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Fans Sue Arena After Video Reveals Large And Small Beers Are Same Size
Above is a video taken Saturday night at an ECHL Idaho Steelheads game. It shows fans pouring a $7 large beer into a $4 small cup, and discovering that each holds exactly the same amount of liquid. Now the arena is facing a lawsuit, because rule number one in sports is that you don't shortchange hoc...
Bryce Harper Is Jacked
Via WJFK in Washington comes this photo of Bryce Harper, carrying Girl Scout cookies in his newly enormous arms. He said all winter he was lifting, and he wasn't joking....
MLB Drug Testing Drives One Prospect From Marijuana To Alcohol
The AP has a story about top Astros prospect Jon Singleton, the point of which seems to be to leave readers feeling inspired by Singleton's journey from being a marijuana-addicted and troubled youngster to clean-living prospect knocking on the door of the big leagues. And I suppose it is that kind o...
U Of Ottawa Hockey Suspended Amid Gang Sexual Assault Investigation
The men's varsity hockey team at the University of Ottawa has been suspended indefinitely, as the school and police investigate "allegations of serious misconduct" on the part of multiple players, reportedly involving an alleged "gang sexual assault" on a single female victim....
Who Was The Best Oscars Host Of The Past 25 Years?
11. James Franco and Anne Hathaway (2011). Always beware of courting the "young," particularly two young people who are basically 50-year-olds in grownup clothing. Franco, stripped of all self-referential schtick, turned into an empty suit with nowhere to hide, and Hathaway's desperate attempts to p...
Jim Boeheim Is Getting Pretty Sick Of This Shit
Early in Syracuse-Virginia, Syracuse was called for a blocking foul on a play nearly identical to the controversial call that went against the Orange at the end of the Duke game. Syracuse was called for an offensive foul there, and Boeheim lost his mind (and the game). Today, again on the wrong end ...
Pound For Pound
Here is an NPR interview with Wil Haygood, author of the Sugar Ray Robinson biography,Sweet Thunder....
Rob Ford Ran His Dick Into A Fire Hydrant
No, really, that's what happened....
Windowlicker And Nosepicker Are The Best North Dakota Hockey Fans
These two kids popped up behind a shot of North Dakota men's hockey coach Dave Hakstol Friday during a game against Minnesota Duluth, and they are outstanding college hockey fans. One's doing his best sucker fish impression while the other digs for gold....
Jim Boeheim Goes Nuts After Bad Call, Costs Team Chance At Beating Duke
After making it until Wednesday without a loss this season, top-ranked Syracuse has now been beaten twice in a row after a wild ending at Duke tonight assisted by the referees and an out-of-control, berserk Jim Boeheim....
Harrowing Ad Running During Olympics Advises You To Pray For Death
This advertisement, spotted today on NBC Sports Network, seems worth bringing to your attention. Presumably paid for when the time slot was being filled by one of the network's strange gun shows, it features a concerned citizen pointing out that America will, sooner or later, be struck by natural di...
Luger Kate Hansen Films A Wolf/Dog Roaming Outside Her Sochi Hotel Room [UPDATE]
Update: Fuck you, Jimmy Kimmel....
Minor League Goalie Fined For Tripping Mascot
That's goalie Mark Guggenberger of the CHL's Allen Americans, slewfooting poor Missouri Mavericks mascot Mac. Man-on-horse violence is frowned upon in the civilized world, so Guggenberger has been fined an undisclosed sum. [Puck Daddy]...
South Korean Basketball Coach Makes Player Put Tape Over His Mouth
Ulsan Mobis Phoebus coach Yoo Jae-hak of the Korean Basketball League was livid during a timeout Sunday, even though his team was winning by 13 points, and one specific player caught his ire....
Texas Sportscaster Destroys Silly Opposition To Michael Sam In The NFL
Dale Hansen of Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA—who won a Peabody Award for his reporting on the SMU football scandal—had an excellent response to the criticism of NFL prospect Michael Sam, who announced on Sunday that he was gay. In his "Dale Hansen Unplugged" segment, the sportscaster rejects all argumen...
Lester Holt Tried To Dance Like Kate Hansen And It Was A Mess
Lester Holt had Dancin' Kate Hansen on during NBC's Olympics coverage this afternoon and, of course, made her break out her now-famous moves. Weeks after the Olympics end, we're going to find out Duncan Kennedy had something to do with this....
NBC Luge Commentator Disapproves Of American Luger Kate Hansen Dancing
U.S. luger Kate Hansen's medal chances in Sochi aren't strong, but she brings the boogie wherever she goes as part of her warmup routine. NBC luge commentator Duncan Kennedy has a problem with this....
U.S. Olympian Kate Hansen Prepares For Luge Run By Dancing
After two runs, she is currently in 10th place. ...
Sources: ESPN <em>First Take</em> Boss In Talks With NBC To Produce <em>Today</em> Show
ESPN vice president Jamie Horowitz, the midwife of Bristol's "Embrace Debate" era that made us all a little dumber, has been approached by NBC to take control of the Today show, according to two sources. A deal appears likely, we're told, though Horowitz still has to extract himself from his contrac...