bu Page 404 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Pam Oliver Nearly Steamrolled By Ohio State Band
It's been a rough season already for Pam Oliver. She suffered a concussion from being hit in the head by a football in the preseason, and now her producer's set her up in the middle of a marching band's path. At least she avoided this fate....
Which TV Market's Getting Screwed Today? Your Week 3 NFL Viewing Maps
A guide to the best and worst of the NFL slate (and to which fans are stuck with the most of worst). Maps via 506sports.com. ...
Kirk Herbstreit Unhappy ABC Showed KSU-Texas To Only 36% Of The Country
This is fun! We got our hands on some raw, off-air satellite backhaul footage from tonight's Kansas State-Texas broadcast on ABC, and in the post-game we're invited to listen in on Kirk Herbstreit and Brent Musburger discussing the day in college football—and, notably, why so few people were able ...
UCLA Pays Tribute To Nick Pasquale, Runs First Play With Ten Men
UCLA opened tonight's game against New Mexico State with a symbolic absence: that of receiver Nick Pasquale, who died Sept. 8 when he was hit by a car while walking....
Ohio State Crushing FAMU, Leaving Trail Of Waste Including Officials
Ohio State is doing to Florida A &M today what you'd expect; as of this writing, they're up 41-0 18 minutes into the game. Nobody on the field with the Buckeyes is escaping unscathed, and that includes the umpire....
Franco Harris Has His Tiananmen Square Moment
About 150 people gathered for what was called a March for Truth today outside the Penn State board of trustees' meeting in State College, Pa. Speeches were given. A life-sized cardboard cutout of Joe Paterno showed up. Franco Harris stood near a van carrying several of the trustees....
Was The DA Who Didn't Prosecute Sandusky Killed By A Hells Angel?
Among the alluring storylines just after Jerry Sandusky's November 2011 arrest was the mystery surrounding Ray Gricar, the former Centre County (Pa.) district attorney who went missing in 2005. The case had long gone cold, and Gricar was declared legally dead six years later. But get this: the Altoo...
Pirates Catcher Tony Sanchez Cartwheels Into Dugout To Make Catch
Chris Denorfia's foul pop was hit just far enough into the Padres dugout for Tony Sanchez to lunge over the railing to grab it. But there was no stopping Sanchez from going heels up, power tumbling off a ledge, and landing on his ass on the concrete floor several feet below....
Only Veterans May Play Ping Pong In The Steelers Locker Room
The Steelers are sort of a wreck—"total panic mode," as one player says. In response, a reported players-only meeting that produced a new rule: no one with less than four years of NFL experience is allowed to play table tennis and billiards at the team's training facility. This will solve everything...
Breaking The Wall With Burt
Never shy about his take on a subject, here's Pat Jordan's stinging profile on Burt Reynolds from the 1980s:...
Brandon Phillips Bunts, Gets Hit In The Head And Called Out
This is what you get for bunting. With men on first and second in the ninth inning of a tie game in Houston, Brandon Phillips successfully bunted them to second and third. And then he ran inside the baseline and got hit in the dome, ruining everything. ...
HS Player Who Beat Opponent With Own Helmet Is In More Trouble
Joey Cominsky, the Hamburg (Penn.) quarterback who is facing a criminal investigation after striking an opposing player with his own helmet during a game earlier this month, is the subject of another video that shows him throwing footballs directly at a teammate....
Bud Shrake In The Land Of The Permanent Wave
Bryan Curtis wrote a nice story about Dan Jenkins, Edwin "Bud" Shrake, and their alma mater for Texas Monthly in 2008:...
Every Glorious Angle Of The Astros' Buttslide
Just as the Buttfumble couldn't have happened to any team other than the Jets, it had to be the Astros to bring you this piece of baseball history. Behold the Buttslide....
Tampa Bay Won't Wear "Bucco Bruce" Helmets Because Of...Player Safety?
The Bucs were planning to break out the creamsicle throwbacks on Sept. 29th, complete with the winking pirate helmet logo. No more. According to the team, they can't make it work because of new NFL helmet regulations supposedly meant to increase safety....
Jerry West: Master Builder
There has been a lot of good writing about Jerry West over the years. This is one of the best—Richard Hoffer's 1990 SI profile, "Mister Clutch, Master Builder":...
Ironically, Joyce's Burger Recipe is Just, "A Burger. Hot."
Over on The Paris Review, author Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan assembles Ernest Hemingway's favorite burger ("ground beef, onions, garlic, India relish, and capers, cooked so the edges were crispy but the center red and juicy") from the notes in his extensive personal papers. It's a fun read, and a tasty-seem...
CU Football Player Arrested For Allegedly Throwing Mud At Girlfriend
University of Colorado running back Terrence Crowder was arrested on domestic violence charges early Sunday morning after getting into an argument and physical altercation with his girlfriend. Mud was allegedly involved....
Not Quite Shittsburgh (But Close): Your Bengals-Steelers GIF Roundup
Cincinnati 20, Pittsburgh 10: The Steelers are 0-2 and the Bengals are 1-1 after tonight's Monday Night Football rivalry from the AFC Hey-We-All-Get-To-Play-The-Browns-Twice. There wasn't a whole lot of offense, but the game, like the Bengals twitter account, had its moments. ...