ac Page 951 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
UNLV Billboard Features Coach Who Left Two Years Ago
That's Bobby Hauck and Lon Kruger, inviting Rebels fans to buy tickets. Lon Kruger has been at Oklahoma since 2011....
The Time Eric Crouch Asked His Lineman To Spit In His Mouth
A reader alerted us to this story, which was written by former Nebraska quarterback and Heisman winner Eric Crouch for HuddlePass.com, a website featuring various first-person accounts from former college football stars about their playing days. Crouch's story is a pretty standard one about Week 1 j...
'Bama Synagogue Issues "No Spoilers" Warning For Yom Kippur SEC Games
Bad news for Jewish college football fans in Alabama: next week's Auburn-Mississippi St. and Alabama-Texas A&M games fall smack-dab in the middle of Yom Kippur. That means fans will be tied up with prayer services while the Tide try to avenge last year's loss to Johnny Football's Aggies and the Tige...
King Sun's Memorable Tupac Diss Record
I first heard this King Sun diss record late one Thursday night—or was it Friday morning?—on the Stretch and Bob KCR show. This was in the spring of 1996. It's my favorite of the East Coast-West Coast diss records that came out around that time. Man, I remember walking into Fat Beats the day Tupac d...
Junior High Coach Accused Of Throwing Baseballs At Players
It sounds like the old schoolyard game "butts up." Only with an adult throwing the ball at the kids. Also, it's a freaking baseball....
The 16 Fall Movies You Should Be Excited About: A Guide
Labor Day is the signpost every year that the sugary summer junk is behind us and that the nutritious square meal of awards season has finally arrived. That's the theory, anyway: In actuality, summer movies like Before Midnight and Fruitvale Station will be as well-received as any Oscar bait, and th...
Roll Tide
Our passionate Bama fan here is a Tennessee resident, proving once again that SEC fans are the worst. [Smoking Gun, via Spencer Hall]...
Jack Nicholson Is Retiring From Acting (Or He Is?)
Reportedly, that is. Black Book has the details. E! has a response....
Oh Hey, How Often Do You Change Your Sheets?
Generally it's you asking questions of me, but today we're going to have a bit of role reversal and wow, you really look quite fetching in my caftan! Also I'd like to ask how often you're changing your bed linens....
Learn To Hit Like Stan Musial From This Cool Old Vinyl Record
Used to be able to buy this 1963 record at Phillips 66 gas stations....
Young Giants Fan Donates Ball After Sad D-Backs Fan Misses Out On One
This little Diamondbacks fan—or more honestly, his dad—wasn't quick enough to nab a foul ball tossed into the crowd at Chase Field on Sunday. The little kid dealt with his disappointment by pulling his hat over his face so no one could see his sadness. Poor guy....
Alabama WR Quits Team For Roughly Six Hours
Senior wide receiver Kenny Bell announced he'd be leaving the Crimson Tide on Twitter one game into the season, saying he wanted to pay more attention to his children. It turned out to be a short retirement....
I Must Go On. I Can't Go On. I'll Go On.
Our man Mark Jacobson has a beautiful story on Sonny Rollins in the latest issue of Men's Journal. Rollins played with the great musical innovators of the mid-century—Parker, Monk, Dizzy, Miles....
You're All Right, Jack
The title is a riff on the Peter Sellers movie, I'm All Right, Jack. Now, check out Dan Jenkins on the 1975 Masters:...
When The Treadmill Makes You Hate What You Once Loved
I discovered something this week on the treadmill. God, the treadmill is just the worst. The absolute worst. That's not the discovery. Calling that a discovery is like saying Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. What I'm saying is: the Vikings were somehow involved in the manufacturing of a...
Oklahoma City Thunder Player Arrested On Domestic Abuse Charge
Shooting guard DeAndre Liggins of the Oklahoma City Thunder was jailed Saturday night after reportedly getting into an altercation with a woman that police believed to be his girlfriend....
Ray Lewis Still Not Making Any Sense
Ray Lewis thinks it was a conspiracy that turned the lights off at the Superdome during the Super Bowl last year. Lewis revealed his theory during filming for America's Game, an NFL Films series that discusses the previous Super Bowl with a few members of the winning team. This year, they spoke wit...
Redskins LB Tackles Two Bucs At The Same Time
The Maginot Line provided more protection than tackle Mike Remmers. At least the Germans had to waste time going around it. Remmers merely found himself in in the way of Rob Jackson, and suffered the consequences....