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The Losingest Losers Keep Right On Losing
Welp. That'll do it. The Pittsburgh Pirates were 16 games over .500 as recently as Aug. 8. The playoffs were still a very real possibility, but even if the postseason wasn't going to happen, a winning season likely would. Cue the fart noise. Today's loss to the Reds was No. 82, which means the longe...
Michigan State Definitely Eye-Gouged An Ohio State Player During Yesterday's Game
As if fans taunting an injured Braxton Miller weren't enough, Michigan State players engaged in some dirty behavior at the end of at least one play today, as Spartans offensive lineman Jack Allen took advantage of his fingers being near Buckeyes defensive lineman Johnathan Hankins's face and gave ...
Michael Morse Ran The Bases Backwards, Swung With No Bat, And Re-Ran The Bases Forwards Tonight
I'll get you up to speed, so you can just skip all the official review in between: First inning, bases loaded in Busch Stadium for Michael Morse. He hits a long fly ball which bounces off the top of the outfield wall, hits the Energizer ad behind the wall, and comes back into the outfield. The ball ...
Michigan State Coaches Say Ohio State Gave Them Selectively Edited Game Tape
After Ohio State beat Michigan State today 17-16, the Spartans coaches' bellies ached loudly enough that reporters heard them and wrote that Michigan State's coaches were upset with Ohio State's coaches. Apparently the game film that Ohio State provided in advance of their game was not up to Big Ten...
Los Angeles Got Its Football Stadium, Now It Just Needs A Team
Reuters reported yesterday that the Los Angeles City Council approved a plan that would put a $1.2 billion football stadium in downtown L.A. called by 2016. Called "Farmer's Field", the stadium will be adjacent to the Staples Center, potentially threatening L.A. Live's status as one of our most und...
Michigan State Fans Taunted Ohio State QB Braxton Miller With "He's A Pussy" After Miller Injured By Late Hit
Today's ESPN/ABC spotlight game (and the site of this morning's College GameDay) is a Big Ten matchup between visiting Ohio State and host Michigan State, and the game turned ugly early. When Buckeyes quarterback Braxton Miller went down hard on a late hit out of bounds—his head crashing into a st...
Either Mark May Or Lou Holtz Burped Loudly On ESPN's College Football Halftime Show
Caught off guard when they threw it back to the studio during ESPN's halftime report, somebody burped loudly and directly into their microphone. We're thinking it probably wasn't Rece Davis, because he was getting ready to talk and seems to transition pretty well. So it could either be Mark May or ...
Learn About Grippers, The Affordable Way To Demonstrate Your Unnatural Forearm Strength
The man above is Manfred Hoeberl, a former fixture in the World's Strongest Man competitions they periodically rerun on ESPN2. He was—is?—very, very strong. But he doesn't use your silly, wasteful, boring means to test his strength. Nope. He uses grippers. They're affordable. And certified! Josh Lev...
That Guy Who Says Jerry Sandusky And Others Were Part Of A Pedophile Ring Is Probably Full Of Shit
Greg Bucceroni's name has popped up every now and then since Jerry Sandusky's arrest late last year. The 48-year-old Philly charter-school cop has made headlines with sensationally horrid stories about the abuse he says he endured in the late 1970s and early '80s, recently going so far as to implica...
Pennsylvania Governor's Handling Of The Jerry Sandusky Investigation Is Now An Election Talking Point
Soon after Jerry Sandusky's arrest last November, the focus turned toward the insular overlap of several powerful Pennsylvania institutions: Penn State, The Second Mile (Sandusky's charity), and governor Tom Corbett, who had launched the Sandusky investigation during his previous tenure as state att...
Cheerleaders, Endless Chants, And Fan-Created Performance Art: Why Baseball Games In The Far East Feel Like College Football Games
On my flight to Busan, South Korea I sat next to an older Korean woman sporting a Detroit Tiger hat. It seemed serendipitous that I'd be seated next to a fellow Tigers fan on a vacation planned entirely around seeing baseball games. The issue, which was a big issue, was expressing this....
Reminder: Pennsylvania's Child Protective Services Failed To Stop Jerry Sandusky, Too
Punishments and investigations have come down on Penn State for the university's handling of Jerry Sandusky, with two PSU administrators still awaiting trial. And Sandusky's charity, The Second Mile, is still being investigated by a number of state and federal law enforcement agencies....
Pirates Outfielder Travis Snider Just Made "One Of The Best Catches You'll Ever See"
In a meaningless game between Pittsburgh and the Mets on a day during which the attention has focused more on Keith Hernandez's facial hair than actual baseball, Pirates outfielder Travis Snider made a bid for defensive play of the year in robbing Mike Baxter of a towering homer at Citi Field....
Hoax Website Fools Reporters Into Thinking Ben Roethlisberger Broke His Legs In A Car Accident
What you see above was the story that went screaming out on something called the Global Associated News early this morning. That the item appeared on a web page with a warning at the bottom that says "THIS STORY IS 100% FAKE" didn't stop people on Facebook and Twitter from believing it:...
Let's Not Forget The Second Mile, The Other Big Organization That Did Nothing To Stop Jerry Sandusky
Centre County (Pa.) made the transcripts of Jerry Sandusky's trial testimony available to the public last week. The documents total more than 2,500 pages, and included in them are some of the on-the-record conversations involving the trial judge and attorneys for both sides that took place in the ju...
Motorin’: Your Highlight Reel Of The Most Night Ranger-Worthy Runs From College Football’s Week 4
Prompted by a discussion between Gawker's own Mobutu Sese Seko and Sports Illustrated college football writer Holly Anderson, we created this mp3 celebrating the best and only relevant moment of Night Ranger's musical career. We think it's worth using to highlight plays, so here's the best runs from...
Artie Lange Snorted Vicodin And Drank Some Whiskey Before Torching Joe Buck's HBO Show
Four 10-milligram Vicodin tablets, crushed up and snorted, and a couple of whiskeys, to be exact. This information comes to us from Xojane.com, and it gives us a bit more clarity on what exactly was going through Artie's mind when he went on Joe Buck Live and asked Joe Buck if his second favorite w...
The Steelers' Larry Foote Told The Replacement Refs "You Should Go Kill Yourselves"
You know the replacement referees are a debacle when a player gets injured on a dirty play that wasn't flagged, and no one notices because it wasn't even the worst uncalled dirty play of the quarter....
Greg Schiano Doesn't Care About Myron Lewis's Balls
About halfway through the fourth quarter of yesterday's Buccaneers-Cowboys game, Buccaneers cornerback Myron Lewis committed an unnecessary roughness penalty while his team was attempting to return a punt. In the video above, you can see him get tangled up with the Cowboys' Lequan Lewis (#23) befo...