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Jon Heyman Just Can't Make Up His Mind About Barry Bonds And The Hall Of Fame

In April of 2011, baseball writer Jon Heyman wrote a column titled, "Why Barry Bonds Belongs In The Hall" for SI.com. The piece laid out a surprisingly well reasoned argument for why Bonds should not be excluded from the Hall of Fame, despite his being surrounded by allegations of steroid use....

Who Was On The Ballots Of The Hall Of Fame Voters Refusing To Go Public?

For just the second time, the Baseball Writers' Association of America has given its voters the option of having their Hall of Fame ballots made public. Of the 569 voters who cast ballots, only 108 chose to reveal who they voted for. (Of course, many more discussed their selections in their own colu...

Junior Seau Had Chronic Brain Damage

According to ESPN, former NFL linebacker Junior Seau had Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) at the time of his suicide last May. In an interview with ESPN, Seau's widow and son claim that researchers at the National Institutes of Health informed them of the diagnosis after completing a thorough...

Jamaal Franklin Goes Off The Backboard At Full Speed For This Dunk Of The Year Candidate

Will any other dunk during the 2012-13 college basketball season eclipse this insane moment of instinct, confidence, and sheer ballsiness? The correct response, almost assuredly, is "no." And by the eighth or ninth time you watch this, check out the Fresno State players' heads turn in every concei...

Wyoming Falls From The List Of Unbeatens As Boise State Hits Buzzer-Beating Three-Pointer To Win In Laramie

Wyoming's been perhaps the most under-the-radar undefeated team this season—high-flying Larry Nance, Jr. notwithstanding—and came into tonight's home matchup against Boise State with confidence they'd advance their record to 14-0. Of course, this has been one of Boise's best seasons in ages, enter...

Here's Ken Rosenthal Comparing The Sabermetrics Community To The Tea Party

Fox MLB reporter Ken Rosenthal was on the MLB Network today, talking about the Hall of Fame vote and bow ties and whatever else it is Ken Rosenthal likes to talk about these days. At some point, the conversation turned to Jack Morris and his continued inability to garner enough votes to get into t...

A Vote For Roger Clemens Was A Vote For Barry Bonds: The Politics Of The Hall Of Fame Ballot, By The Numbers [UPDATE]

Hall of fame ballots follow their own own internal logic. For instance, regardless of how they feel about steroids, almost all voters agree with both or neither of the following statements:...

High School Special Teams Player Has The Best Recruiting Mixtape Of All Time

Ryan Potter is a senior cornerback at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tenn., and the star of the video above. Ryan's looking to take his football career to the next level, and so he has put together a rousing mixtape of his most impressive on-field exploits in the hopes that he will catch th...

Why Does ESPN.com Insist On Referring To Bowls By Their Full, Corporate Names?

Reader Reggie pointed something out to us the other day: ESPN.com writers have a habit of referring to the various bowl games by their full, awkward, sponsored names. This is not how normal people write (unless it's to mock), so we went looking for examples. They were not hard to find....

To Get You To Come To Cooperstown, The Hall Of Fame Will Re-Honor Lou Gehrig and Rogers Hornsby

See that guy over there? That's James "Deacon" White. He played mostly third base and catcher, and had a .740 career OPS. His best years came in the Ulysses S. Grant administration. He's the only baseball player entering the Hall of Fame this year....

OK, who gave Aaron Sele a Hall of Fame vote? If you have any idea, let us know....

It Looks Like The Sacramento Kings Are Headed To Seattle

Just a few minutes ago, Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski reported that a near-finalized deal is in place to move the Sacramento Kings to Seattle:...

Hall Of Famers Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Craig Biggio, Jeff Bagwell, Curt Schilling, Tim Raines, Mike Piazza, And Edgar Martinez Not Elected To Hall Of Fame

A grand total of zero perfectly excellent baseball players have been deemed worthy of joining luminaries like Tom Yawkey, Ty Cobb, and Kenesaw Mountain Landis in Cooperstown....

Steve Nash Wipes His Armpits With A Towel, Metta World Peace Uses Same Towel To Wipe His Face

This video comes from last night's Lakers-Rockets game, which ended as another demoralizing loss of the Lakers. That's Steve Nash wiping the sweat from his armpits with a towel, casually handing the towel to his teammate Metta World Peace, and then walking away as World Peace proceeds to bury his ...

Baseball Writers Would Like You To Know That Filling Out A Hall Of Fame Ballot Is Super Hard

The Baseball Hall of Fame vote is released at 2 p.m. today, but why wait that long to treat yourself to the collective moral grandstanding of the world's baseball writers? We've already got their "I filled out my ballot like this, because I must do what is right" columns—each very special one a remi...

This Is The Face Of A Man Who Earned His First Technical Foul In Six Years

Georgetown coach John Thompson III earned his first technical in six years last night, reacting to a questionable foul call on Nate Lubick in the second half of an embarrassing home blowout loss to Pitt. The 19th-ranked Hoyas fell to 0-2 in the Big East with a 73-45 loss to the Panthers, but it was...

Bullpen Cell Phones Are Coming To Major League Baseball Next Season

MLB and T-Mobile just announced a new deal here at CES that'll (maybe? hopefully?) cut down on embarrassing miscommunications between the bench and the pen. Starting next season, clubs will have the option of using dedicated, in-dugout cell phones to help get their relievers up and warming. Although...

The Cowboys Have Fired Rob Ryan, Who Says He'll Be Out Of Work "For Like Five Minutes"

After yet another season of missing the playoffs, it's been no secret that Jerry Jones was probably going to make some big changes to the coaching staff, but the first axe has apparently fallen on the neck of defensive coordinator Rob Ryan, who seems to be taking it all in stride....

An Oregon Player Faked An Injury During The Fiesta Bowl So That His Teammate Could Get Into His First And Last Bowl Game

According to The Oregonian's John Canzano, last week's Fiesta Bowl featured a real-life Rudy moment. Coming into the game, Oregon's Dane Ebanez had never made a bowl-game appearance, despite playing at the school for four years and being named scout team player of the year in successive seasons....

We're Commemorating Ohio State's Outlaw 12-0 Season With Customized Temporary Tattoos. Want One? [UPDATE: We Have Run Out Of Tattoos]

The Ohio State Buckeyes, the lone undefeated team in college football after the Notre Dame Fighting Irish woke up this morning and realized they were supposed to play a game last night, finished the season ranked No. 3 in the Associated Press poll. The Buckeyes—bowl ineligible because some players w...