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Paul Ryan Allegedly Ran His One And Only Marathon "On A Whim" After Three Weeks Of Training
We're all aware Paul Ryan is in very good shape, as a longtime devotee to P90X, and his feats of athletic impressiveness are becoming well known. He's run a marathon! He's climbed mountains! Except that's where the facts have been getting fuzzy as of late. The marathon kerfuffle, which happened when...
Mike Rizzo Says You People With Opinions On Stephen Strasburg Only Know 10 Percent Of The Story
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: Leave the shutdown decisions to the experts....
Arkansas Interim Head Football Coach John L. Smith Files For Bankruptcy
Arkansas football coach John L. Smith, thrust into the interim role after Bobby Petrino's midlife crisis, is facing a crisis of his own after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in an Arkansas court today....
The Knicks' New Uniforms Contain A Hidden Threat
The Knicks haven't been particularly coy about leaking the designs for their new jerseys. Two weeks, ago, there were the screenshots from an NBA 2K12 preview, and a league source quickly confirmed their authenticity. Yesterday, Amar'e Stoudemire showed up wearing the new uni on Live! With Kelly And ...
Chris Perez Drops Some Truth Bombs, Calls The Indians Cheap
There is, perhaps, no unhappier player than a closer on a crappy team. His one marquee statistic, saves, is all-important come contract time. But if a team's not winning, he's not getting the opportunities, and that'll hurt him in his free agency winter. So Craig Calcaterra's theory that Chris Perez...
Photos From The Paralympics Just Won't Stop Inspiring The Shit Out Of You
In 2001 both of CART and F1 driver Alex Zanardi's legs were sheared off in this violent crash. He would drive again, and win, but in 2007 he made the decision to reinvent himself as a para-cyclist....
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Report: Former Cleveland Browns Owner Art Modell Is Gravely Ill [UPDATE]
Sad news out of Baltimore tonight as Jim Donovan of WKYC in Cleveland is reporting that Art Modell, the former Browns owner who became infamous for moving the franchise to Baltimore after the 1995 season, is in a Baltimore-area hospital and that his "vital organs are failing."...
Dwyane Wade Says The Lakers Getting A Bunch Of Stars Is Good For The NBA
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: Superteam bro-love forever....
Bristolmetrics: <i>SportsCenter</i> Thinks You Can't Get Enough Of Roger Clemens
This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week....
Jerry Sandusky's Attorney Wants To Bring His Lawyerin' Act To Television
It's been nearly three months since Jerry Sandusky was convicted of nearly all of the pedophilia charges against him, and in all that time there's been nary a wink out of Lawyerin' Joe Amendola, Sandusky's primary defense attorney. We gotta admit: We kinda miss the old lug....
An NFL Player's View Of The Replacement Refs: They're As Bad As You Think
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Sean Payton Keeps His Play-Calling Sharp By Running Up The Score On Sixth-Graders
Fledgling blues keyboardist Sean Payton has to sit out this season as New Orleans Saints head coach following this summer's bounty scandal, but that doesn't mean he's been exiled from all football activities everywhere. In fact, Payton hopes to keep his play-calling chops in game shape by helping ou...
Koby Clemens Will Likely Catch His Father's Next Start For The Sugar Land Skeeters
As we first reported last week, the Roger Clemens Magical Mystery Comeback Tour will continue this Friday in Sugar Land, Texas, as the hometown Skeeters take on the Long Island Ducks. Now, it appears that for his second start, Skeeters ace Roger Clemens may have a familiar face framing his pitches b...
Rex Ryan Won't Make Any More Guarantees, But Declares These Jets The Best Team He's Ever Coached
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: So the Jets either make the Super Bowl, or they underperform....
Story About LeBron Promising Liverpool A Vegas Party Was Too Fake For Even The British Tabloids To Stand Behind
Liverpool is...not having the best of starts. The high-priced, high-expectation club has gotten out of the gate at 0-2-1, which is only the second-most disastrous performance of the year for a Fenway Sports Group team. But another Reds owner was reportedly not so sanguine about the results. LeBron J...
Cristiano Ronaldo Has A Sad
Oh noes! Ronaldo is "sad," and no one knows why. Not his teammates, not his bosses, and surely not the media, who have speculated that it could be anything from dissatisfaction with his contract to missing out on Player of the Year award to rifts in the locker room to the anniversary of his father's...
Why Your Team Sucks 2012: Dallas Cowboys
Some people are fans of the Dallas Cowboys. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Dallas Cowboys. This 2012 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read the other Why Your Team Sucks 2012 previews here....
How Tall Are Nick Saban's Shoe Inserts?
It's pretty easy to find Nick Saban's height: Saban was a defensive back for the Kent State Golden Flashes for the 1970, 1971, and 1972 seasons and also played for the baseball team in 1972. Every year and for both teams, his height and weight were listed at 5-foot-6, 185 lbs. So he's about three a...
Another Fan Dies At A Football Game, This Time After Falling From Upper Level To Lower Level While Celebrating A Touchdown
Isaac Grubb, of Lenoir City, Tennessee, died on Friday night after falling over a 33-inch balcony railing in the Georgia Dome and dropping to the lower level. Grubb fell on another man who was in attendance, but that fan only suffered minor injuries. The Facebook page of an Isaac Grubb from Lenior C...