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The Way This HS Goalkeeper Loses State Soccer Championship Is The Worst

You gotta feel for the kid....

Sweet Dreams

From Carlo Rotella's collection of essays and stories Playing in Time, check this out:...

Minivan Gets Huge Air In This Russian Car Accident

This is the latest horrible wreck brought to you by Russians' predilection for dashboard cameras. ...

Roy Hibbert's Block On Carmelo Anthony Last Night Was A Work Of Art

While the narrative from last night's series-seizing win for the Pacers over the Knicks has mostly been Lance Stephenson's inexplicable 25-point, 10-rebound performance, the highlight of the evening was unquestionably Roy Hibbert's manhandling of a Carmelo Anthony attempt at the rim....

Sadistic Media Targeted "Carolina Way," Whinges Ex-UNC Chancellor

Pro tip for anyone trying to make sense of a scandal. If the person at the center of it starts claiming that "the media" are persecuting them, it's usually (though not always) a solid bet that they are patently full of shit. It's the equivalent of shooting the messenger and then claiming self-defens...

UFC Fighter Uses Homophobic Slur, Manager Offers Moronic Defense

Yesterday, UFC fighter Nate Diaz took to his Twitter account to voice the following opinion:...

Former NASCAR Driver Dick Trickle Dead In Apparent Suicide

As first reported by ESPN's Ryan McGee, former short-track superstar and NASCAR fixture Richard "Dick" Trickle was found dead today, of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 71....

Earnhardt suspended by NASCAR for failing drug test. Frank Earnhardt, that is....

Shane Robinson Had To Wipe His Hand, So He Used Pete Kozma's Jersey

The Cardinals' dugout had just greeted Matt Carpenter after he scored on Matt Holliday's double in the bottom of the first. Yeah. We know as much about this as Pete Kozma does....

Murder Was the Case

Mark Seal goes inside the Oscar Pistorius murder trial for Vanity Fair:...

The Meaning Of Convicted Rapist Mike Tyson's New Cartoon

Twenty years ago The Ring magazine asked the question, after Mike Tyson's rape conviction, "What If Mike Tyson Had Never Gone To Jail?" The cover story posed a counterfactual in which Tyson did not receive a guilty verdict on his 1991 indictment for rape, confinement and criminal deviant conduct....

Eddie Jordan Admits He Didn't Graduate From Rutgers [UPDATE]

Earlier today, we reported that Rutgers's new men's basketball coach, Eddie Jordan, never received a degree from Rutgers University, even though his official university bio says he graduated in 1977....

This Is What It Looks Like To Be A College Baseball Catcher

South Carolina gave catcher Grayson Greiner a helmet cam for the Gamecocks' bout Wednesday against Wofford, and after some editing put the footage up on YouTube. ...

Eddie Jordan Didn't Graduate From Rutgers, Despite School's Claim [UPDATE]

On April 23, Rutgers introduced Eddie Jordan as the new men's basketball coach. Nearly three weeks earlier, ESPN had aired video of the previous coach, Mike Rice, calling his players "fucking faggots" and chucking basketballs at their heads. From the beginning, Jordan was presented a sort of institu...

Now Vijay Singh Is Suing The PGA Tour Because Of Deer Antler Spray

Deer antler spray may not be effective at delivering a growth hormone, but it does keep giving strength to dumb stories....

Borne Back Ceaselessly Into The Crap. <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, Reviewed.

1. I'm confused at to what Baz Luhrmann, the crazy over-the-top director of Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet, would possibly want with The Great Gatsby. Well, I see why he might like it as a theoretical challenge: What ambitious filmmaker (and Luhrmann is nothing if not ambitious) wouldn't want to tr...

Panthers Owner Was At A "Closed" Council Meeting On Stadium Funding

Jerry Richardson has been aggressively seeking taxpayer money to fund upgrades to his 17-year-old stadium, despite leaked documents that show the Panthers are incredibly profitable. Here's another thing Charlotte residents didn't know until today: Richardson was invited to address the city council's...

Thin Air: In The Mountains With Steve Carlton, Armed Conspiracist

Originally published as "Thin Mountain Air" in the April 1994 issue of Philadelphia Magazine. The story appears in The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan published by Persea books. A postscript with thoughts from both the author and editor follows....

Baseball Player Uses Teammate's Pee For Drug Test, Fails Drug Test

Pro tip: If you're going to use somebody else's pee to try and weasel your way out of a drug test, don't borrow pee from the guy who has an Adderall prescription....

Why A <em>Boston Globe</em> Writer Didn't Vote LeBron James For MVP

Mystery solved. The lone writer who listed Carmelo Anthony first, denying LeBron James the first-ever unanimous MVP, was Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe. And he sounds almost...apologetic?...