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If You Talk Shit About USC's AD, His Nephew Will Smarm Your Ass To Death
USC's athletic director, Pat Haden, has been taking some heat lately. With his school's football program still reeling from the Lane Kiffin disaster, Haden gave the head coaching job to University of Washington's Steve Sarkisian, whose career Pac-12 winning percentage is .539. Kiffin's was .586. Und...

Texans Fire Gary Kubiak
How bad has Houston been? Gary Kubiak's mini-stroke only bought him a month. Kubiak, who's had the job since 2006, is out as coach, a day after the Texans' second loss to the Jaguars. "The last straw was losing," owner Bob McNair said. "We've got a lot better talent than Jacksonville."...

Poor Mark Ingram Had To Wear Auburn Gear Yesterday
Saints running back Mark Ingram played college ball at Alabama, a team which you may remember losing the Iron Bowl in spectacular fashion to Auburn last week. It looks like Ingram made some kind of bet on the game with one of his teammates, because he showed up to practice yesterday decked out in Au...

Here Are The Groups For The 2014 World Cup
As just drawn at a ceremony in Costa Do Sauipe, Brazil:...

Robinson Cano Gets $240 Million From Mariners, Surprises Everyone
Well, that wasn't supposed to happen. After just about every baseball writer working had written off the Seattle Mariners' chances of landing Robinson Cano, news broke this morning that the Mariners had scooped up the prize of the 2013 free agent class with a 10-year, $240 million deal. Based on my ...

Accept The Mystery: The Brilliance Of The Coen Bros' Character Studies
Joel and Ethan Coen have been making movies long enough now that it's possible for fans not just to have a favorite film of theirs but a favorite type of film. Perhaps you love their loopy comedies: The Hudsucker Proxy, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski. Maybe you're partial to their heist-gone-wr...

Watch Charles Barkley Ride An NYC Subway For The First Time
The Chuck Wagon was in Brooklyn last night to do color commentary for the Knicks-Nets Toilet Bowl, and since he's a man of the people, he decided to take the subway to the Barclays Center....

Man Pops Out Of Mascot Costume To Propose To Bulls Cheerleader
Who says love is dead?...

Girls Basketball Players Suspended For Flashing Shocker In Team Picture
A few members of a high school girls basketball team from Farmington, Ill., thought it would be funny to slyly flash the shocker in their team picture. As you can see above, it was indeed funny, but the school administration didn't seem to think so, and the girls were suspended....


What if FIFA Seeded The World Cup The Way Americans Would?
FIFA is so hopelessly corrupt that today's lottery to determine World Cup round robin groups is a necessary evil. If a committee determined the groupings behind closed doors, it would surely result in political enemies being forced to face Brazil in the first round and the country giving Sepp Blatte...

Reports: Mariners Break Off Talks With Robinson Cano
For all the talk about Jay Z's foray into the sports agent world, he hasn't been much more than a figurehead. But yesterday, for the first time I can remember, he actually took part in a negotiating session, a meeting with the Mariners on behalf of Robinson Cano. It seems to have gone poorly....

Detroit TV Station Remembers Yankee Star Nelson "A-Rod" Mandela
How does this happen? Seriously, how does this happen?...

Only in Philly: Dick Jerardi watches the city's six Division I teams at four venues in three hours Wednesday night. "I insist on a short detour down 34th and then back up 33rd to roll through Penn's campus and pay homage to the darkened Palestra. They could have made this a lot less challenging if a...

Teddy Bridgewater Channels His Inner Manziel For A Fantastic Touchdown
Damn, Teddy Bridgewater. You're going to make an NFL team very happy next season. Credit to Damian Copeland for the excellent effort to get a foot down, too....

The Best Part Of Tonight's Texans-Jaguars Game
You haven't missed much by ignoring tonight's Texans-Jaguars game. Here's one entertaining highlight, though: DeAndre Hopkins and Alan Ball slapping each other around. Come on, guys, stop fighting about whose team is worse. They're both awful....

Seahawks Player Impersonates Russell Wilson To Get Dinner Reservations
Russell Wilson's quarterbacking the best team in the NFL right now, so of course there are perks to that status. Those benefits are also available to his teammates, but only if they pretend to be him, as Michael Bennett did....

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 14 (Late Edition)
Below is updated betting information for the Week 14 NFL games (you can see the early-week edition here). Spread movement and money lines are now included; major books have not yet opened for Browns-Patriots or Falcons-Packers, as they're presumably holding off until starting QBs are announced for C...

Deadspin Up All Night: Pressure
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