) You thought Dwight Howard only wanted what was hot. You thought Dwight Howard wanted to chase championships without having to put any effort in. More »

If You Want To Participate In A Futile, Bizarre Contest/Giveaway, The Carolina Hurricanes Have You Covered

Jack Dickey — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:40:59 EST

From Facebook: "Guess the Number: Jeff Skinner is thinking of a number between 1 and 150,000. What number is it? Closest guess by 7 p.m. to the correct number wins an All-Star Game pole banner signed by Skinner, Staal, Ward & McBain. One guess per person." Hockey! More »

Penn State's New President Doesn't Think This Is Penn State's Scandal

Dom Cosentino — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:40:00 EST

Rodney Erickson, the new president of Penn State, is taking questions from concerned alumni this week at a series of townhall-style meetings. Though he's promised a new era of openness and transparency, Erickson displayed plenty of evasiveness and contradiction even before he set out for Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, with a final stop in New York City slated for tonight. More »

Bud Selig Can't Hear You: A Gallery

Tommy Craggs — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:00:10 EST

In honor of Commissioner for Life Bud Selig's new contract, we give you this metaphorically rich gallery, which we first ran in September 2010. More »

Todd Bozeman Is In Trouble Again, This Time For (Maybe) Hitting One Of His Players

Dom Cosentino — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:20:17 EST

That would be the same Todd Bozeman whose once-promising coaching career hit a snag when he was at Cal in the mid-1990s because he admitted he had paid a recruit's family $30,000. The affair kept Bozeman away from the college game for 10 years after the NCAA slapped him with a show-cause penalty, but he's been at Morgan State since 2006, and he's twice guided the Bears to the NCAA Tournament. More »

Penn State's New President Is Being Less Than Candid About What He Knew About Jerry Sandusky

Dom Cosentino — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:00:00 EST

Rodney Erickson was named the interim president of Penn State on Nov. 9, the night Graham Spanier resigned in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. The school lifted the interim tag from Erickson the following week, formally putting him in charge, and soon after he stated his commitment to "transparency to the fullest extent possible." More »

I-Team: Why Does New Penn State Coach Bill O'Brien Have A Hole In His Chin?

Jack Dickey — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:10:00 EST

New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien agreed last night to take the head coaching job at Penn State. O'Brien, like Joe Paterno, graduated from Brown and has since coached at Georgia Tech, Maryland, and Duke. He's never before had a head coaching job and ran the Patriots' offense for only one year. Maybe no one really wanted the Penn State job—given the alleged child rape and coverup there—but even then O'Brien seems a weird choice. More »

Some High School Football All-Stars Pout When They're Assigned Jersey Numbers They Don't Want

Dom Cosentino — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:55:00 EST

The U.S. Army All-American Bowl is Saturday, and the surfeit of hype has produced a surfeit of bitchy entitlement on the part of some of those players who've been invited to participate. There are only so many jersey numbers to go around, you see, and that's creating a bit of a problem: More »

What It Sounds Like To Sit Next To The World's Most Annoying Miami Heat Fan

Luke O'Brien — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:00:58 EST

It was Dec. 27, and Jason Feifer was pumped for the Miami Heat home season opener. Feifer and his dad had scored tickets to see the Heat take on the Boston Celtics. As the Feifers settled into their seats, they paid little attention to the petite woman next to them. The woman was by herself, wearing bright red lipstick and a sparkly Heat shirt. She seemed harmless. Then the game started, and she began cheering. The Feifers soon realized they were in the company of the world's most annoying Heat fan. More »

Sidney Crosby's Brain Still Hurts

Dom Cosentino — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:30:00 EST

Remember when Crosby had to sit for two games because, in the words of Penguins general manager Ray Shero, he "wasn't feeling 100 percent"? That was three weeks and eight games ago. And today, Pens coach Dan Bylsma told the media Crosby continues to experience the symptoms of a concussion, which means there's no telling when he might play again. Bylsma did express optimism that Crosby would not be out for 10 months, which he was after first being sidelined last January. But one still cannot help but wonder. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] More »

Confessions Of A Sports Bigamist

Daniel Engber — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:12:10 EST

100 Percent Of The NBA's Asian-American Population Now Plays For The Knicks

Josh Brill — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:39:54 EST

The Knicks added Jeremy Lin to the roster last night in an effort to fix the fact that they have zero depth in the backcourt. He's the league's lone Asian-American player, and he's also the only Harvard grad in the pros. Get this kid a billboard. More »

The Mets Are Trying To Stop R.A. Dickey From Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro

Jack Dickey — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:10:00 EST

Dickey, the Mets' knuckleballing ace, wrote on NYTimes.com that Hemingway inspired him to climb Kilimanjaro, the 19,341-foot Tanzanian peak. He's taking the climb to raise awareness of teenage prostitution in Mumbai. More »

Yale Doesn't Want Vince Lombardi Coaching Its Football Team

Jack Dickey — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:45:00 EST

Or his analogue Tom Williams, who was canned by Eli today for padding his résumé, just like Lombardi had. Lombardi didn't correct claims that he had gone to law school. Williams had said he was a Rhodes scholar finalist—he was not—and he had said he played on the 49ers practice squad—he had not. More »

Detective Who Investigated Jerry Sandusky In 1998 Says "There Was Enough Evidence" To Press Charges

Dom Cosentino — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:48:56 EST

As far as Ronald Schreffler is concerned, he did his job. Schreffler has worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security since 2006, but he spent 33 years with Penn State's university police. Thirteen years ago, he was working as a detective for the campus cops when a woman came forward with a complaint that Jerry Sandusky had showered with her son, a boy now known to the world as Victim 6, thanks to the original grand jury presentment. That complaint resulted in a nearly 100-page police report and allegedly an admission from Sandusky to the woman that he had acted inappropriately—an admission that was made with Schreffler and a detective from the State College police listening in, unknown to Sandusky. More »

Albert Pujols's Wife Is "Mad At God," The Cubs Are Looking For A First Baseman, And More From The Hot Fucking Stove

Josh Brill — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:20:00 EST

Your roundup of all the hottest hot-stove items of the day (and whatever shit Ken Rosenthal is throwing against the wall). This is ... HOT FUCKING STOVE!! More »

Joe Paterno Didn't Want To Disturb Anyone's Weekend With Child Sex Abuse Allegations, And Other Things We Learned Today

Dom Cosentino — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:20:00 EST

We told you earlier about the testimony of Mike McQueary, the Penn State assistant coach whose account is central to the cases against Jerry Sandusky, Tim Curley (he's the Penn State athletic director, currently on leave), and Gary Schultz (the school's former senior vice president for business and finance). The latter two are charged with perjury and failure to report abuse. More »