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How Greg Jackson Is Changing The Parameters Of Coaching
Last year, we spent a week with Greg Jackson, a top fight trainer, as he and his team prepared four athletes to compete in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. We were granted unusual behind-the-scenes access so that we could answer a fairly straightforward question: Just what does a great coach do, ...

Cops Allege Former Wisconsin WR Marcus Randle-El Is Gun-Toting Abductor
An Amber Alert issued in Illinois at 11:45 p.m. Eastern time Thursday night named a Marcus Randle-El as the suspect in the kidnapping of his own three-year-old daughter. Local media reports that's the same Marcus Randle-El who played wide receiver at Wisconsin and is the brother of former Steelers p...

Dallas Stars Trolling Maple Leafs Fans; Maple Leafs Fans Troll Selves
The Dallas Stars really brought out the big names on the American Airlines Center scoreboard during tonight's game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Both Bieber and Rob Ford made appearances, though at least one Toronto fan showed her very special love for the crack-smoking mayor....

Coach Fired For Playing In High School Girls' Soccer Matches
High school coaches: Even if you get that itch to relive your athletic career and make one more comeback, don't do it, because you'll probably be canned....

Seven Scenes From The Life Of A Quiet Champ
Dig Pete Dexter's 1980 Inside Sports profile of Larry Holmes:...

Rafael Nadal's Hands Are Disgusting
Rafael Nadal will play Roger Federer on Friday (overnight for U.S. audiences) in a semifinal match at the Australian Open, but forget about that for a minute. Look how gross Rafa's hands are. ...

Shoals on David Stern: "And that's why your retirement is both sad and in some sense, a relief. There's nothing quite like the softening of authority figures, like those presidents who voters want to have a beer with, or prize-winning novelists playing Boggle. At the same time, the feeling that I've...

The Browns' Coaching Search Has Reached DEFCON Schiano
The Cleveland Browns 2014 Coaching Search of Sadness (sponsored by Pilot Flying J) appears to be entering its final days, with a pair of surprise entrants: one guy who had previously taken his name out of the running, and another that many assumed would never coach in this league again....

Exploitation Was Duke Ellington's True Genius
Last month, Adam Gopnik wrote an absorbing review of Terry Teachout's new Duke Ellington biography in the New Yorker. It's only available to subscribers but I wanted to share this part:...

Ex-Cowboys DT Josh Brent Guilty Of Intoxication Manslaughter
A jury found Josh Brent guilty today of intoxication manslaughter for the 2012 high-speed accident that killed his teammate Jerry Brown. ...

Here Comes The Federer-Nadal To Possibly End All Federer-Nadals
Maybe every Federer-Nadal is a Federer-Nadal for the ages, and when we look back we'll marvel at our luck that these two comets coincided for a decade. But let's say with a bit of boldness that the upcoming Federer-Nadal — in a date punched when they respectively dispatched Andy Murray and Grigor Di...

Fox Sports Has A Message For Imaginary Haters Hating On UFC CEO's Son
The best thing about the relationship between Fox Sports and the UFC is that it works exactly the way you'd expect a relationship between Fox Sports and the UFC to work. This ensures that you can rely on Fox Sports to bring you the UFC content you want and need. Unsure what UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitt...

OSU Student With Lisa Ann <em>GameDay</em> Sign Attends Porn Awards With Her
With one crude College GameDay sign, Oklahoma State student Matt McGann went to Las Vegas last weekend as a porn star's date. Don't give up on your dreams, everyone....

The Sordid End of David Meggett
Here's the latest from my pal Greg Hanlon. This one's over at SB Nation Longform and it's a tough story: The Sordid End of David Meggett: ...

The Browns' Coaching Search Just Got Sadder And More Desperate
The Browns remain the only NFL team without a head coach. (And the assistants, concerned the front office has no plan, are jumping ship.) Owner Jimmy Haslam told fans to chill out, that this was the plan all along, that the Browns were prepared to wait until all the coaches left in the postseason we...

Joey Goldstein Was A New York City Legend
"I am not a hustler. I am a practitioner who enlightens the American populace and brings joy to the world." Joey Goldstein....

How Davone Bess Fell Through The Cracks
Davone Bess's offseason has gone from funny to frightening. One day, he's tweeting photos of weed. The next, he's having what can only be described as a mental breakdown at the airport. It soon emerged that Bess had another breakdown in March, a month before Miami traded him to Cleveland. The all-im...

Drake Played An Ever-Denying Alex Rodriguez In The <em>SNL</em> Cold Open
Drake is pulling double-duty as host and musical guest on tonight's episode of Saturday Night Live, and the show broke from tradition a bit by featuring its host in the cold open. Here's Drake appearing as Alex Rodriguez on Piers Morgan Tonight....

Darren Sharper Arrested On Suspicion Of Rape
Darren Sharper, former safety for the Packers, Vikings and Saints, was arrested Friday in Los Angeles on rape charges. According to TMZ, Sharper—who now works as an analyst for the NFL Network—was connected to two sexual assaults, one from October 2013 and another this month. ...

Davone Bess Tweets Picture Of Himself Completely Naked
Friday, Davone Bess was arrested after an altercation with a police officer at Fort Lauderdale International Airport, where it was reported he was "acting irrationally" and his pants were falling down. He then tweeted out a picture of himself standing in front of a mirror stark naked early Saturday ...