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No One Knows Exactly How Boxing Broke Ken Norton's Brain
LAS VEGAS—Ken Norton never fell down in 39 rounds of professional boxing with Muhammad Ali. But Ken Norton did fall down on Jan. 23, 2012, while posing for a picture after a press conference at the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas. I saw it happen. Ken Norton, the esteemed special guest...
Does The Success Of An NFL Replay Challenge Depend On Which TV Network Is Broadcasting The Game?
NBC's 40 cameras should give officials an unprecedented number of angles to analyze in the occasion a replay challenge is issued during Sunday's Super Bowl. While it makes sense that the biggest game of the season would have more replay resources, there are also differences in the video coverage of...
20 Rules For Your Super Bowl Party
Originally published Jan. 29, 2009....
Kobayashi Almost Pukes, Smiles At The Cameras, Obliterates Wing Bowl Record
Philadelphia's biggest eaters didn't stand a chance this morning against the superhuman maw of Takeru Kobayashi, who set a new Wing Bowl record by eating 337 chicken wings. The old record of 255 wings—set last year by Joey "Super" Squibb—was doomed by the end of the second round, making the final a ...
How <em>The New York Times</em> Fumbled Its Case Against The Yale Quarterback
Last week, The New York Times told a new story about how Yale quarterback Patrick Witt's candidacy for a Rhodes Scholarship ended. While the public was following the drama of Witt declining his Rhodes interview to play in the Harvard-Yale game, the Times reported, the Rhodes Trust and Yale had suspe...
"They're Just Waiting Until We Die": Former NFL Players Suing The League Describe Its Indifference Toward Injuries
On a coffee table at his suburban Dallas home, Tony Dorsett recently laid out two pages of color-coded images for a reporter from the Associated Press, saying they show how his brain is slowly dying. The images were brain scans, and Dorsett said doctors told him the red parts indicate his brain's l...
The Prospects For Craig James's Senate Campaign Are Getting Even Worse
"He is by far one of the most hated men in West Texas." Now that's a catchy campaign slogan. [The Post Game]...
By Bolting For The Tampa Bay Bucs, Greg Schiano Is Fulfilling Rutgers's Football Dreams
Adam Schefter is reporting that Greg Schiano and the Buccaneers have reached terms on a five-year deal that makes Schiano Tampa Bay's next head coach. But by leaving Rutgers in the lurch with National Signing Day for football recruits coming next week, Rutgers will be right where it always wanted t...
Madonna's Halftime Act Will Reportedly Be "Bringing Gay To The Super Bowl"
At least that's what the New York Daily News' gossip moles overheard one of her dancers say at a party the other night. But before James Dobson can shift uncomfortably in his chair to craft a press release, somebody really ought to tell him Madonna's 20 years behind the times....
Billy Cundiff Rushed His Kick Because Of An Error On The Gillette Stadium Scoreboard
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Things That Killed Joe Paterno, According To The Internet
• "Penn State" • "that Penn State scandal" • "Onward State" • "Twitter" • "ESPN ... with sensational journalism" • "Trustees" • "The Media" • "Jerry Sandusky" • "the Board of Trustees and the media and Sandusky" • "You" (meaning Gov. Tom Corbett) • "The, 'Justice', system" • "Society" • "being fired...
Before It's Made Public, Louis Freeh's Independent Investigation Of Penn State Will Be Reviewed By Penn State
That's according to what two members of the university's Faculty Council who had met with Freeh last week told ESPN. Freeh, the former director of the FBI, had promised "complete independence" when he was hired by the school in the weeks after the Jerry Sandusky scandal broke. This is from ESPN:...
How Could Penn State's Trustees Have Been Blindsided By The Sandusky Case?
Thirteen of the 32 members of Penn State's Board of Trustees sat down with The New York Times yesterday to finally tell their side of the story. The resulting published narrative walks us through how the board reacted in the immediate aftermath of the release of the Jerry Sandusky grand jury presen...
Joe Biden Congratulates The San Francisco Giants "On Their Way To The Super Bowl"
Like everyone, we love a good Joe Biden gaffe—especially when it's about sports....
Craig James's Senate Campaign Is Going About As Poorly As You Expected It To Go
The Houston Chronicle has the former ESPN analyst polling lower than Michele Bachmann in Iowa in his run for a Texas U.S. Senate seat. When James made his intention to run known last month, his "name recognition" figured to be among his assets. So how's that working out?...
"Am I Sick? Are We All Sick?": Overwrought Things The Media Wrote To Auburn's PR Guy During Cam Newton's Wild 2010 Season
A few months ago, we asked Auburn for all correspondence between the media and the football team's spokesman, Kirk Sampson, during the Tigers' 2010 season. We weren't looking for anything specific; we only wanted to get a sense of what it's like on the inside when the press descends on one story—in ...
Oh, Dwight Howard Decided He's Now Open To Playing For The Clippers Too
I bet, when you heard that Dwight Howard asked for a trade from Orlando to the Lakers, Mavericks, or Nets, you thought he was a front-runner. (OK, the Nets aren't so "front," but they do offer nearly unlimited access to Jay-Z and Howard could live in Manhattan.) You thought Dwight Howard only wanted...
If You Want To Participate In A Futile, Bizarre Contest/Giveaway, The Carolina Hurricanes Have You Covered
From Facebook: "Guess the Number: Jeff Skinner is thinking of a number between 1 and 150,000. What number is it? Closest guess by 7 p.m. to the correct number wins an All-Star Game pole banner signed by Skinner, Staal, Ward & McBain. One guess per person." Hockey!...
Penn State's New President Doesn't Think This Is Penn State's Scandal
Rodney Erickson, the new president of Penn State, is taking questions from concerned alumni this week at a series of townhall-style meetings. Though he's promised a new era of openness and transparency, Erickson displayed plenty of evasiveness and contradiction even before he set out for Pittsburgh...