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Here Is The Paterno Family's Lawsuit Against The NCAA
Though delayed by overtime hockey, Costas Tonight eventually devoted a whole hour last night to a re-examination of the Freeh report. Bob Costas said at the outset—and at the end of the program—that he had invited Louis Freeh and NCAA president Mark Emmert to participate in the discussion. They decl...
Bear Gets Hit By Moving Car, Gets Up Like It's No Big Deal
Here's a little something to help you get your morning started right, courtesy of yet another Russian with a dashboard camera and an indestructible bear....
Somebody Should Let Menendez And Lautenberg Know About This
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Here Are The 2014 Olympic Medals
Today at the IOC executive board meetings in St. Petersburg, the medals for the 2014 Sochi Olympics were officially unveiled. Uh, Russia? It looks like a big chunk is missing....
Kobe On Rovell: "The Voice Of Biz." Oh My God, I Am Dying
Seriously, though, congrats Darren. The best voice of biz in the biz. #mindonbiz #mambabiz...
Panthers Lineman Hits Cam Newton With A Fantastic Videobomb
Usually, the mark of a good videobomb is its subtlety, but Panthers lineman Jordan Gross is proof that the art form can also be deployed with a more overt sensibility. Gross's frantic jig was enough to get Cam Newton to forget the question that he had just been asked, so we'll call this videobomb a...
2 Former Chivas USA Coaches Say They Were Fired For Not Being Mexican
Two former coaches for MLS side Chivas USA’s youth academy have filed a discrimination lawsuit against the club, claiming they were fired because the team wanted to purge all employees who “were neither Mexican nor Latino.”...
Rutgers Really Did Close To No Vetting Of Its New AD
The bunker mentality has arrived in earnest at Rutgers: The embattled RU president Robert Barchi is standing behind even-more-embattled AD Julie Hermann and New Jersey governor Chris Christie is trying to stay as far away from the mess as humanly possible....
When The Yankees Face The Mets, It's Duckface Supreme
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Ambush Highlights Everything Wrong With Video-Fightin' Bros
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Pillsbury Beatdown," from njon437, who apparently joined to post this lone video. Tonight's commentator: Me. (Coming next week: the previously mentioned "Streetfight in...
Here's The New Shaq Soda We've All Been Waiting For
So Shaquille O'Neal tweeted today that he partnered with AriZona Beverage Company to release a soda line. After countless hours of grunt work and delibration peppered by brief, magical moments of marketing genius, Shaq's new soda will be called Soda Shaq....
Here and Now
Ali. The Greatest. There is an entire body of sports writing devoted to him. For more than a generation it's as if every writer worth his or her salt had to tackle him at one point. ...
Rob Ford Got A Football-Themed Cake For His Birthday
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who has smoked crack cocaine, is celebrating his 44th birthday today. His staff brought him the lovely cake you see above, because crack-smoking Rob Ford still celebrates his birthday like a nine-year-old boy. Maybe he'll get to eat that cake in his race car bed tonight....
Nobody's Interested In Watching John Cena Wrestle Anymore
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Danica Patrick's Boyfriend Causes Her To Crash At Coca-Cola 600
With 82 laps to go in Sunday's Coca-Cola 600, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. bumped Danica Patrick, causing her to crash, along with Brad Keselowski. Worth noting: Stenhouse Jr. and Patrick are dating. Drama!...
Where Do Singers Screw Up The National Anthem?
Earlier this month, before the first game of the Canadian Hockey League's Memorial Cup, singer Alexis Normand joined a long list of people who have brutalized the U.S. national anthem in front of a large, tense crowd....
The Right Stuff
Over at Bronx Banter, Peter Richmond remembers his father:...
Denny Hamlin's Mid-Race Snack Of Choice Is An Uncrustable
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