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Patrick Peterson Improbably Performing Passes....

A.J. McCarron's Stability Tops Johnny Football's Flying Circus

A.J. McCarron gets slapped with the pejorative "game manager" label, as if taking care of the football and involving the ground game are bad things. Johnny Manziel? Spectacular as always....

Now Kerry Rhodes Is Out Of The NFL Because He Wanted Too Much Money

Or is it because he's not really that good and doesn't actually "like" football, whatever the fuck that means? These are the latest reasons for explaining the increasingly inexplicable lack of interest in Kerry Rhodes this season. ...

OK State Registrar: <em>Sports Illustrated</em> Still Hasn't Called Us [Update]

Over the last day, one of Sports Illustrated's main sources for the second part of its five-part investigation into Oklahoma State has been under attack. Fath' Carter claimed that he graduated from the university with a degree in education, and, more significantly, that he and former Cowboys runni...

Ron Morris Again Allowed To Cover Steve Spurrier And South Carolina

A day after Jim Romenesko reported that Steve Spurrier had bullied The State into banning Ron Morris, a columnist often critical of Spurrier and the Gamecocks program, from writing about South Carolina football, the newspaper has backed off its stance....

Did <em>Anyone</em> Get Into The NASCAR Chase Fair And Square?

Just as NASCAR was cleaning up its mess, booting Martin Truex Jr. from the Chase for the Sprint Cup after his teammates conspired to bone Ryan Newman, comes more controversy! Was there more collusion afoot at Richmond? Did Jeff Gordon get screwed? Is NASCAR infinitely more fun with these shenanigans...

All The Quoted Players Who Are Backing Away From <em>SI's</em> OK State Story

Sports Illustrated is now more than halfway through its big dumb investigation into the Oklahoma State football program. Since the magazine began rolling out its five-part series, many of the former OK State players who were quoted by co-writer Thayer Evans have claimed that they were misquoted in t...

The Most Important Part of <em>SI</em>'s Oklahoma State Drugstravaganza

Part three of five (five! Jesus.) of Sports Illustrated's OK State exposé is out, and today's all about the drugs. You'll find this paragraph:...

Sean Penn Would Have Been A Great Ty Cobb

It's fun to recast movies. After watching Mystic River I wished it could start again with the leads exchanging roles. Harry Dean Stanton would have made a great Billy Martin if The Bronx is Burning was made 15 years earlier. If I could have one wish it would be to see Art Carney reprise his stage pe...

Fame And Obscurity

I found this over at Longform (and if you haven't bookmarked this site by now, whadda ya waiting for?)—Robert Draper's 1992 Texas Monthly story on Cormac McCarthy. I'm not drawn to McCarthy's writing but I'm a sucker for profiles of writers and this is a good one:...

There Is Peyton Manning Weed

Let's just go ahead and start calling them the Denver Potbros. You make one little plant legal in a state and everyone goes off the rails....

Reporter Who Was Critical Of Steve Spurrier Replaced By Spurrier's Pal

So here's some bullshit: According to a report by Jim Romenesko, South Carolina Gamecocks head football coach Steve Spurrier has the power to bully a newspaper into silencing any reporter that he doesn't like. ...

Pete Carroll, 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist

Last spring, the Seahawks coach sat down with the army's former vice chief of staff. Carroll wanted to know whether the attack on the Pentagon had really happened. Even after the four-star general told him many of his colleagues had been killed, Carroll was still "skeptical."...

Cool Flix

Check out Chris Ozer's photographs for Jimmie Johnson racing. ...

Let's Hope Drugs Prolong Rafael Nadal's Great Career

Originally published in Bloomberg View...

NASCAR Driver Intentionally Spins Out To Put Teammate In Playoff [Update]

This is not mere conspiracy theory, not just bitter-but-unfounded suspicions from Ryan Newman and Jeff Gordon fans angry that they just missed out on a spot in NASCAR's Chase for the Sprint Cup playoff. This is a thing that happened clear as day—a driver deliberately spun out to screw them over and ...

America's Game

Baseball Card Vandals is killin' it for the start of the NFL season. ...

South Carolina Assistant Coaches Fight On Sidelines During Game

S-E-C! S-E-C!...

Why Do Tennis Players Say "Come On!" So Much?

On Tuesday, in front of a small crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, the inconsistent Serbian Ana Ivanoivc had an early lead on Victoria Azarenka in the fourth round at the U.S. Open. At the end of a 14-shot rally late in the first set, Ivanovic slapped a weak forehand into the net. ...

Former Major Leaguer Scott Spiezio Is In Trouble With The Law Again

Scott Spiezio's big-league career ended in a downward spiral of substance abuse problems and scrapes with the law. Since being released from the Braves' minor-league system in April 2008, the former infielder who won World Series rings with the Angels and Cardinals appears to have kept his name out ...