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Manny Pacquiao Will Take A 45-55 Split, So It's Time For Floyd Mayweather To Stop Being A Baby And Fight Him Already
Pacquiao's going to fight Juan Manuel Marquez—yes, again. But every fight Pacquiao has taken for the last few years has something of "when are they going to get to the fireworks factory?" about it. When are we going to get the damn Mayweather fight already?...
<em>Vogue</em> Profiles A <em>Vogue</em>-Appropriate Version Of Tim Tebow
How does the nation's leading women's fashion magazine justify a profile of a homeschooled evangelical second-string football player? You Vogue him up, that's how. You make Tim Tebow into a style icon (when he's not) and a social butterfly who's eating up the New York party scene (when he's not). Yo...
Sleeping Female Croatian Volleyball Player Robbed By Masturbating Man
The Croatian women's national volleyball team was recently in the town of Rovinj for a European championship qualifier. Mateja Rajkovic, one of the players, says a man broke into her bungalow and robbed her while she slept. The man made off with 50 euros, but according to Rajkovic, he also made off ...
The Broncos Will Sit Peyton Manning When They Need To Throw The Ball A Long Way
Broncos backup QB Brock Osweiler was getting loose on the sideline late in their loss to Atlanta. If Denver could make a defensive stand, they would have received a punt deep in their own territory with just seconds remaining. Enough left for a Hail Mary, but Hail Mary time isn't Peyton Manning time...
Who Is The Blurry Guy In This Photo, And Why Did Manny Ramirez Steal His Pants? The Long Baseball Life Of "The Machete"
After Roger Clemens's first start in the Atlantic League, the Associated Press sent across the wires a photo of him in the middle of his lumpy follow-through, pitching to an out-of-focus batter at the plate. The Hall of Famer, of course, had dropped in to pitch for the Sugar Land Skeeters; his oppon...
Judge Orders Floyd Mayweather To Pay More Than $113,000 In Legal Fees To Manny Pacquiao
Unafraid boxer Floyd Mayweather recently was released from prison after two months, which means feverish speculation of when/whether/if he'll eventually fight Manny Pacquiao can begin anew in earnest. But before that any of that comes to pass, Mayweather will need check his couch cushions to make a ...
Which Rookie Quarterback Had The Most Poise After His Second Start?
Last week, Andrew Luck of the Indianapolis Colts showed the most poise out of all the rookie quarterbacks who played in Week 1, according to people who wrote about him. Did Luck maintain his grip on the poise title in Week 2? Or did any of the other four rookie quarterbacks—Robert Griffin III, Russe...
Atlanta 27, Denver 21: The Game In Two GIFs
The officiating in this game was an absolute disaster. Just brutal. It was as if Drew's column earlier today sprouted legs and was playing out on our televisions. There was a point where it really looked like things were going to boil over and shit was going to get out of hand. Shit did not get enti...
On His Blog, Teemu Selänne Says Gary Bettman "Is Certainly The NHL's Most Hated Person"
Teemu Selänne has been an NHL player for 20 years, but he's also been writing an occasional blog post for MTV3 (!) in Finland (!!) since July 2010. The Finnish Flash's blog had been quiet since late May, but today Selänne weighed in with some thoughts on the NHL lockout. A sample, after someone on R...
Manny Machado Faked Out The Orioles Announcers, Camera Crew, 26,076 Fans, And One Tampa Bay Ray
This incredibly perceptive play by 20-year-old Manny Machado, which ended the top of the ninth and preceded his leadoff hit and eventual game-winning score a few minutes later, is impressive in that it's so simple and fluid. It's born of pure, instinctual intellect, the kind that scouts salivate ove...
Banner At High School Football Stadium Has Regrettable Typo
Of all the letters in all the words on that banner, the Red Lion Area School District in central Pennsylvania just had to forget to include that one. The lesson here: Never underestimate the importance of quality pubic education....
Which Rookie Quarterback Had The Most Poise After His First Start?
Mark Sanchez was the king of "poise" during his rookie season in 2009. That year, you'd have been hard-pressed to find any writers using any other word to describe him (seriously, you would). Now, after just one game this season, five first-year quarterbacks—Robert Griffin III, Andrew Luck, Brandon ...
Libya-Algeria Soccer Brawl Featured A Perfect Flying Kick To The Head
It's qualifying for the Africa Cup of Nations, and yesterday Algeria met Libya in neutral Morocco (since Libya's still not one of the more stable countries.) An Algerian strike in the 88th minute broke a scoreless draw and gave the Desert Foxes an all-important "away" goal. As the whistle blew on fu...
The NFL's First Female Official Broke Up A Fake Fight
After the final whistle blew on a killer loss for the Rams, one they could have, maybe should have had to start the season an unlikely 1-0, tempers boiled over a bit. Rams guard Harvey Dahl shoved Ndamukong Suh to the ground, everyone started pushing, and shoving, and "hold me back, bro"-ing. It was...
The Return Of Peyton Manning: Your Sunday Night Football Viewing Guide
Pittsburgh at Denver: Usually I get a little pukey about "story lines" in big games. Football, by virtue of its rarity alone, is exciting enough without some contrived plot point forced down our gullets. However. I am legitimately interested to see how Peyton comes back and it will absolutely domina...
Florida State Didn't Cover Against Savannah State Because They Played With A Running Clock And Ended The Game Halfway Through
Yesterday, we talked about Savannah State football throwing itself on the altar of an increased budget for the school's athletic department; today, we see the absurd fallout that can result from a cupcake game no one is particularly invested in. The Tigers had been slaughtered 84-0 by Oklahoma State...
The Honey Badger Is In The Stands At LSU-Washington
That's Tyrann Mathieu sitting in the stands as Washington meets Mathieu's former team, LSU, in Death Valley. He looks relaxed, as does LSU, up very big in the third....
Deadspin's Sign of the Apocalypse
It was with no small degree of concern that Deadspin noted the lack of a Sign of the Apocalypse in this week's Sports Illustrated. Until August, the magazine had been chronicling the demise of Western civilization via sports news of the weird at least as far back as 1993, when it noted that "David C...
The Savannah State Athletic Director Sure Does Hate His Football Team
Or least that's the way it looks in the short-term. Partly as an investment in the future, Savannah State has offered itself up as a cupcake to far better teams this season, and has proven itself thus far a rich, artisanal cupcake, with delicate pink frosting and cinnamon accents. The program's fir...
Mike Gundy Says He Wasn't Running Up The Score When Oklahoma State Won 84-0
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: The Cowboys were going easy on Savannah State, they swear....