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Rick Santorum Secures The All Important Carlos Baerga Endorsement
Here's a fun little jaunt into the political world. Rick Santorum is currently campaigning in Puerto Rico for the primary on Sunday, where 23 delegates will be at stake. Santorum lost one delegate, but managed to unearth Carlos Baerga as a replacement....
Here's Video Of Police Arresting A Family That Chanted Prayers And Danced Naked Around A High School Parking Lot
The video above shows the scene earlier this afternoon outside Upper Darby High School in suburban Philly. The footage was sent to us by a reader, and it looks and sounds like it was filmed by a student inside a classroom at the school. As the scene unfolds, the students watching from inside the s...
The Jets Have Decided To Push Mark Sanchez By Signing... Drew Stanton?
Remember back in January when an anonymous Jet said of Mark Sanchez, "We have to bring in another quarterback that will make him work at practice. He's lazy and content because he knows he's not going to be benched," and all Jets fans (and management) nodded and agreed that finding such a quarterbac...
Mike Woodson Says Carmelo Wasn't The Problem, But He Is The Solution
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: Get ready for more of the same, Knicks fans!...
Watch Creighton's Grant Gibbs Inbound The Ball Off An Alabama Guy's Back And Score
These are always great. Grant Gibbs goes off Nick Jacobs's lumbar for the easy layup, giving us the rare and wonderful highlight/lowlight combo. (Creighton won the game by a point.) Clark Kellogg calls it a "smart schoolyard play," which raises the question: What kind of schoolyard game features i...
Andrew Bynum On Kobe: "You're Always Having Issues With Him If You're Playing Poorly"
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: Everyone's scared of angry Kobe....
Report: Mike D'Antoni Quit Because James Dolan Wouldn't Trade Carmelo For Deron Williams
Oh, you didn't think Mike D'Antoni would go in peace, did you? You didn't think this story would pass without details of hilarious standoffs between D'Antoni and Jimmy Dolan, did you? And you didn't think Mike D'Antoni would leave without all his money, did you?...
Mike D'Antoni Resigns As Knicks Coach
At 1:44, we received an email saying Mike D'Antoni was stepping down as Knicks coach. It supposedly came "straight from the D'Antoni family," but we hadn't dealt with the source before, couldn't confirm, and wasn't particularly the kind of thing that's worth getting wrong....
Linsanity Was Unbelievable; Carmelodrama Is Just Incomprehensible
There was no Knicks game last night. But the Knicks—the doomed, imploding Knicks—are today's big sports news in New York, even if Carmelo Anthony hasn't really requested a trade, even if Mike D'Antoni is secure in his coaching job*, even if the last game the team played was a tight road loss in Chic...
The IRQ Car Decal: Noble Or Horrible?
I hate Euro Decals. HATE THEM. They are the fucking scourge of the highways: one goddamn SUV after another with some precious OBX circle sticker planted somewhere above the trunk handle. People like slapping Euro decals on their car because they like letting you know where they spend their leisure t...
Today In An Angry White Guy Totally Tried To Crash A Bus When It Missed His Stop News
"According to deputies Robert Galantine, 49, grabbed the steering wheel twice while the bus was moving in an apparent attempt to get the driver to exit the freeway. Galantine reportedly believed the driver was supposed to exit and demanded he get off the freeway, Chacon told the OC Register. During...
Fat Chipper Jones May Or May Not Be Fat, But He Reportedly "Looks Terrible"
The good news is that Chipper Jones is officially seven pounds lighter than his 2011 playing weight. Now comes the rest of the news. His knee hurts. He's hitless in eight at-bats and has missed five games this spring. A scout told Jon Heyman of CBS Sports he "looks terrible" and that he seems to be ...
Man Bites Off Part Of Coach's Ear After Middle School Basketball Game
This one comes to us from Springfield, Mass., where 34-year-old Timothy Forbes turned himself in yesterday on a series of charges for allegedly starting a fight after a middle school Catholic Youth Organization basketball game. Police have identified Forbes as an assistant coach with the Springfield...
AHL Player Turns Into Crazy Person, Decides To Fight Everybody And Their Goalie
Steve MacIntyre is one of those guys who's always up and down from the NHL, and garners more penalty minutes than scoring chances. So, even with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, he's exactly the sort you'd expect to completely lose his mind and challenge the entire opposing team to a fight. All...
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Los Angeles Little League Stays Alive With Surprise Donation From Strip Club [UPDATE]
Jet Strip, which bills itself as "LA's Friendliest Gentlemen's Club," put $1,200 in the Lennox Little League's stirrup socks after the league was hit with a sharp increase in regulations and fees from the local school district that owns the fields it uses. An additional $1,600 in donations from loca...
European Women's Chess Tournament Bans Excessive Cleavage
The introduction of a dress code limiting the cleavage of lady chess players at first seems repressive....
Carmelo Anthony Did Not Want J.R. Smith On The Knicks
J.R. Smith has made quite the impression since signing with the Knicks last month. He's shooting 37 percent from the field and has already been fined $25,000 for tweeting a picture of the "girl with the biggest ass ever." But it's not like the Knicks weren't warned. The New York Post reports that Ca...
Greg Jennings Tells SXSW Panel That NFL Players Really Do Care About Fantasy Football
As everyone knows, come this time of year Austin, TX is the Panel For Just About Anything Pop-Culturally-Imaginable Capital of the World. Green Bay Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings was present for one such panel—on fantasy sports. During the round table discussion, Jennings admitted that players...
Florida State, Vanderbilt, And Michigan State Are Going Dancing, But They Would Have Been Anyway
This brings to a close our series highlighting teams celebrating their conference championships, and like most televised entertainment, it comes to a somewhat anticlimactic end. Sure, FSU won the ACC for the first time ever, and Vanderbilt won the SEC tournament for the first time since 1951 (thou...
St. Bonaventure Is Going Dancing
The past ten years have been mostly forgettable for St. Bonaventure, the tenure's nadir being a 2-26 season in 2005 that came in the wake of scandal and suicide. Last season's 16-15 record was the first time the Bonnies finished above .500 since 2002, and their last NCAA appearance was in 2000....