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For Better And Worse, Starrcast Isn't Like Any Other Wrestling Fan Convention
It wasn’t even late on Thursday morning during Memorial Day weekend when things got weird. I was unable to sleep on my overnight flight from New York to Las Vegas, passed out for several hours of desperate sleep, then met England’s Maffew Gregg, the mastermind behind long-running online wrestling vi...
The Lady Fans Congregate
Since the NFL shut down the infamous "NFL4Her" portion of its Web site, it has been difficult to find a place where women sports fans can congregate. Fortunate, the fine folks at FemmeFan have alerted us to their presence. Like many gay/women sports fan sites, it's pretty much a straightforward sp...
Human Hamster Races. Yep
From the fine folks at Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer comes the concept of human hamster races at Wake Forest....
Hopefully They Don't Change Logos Sometime Before, Oh, Eternity
From the great sports fan behavior chroniclers at Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer comes the tale of James Henry Smith. He is — or, was, rather — "one of the biggest Steelers fans in the universe," say his friends. As if to prove it, he was buried in his recliner, all decked up in his Steelers garb. Ho...
Oh, Yes, We Can Definitely Hear You Now
Right now, half the country is looking at this picture and saying, "Hey ... did I go to college with that guy?...
Brad And Grace
Meet Brad Wackerlin. He lives in Lake of the Hills, Ill., is 33 years old and hey, sorry ladies, he just got married. He is also unnaturally obsessed with former Cubs first baseman Mark Grace. How obsessed? Well, he has 2,000 different Mark Grace baseball cards, runs two Mark Grace Web sites — Ma...
Do Not Make A Montreal Expo Mad
Remember Ken Hill? The Expos/Cardinals/Rangers/Red Sox pitcher was the type of guy who always destroyed your fantasy team; the year you drafted him high, he collapsed, and the year you didn't draft him, he'd rock on somebody else's team. (He was also the ace on that great 1994 Expos team.)...
Where Else To Take The Kids But Hooters?
Following up on a story in the Louisville Channel, ESPN's Darren Rovell digs into the news that Hooters might be sponsoring Little League teams. A Hooters rep — we wonder if the spokesperson has to wear those tanktops — said very few parents have complained; in fact, since the story broke, restaur...
Somewhere, Mark Cuban Is Smiling
Charges Dropped Against Hockey Owner Who Punched Referee [Danbury News-Times]...
Pujols Resists Temptation To Kill Fan
Here's a perfect example of how powerful ESPN is. Last night, Albert Pujols, while chasing a foul ball down the first base line, was grasped by a drunken Philadelphia fan in the front row. Pujols kept his cool, glowering at and lecturing the man before giving the ball to a kid next to him, becaus...
Kicking and Screaming
This is always fun: At a girl's rugby game — little girls are playing rugby? — in Rohnert Park, Calif. on Saturday, a parent punched a referee in the face when he was told to move his Camcorder off the field. Not a big deal, right? Refs are getting decked at kid's games all the time; that's why we h...
You Know, That's What They Got Capone For, In The End
One would think Oakland would be the only place they would be nice to Jason Giambi. Nope! Authorities have announced that Eric Anduri, the fan who dumped a beer on Giambi during a game Saturday, will be charged with battery, public intoxication and — our favorite — "throwing an object on the field."...