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Rejoice: American Players Are Soccer's New Exploitable Resource
In April, Thomas DiBenedetto, a rich businessman from Boston who somehow emerged from the economic downturn unscathed, bought a controlling interest in AS Roma for around 60 million Euros. Pending approval, he'll be the first foreign majority investor in Serie A. One of his first action items is to ...
Bill Simmons, Big Swinging Dick
Here's a fun passage from Those Guys Have All the Fun, addressing Bill Simmons's two-week suspension over his tweeting in 2009. ...
ESPN Book Will Make Things Even More Uncomfortable Between Michelle Beadle And Erin Andrews
Michelle Beadle freely admits that she's not a fan of Erin Andrews. "Everyone who knows me knows that," she tells me. It hasn't affected any of the hierarchy at ESPN at this point, but Beadle's admission in the new ESPN oral history that she watched Erin's peephole vid could put the WWL in the preca...
CBS Also Passes On Awful Sitcom About Mark Schlereth's Life
CBS revealed its 2011-12 primetime schedule today. We already knew it would lack the wretched Colin Cowherd pilot, but we now know that it doesn't have that god-awful Schlereth show either....
Who Wants To See Daniel Tosh Get Punched In The Face By Manny Pacquiao?
We don't really know who Daniel Tosh is, but we are vaguely aware that he has a Comedy Central show called tosh.0 and that a lot of people think that both he and his show are awful. So we'll assume that a lot of people will want to see him get punched in the face by the best boxer in the world....
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Wants A Statue, Damn It
Perhaps emboldened by Bill Russell and Jerry West finally receiving well-deserved statues, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is clamoring for an unmerited one of his own....
Washington State Football Refs Punished For Using Pink Whistles
The Washington Officials Association is punishing 143 football referees in the Pacific Northwest Football Officials Association (PNFOA) for wearing pink whistles to support breast cancer awareness and for donating their game checks to the cause. The PNFOA, which had been warned that the plan would b...
Let The ESPN Freakout Begin
Back in August, we wrote that the forthcoming ESPN book, Those Guys Have All The Fun, will make many ESPN employees crap their pants. Well, here comes the onslaught: The book's publisher has lifted the embargo on releasing details from the book. You'll certainly hear more about the "rowdiest frathou...
Dirk Nowitzki, Boring Assassin
While you watch this video of every single Dirk Nowitzki free throw from last night, chew on this: Is it possible that Dirk, long-hailed as an elite NBA player, might have been underrated and unappreciated these past 13 years? Is it possible that Dirk, in a final four showcasing Kevin Durant, Derr...
This Video Suggests That David Kahn Was Just Trying To Make A Funny
Yes, last night David Kahn broke the funny rule that jokes that are even vaguely about kids with terrible diseases and/or widows are never really funny, but the actual tone of the remarks he made last night — which have since given rise to conspiracy theories, a load of criticism, a Twitter trend,...
George H.W. Bush Quiets Any Excitement Anyone Was Able To Muster For MLB All-Star Game
This may also mark the first time in H.W.'s 86 years on earth that he has uttered the phrase "dot-com." Go, Astros....
Facekicker 2: The Kickening
Standard Liege midfielder Mehdi Carcela is in the hospital with a concussion and facial fractures, after being kicked in the face in the Belgian league playoffs. It was accidental, as most soccer highlights are, but still scary. Which doesn't mean you shouldn't mentally add the "Boom! Headshot!" a...
Most Pitchers Would Not React The Way Indians Closer Did After Allowing Inconsequential Run
Your morning roundup for May 18, the day your bros realized they shouldn't have done that, man. Above: Chris Perez makes his case to be the real-life Kenny Powers. Video via The Dugout Sports Show....
David Kahn Sort Of Accuses Stern Of Fixing Lottery So Gilbert's Sick Kid Would Win
So we told you about Dan Gilbert's son, who won the draft lottery tonight, but was born with neurofibromatosis, a disease that means tumors can grow throughout his body without warning....
Dan Gilbert Has The Strangest Entourage In The NBA
Yes, perhaps you're already aware of young Nick Gilbert, the fellow in the front holding the jersey, who's blown up the web this evening. His father's Cavs won the draft lottery on low odds, and young Nick brought them luck....
New Bits From ESPN Book: "A Lot Of Drugs," "Quite A Bit Of Screwing"
Entertainment Weekly has some new snippets from Miller and Shales' forthcoming ESPN book, Those Guys Have All The Fun. Publisher Little, Brown lifted its embargo on writing about the book earlier today....
Jason Whitlock Is Trying To Get America Working Again, And You Are Ungrateful
Way back in August, during his Last Stand In Kansas City, Jason Whitlock told radio host Nick Wright that "Democracy's almost already dead."...
For Just $3,000, You Can Own LeBron's Japanese Handprint
When you think of LeBron James, what's the first thing that comes to mind? If you are precisely no one, the answer is $3,000 Japanese handprints. But, lo, a presumably fine fellow from Upper Deck passed along a press release today announcing the sale of those very handprints. There are only 26. In t...
Your NBA Draft Lottery/Thunder-Mavs Game One Open Thread
Someone's dreams will be crushed tonight. Either they will be David Kahn's, when he and the Wolves lose the lottery, or they will be Kyrie Irving's, when he realizes there's a 60.5 percent chance that Minnesota (the Land of 10,000 Point Guards), Cleveland, or Toronto winds up with the first pick. Or...
Your Lightning-Bruins Game Two Open Thread
In Game One Saturday night, Tampa Bay blitzed the Bruins, scoring three goals in a span of 90 seconds in the first period, winning 5-2....