2012 Page 8 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
High School Reunion Horror Stories: So, Um, Why Are You Here, Again?
This weekend, so-called adults will have awkward high school reunions all across America. We asked you for your worst high school reunion horror stories. We're publishing our favorites during the holiday. Here's one, from reader "B. Green."...
High School Reunion Horror Stories: Ambulance Fight
This weekend, so-called adults will have awkward high school reunions all across America. We asked you for your worst high school reunion horror stories. We're publishing our favorites during the holiday. Here's one, from reader Vince Barnett....
Gift Guide Roundup: Your Best Sports Shirts Suggestions
We asked you to point us in the direction of some cool sports shirts, and you did not disappoint. Here's what to buy people who like sports and shirts for Christmas....
Gift Guide Roundup: Your Best Instant Throwback Suggestions
Last week, we asked all of you to tell us what instant throwbacks would make for the best Christmas gifts, because instant throwbacks are funny. Here's what you came up with, and a few that we thought of as well....
Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts For People Who Like To Drink
You know what goes hand in hand with the holiday season? Booze. Lots of booze. This means that buying someone a gift that is either booze or something that will help them drink more booze is a really good idea. Let's make a list of the best gifts to get the drinker in your life. Share your suggesti...
Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts For People Who Jog
You don't jog, because jogging is stupid. I mean, just look at all of the terrible things that can happen to you when you go jogging. But you know someone who jogs, and you probably have to buy that person a Christmas present. So let's make a list of the best things to buy a jogger for Christmas. S...
Dear Insane Patriots Haters: It's Not Bill Belichick's Fault That Rob Gronkowski Broke His Arm
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Holiday Gift Guide: For People Who Like Sports And Shirts
Sports are cool. Shirts are also cool. In the photo above, you can see couple of sports shirts. Cool. Do you know any shirts like that? Put them in the discussion below, please....
Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts For People Who Are Sad About The NHL Lockout
There is currently no NHL hockey to watch, and that makes a lot of people very sad. But the holiday season is a time to lift up your fellow man, and give him hope that the world is indeed a good place, even if there is no hockey (again). So let's come up with some gift ideas for the sad hockey fan ...
Holiday Gift Guide: Which Instant Throwbacks Are Your Favorite?
If you've watched commercials during national sporting events in the past week, you've noticed—the holidays are coming. But not all of us want mall jewelry or glimmering Lexuses with gargantuan velveteen ribbons atop them. Sometimes we just want sports things. So, starting now, we'll be asking you, ...
What Can NFL Player Polls Teach Us About What NFL Players Think Other People Think?
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This Is How The World Wound Up With That Famous Shirtless Mug Shot Of Johnny Manziel
We told you the other day all about Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, including his little arrest last June, when he was charged with three misdemeanors after a late-night fight in College Station. In a nutshell, Manziel got in a fight, a College Station municipal police officer broke up the fig...
Why Do We Let Kids Play Tackle Football?
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Skew Yourselves: Nate Silver Is Here To Answer Your Questions
Nate Silver—the baseball analyst/metapollster/scary math witch who has given us both the PECOTA player forecasting system and the indispensable FiveThirtyEight blog—is in the discussion below, awaiting your questions. Go buy his book, The Signal and the Noise. We predict that you'll like it. ...
The Tackling Technique Roger Goodell Says Will Make Football Safer. (It Won't.)
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MLB Hot Stove Apathy: The Real Secret Variable That (Almost) Predicted The Presidential Election
The "Redskins Rule" failed to pick the winner for second time in three presidential races, so it looks like everyone will have to pick a new random sports thing as their favorite election-prediction oracle. Instead of just choosing some random team's game, we decided to go to the sports site that re...
Linda McMahon's Failed Senate Campaign Left Husband Vince A Sad, Sad Man
Linda McMahon has spent nearly $100 million in failed attempts to be elected over the past two election cycles, only to find the voters of Connecticut thoroughly rejecting her. After losing out on the Senate seat to Christopher Murphy last night, Linda McMahon delivered the required concession spe...
76ers Forward And Romney Supporter Lavoy Allen Didn't Let Last Night's Election Results Stop Him From Macking
Lavoy Allen voted for Mitt Romney yesterday, so he was no doubt disappointed with how the election turned out. Permafaced actress Stacey Dash was also a Mitt Romney supporter, and was probably bummed out last night, too. Allen, however, tried to make the best of things, and saw last night as the pe...
Karl Rove In Denial, Melts Down On Fox News, Attempts To Get Network To Rescind Calling Election
It's been a weird night at Fox News, and it got even weirder in the moments after every network, wire service, and amateur mathematician called the election for President Obama. That's because Fox News contributor Karl Rove—who spent millions attempting to get Romney elected—bizarrely refused to a...