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Hines Ward Is One Of The Stars With Whom People Will Dance
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: Ward on his DWTS chances....
Hockey Player Misses A Check, Sails Directly Through Sheet Of Plexiglas
Minor league hockey player Patrick Bordeleau of the Lake Erie Monsters missed a hit and slammed straight through the Plexiglas on Friday night. Bordeleau went through the entire pane, raining down shattered glass and hellfire all over the scorer's bench....
Brett Favre's Dong Shines At Mardi Gras: A Deadspin NOLA Correspondent Report
Deadspin's NOLA/Parade correspondent, Christian J. Sauska, was summoned to file a report on the Brett Favre penis float pulled off by Le Krewe d'Etat. This is what he turned in....
The NFLPA's Nuclear Option Keeps Hopes For Football Alive
Tucked neatly inside today's Monday Morning QB is Jim Trotter's report on the tense moments leading up to Thursday's original lockout deadline, and one player who — complete with throat-slashing gesture — jumped the gun on decertification. But what's most fascinating, as a seven-day extension ticks ...
Quiet Little Accounting Professor Gets Honored At Halftime, Ejected From Game
Maybe not so quiet. After being honored on the court at halftime of George Washington's senior day game Saturday, GW professor Robert Kasmir went from feted donor to boisterous troublemaker, getting kicked out of the game for verbally abusing the refs....
We Are All Dave McKenna XXXII
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit gets curb-stomped by a judge. For your consumption today we have a debate between two gentlemen at CSNwashington.com regarding the legacy of Clint...
Tom Brady's Ponytail Is The Most Important Football News Of The Week
Lockout? Mediation? Who gives a shit. Brady's wearing a scrunchie!...
Greg Jennings Responds To Fan's Religious Experience As Greg Jennings On Madden
Back in October in the virtual realm, Packers WR Greg Jennings scored a 99-yard touchdown on a broken leg in Madden. The gamer's voice-over went viral — it has been viewed over four million times on YouTube — but Jennings himself hadn't yet responded to the most famous play of his career. At ESPN ...
Don King Embroiled In Knockdown Court Battle With Puerto Rican Taco Stand
Having tired of fighting Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis in court, Don King has set his sights on a new opponent – Delia Esquilín-Mendoza, the owner of a taco shop in Puerto Rico. On March 1 2003, Delia's Tacos intercepted a closed-circuit transmission of the Roy Jones Jr.- Jon Ruiz fight and deprived K...
Front Row At The Spurs Game Is Awesome Until Ron Artest Spills Coffee In Your Face
This Spurs fan, identified only as "Bob," sure picked the wrong Spurs game to sit court-side for free in a white Oxford! Bob, to his credit, was very understanding about the coffee-in-face situation, even when Lisa Salters attempted to one-up him with yet another harrowing tale of gravity in the s...
The Broken Phenom, The Overzealous Enforcer, And Some New Ammo For The Anti-Fighting Crowd
Try to justify the institution of the enforcer in hockey to an outsider, and you'll likely pull out the usual arguments. It's about protection, about fear, about retribution. So yes, on a basic level, it's about pain. But it's never, never about injury. So with two players still out in the wake of a...
A Bad Night In Newark, Redeemed By A Single Punch
NEWARK — The fights Saturday night were in Newark. Not in the actual stadium, the Prudential Center, but next door, in a big, boxy, white warehouse where the New Jersey Devils practice. The ice rink was covered with a green, turf-like carpet that wasn't quite sized properly, resulting in large carpe...
Miami Heat Crunch Time Highlights Are Quite Grim
An enterprising fan put together a reel of the Heat's shots with the game in the balance. It's got more iron than a foundry worker on steak night. (Warning: Soulja Boy ahoy.)...
Wade And LeBron Pretend They're Invisible After Another Crushing Loss
Your morning roundup for March 7, the day the Times informed us that Hollywood stars are "insulated from the consequences of their bad behavior."...
The Brains Behind Jägermeister Have Gone To Heaven
Please raise a shot glass to Günter Mast, who died last week of heart failure at 84 years young. Mast's tombstone should read, "Brought Excellence To The World One Bottle Of Jägermeister At A Time." Germans consider Mast a "marketing genius." Jäger's current boss says he's "one of the top businessm...
We Are All Dave McKenna XXXI
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit gets Carl Showalter-ed....
Let's See What Former NHL Enforcer Donald Brashear Is Up To
Last week, the New York Times featured long-time NHL enforcer Donald Brashear's current lot in life: "playing in the rough-and-tumble Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey because he still loved the game." The story chronicled a brawl involving Brashear and opponent Trois-Rivières goalie....
One Sentence Tells You All You Need To Know About The Miami Heat's State Of Mind
Per Chicago Breaking Sports, "The Bulls swept the season series from the Heat Sunday afternoon with a dramatic 87-86 victory. Joakim Noah switched onto LeBron James and forced a miss, which the Heat rebounded. Dwyane Wade's baseline jumper at the buzzer was short and Keith Bogans rebounded."...
Amar'e Stoudemire Hates The Mormons, He Hates Them Not
On Friday, New York Knick Amar'e Stoudemire had some choice twords to type about BYU's treatment of Brandon Davies. Specifically, "Don't ever go to BYU, they kick a Young Educated (Black)Brother OUT OF SCHOOL. The kid had premarital sex. Not suspended, Not Release. Wow!"...
Man U Player Suffers "Horrific Injury That Cut To The Bone"
It wasn't quite Lawrence Taylor meets Joe Theismann's leg, but Manchester United's Nani suffered a pretty gnarly leg injury during today's 3-1 loss to Liverpool....