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Paul Azinger Is Almost As Upset About Andrew Breitbart's Death As He Is About The Dirty Liberal Reaction To It
By now, you've likely heard that ultra-conservative bomb tosser Andrew Breitbart died of "natural causes" early this morning. That's not a lot of time for Paul Azinger to get agitated. But Azinger, perhaps beset by grief, has cranked up his right-wing Twitter feed, despite being warned against such ...
Now A.J. Burnett Is Officially A Pirate: He Hurt Himself Bunting A Ball Off His Face
Pirates manager Clint Hurdle's affection for the bunt is such that he once had his cleanup hitter do it last season with the go-ahead run on first—and in a game in which that cleanup hitter already had two hits. Hurdle holds an annual bunting tournament in spring training, and yesterday, this is w...
Reeves Nelson Lawyers Up, Demands Retraction From <i>Sports Illustrated</i>
This morning, Sports Illustrated published a lengthy and unflinching takedown of the UCLA basketball team under Ben Howland. But whereas Howland comes across as overwhelmed and ineffective, the undisputed villain of the piece is Reeves Nelson. Writer George Dohrmann goes through a litany of incident...
Jerry Sandusky's Lawyer Wants More Time Before Trial To Do Stupid Shit; Judge Denies Him
Jury selection for Jerry Sandusky's trial will begin on May 14, as scheduled, now that Centre County (Pa.) Judge John M. Cleland has denied Sandusky's request to have it pushed back until July. Sandusky's attorney, Lawyerin' Joe Amendola, had filed his motion to delay by citing the "great volume" of...
The U.S. Beat Italy For The First Time Ever Thanks To This Clint Dempsey Goal
With Landon Donovan unfit to take the pitch, the U.S. wasn't given much chance to beat Italy in today's international friendly match in Genoa. But Clint Dempsey—scoring machine for Fulham of late—drew first blood for the Yanks off a timely pass from Jozy Altidore. It was the first non-penalty sco...
Exclusive: Former Reliever Mike Stanton Weighs In On Current Outfielder Mike Stanton Now Going By Giancarlo Stanton
The news came across the wires this morning that thumping Marlins outfielder Mike Stanton, who finished 5th in the NL with 34 home runs last year, will now go by Giancarlo Stanton, his birth name. (His full name is Giancarlo Cruz Michael Stanton, and he says he prefers Giancarlo.)...
If You're In New York Tomorrow Night, Come Hear Some Sportswriters Talk About College Basketball
This month's edition of Gelf's terrific Varsity Letters reading series focuses on college basketball. Come hear Ira Berkow, formerly of the New York Times, ESPN's Gene Wojciechowski, who's talking Duke-Kentucky, and Jim Boeheim's biographer Scott Pitoniak. 7:30 tomorrow at Le Poisson Rouge. Go!...
Tim Tebow Had A "Dinner Date" With Taylor Swift
Big news from Page Six today: white America's two favorite savants might be having a thing....
Breaking Down <i>SI</i>'s UCLA Exposé To Its Underwhelming Core
George Dohrmann's investigation into the fallow years of Ben Howland's UCLA tenure dropped in Sports Illustrated today, and it desperately wants to be a cautionary tale. It wants you to make the connection—even if it can never quite do so itself—that the undisciplined and troublesome recruiting clas...
The Strange And Feverish Saga Of The Tipster Who Had "Huge Brett Favre News" For Us
Call him Pete. He emerged from the internet at 6:13 p.m. on Feb. 6. "Huge Brett Favre news text me," read the subject line of Pete's email to Deadspin, followed by a phone number with a Wisconsin area code—West Bend, it would turn out. I was about to step into another man's fever dream. Or was it my...
Miguel Tejada Wants To Return To Oakland: "Tell Billy To Give Me A Call"
Oh boy, the strangest team offseason in recent memory might be getting even weirder. Miguel Tejada—the 5-9, 220 lb. shortstop who hit 156 home runs in his seven years in Oakland—wants to come back to play for the A's....
Lob City Anthem: All 91 Blake Griffin Dunks From The First Half Of The NBA Season In One Video
With a 20-12 record, the Los Angeles Clippers lead the division and with the addition of Chris Paul have finally established themselves as true NBA competitors. They've also earned the distinction of being must-see television for even casual basketball fans, and Blake Griffin is one big reason wh...
Scoring Skillful Own Goals When Everybody's Talking About Fixed Matches Probably Isn't A Good Move
When Galatasaray's Semih Kaya adeptly directed a ball past his own goalkeeper this weekend, it knotted the much-anticipated Istanbul Derby vs. Besiktas at two goals a piece with fewer than 20 minutes remaining....
Some People Take Their Karate Photo Shoots Way Too Seriously
World Wide Interweb went ahead and tipped us off that World Wide Interweb posted "The 25 Funniest Martial Arts Glamour Photos" last night....
Comments Of The Fortnight-Ish: Your Racist Jokes Are The Pee-Pee In Our Coke
In recent articles on commenting we've discussed freshness and originality, and now, having tackled those, we're prepared to move on to the slightly weightier topic of race relations in Western culture. Well, not quite. But we are going to talk about racist jokes....
Some Men (In The 18-49 Demographic) Just Want To Watch The World Burn
FOX easily won the ratings battle with a rain-delayed, fire-delayed Daytona 500. There's a lesson here, and I'm pretty sure it's "don't underestimate the drawing power of things blowing up."...
Danica's Got To Go, Daddy
Your morning roundup for Feb. 28. Photo via Mocksession. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
ESPN Finds Ottawa's New Secret Weapon: A Two-Year-Old Defenseman
Ottawa just picked Gilroy up today in exchange for Brian Lee. With any luck, he'll be talking by playoff time. [ESPN]...
Some Dude Won The Fort Worth Marathon By Six Minutes, But Was DQed Because He Didn't Register
Oklahoman Scott Downard easily won the Cowtown Marathon, in Fort Worth, with a time of 2:31:40. He outran the rest of the field by more than six minutes, so there was plenty of time to disqualify him before the actual winner even finished....
Taunting In Professional Bowling Is The Best Taunting
There was a lot riding on Pete Weber's final roll at last night's Professional Bowlers Association's U.S. Open. The 49-year-old Weber needed no less than a strike to defeat Mike Fagan to become the first man to win the tournament five times, and to become the oldest man to win the event. But this w...