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How An ESPNer Found Out The "Battle Of The Sexes" Was Probably Fixed
As usual, this one started with a tip. It came courtesy of Hal Shaw, a 79-year-old man who lived in Florida. ESPN investigative reporter Don Van Natta Jr. knew him. The two had met when Van Natta was researching his 2011 biography of Babe Didrikson Zaharia. Shaw once worked at the country club that...
The 2013 Hater's Guide To The Top 25
This is it, everyone. This is the last year of college football shooting itself in the foot with a shitty, underwhelming BCS national title game. Come next season, the sport will institute a playoff, and with that, a whole new era of college football shall begin. With better games! And even craz...
That Joe Schad Tweet About Erin Andrews's Peephole Video Is Fake
Update: The tweet from Schad is a fake. We've changed our headline. Sorry, Joe....
Deep Cover
That's what J.R. Moehringer went when he wrote this story for the L.A. Times magazine on Pete Carroll, who was still coaching college football at the time. It's a self-aware piece but still intriguing: ...
Hecklers Bring Turkish Soccer Player To Tears
A Super Lig game between Trabzonspor and Çaykur Rizespor was hit with a big dose of the sads when Trabzonspor midfielder Volkan Sen broke down into tears after being heckled by a group of fans....
Atlanta Hawks Head Coach Charged With DUI
Mike Budenholzer's tenure as the new head coach of the Atlanta Hawks isn't exactly off to a roaring start. The former Spurs assistant was arrested early Thursday morning in Atlanta and charged with a DUI....
Yasiel Puig Pulled From Game For Taking His Sweet-Ass Time
What unwritten rule did Dodgers rookie/conga line dancer Yasiel Puig violate this time, leading to a mid-game benching and a round of paroxysmal I-told-you-sos from our nation's baseball columnists? Actually, this one's pretty justified....
Brandon Phillips Curses Out <i>Cincinnati Enquirer</i> Reporter
C. Trent Rosecrans, the Reds beat writer for the Cincinnati Enquirer, and Brandon Phillips seem to have a little beef going on. Rosecrans has been critical of Phillips's on-base percentage and Phillips apparently thinks Rosecrans is a motherfucker. ...
Two Runners, One Base
This GIF of two Marlins sliding into third base could only be better if we could see the third base coach's face. Do you think he's wincing? I bet he's wincing. ...
Oregon State School Spirit Video Has Troubling Implications For Mascot
This is where we are with these school music video things: maybe they should stop. On its face, this one isn't even particularly awful—which in a way makes it worse—it just sort of exists as a note in the We Did Weird Stuff By The Time We Got To 2013 chapter of American history. Unless you are Benn...
A&M Website Tries To Sell Manziel Photos While Announcing Suspension
Consider this screenshot—which was snapped by CBS Sports' Will Brinson from the Texas A&M website shortly after Johnny Manziel was suspended for 30 minutes for possibly profiting from the use of his own name—your latest reminder that the NCAA is a joke....
Jerry Jones Says He Has A Super Brain
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones recently got a CT scan, and afterward he had this to say about it to the Dallas Morning News' Rainer Sabin:...
I Begged You To Get Some Therapy
It’s always nice to watch guys at the game of their game, as Pollack and Hoffman were in Tootsie. Sure, they might have wanted to strangle each other but the payoff was sweet for us. ...
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Johnny Manziel Suspended For 30 Minutes [Update]
As first reported by TexAgs' Billy Liucci, and confirmed by ESPN, Johnny Manziel will be suspended for the first half of Saturday's season opener against Rice....
RGIII Would Like To Confuse The Hell Out Of You With This Quote
Robert Griffin III has been working with the first-team offense, and though the final approval from Dr. James Andrews is still pending, it's a given that he'll be starting in Week 1. But when asked to quantify just how ready he is, Griffin only made everyone's heads hurt....
An Important Message From A Self-Described Chris Berman Lookalike
Presented without comment, via Craigslist:...
Will Drinking 28 Non-Alcoholic Beers In An Hour Make Me Drunk?
Back in April, competitive eater and world champion burper Tim "Eater X" Janus contacted us with an idea for "a very cool stunt that I'd like to have documented by a reputable news outlet."...
Braves Player Channels NASCAR Driver During Postgame Interview
As we've pointed out before, the Atlanta Braves hold a huge lead at the top of the NL East, and members of the team are probably having trouble finding ways to keep themselves entertained as they slog through the end of the season. That brings us to Elliot Johnson, who decided to pretend to be a NAS...
Report: Aaron Hernandez Was A Gun-Toting PCP Addict
Rolling Stone's hotly anticipated Aaron Hernandez story has dropped (bizarrely, co-written by the Herald's Ron Borges), and it paints a picture of a man who spiraled into a paranoid PCP haze over the year leading up to Odin Lloyd's murder....