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Ole Miss Football Coach Engages In Some Revisionist History
The picture you see above was sent from Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze's Twitter account today, along with the inspiring hashtags #HottyToddy, #DoSomethingSpecial, and #WinTheDay. What a great way to recall the storied legacy of the Ole Miss football program! Except, of course, for the fact that ev...
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ESPN's Darren Rovell And The Fitness Model: A Brief History [Update]
May 11, 2009: Darren Rovell writes about Nora Tobin, a model he's never heard of whom he saw in an advertisement on his CNBC blog:...

Minivan Gets Huge Air In This Russian Car Accident
This is the latest horrible wreck brought to you by Russians' predilection for dashboard cameras. ...

Personal Best
From Pauline Kael's 1982 review of one of the great sports movies:...

Grizzlies Couldn't Stop Or Score On The Spurs, So They Got Blown Out
The Memphis Grizzlies, everyone's new favorite team to win the Western Conference finals and get to the NBA Championship and perhaps maybe beat the Miami Heat to a Three 6 Mafia soundtrack, just got lit up by the old-ass Spurs, 105-83. It didn't even feel that close, save for a cute third-quarter ru...

Roy Hibbert's Block On Carmelo Anthony Last Night Was A Work Of Art
While the narrative from last night's series-seizing win for the Pacers over the Knicks has mostly been Lance Stephenson's inexplicable 25-point, 10-rebound performance, the highlight of the evening was unquestionably Roy Hibbert's manhandling of a Carmelo Anthony attempt at the rim....

The Charlotte NBA Team Might Rather Be The Hornets Again
During its short 25 years in the NBA, the Hornets moniker has proven to be the league's Johnny Cash — it's been everywhere, man. Born in Charlotte, transplanted to New Orleans in 2001, bivouacked in Oklahoma City for two post-Katrina seasons, back to New Orleans for the past six seasons, then banish...

Help! How Do I Get That Old-Man-Pee Smell Out Of My Bathroom?
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her....

Brownsville Bum
Here's W.C. Heinz's classic True magazine story on Bummy Davis (Jimmy Breslin called it the best magazine story ever written):...

Great Non-Crack-Smoking Moments In Rob Ford, Crack-Smoking Mayor
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford had a knack for capturing the attention of the internet even before it was revealed that he is a big fan of smoking crack. Let's take a look back at more innocent times, when Ford entertained us with bumbling antics that did not involve smoking crack. ...

Greg Oden Is On The Comeback Trail, And He Looks "Unbelievable"
Remember Greg Oden? He used to play basketball. He'd like to play basketball again....

The Kings Are Staying Home, But The NBA Is Still Rigged Against Them
Originally published in Bloomberg View....

The Kings Are Staying In Sacramento
The Maloofs are out. According to the Sacramento Bee, the brothers came out of hiding long enough to to sell the Kings to a group for $535 million. The group, led by Silicon Valley billionaire and Golden State Warriors minority owner Vivek Ranadive, will be keeping the team in Sacramento. The deal i...

Knicks Beat Pacers To Force Game 6, Ruin Everyone's Saturday Night
Of all the NBA conference semifinals, including the Grizzlies' and Heat's respective molly whopping of the Thunder and Bulls, the Knicks-Pacers series is by far the worst. We held out hope that Indiana would be able to travel to Madison Square Garden and blow out the Knicks by like seven to put this...

When You Try To Dunk On Tyson Chandler, This Can Happen
Pacers guard Lance Stephenson tried to get cute near the end of the second quarter when he elevated for what would've been a vicious tomahawk dunk in traffic over New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler. It even looked for a second like he had a chance. He didn't....

Here's What You Would See If A Grizzly Bear Was Eating Your Face
Biologist Brad Josephs recently planted a GoPro camera out in the Alaskan wilderness, hoping to capture some up-close footage of bears for a BBC nature show. He ended up getting much more than he bargained for. ...

Former NASCAR Driver Dick Trickle Dead In Apparent Suicide
As first reported by ESPN's Ryan McGee, former short-track superstar and NASCAR fixture Richard "Dick" Trickle was found dead today, of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 71....

Phil Jackson Finally Compares Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant
Phil Jackson had the savvy and good fortune to coach two of the greatest players the NBA has ever known—both 2-guards, both brilliant sociopaths. But for the first time, Jackson writes about how the two measure up against each other....

Which NFL Draft Expert Had The Dumbest Mock Draft?
Republished with permission from Pundit Tracker....
