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Players Just Don't Care About Their Balls Anymore
We may have mentioned this before, but back when we were young, untalented, jittery baseball players, we refused to wear a cup. We had a complicated explanation involving positioning and playing catcher, and, in retrospect, it doesn't make much sense. But apparently we're not alone. Slate reports...
Scrappy Podsednik Upgrading In Lady Department
We've always liked Chicago White Sox outfielder Scott Podsednik. He's small, he's scrappy, he plays hard, he steals bases, he likes to get his uniform dirty in the way that fans always like white players to get their uniform dirty. But we always liked his understatedness the most: Nothing flashy, ...
Cuckolded Red Sox Scuffle
Controversy in Boston is nothing new, even when the Red Sox are coming off a World Series win. Outfielder Johnny Damon and soon-to-be-closer Curt Schilling have been having a minor scuffle, with Damon saying Schilling shouldn't be a closer and Schilling responding with, "Contrary to popular belief...
We Can't Imagine What She Might Have Been Upset About
It appears O.J. Simpson spent his Independence Day getting beaten up by his ex-girlfriend. (You read that right: O.J. Simpson has had many girlfriends since 1994. That's a pretty lousy background check, if you ask us.) The woman, Christine Prody (who once told the National Enquirer that OJ confess...
NBA Stars Stand Trail For Beating Up Male Stripper. Yep.
Somewhat underreported around these parts, the trial of NBA players Gary Payton, Sam Cassell and Jason Caffey began yesterday in Toronto....
Indians Gay Porn Reliever Sent Down (Again)
A sad day in Cleveland: reliever Kazahito Tadano has been sent down to the minor leagues. Who's Tadano, you ask? Oh, how quickly you forget: Tadano is the Japanese player who had to apologize to his Indians teammates for making a gay porn film back in Japan. (That's him in the screen shot above....
What Is A Groupie, Exactly?
From a fascinating discussion on the NFL Wives Yahoo Group:...
Terrance Shaw, Reggie Brown: DOGS!
Today's hot topics on the NFL Wives Yahoo Group:...
Luis Alicea Will Pee For You
Former St. Louis Cardinals infielder Luis Alicea is now the manager of the Lowell Spinners, the Class A minor league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. Last week, the Spinners were selected for random steroid testing. Alicea says the test wasn't too tough....
What Clinton Portis Likes In A "Bad Bitch"
An update to the wht kinds of groupies does Clinton Portis like item:...
David Beckham No Longer Fantasized About In Prison
Apparently, athlete culture's a little different in England than it is here. Soccer "megastar" David Beckham — also, in England, you don't necessarily have to be all that good at your sport to be the most famous — lamented to the soccer press that he is losing all of his gay fans to rugby star Gav...
This Is What You Get For Drafting Someone From Miami
More details have come out from the arrest of Redskins safety Sean Taylor, and they're ugly. According to The Washington Post and police reports:...