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Who's Smart And Good At Football? Presenting Your AP-<em>U.S. News</em> Scholar-Athlete Rankings
Is there any body in American higher education more unaccountable and capricious with other people's lives and millions of dollars than the BCS? Why, sure! This week brings a new round of made-up educational rankings from the otherwise essentially defunct U.S. News. (Did you know that No. 22 Boston ...

Charles Barkley Says Michael Jordan Should Buy A Dog, Then Maybe He Wouldn't Be So Angry All The Time
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Sir Charles also weighs in on Glen Rice's Great Alaskan Skeetout....

Dan Snyder Is Saving The World, According To Idiot
Someone let ESPN senior Jonas Brothers correspondent Lynn Hoppes out of the shallow end of the pool, and this is what happened. ...

Goldy Gopher Dancing To A Forgettable 80s Song Just Might Save Minnesota Football
Tipster Ryan sent us the above video, to which he added: "80's music and dancing gopher mascots. Embarrassing for Minnesota athletics." I'm not so sure. The University of Minnesota's football team has had little to savor for some time. Last week, head coach Jerry Kill suffered a seizure on the sidel...

Rafael Nadal Was For Playing Tennis This Week Before He Was Against It
Rafa took to the microphones to decry tennis's crowded calendar: just four days ago he was in the US Open final, giving him little time to fly to Spain and prepare for today's Davis Cup match against Richard Gasquet....

You're Not As Cool During A Hookup As You Think You Are
Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase three heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go....

Watch A Nervous MLS Rookie Recite A Spoken-Word Love Poem To Hope Solo
C.J. Sapong is a rookie forward for Sporting Kansas City, and he is creepily heartsick for goalie-dancer Hope Solo. So with the U.S. women's national team in town for Saturday's friendly against Canada, Sapong did what any tormented soul would do: he "stayed up late" and wrote her a spoken word lo...

Public School Forces Football Team To Forfeit Game Because Some Players Are Sexually Active
Kenwood High School, in Baltimore, Md., is full of young men who like to do what young men like to do: have sex and play sports. But because some of them did one, no one's allowed to do the other....

Hannah Cornett, The Surfer Grifter, Once Dated Tim Couch
Reader Jim (no, not the "Dave" from yesterday's Surfer Grifter story) calls our attention to a story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer from 2008, concerning Hannah Cornett, the very same Surfer Grifter. Apparently she worked for the Browns in the early 2000s, and while under their employ as a web design...

The Idea Of Paying College Athletes Is Having Its Moment
The aftershocks from "The Shame of College Sports," Taylor Branch's devastating cover story in The Atlantic, continue to ripple. Two other pieces are out today advancing the notion that college athletes deserve financial compensation. ...

Jim Leyland Is Finally Wearing A Fresh Pair Of Underwear
At some point during the Tigers' 12-game win streak, we unfortunately learned this week, manager Jim Leyland and hitting coach Lloyd McClendon stopped changing their underwear. Detroit lost to the A's 6-1 last night—still a partial victory for everyone else in the Tigers clubhouse....

"Wombshifter", And All The Other Inappropriate Things Mike Tyson Said About Glen Rice Humping Sarah Palin
If you want an intelligent take on Sarah Palin and Glen Rice, read this. If you want the take of a high school dropout working through his own sexual hang-ups, listen to Mike Tyson on ESPN Radio in Las Vegas. It's really a stunning piece of talk radio, or maybe performance art, or maybe just Tyson...

SprtsCntr: ESPN Licking Itself, Brought To You By Wendy's
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....

Here's Video Of Bill Belichick Cursing At Derrick Mason Before Shouting, "Can You Look At The Scoreboard?"
I've already recommended that you check out A Football Life, the NFL Films documentary that followed Coach Hoodie during the 2009 season. Of the many revelations into Belichick's persona, this clip of him cursing at then-Ravens receiver Derrick Mason received the most attention as soon as the piece ...

College Football In Mississippi Has Gone To The Dogs
Your morning roundup for Sept. 16, the day we found out soda fountains could be deadly. Photo via Mocksession. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

Watch An Agile Woman Juggle Five Balls With Her Hands And Feet
In this video that's titled "Selyna Bogino doing the 5 balls longest routine ever! XD," Italian acrobat Selyna Bogino apparently does the 5 balls longer than anybody — woman or man — has done it before....

Today In Great Quotes About Jayhawk Terrorism In Missouri
"In an emailed comment on the resolution, University of Kansas News Service Director Jill Jess said: 'A Jayhawk is a blue bird with a red head and a big yellow beak that wears boots. It would be hard to confuse it with anyone with terrorist intent, though we admit we have been terrorizing the Tiger...

Stories Like This Confirm That Cleveland Needs Carl Monday Now More Than Ever
"A Cuyahoga County sheriff's deputy was charged today with menacing and public indecency stemming from two summer incidents in the Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Reservation. Paul Lawrence, 32, is accused of masturbating in his car on June 12 and following two women on Aug. 29, a day he had call...

Jozy Altidore Scored A Nice Goal In His UEFA Europa League Match Today
UEFA's version of the NIT hoops tournament commenced today with 24 Europa League matches. Proud American striker Jozy Altidore provided the first of four goals that AZ Alkmaar would put up on Malmö FF....

Mississippi State Football Fans Make Up For Spelling Deficiencies With Classy T-Shirts
This "Go State: Bust Nutt Doggy Style" T-Shirt was so noteworthy that tipsters presented it from multiple vantage points. Tipster Sean B. drew everyone's attention to "lady in front row, hilarious."...