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Louisville Removes Papa John's Name From Football Stadium, Business School, Phone ContactsA week that began with reports that Papa John’s founder Papa “John” Schnatter somehow worked an overt hard-r racial slur into a conference call with a marketing company is ending with the removal of Schnatter’s name from virtually everything on which it had previously been emblazoned. There are only...

<em>Detroit News</em> Web Editor Has Spiders In Their Brain [Update: WTF]Sports Sightings gets weird today....

Grizzly Relays And Rugby Widows: Deadspin's Dispatches From The 2011 Rugby World CupChris Benz and Dave Shireley will be filing dispatches from the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, in the odd moments that they are sober....

Copycat Who Ran On Field During Phillies Game Contrite, But Wanted To "Prove A Point"

Tom Betz AKA DJ Greaseboner spoke to the media about his failed attempt to get himself tased as an act of solidarity or protest or something equally moronic. [NBCPhiladelphia]...

The Yankees 2 1/2 Games Back? Inconceivable!

Well, today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day (as if I had to tell you), and fittingly we must report that the Dread Pirate Roberts is now in sight of the first-place Red Sox, and gaining rapidly. The Yankees, who were 14 1/2 games behind Boston in May, are now well within striking distance wi...

At Least They Didn't Play The Star-Spangled Banner

It's a beautiful day in Iraq. (Really!) The Iraqi soccer team brought some rare joy to a nation that's, uh, in some turmoil by winning the Asian Cup. Everyone's ecstatic, it's something to cheer about, it's a wonderful thing. And then....