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A-Rod Storms Out Of Hearing, Says MLB Is "Full Of Shit"

The Alex Rodriguez Show rolls on! And gets better with every episode. Today, according to reports, Rodriguez swore, walked out of his arbitration hearing, and said he won't participate any more after it was ruled that Bud Selig would not have to testify....

Why Officials Picked Up The Flag And Gave Carolina The Win

The non-call that ended the Panthers' win over the Patriots was a bad call. Not a historically terrible one, in a vacuum: worse missed penalties and more egregious undeserved flags happen every week in the NFL. But on the last play of the game, a supremely entertaining slugfest between two Super Bow...

Steve Smith To Aqib Talib: "Ice Up, Son!"

Steve Smith and Aqib Talib spent a good portion of the evening locking arms and dancing the dance of people who hate each other. Twice in one drive the two had to be separated, the first coming on a first down conversion where Talib wouldn't let go of Smith's leg. The two tumbled to the ground and ...

Len Bias Would've Been 50 Today

Len Bias is long gone, having overdosed on cocaine in 1986, two days after being drafted by the Boston Celtics. But as we wrote earlier this year, Bias is still very much alive in our politics. ...

Belmont Fan Sings Miley Cyrus Before UNC Missed Free Throw; Bruins Win

Instead of yelling or hand waving, one fan tried to distract UNC's James McAdoo by tenderly singing Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball." McAdoo missed the free throw. Next time, bring it back to old Miley and sing "Party In The U.S.A.," though....

Watch Auburn Beat Georgia With An Improbable, Insane Hail Mary

Moments after Georgia's Aaron Murray rushed in a touchdown to give the Bulldogs the lead late, Auburn receiver Ricardo Louis caught a 73-yard Hail Mary pass tipped into the air by UGA defenders and gave the Tigers an improbable win that keeps their SEC championship hopes alive....

Jonathan Martin Is A Pussy: Your Stanford-USC <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup

Well, this was bound to happen when you take the College GameDay crew to USC for a game against Stanford. Jonathan Martin, who met with the NFL yesterday to discuss the Richie Incognito/Miami Dolphins bullying issue, is a Stanford man and so the Trojan faithful had plenty of Martin-themed signs to s...

Falcons Fullback Allegedly Tries To Eat Marijuana After Traffic Stop

Oh, Jason Snelling....

Report: MLB's A-Rod Witch Hunt Hamstrung A State Investigation

There are already plenty of reasons to call bullshit on Major League Baseball's crusade against Alex Rodriguez, but here's another one....

Candy

Here's Gary Cartwright's classic 1976 Texas Monthly story on Candy Barr:...

Officials Correctly Wave Off Melo's Game-Tying Three; Knicks Lose

Carmelo Anthony's potential game-winning four-point play at the end of tonight's Rockets-Knicks game was waved off after official Scott Foster ruled that James Harden had committed the foul before Anthony shot....

College Volleyball Player Makes Skillful Save On Other Side Of The Net

Carson-Newman's Rachel Harper made an outstanding save, going under the net to Lincoln Memorial's side and attempting to keep the ball alive while falling. It worked! File this under cool volleyball plays you didn't know were legal....

Alleged Drunk Driver Seriously Injures Voice Of Marquette Basketball [Updated]

Steve "The Homer" True, a Milwaukee sports-talk personality and the longtime radio voice of Marquette basketball, sustained a serious head injury yesterday morning when the car he was driving was struck by an alleged drunk driver. As of last night, according to TV station WISN, True was listed in cr...

Pot Isn't Life And Death, And Tyrann Mathieu Isn't A Redemption Story

Tyrann Mathieu smoked some weed in college. If we're going to play this brain-dead association game, let's start by being clear about what he actually did. He smoked some weed, somehow got vilified for it, was thrown off his football team, went to rehab for weed, and now plays for the Arizona Cardin...

Does Former NFLer Sam Hurd Deserve Life Without Parole For Coke Bust?

Be sure to take time to read The MMQB's long look at the fall of Sam Hurd, the former Cowboys and Bears receiver who will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to drug trafficking back in March. Michael McKnight's story outlines the complex series of events that led two years ago to Hurd's arres...

Buckeye's "Wipe The Field" Boast Is The Future Of FBS Shit-Talk

The biggest stones in college football today belong to Evan Spencer, who plays receiver for Ohio State and who just got his name written on wipeboards across the Midwest today. ESPN.com reported the lad said, in reference to top- and second-ranked Alabama and Florida State, "I'm a little biased. I t...

The USWNT's Bus Broke Down, So The Players Hitched A Ride With Fans

I don't think there's any collection of athletes more likable than the members of the The U.S. Women's National Team. Case in point: The team was in Orlando, Fla., this weekend to play an exhibition match against Brazil when their team bus broke down after a practice session. Instead of waiting arou...

Martin Truex Jr. Sounds Like A Pretty OK Guy

We received this email from reader Philip, about a run-in last week with a certain NASCAR driver:...

Alabama Fan Updates Oregon Fans' T-Shirts

Last month, as Oregon was rolling through the Pac-12, some enterprising UO students turned fans' chants of "We Want Bama" into a T-shirt. The chants and the shirts looked ahead to a possible matchup with the Crimson Tide in the BCS title game. With those plans now on hold after last night, a 'Bama f...