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Rob Gronkowski Is Now Partying For Charity
The stated mission of the Celebrities for Charity is pretty straightforward: "To unite the goodwill of celebrities with the generosity of their fans to assist people in need." Its list of past beneficiaries includes schools, hospices, and cancer foundations. As we learned last week, Rob Gronkowski i...
AWOL Army Soldier Accused Of Stealing Identity Of Seahawks And Trail Blazers Owner Paul Allen
Brandon Lee Price was listed as AWOL from the U.S. Army. He was wanted for being a deserter. He needed money. So he did what he could: He attempted to steal the identity of one of the wealthiest men on the planet. The FBI says Price changed the address on a bank account belonging to Paul Allen, the ...
Mistaken ESPN Text Alert Reads Like A Cry For Help
A number of readers have sent screen grabs of this mobile text alert sent out a short while ago by the Worldwide Leader. Was it simply an innocent error, or was someone somewhere in Bristol trying to tell us something?...
R.A. Dickey Says He Was Sexually Abused As A Child, Considered Suicide As An Adult
When he was eight years old, Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey says he was repeatedly abused sexually by a female babysitter. And on one occasion, the abuse was done by a 17-year-old boy. The impact left Dickey feeling angry, alone, afraid of intimacy, unable to trust. He later cheated on his wife, aft...
Marcus Camby Made A Full-Court Shot Last Night
Well, it officially happened after the buzzer at the end of the third quarter of Kings-Rockets, so I guess he didn't....
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Tennis Player Wanted Own Father Removed From Match For Being A Pain In The Ass
Bernard Tomic is 19 years old. He's currently the 36th-ranked men's tennis player in the world, and the top-ranked player in Australia. Until now, he was perhaps best known in this part of the world for a bizarre standoff he had with police in January....
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread: The Sweet Sixteen
Right right right. The NCAA field is down to 12 teams, what with half of the regional semifinals having been played last night. But it's still the Sweet Sixteen round for the eight teams slated to play tonight out of the Midwest and South regions. There's Xavier-Baylor at 7:15, Ohio-North Carolina a...
This High School Hockey Fight Is As Wild As Anything The Pros Do
The heartwarming scene of sportsmanship and camaraderie you see above took place toward the end of yesterday's Holy Cross-Kincardine game in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. The gloves came off after a Kincardine player scored a goal in the waning seconds—Kincardine won, 4-1, so the outcome was no lo...
The Spurs May Be Near The Top Of The NBA, But Their Tickets Are In The Cellar
Time for another look at the least-wanted NBA tickets of the past month. The list of teams on the discount leaderboard is mostly what you'd expect: the Nets, Kings, Jazz, and Hornets, all lottery teams if the season were to end today....
Allen Iverson Is Still "Waiting For Another Opportunity" To Play Basketball Somewhere
Milton Nunez, the president of Pueblo Nuevo, a team in the Dominican Republic, said yesterday that Allen Iverson would play for his team. Gary Moore, Iverson's manager, denied that to the Associated Press:...
DeMarcus Cousins Chases Errant Shot, Runs Face-First Into Basket
The irony is that Cousins really does everything he ought to be doing here. John Salmons pretty much tosses a jumpshot into the stands, and Cousins gets after it to try to maintain possession for the Kings. It's the basket stanchion that's recklessly sitting there. But that's good hustle....
More Rob Gronkowski At Spring Break: Still Wearing Zubaz, Still Drinking, Still On Crutches
Tipsters just keep sending us their stories and photos of Gronk's epic Spring Break party tour, so we're just gonna keep posting them. The pair of photos we have here came to us from the gang at Shot of Ginn. The image of Gronk shirtless and in Zubaz pants was said to be taken yesterday in South Pad...
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread: The Sweet Sixteen
There are two games each from the East and West regions on tap tonight: Wisconsin-Syracuse at 7:15, Louisville-Michigan State at 7:47, Cincinnati-Ohio State at 9:45, and Florida-Marquette at 10:17. Floor's yours. Discuss them in the comments....
Glory Days: I Came Off The Bench To Score A Touchdown And Helped Postpone A Rival Coach's Retirement
An occasional series featuring our readers' tales of momentary sports glory. If you've got a video of your own brush with athletic greatness, send it to [email protected], subject: Glory Days....
Investigator Says Penn State Police Didn't Share Important Information About Jerry Sandusky In 1998
One psychologist's evaluation might have been the reason the now-dead district attorney did not pursue child sex-abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky back in 1998. But the 100-page report prepared by Penn State police at the time also included the appraisal of another psychologist who concluded ...
Old Dominion Basketball Player Arrested In Uniform, Minutes Before Tip-Off
Kent Bazemore was all set for ODU's quarterfinal against Mercer last night in the Collegeinsider.com tournament. Bazemore came into the game averaging a team-best 15.4 points per game. He was listed as a starter and even warmed up with his teammates. And then he was gone....
Rob Gronkowski's Offseason Is Becoming One Giant Swig From A Beer Bong
Having already made the party rounds in Aruba—where he may or may not have hooked up with a 16-year-old girl—Rob Gronkowski has apparently moved on to South Padre Island, Texas. At least, that's where we think he was when this photo of a funneling Gronk was tweeted at Adam Schefter sometime last nig...
Now That He's Retired, Hines Ward's Biggest Opponent Might Be His Brain
When Hines Ward announced his retirement Tuesday, the focus was almost entirely on his extraordinary achievements, on his emotions, on his loyalty to the Pittsburgh Steelers, with whom he had spent all 14 of his NFL seasons (never mind Ward's vow to play elsewhere after the Steelers announced their ...
There Appears To Be A Reason Why That Now-Dead DA Did Not Prosecute Jerry Sandusky In 1998
One of the great mysteries surrounding the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse case stretches back 14 years, to when Penn State police put together a 100-page police report that included details of Sandusky admitting he had showered with and touched a boy. For reasons that have never been made clear, the...