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Should Golf Be Allowed To Grow Up? The USGA Says No.
Let us, for a moment, discuss the intricacies of golf. Putting is perhaps the most difficult aspect of the game. One inch to the left, you win; one more to the right, you lose. Good putting requires an incredibly smooth stroke. In recent years, some players have started to use long putters—which the...
Marvin Miller, The Man Who Beat Some Sense Into Baseball
He was in the phone book. That's the thing that always got me about Marvin Miller, the former head of the MLB players association and the man who pulled baseball out of its crude prehistory. You expect your heroes to be unlisted. You don't expect to find one of them in the white pages, right there b...
Damn It Feels Profound To Be A Gangster: <em>Killing Them Softly</em>, Reviewed
1. Killing Them Softly is a polemic disguised as a thriller, a series of scenes featuring various tiers of low-level gangsters shooting, talking, drinking, and complaining, unaware, somewhat blissfully, that they're all metaphors. (It's hard enough to be a gangster without having to walk around symb...
All The Mystery Of Kobe Bryant, In One Photo
From Kobe's Facebook page: "Still not feeling well, it's a day in bed for me. Nothing like a good book to take my mind of last night's tough loss. I'm lovin this one!" The book is, per Amazon, a funny memoir of a father's descent into poverty and alcoholism. This guy. [Kobe]...
Do You Want To Watch A Basketball Game On TV With Dennis Rodman For $59?
If you're in Chicago on Dec. 1, why not go watch a Bulls-Sixers game (on TV) with Dennis Rodman? It's part of the Dennis Rodman Viewing Party Experience. Also included in the Dennis Rodman Viewing Party Experience: a Q&A with The Worm, two drinks, and entry into the "Dress Like Dennis" costume cont...
Holiday Gift Guides: For People Who Like To Eat Meat And Cheese
We suggested bacon-themed gifts last Christmas, but now we're opening things up a bit, because your arteries aren't all the way clogged yet: What do you get for someone who likes to eat meat and cheese? Cookware suggestions, meat suggestions, whatever—we want all of it. Just none of that Williams-So...
Valencia's Adil Rami Scored A Goal From Beyond The Midfield Line
Valencia came into the second leg of their Copa del Rey tie with Llagostera carrying a 2-0 aggregate advantage and leading many observers to assume Los Murciélagos would take it easy and coast into the second round with a match draw. That wasn't to be, though, as Valencia put three into the net to...
Spurs Suffered An Own Goal When Aaron Lennon Kicked The Ball Off Gareth Bale's Face
Tottenham Hotspur holds a 2-1 advantage over Liverpool as of this writing, and Spurs players Aaron Lennon and Gareth Bale are responsible for all three goals; they each have one for their own team, and they contributed to put the ball in their own net in an ill-fated attempt to clear a Steven Gerr...
Grand Canyon University, A For-Profit School Previously Sued By The Feds, Joins The Great Scam Of NCAA Division I Athletics
Grand Canyon University, a for-profit Christian college located in Phoenix, Ariz., now has a Division I athletics program. Inside Higher Ed reports that GCU will become a member of the Western Athletic Conference, as the first for-profit college to join a Division I NCAA conference....
Jerramy Stevens Was Arrested For The Second Time In 15 Days
Fifteen days ago, Jerramy Stevens got arrested, and we unconventionally discovered that he and Hope Solo had plans to get married and redefine the term "power couple." Today, Stevens was arrested in Florida for possibly violating his probation, although there are no details to confirm what he actua...
Now A Key Witness Against Penn State Officials Might Be Ineligible To Testify
One of the central figures in the cover-up case against Penn State administrators is Cynthia Baldwin, the university's former lawyer. Since Jerry Sandusky's arrest last November, Baldwin has provided a grand jury with damaging testimony about all three university officials facing charges—former pres...
College In South Carolina Hires Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach Named Remington Steele
Remington Steele? Remington Steele!...
Gift Guide Roundup: Your Best Suggestions For Joggers
Some people like to jog, despite all the horrible things that may happen to them when they do. Perhaps you know one such person and would like to buy them a gift this holiday season. We asked you to get the ball rolling and suggest gifts for your unfortunate jogger friends....
More People Watched The Spongebob Movie Than UCLA-Stanford Or Clemson-South Carolina: TV Ratings, In Context
A weekly feature wherein we contextualize TV ratings for national sports broadcasts. Data via Nielsen, Sports Business Journal's John Ourand and @TVSportsRTGS. Viewership numbers represent approximate number of persons tuned to a given program; ratings share refers to the percentage of all househol...
Bristolmetrics: ESPN Covers A Quarterback Controversy Not Involving Tim Tebow
This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week....
Ask A Notre Dame Beat Writer About The—Cough, Cough—Best Football Team In The Country
Brian Hamilton covers the Fighting Irish for the Chicago Tribune (in which capacity he is regularly abused by the most self-indulgent fanbase west of Massachusetts). Got some questions about the country's temporarily top-ranked team? Brian's in the discussion below....
A Texas A&M Fan Made A Weird Music Video For Johnny Manziel
If you didn't think Texas A&M fans love Johnny Manziel (a.k.a. "Johnny Football"), stop doubting. An Aggie fan only known as "lvroper1959" uploaded this unsettling ode to Manziel called "Johnny Football," a cover of "Johnny Angel," a song released by Shelley Fabares in 1962....
ESPN Reprimands <em>SportsCenter</em> For Accurately Sourcing A Story: "IMPORTANT: DO NOT CREDIT SPORTS BY BROOKS"
ESPN has a habit of not handing out proper credit for other outlets' reporting. It's happened a lot over the last year or so. But last night, the network went so far as to order SportsCenter to stop giving credit....
The Big Ten Is On The Move: Updating Our Conference Realignment Maps!
When we last checked in a month ago, it seemed the dust was finally settling after a period of bizarre college football reafuckinglignment. Pretty much everyone had made major moves except the Big Ten, a distinctly Midwestern conference that seemed happy to pretty much stay put....
The Hater's Guide To Notre Dame
You’re gonna hear a lot about Notre Dame over the next month or so, particularly from media types like Tony Kornheiser who have spent the past 20 years holding back a collective tidal wave of jism, waiting for the program to return to prominence so that they can declare how good it is for college fo...