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The Hunt Continues: Our Bo Pelini Tipster Is Not Tom Osborne
The tipster who dropped that Bo Pelini tirade tape in our inbox the other day has contacted us again. From the tone of this email, he or she does not sound worried about his or her identity being revealed:...

Jürgen Klopp Is, Uh, Upset
FEEL THE RAGE. After Borussia Dortmund conceded a 29th-minute goal to Napoli's Gonzalo Higuaín, manager Jürgen Klopp took out his anger on the fourth official and was sent off....

Nebraska Will Not Fire Bo Pelini For Saying "Fuck" A Lot
That settles that: Bo Pelini's not going anywhere. Nebraska officials issued a statement today that said the school is "prepared to put the matter to rest." The school also acknowledged that then-AD Tom Osborne "became aware of these comments and the existence of a recording more than a year ago, an...

Thanks For The Tips, <em>Journal Star</em>. We're Interested.
Cindy Lange-Kubick, the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star's Life columnist, has written a response to our Bo Pelini story in which she provides us with a number of tips for possible stories. We take all the tips we get very, very seriously, and so we'd like to use this space to let Ms. Lange know exactly ...

Eric Nesterenko And The Examined Life: A Hockey Intellectual Reflects
Excerpted from From Black Sox to Three-Peats: A Century of Chicago's Best Sports Writing (University of Chicago Press), edited by Ron Rapoport and featuring stories from the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, among other papers. It's an excellen...

Budd Schulberg Gets A Beatin'
From the Paris Review's tumblr site:...

The Petty, Thin-Skinned Bravado Of Bo Pelini: 125 FBS Teams, Ranked
Each week during college football season we put the conventional polls to shame by ranking every FBS team from 1-125, by whatever standard we see fit. Last week's rankings were not consulted. ...

Bo Pelini's Rant Isn't Close To The Best Coach Rant Of All Time
OK, maybe the Nebraska coach had some strong words for "fucking fair-weather" fans and certain media members. He's still quite a few F-bombs away from the all-time greatest coach meltdown....


Controversial Mayweather Judge Steps Down
Floyd Mayweather outclassed Saul "Canelo" Alvarez on Sunday, landing twice as many punches over a 12-round dismantling. The AP's unofficial scorecard had it 119-109 Mayweather, and pretty much every observer was in agreement. Except for one of the three judges, C.J. Ross, who inexplicably had it a 1...

Bare-Chested Russian Soccer Bros Brawl In The Streets
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Mad brawl fight Бешеная драка." Tonight's commentator: Me. (Coming next week: A live look-in of a fight in the Philippines.)...

It'll Be A Lot Harder To Scalp Super Bowl Tickets This Year
You are not going to the Super Bowl. You are not a corporate sponsor or a Bruno Mars roadie or the guy who polishes the Snoopy sculpture outside of MetLife Stadium, so you can absorb this news as an abstraction: the NFL is majorly jacking up the prices of the best seats for its first cold-weather Su...

How We Acquired That Bo Pelini Audio Recording
That audio of Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini venting and cursing (and cursing and cursing) about fans and some members of the media has existed for two years now. But it was made public yesterday because that's when we first learned of it. In fact, the source who gave us the recording reached out...

The Most Honest Book About Football You'll Read All Year
Former Bronco Nate Jackson's book is out today, and it's an exceptional memoir of life on the NFL's margins. You'll find out what it's like hiding injuries to make a roster, waiting for the year's annual drug test to pass so players can start smoking, and what a dickbag Eric Mangini is. Slow Getting...

Bo Pelini On Nebraska Fans: "Fuck You, Fans. Fuck All Of You."
This is fun. Here we have an audiotape of Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini flipping his shit about both the media and the Cornhuskers' fans after a 2011 game. Why are we getting this now? Well, our tipster was particularly exercised by Nebraska's flameout against UCLA on Saturday, which has led to ...

There's A New Contender For The Worst Mistake On A Kickoff Return
Less than a week after the Titans' Darius Reynaud started the NFL season with a safety on an opening kickoff, Marshall's Steward Butler gave us an even more derp-tuoso performance during a college game Saturday night....

The Red Sox Made Mariano Rivera's Ceremony All About The Red Sox
Throughout his farewell season, Mariano Rivera has been honored by visiting teams with gifts and small ceremonies celebrating his storied career. The Twins gave him a chair made of broken bats. The White Sox gave him framed scorecards from notable appearances. The Red Sox? They made sure to celebrat...

Jaguars Fans Will Hold A "Sign Tim Tebow" Rally At 3:16 P.M.
The group's slogan captures all the passion and purpose of Jaguars football: "Why not?" Why not, indeed....

Here's A Bench-Clearing Brawl At A Men's Slow-Pitch Softball Game
This happened recently at the USSSA B World Tournament, which is another way of saying it's a bunch of old guys with beer guts rolling around in the dirt in Florida!™...