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Let Leo Pitch! Cubs Tempt Fate By Dissing Their Oldest Fan
Leo Hildebrand wants to throw out the first pitch at a Chicago Cubs game. And since the 104-year-old is one of the few living things old enough to have actually seen the Cubs win a World Series (the bristlecone pine and certain species of desert tortoise are the others), one would think that the tea...
Michael Vick Coming to a UFL Field in 2009?
Note the U. The UFL, United Football League, is a six team start-up league with decent backers—Mark Cuban among others. The UFL plans to begin play in 2009 (originally planned on a 2008 start) and would play all of their games on Fridays in the fall. Teams would be based in Los Angeles, San Francis...
Green Bay Television Station Failing At Hiding Its Brett Favre Separation Anxiety
After last week's Brett Favre ordeal mercifully came to an end in Green Bay, the Green Bay sporting press probablyfoolishly thought it could shift it's focus on to the Packers team that will actually represent their little calcium-rich hamlet of America this season. Though it appears post-Favre cove...
This Is The Problem With Live-Streaming Female Water Polo Photos
Whoops! Does this mean Yahoo! has to start using the NSFW tag throughout the Olympics? Well, congratulations to photographer William West of Getty Images for snapping this action shot during the titillating Australia/Greece women's water polo match-up. NBC should thank him too, as the ratings for t...
Craig Sager Wears Matching Thongs, Has a Blond Fetish, and Loves the Lithuanian Dance Team
Without a doubt Dan Steinberg has conducted the finest interview of the 2008 Olympics. (Honest to God, I just linked the fleshbot Nebraska photos the first time. Whew, that was close. You're safe, I promise.) If you've been watching the Olympics you've probably noticed that Sager isn't wearing his ...
Did The White Sox Just Win The Central?
So the White Sox lost Jose Contreras for the season on Saturday in a loss to Boston, falling out of first in the Central. That made Sunday's contest somewhat more than your run-of-the-mill game. And Chicago's 6-5, come-from-behind win over the Red Sox just may have put them back into first place for...
Olympic Pistol Chicks Are Scary, Inspiring
Olympic highlights from today ... or was it yesterday? Or possibly a few hours in the future. I'm just not sure ... There is possibly no Olympic event more random and pointless than 10-meter air pistol, unless it's "20-meter hurling a coconut," which will be a trial event in 2012. But could it also ...
Two University of Nebraska Wrestlers Featured In Gay Photo Shoot Sans Tights
Uh oh. The two wrestlers, Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan, are pictured nude on a gay p0rn site, fratmen.tv. Donahoe was a national champion in the 125 pound weight class in 2007. He finished third last year. Jordan is a junior. Now the Univeristy of Nebraska is investigating. And you thought trying t...
Gawker Media—Official Contest Rules
To provide fair and equal chance of winning to all Gawker Media readers, the following are the official rules for The Switch Contest ("Contest") on all Gawker Media websites ("Sites")....
Spanish Basketball Team Celebrates Trip to China With Slant-Eye Team Photo
Spain, patron saint of the New World, land of low-priced cerveza, Sergio Garcia's homeland, and where slant-eyed jokes by the Spanish national basketball team leave the entire country rolling on the floor with laughter. Those were the fourth grade days. Just imagine what would have happened if they...
You Taste Of America, Jason Lezak
There's no better motivation for an American in the Olympics than Frenchy getting in your face and predicting victory. "I will let you go, Ricky. But first, I want you to say ... 'I love crepes.' " Jason Lezak outsprinted Alain Bernard of France in the anchor leg as the U.S. men — Michael Phelps, Ga...
Morning Blogdome: He's Pretty Humble For A Guy In An Expensive Suit Making Pouty Faces For The Camera
• Tom Brady knows that he's just a handsome man chucking an oblong ball made of dead pig:" Look at the attention I get: It's because I throw a football. But that's what society values. That's not what God values. God could give a shit, as far as I'm concerned. He didn't invent the game. We did. I ha...
Live Morning SportsCenter Live Blog
Hannah Storm. Josh Elliott. And a bunch of highlights already seen last night. The debut of SportsCenter's new 9 a.m. slot gets its very special live blog, which you might be able to watch develop if you properly click on the Jump Of Kings....
A Sunday Full Of Walkoffs, Favre Runs A Lap And USA! USA! USA!
Each weekday morning Awful Announcing, video slash and grab extraordinaire of the sports blogosphere, gives us a visual rundown of everything you missed from the night before. If there's something sports-related you'd like to see with your coffee, shoot him an e-mail and let him know....
Oh, Sergio...
Padraig Harrington had just given Sergio Garcia the lead in the PGA Championship with just four holes to play when he bogeyed number 14 at Oakland Hills. It took exactly two holes for Garcia to return the favor in kind when he inexplicably went after the tightest pin on the golf course with his appr...
Rooting For The Ol' Stripes and Stars
As we head into the second full night of coverage, the medal drama is building and one more tennis star drops as Ana Ivanovic withdraws due to a thumb injury. Chicken pox felled a Canadian swimmer and Team USA won an explosive basketball game against China. Tonight, we have swimming finals and gymn...
State Supreme Court Justice Shows Bad Form
A New Jersey State Supreme Court Justice is being sued for allegedly using his title to intimidate school officials following a dispute between his son and one of his former high school football teammates at Haddonfield Memorial High School . The suit, filed by Conor Larkin, claims that Justice Rob...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while mourning the loss of Chef... • Drag Racing: NHRA Lucas Oil Nationals (7pm, ET) Men in heels driving cars? Cool! Oh, not that kind of drag? [ESPN2] • MLB: Cardinals art Cubs (8pm, ET) Hehe..Poo-holes. [ESPN] • Olympics: Various events (7pm, ET) Details to come. [NBC]...
Hookers and Blow Just Aren't The Newsmakers They Used To Be
Matt Jones comes back and nobody mentions blow? Or his arraignment on felony charges tomorrow? How dare they talk about football during a football game. All joking aside (because we all know how funny felony coke charges are), I'm not sure if this is a racial thing, or just uninformed analysts. Or t...
Diseased Poon Not Good For Fellow Olympians
Mama always said bad poon could spread diseases. According to sources, Canadian swimmer Victoria Poon has come down with chicken pox and is now being quarantined at a hospital in Beijing. Commence poon jokes....now....