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Throwback: Gus Malzahn Breakdances To "U Can't Touch This"
Someone uploaded a glorious video of then-high school football coach Gus Malzahn breaking it down to "U Can't Touch This." Witness the current Auburn coach bust moves like it's nothing. ...

How The Cavaliers' Old Court Ended Up In A High School Gym
The coliseum referenced on the basketball court above is the Richfield Coliseum, once home to the Cleveland Cavaliers. It's the very same floor on which Michael Jordan dusted Craig Ehlo, and now it belongs to a high school in Virginia. ...

Chris Douglas-Roberts Is Bringing Short Shorts Back To The NBA
Chris Douglas-Roberts signed a one-year deal with the Clippers, and is taking advantage of the opportunity to inflict untold horrors on the basketball-loving public. Douglas-Roberts asked for medium-sized shorts. Functionally, those are short shorts....

UFC Champ Rescues Bleeding Great-Granny, Delivers Badass Catchphrase
Undefeated UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman is hanging out at his home on Long Island and rehabbing a broken hand, but just because he can't fight doesn't mean he can't do cool shit like maybe save the life of his 94-year-old neighbor....

Jesus Christ Ditches His Wife At An Oklahoma Restaurant
A woman has been jailed on a charge of fraud after her husband, Jesus Christ, fooled her into ordering food she couldn't pay for at a restaurant....

War Machine's Suicide Note Is Delusional
War Machine (born Jonathan Koppenhaver), awaiting trial for the alleged beating of Christy Mack, tried to kill himself in jail last Tuesday by tying a piece of linen around his neck. Jailors reportedly found a suicide note in the cell. TMZ published that note today. There are Nietzsche quotes....

Former MLS Reporter: Team Pushed To Get Me Fired
The Colorado Rapids are slouching toward the end of a dispiriting season, and because this is how sports work, fans are wondering whom should be blamed. Last week, one of them asked MLSsoccer.com Rapids beat reporter Chris Bianchi for his opinion. Here's how he responded:...

Blake Griffin Close To Something He May Think About Doing In The Future
NBA fights in this decade are usually the equivalent of very aggressive staring contests that could potentially escalate into two bros shoving each other while yelling, "not the face, man!" ...

The NHL Probably Shouldn't Hire Chris Pronger, Who's Still A Flyer
Chris Pronger hasn't played since 2011, but he remains under contract with the Flyers through 2017. That alone seems like enough to preclude Pronger taking a job in the league office. You'd think! ...

Wake Up!
It's Saturday. College GameDay is in Oxford. SEC Nation is in Starkville. (There's probably soccer being played somewhere, too.) The rest of your Saturday crew will be here shortly. ...

War Machine Is Back On Twitter
Former MMA fighter War Machine (born Jonathan Koppenhaver) is currently in Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas as he awaits trial for the beating of Christy Mack. His next appearance in court is an Oct. 17 preliminary hearing at which Mack is expected to testify. Somehow, he (or someone else)...

Pass Attempt Blocked By Field Goal Post
If you had to guess which team in the TCU/SMU game was going to author an embarrassing highlight, you'd have guessed SMU, because they have been outscored this season 146-12....

Head On A Swivel
If you didn't watch UCLA wallop Arizona State last night, here is the game in its entirety:...

Chris Sale Plunks Victor Martinez, Sparks Bench-Clearing Conversation
White Sox pitcher Chris Sale hit Victor Martinez in the sixth inning of today's game, causing both benches and bullpens to clear, though no one actually did anything. Why did Sale tag Martinez? The current best theory: Sale thought Martinez was stealing signs with the help of someone in the bullpen....

Chris Sale Does Not Have Bones In His Body, Defies Physics
Chicago White Sox ace Chris Sale is, on a per-inning basis, currently pitching more or less the way Sandy Koufax did in his prime. (His park- and league-adjusted ERA-plus of 195 is actually a little better than Koufax's best-ever mark, though yes of course Koufax pitched a hell of a lot more innings...

Christy Mack Posts Update On Condition After Alleged Assault
Christy Mack's condition has improved since former MMA fighter War Machine (born Jonathan Koppenhaver) allegedly assaulted her in August. Mack still has a lot of healing left, however....

Something Very Weird Happened During ESPN's Interview With Bill Polian
Former NFL executive Bill Polian was brought onto SportsCenter this morning to give some insight into the NFL's bungling of the Ray Rice situation. He was specifically asked if he, as someone who has worked in the NFL office, thought it was possible for an NFL executive to have obtained a copy of ...

ESPNers Are Pissed At The NFL Over Its Ray Rice Video Claims
There is every reason to believe that the NFL is lying, that league executives had seen the video of Ray Rice punching out his fiancée—not least of which is the fact that at least one NFL reporter described the contents of the tape, accurately and in detail, months before it was released by TMZ....

ESPN's Dilfer, Berman Praise NFL In Ridiculous Recap Of Ray Rice Case
Tonight's the worst night of the NFL season, the one evening ESPN capitulates to Chris Berman's demand and puts him on a Monday Night Football telecast. Berman tried to discuss the Ray Rice fiasco with analyst Trent Dilfer, and the entire thing was a disaster....