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Here's An Unverified Story About Stephen A. Smith Yelling In A Restaurant

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A Florida high school hopes to confuse football opponents by blinding them with their uniforms....

Kid's Sign At Phillies Game: "If I Can Beat Cancer, You Can Beat The Astros"

This year's Astros team has drawn plenty of unfavorable comparisons, but now we finally can add one worse than the '62 Mets to the list: childhood cancer. A kid at last night's Philly-Houston game was spotted holding the above sign, which, considering the incredible strength required for a child to ...

Stephen A. Smith Is Recording Sleepy Video Messages To Skip Bayless From His Bed

This is presumably in reference to something Stephen A. Smith predicted during First Take today, regarding the Packers defeating the Bears on Thursday Night Football. I hope so, because this video message, when considered in any other context, is honest-to-God nightmare fuel. See you in the mornin...

Maybe The Dodgers' Woes Can Be Linked To The Fact They're Practicing Without A Baseball

The Los Angeles Dodgers have a little bit of a problem scoring runs. They're 26th among all MLB teams, and it's became notable news when they can accomplish something as trite as scoring twice in a single inning. ("A really strange thing," as the Los Angeles Times called it.) So it seems weird tha...

Drunk 9/11 Hippie Girl Speaks Out: "I Wanted To Make A Tribute"

On Tuesday, we brought you the tale of a Phillies superfan that one tipster dubbed "Drunk 9/11 Hippie Girl," a moniker based on (a) her presumed level of intoxication, (b) her unwavering patriotism, and (c) her obvious predilection for wearing headbands and bracelets and expressive body paint. After...

Ozzie Guillen Went On A Truly Fantastic Twitter Rant In Which He Compared Derek Jeter And Alex Cintron

Ozzie Guillen is back on Twitter, after three-and-a-half month sabbatical. Today he shared with the world his thoughts on Derek Jeter, Alex Cintron, football, and bullfighting, all in typical Ozzie fashion:...

Bryce Harper Is Davey Johnson's Favorite Player Ever

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: Maybe some hyperbole from the Nats manager, but not much....

Mike Francesa Claims He Didn't Fall Asleep, Gets Testy With Callers When They Say That He Did [UPDATE]

Oh, Mike. The easiest way to address your apparent dozing off was to have fun with it! "I may or may not have dozed off for a few minutes," you could have said. The end!...

What If Baseball's Foul Lines Ran On Forever?

In W.P. Kinsella's novel, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, the narrator's father muses upon a loophole in the rulebook. There's nothing that specifically states the foul lines end at the fence....

The Doctor Who Performed Stephen Strasburg's Tommy John Surgery Wasn't Asked About The Nats' Shutdown Plans [UPDATE]

The Nationals shut down Stephen Strasburg for the season on Saturday, and in doing so they, by their own account, deferred to lots of nameless medical experts—"the doctors"—who are definitely not just Scott Boras and his junior partners in lab coats. Nope, no sir....

Bob Costas Actually Has Something Critical To Say About NBC's Olympic Coverage

Well, finally. Someone at NBC has admitted that its coverage of the Olympics wasn't absolutely perfect....

A Disgruntled Ex-Coach May Have Sent Scouting Reports And Injury Histories To All Of His Former Team's Opponents

Oh look, it's the worst person in the world! (Allegedly.) Say hi, everyone!...

Just How Tight Is The AL Playoff Race?

With three weeks to go in the season, over half of baseball is still in the race. Seventeen teams are within five games of a playoff spot. You might think that's mostly due to the new second wild card, and that's the case in the NL. With all three division leaders comfortable and the Braves safe at...

Cody Ross Went Completely Apoplectic Over A Called Third Strike

I really don't think there's any universe where a baseball player would actually swing and strike an umpire upside the head with a baseball bat. (Delmon Young, by far, has come the closest.) However, when you're reacting in anger to a called third strike and you're still holding a bat in your hands,...

You Can Actually Pinpoint The Second When Dustin Pedroia Learns His Wife Is In Labor

Dustin Pedroia missed the 2009 All-Star Game to be with his wife, who was about to give birth to their first child. Tonight, Bobby Valentine had to abruptly pull Pedroia from the game, telling him mid-inning that Kelli had gone into labor and that he had to vamoose immediately. Alas, shortly thereaf...

Astros Pitcher Mickey Storey Knocked Out Of Game After Taking Line Drive To The Face [UPDATE]

A bad season for Houston got even worse tonight as rookie Astros pitcher Mickey Storey was knocked out of tonight's game on a play eerily similar to the one that left A's pitcher Brandon McCarthy with a fractured skull last week....

Jim Calhoun's retirement from UConn is reportedly "imminent." Just in time for next year's NCAA tournament ban....

Why Is The NFL Discouraging 70-Yard Field Goals?

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The Specialists: What's In It For Oregon's Quarterbacks?

Finished in 2010 and funded by a $41.7 million gift from Phil Knight, the John E. Jaqua Academic Center rises from a reflecting pool like the pyramid of the Louvre, a monument to student-athletes gilding a busy Eugene, Ore. thoroughfare. This past August, the unveiling of the University of Oregon's ...