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The Dolphins Will Be On <em>Hard Knocks</em>
After every interesting team in the NFL decided they weren't interested, and after we feared it might come down to the eager Jaguars, up steps a team that no one predicted. It's the dark horse fish mammals, the Miami Dolphins, that will be featured on HBO's Hard Knocks....
More Shitty Boxing News: Motorcycle Crash Leaves Former Champ Paul Williams Paralyzed
First, there was the news that Johnny Tapia had died. Now this. Paul "The Punisher" Williams, who twice won welterweight titles and was once an interim junior middleweight champ, was paralyzed from the waist down after crashing his motorcycle en route to his brother's wedding Sunday morning in Atlan...
Chris Bosh Spent Last Night In His Own Little Place Of Bliss
Injured Heat forward Chris Bosh spent last night's Eastern Conference Finals Game One on the bench, though he certainly didn't seem to be missing much about playing the game. Indeed, most opportunities viewers were given to look in on Bosh showed a man at ease with the lofty predictions for his tea...
Tonight LeBron Needs To Eat Some Old Irish Hearts
Bumblederping around the Web today it's surprising to see how many people expect the Celtics to curl up and die quiet in their series against the Heat, which begins tonight. David Steele over at the Sporting News is among the rare authors who believe three future Hall of Famers plus a tripler of dou...
Johnny Tapia Died, Died, Died, Died, Then Died, And Lived Hard In Between
New Mexico police are saying that boxer Johnny Tapia was found dead at his house on Sunday. They do not suspect foul play. Apparently he was the victim of having been Johnny Tapia for 45 years. ...
Metta World Peace Wishes You All A Happy Labor Day
In a way, it is sort of fitting that World Peace can't remember Memorial Day, but we're guessing this has less to do with Metta being meta and more to do with Metta being Metta. Enjoy it....
The Flaming Lips, Oklahoma City's Only Other Reason For Being, Rewrite 1999 Track to Celebrate Thunder
While the Thunder ponder what might have been in San Antonio last night if they hadn't committed four offensive fouls in the fourth quarter, or if they'd defended Manu Ginobili with something sturdier than hard glares, they can regroup to the flattering sounds of OKC's favorite local psychedelic roc...
Bob Saget Sang The National Anthem At A White Sox Game Yesterday For Some Reason
So, this happened yesterday and...it...wasn't terrible? I mean, don't get me wrong, it's no Whitney at the Super Bowl or Marvin Gaye at the All-Star game, but it's no Carl Lewis at a random Nets-Bulls game, either....
Your Saturday Afternoon Open Thread Smorgasbord
Baseball is king this weekend as hockey is done until Wednesday and the NBA does not get under way until tonight at 8:00 p.m. when Philly and Boston meet up for Game 7. Enjoy the day being inside avoiding that one weird uncle you all have....
Here Is An Interpretive Dance Featuring Two Dudes, An Inflatable Globe And The Gilded Voice Of Peabo Bryson
It's a holiday weekend, so you're getting this bizarre yet entertaining video of a dance routine set to "A Whole New World" from Disney's Aladdin. [Beantown Banter]...
Another American Basketball Team Brawled In China, And This Time It Involved Throwing Chairs At Spectators [UPDATE]
Details are scarce about this event today in China when a team we're told consists of NBA D-Leaguers brawled with CBA team Zhejiang Lions, leading to chairs being thrown by both teams and—at the very end of this video—by an unidentified American player toward Chinese fans....
<em>Hard Knocks</em> Hopes To Have A Team By The End Of Next Week
According to a report in today's Post, HBO expects/plans/vows to finally get a team to say yes to doing Hard Knocks by June 1. Six teams have already said they want no part of it, and the Jets are at about a 90 percent "no."...
Snoop Dogg Tebowed After Throwing Out Tonight's First Pitch In Chicago
Rapper Snoop Dogg took to the mound tonight in south Chicago, throwing out the first pitch before the Twins-White Sox game before Tebowing on his way back to the dugout, where he presumably then planked, owled, iced a bro, then participated in a flash mob. [MLB Network]...
Bill Murray As FDR! <em>Anchorman 2</em>! Opulent Melancholy! Your Authoritative Rundown Of All The New Movie Trailers
In the days before a major holiday, movie news dries up completely. (Unless it's something that's actually genuinely important, like that fact we're gonna have to wait until next year for The Rock and Bruce Willis to be in a movie together.) But before Memorial Day, studios start unveiling a ton of ...
The Jets Taunted Tebow By Screaming "Lolo! Lolo!" When He Walked Into The Locker Room Today
Animate Michelangelos Tim Tebow, the Jets' backup, and Lolo Jones, the Team USA hurdler, have a lot in common. Well, maybe not. They're both pretty, muscular virgins. I think that's it....
A K-Leaguer May Have Set The World Record For Fastest-Ever Free Kick Goal
Australian defender Eddy Bosnar's free kick goal for Korean squad Suwon Bluewings may be a new record holder for velocity after scoring Sunday against Ulsan....
Today In Getting To Know The Kings: Reebok Offers An "Alex Kopitar" Shirt
This hockey thing's new; we get it. But despite the team's best efforts, we're still not all on the same page. Take this Reebok "Stanley Cup Finals Alex Kopitar" t-shirt, now available in the NHL.com shop. (He's also "Alex" at other outlets offering the same shirt, so this is a Reebok problem, not a...
This Woman Makes Other Women's Dreams Come True
Natalia Oberti Noguera, Founder and CEO of Pipeline Fellowship, started her company in 2010 with the goal of creating more capital for women social entrepreneurs. Right after launching the Pipeline Fellowship, Natalia heard from a woman entrepreneur how a male judge at a pitch event declared publi...
KG: "Philly Fans Are Fair-Weather." <i>Inquirer</i> Writer: "Oh Yeah? Boston's Racist!"
A few days back, Kevin Garnett said — or at least implied — that 76ers fans are fair-weather. It stung a bit, considering the Sixers have been terrible for the better part of a decade, and basketball is a distant fourth in Philly hearts. (That's not a knock; some sport has to be fourth.) Mostly it w...
The Birth Of The Magical 1971 Macon High Ironmen, Baseball's Version Of <em>Hoosiers</em>
Despite—or perhaps because of—their ragtag roster and hippie manager, the 1971 Macon High Ironmen found themselves in the Illinois state baseball championship. Chris Ballard first chronicled the team in a long piece for SI in 2010, and he's explored them in even more depth in One Shot at Forever. In...