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Freshman Hits Half-Court Shot For Free Tuition
Congratulations to Markus Burden, an incoming freshman at Ball State. For hitting this half-court shot at the university's "Welcome Week," Burden wins a semester of out-of-state tuition, roughly $11,000....
Oscar Pistorius Indicted On Murder Charge
Double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius was indicted on charges of murder and illegal possession of ammunition on Monday in the death of Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot three times and killed this past Valentine's Day....
Halberstam Takes Down Patrick Ewing
David Halberstam was not a sports writer but he wrote about sports often. He was rarely vicious which makes this Page 2 column on Patrick Ewing stand out:...
Minor League Team Wins On Walk-Off Wild Pitch During Intentional Walk
Walk-off walks are entertaining, and walk-off wild pitches even more so, but how about a walk-off wild pitch during an intentional walk? Minor league baseball provides us with the best occurrences....
Jason Whitlock Played 20 Questions On Twitter
Jason Whitlock, rehired by ESPN this week, decided to play 20 questions about anything on Twitter. He kept answering questions after 20, which kind of defeated the purpose, but it was still an enjoyable time for all. Yes, there was a question involving The Wire....
How (And Why) To Poach Eggs: A Guide For The Haggard
Poaching eggs is a bit more complicated and delicate—these are nice ways of saying annoying—than frying them or scrambling them or hard-boiling them or throwing them at Rick Reilly, and so the question of how to poach them kinda naturally goes with the question of why to poach them. The true answer...
Terrible Person Grabs Foul Ball Away From Young Boy At Fenway
While much of the focus on last night's Yankees-Red Sox game landed on the Fenway faithful's treatment of A-Rod, the true villain in attendance was this gent who celebrated the achievement of grabbing a foul ball away from a little kid....
Chris Hansen Secretly Funded Campaign Against New Sacramento Arena
So it turns out that the guy who tried to buy the Kings and move them to Seattle is kind of a giant scumbag. Huh, how about that....
Charlie Manuel Takes His Shorti Hoagie And Walks Off Into The Sunset
The AP's Chris Szagola snapped a couple of photos of Charlie Manuel leaving Citizens Bank Park for the final time after being fired today as the Phillies' manager. I know it doesn't look like he's got a shorti hoagie in that bag. That's not the point. That plastic Wawa bag just makes these images th...
Here Is Michael Jordan's First Career Basket At UNC
Eye On Basketball unearthed this little gem today from YouTube's wayback machine. It's footage of a game that matched preseason No. 1 North Carolina against unranked Kansas on Nov. 28, 1981. It was the season opener at the Charlotte Coliseum. And it featured the first two collegiate shot attempts by...
José Iglesias Took A 95 MPH Fastball To The Dick
Will MLB players ever learn to wear cups?...
NBA Efficiency Rating Inventor Kills Self, Explains Via Website
Martin Manley, the former Kansas City Star contributor whose insight into sports made him a key component of that paper's sports section, committed suicide yesterday—and left a sprawling website to explain why....
Babe Ruth In The Funny Papers
My father turned 36 in 1973. My twin sister and I were 2 and for his birthday my mother gave him a book called Great Comics, a collection of classic comic strips syndicated by the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune. It featured Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Moon Mullins, Winnie Winkle, G...
Here, Queer: Canned
This here's a good one, case you've never read it. Pamela Colloff's 2005 Texas Monthly profile of basketball coach Merry Stephens:...
Does Not Compute. <em>Jobs</em>, Reviewed.
If Steve Jobs had made movies, Jobs is the kind of thing he might have done: It aspires to be innovative while it strives to be accessible and user-friendly. Focusing on a crucial period of Jobs's life rather than offering the standard cradle-to-grave portrait, this tries to be a somewhat unconventi...
Another Former Employee Sues Chivas USA For Discrimination
A former employee has filed a discrimination complaint against MLS team Chivas USA, claiming any non-Latino employee was harassed and squeezed out of the club. This follows on the heels of two Chivas USA coaches filing a suit that made similar claims....
Here's Jason Dufner's Cute New Puppy In The Wanamaker Trophy
Jason Dufner seems determined to enjoy his first win at a major for as long as possible, and you know what? Good for him. Honestly, it's kind of refreshing to observe the innocent joy he's been projecting all week, from sleeping with his trophy to putting his adorable new puppy in his trophy to rand...