e Page 6885 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Veteran MLB Umpire Brian Runge Fired For Violating League Drug Policy
MLB has fired 14-year veteran umpire Brian Runge for a violation of the league drug policy, according to the Associated Press. Runge is believed to be the first umpire punished under big league random drug testing protocols....
Deadspin Up All Night: Only A Phase
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Tuesday Night Fights and all sorts of beautiful sports things coming your way tonight. Talk down here....
Flyers’ Offseason Becomes Hilarious Again
The Philadelphia Flyers—who missed the playoffs last year—were last seen doing everything they could to get under the salary cap. They used their two lockout-authorized buyouts on Danny Briere and Ilya Bryzgalov, who was in only the second year of a big-money nine-year deal....
Clippers Swap Eric Bledsoe For J.J. Redick In Three-Team Trade
Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that the Clippers, Bucks, and Suns have finalized a mini-blockbuster of sorts. The Clippers are sending young stud Eric Bledsoe and Caron Butler's expiring contract to the Suns in exchange for Jared Dudley. The Bucks are shipping J.J. Redick to the Clips, and ...
The Grierson & Leitch Top 12 Movies Of The First Half Of 2013
Shockingly, we are more than halfway through 2013. As always, the best, most "prestigious" movies won't be released until November or December, because the people who vote on the Oscars are senile and cannot remember anything they saw more than 20 minutes ago. But there have been plenty of outstandi...
Grumpy Hater Jonathan Papelbon Doesn't Think Yasiel Puig Is An All-Star
Everyone loves Yasiel Puig, because Yasiel Puig has done nothing but be completely awesome since being called up by the Dodgers one month ago. Everyone except Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon, that is, who thinks that it would be "a joke" if Puig made the National League all-star team....
The Greatest Doink The Clown Story Ever
Former wrestler Matt Osborne—aka Doink the Clown—died a few days ago. Justin Halpern, bestselling author and co-creator of the upcoming Fox sitcom Surviving Jack, told us this story about working with Doink way back in 1998. Halpern believes the Doink mentioned here is Osborne, but given that Doin...
Shirtless Kid Shoots A Chicken Through A Basketball Hoop
I don't know, man. I'm just as flummoxed as you are....
Working Stiffs
I admire Elmore Leonard and Woody Allen because they just keep working. Elmore is 87, Woody is 77. And they don't stop. ...
Here's A Photo Of Aaron Hernandez Getting Kicked Out Of A Bar
According to our tipster, this picture was snapped just as Hernandez was being kicked out of a billiards bar called Underground in Hermosa Beach. "Other than some cussing, he left with relatively no trouble," adds our tipster. Has Aaron Hernandez ever gone to a bar and not been kicked out?...
Old Fish Dead
A 39-pound shortraker rockfish caught off the coast of Alaska last month could be 200 years old, according to experts. This is remarkably depressing....
How Do You Ask Someone To Trim Their Pubic Hair?
Whoa hey, it's 4th of July week! Time to take the kids to the town fireworks celebration, fail to find a decent spot on the grass, get eaten by bugs, pull my hair out as the fireworks display starts two hours later than I want it to, and then watch half a firework explode from behind some asshole's ...
Puttin’ in Work
“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will — through work — bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around l...
Picture This: Little Leaguers Want Their Pants
Most everyone who has ever played a sport — even those of us who never played at a level beyond, say, high school basketball, football, baseball, soccer — most of us can recall at least one time, before a game, when everything just felt right. Maybe there was something in the air, or there was a loo...