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ESPN Apologizes For Brent Musburger's Boner
ESPN actually came out with a comment about this. Here it is:...
Rob Parker Is Out At ESPN
After Rob Parker appeared on a Detroit-based community-affairs show on Sunday and revealed that First Take producers knew exactly what he was going to say when he made his "cornball brother" comments, some speculation ran around Bristol on Monday that his suspension would be permanent....
Tony La Russa's Wife Is A Huge Metalhead, Because Of Course She Is
Robb Flynn, the lead singer of the heavy metal band Machine Head, posted a story on the band's official website today that included an unexpected cameo from Elaine La Russa, wife of former Cardinals manager Tony La Russa....
"Dangerously Excessive": How Washington State Football Confronted, And Didn't Confront, The First Bad News Of The Mike Leach Era
"There are no signs of abuse," Washington State University athletic director Bill Moos told reporters last month, after the school had concluded an internal investigation into claims that football coach Mike Leach and his staff had mistreated players in his debut season there. Based on interviews wi...
The NBA Fined Danny Ferry $15,000 For Snitching On Rajon Rondo
Rajon Rondo served a one-game suspension last night, because that's what Rajon Rondo does. The incident happened in the third quarter Saturday's win over Atlanta, when referee Rodney Mott whistled Rondo for a charge. Rondo freaked out a bit and approached Mott to argue the call, bumping him ever s...
Carmelo Anthony And Kevin Garnett Got Into Some Kind Of Scrum In The Belly Of Madison Square Garden
The Boston Celtics beat the Knicks in Madison Square Garden Monday night 102-96 and it sounds like Carmelo was pissed. The hostility began when Garnett and Anthony got into it a little bit in the fourth quarter during a dead-ball period that resulted in double technicals for the two. At the end of t...
Brent Musburger Is A Bit Too Infatuated With A.J. McCarron's Girlfriend, Katherine Webb
As often happens during boring, blowout bowl games, the cameras and commentary shifted tonight from the action on the field to the stands and Alabama QB A.J. McCarron's girlfriend Katherine Webb. Okay, sure, mention she goes to Auburn and how scandalous that is—that's normal. ESPN announcer Brent...
Fight During Race Doesn't Even Interrupt Track Meet
Track meets can be interminably long affairs, what with all of the various heats for all of the various races. Most meets, then, run on a tight schedule with little time for interruption—even when there's a brawl in the middle of a race, apparently....
Pau Gasol Needs To Be Rescued From The Lakers, And Sarah McLachlan Is Here To Help
Shit is getting bad for the Los Angeles Lakers. After losing to the Denver Nuggets at home last night, the Lakers' record now sits at 15-18. Furthermore, the locker room atmosphere appears to be getting more and more posionous each day. Dwight Howard is publicly complaining about the Lakers' inabi...
Rob Parker: <em>First Take</em> Producers Knew What I Was Going To Talk About
Rob Parker's suspension for asking if Robert Griffin III was a "brother or a cornball brother" ends in a week or so and 1.) he really doesn't seem that sorry about what happened and 2.) he says First Take producers knew what he had to say....
The Redskins Were Done In By Their Own "Crappy" Field
Here's Pierre Garcon, on the soupy, sloppy, green-painted dirt that passes for grass between the hash marks at FedEx Field:...
JaVale McGee Goes Up And Over Two Of His Own Teammates For A Putback Dunk
See, this is why we love JaVale McGee: he'll forego the smart play for the spectacular play. Late in the first half of yesterday's win over the Lakers, a missed Kosta Koufos layup bounced right in the middle of three Nuggets. Rather than yell "same team" or beg off to avoid deflecting the ball, Mc...
An Autographed Jason Campbell Jersey Exists, And This Guy Behind Erin Andrews Is Wearing It
Jason Campbell's years as the Skins' starting quarterback were unremarkable; he accumulated an 18-27 record there, and while he does have the tenth-lowest career interception percentage in NFL history, he shares that mark with luminaries like David Garrard and Shaun Hill....
Robert Griffin III Twisted His Knee On A Dead Patch Of Sports Language
LANDOVER, Md.—After the Redskins' 24-14 playoff loss to the Seahawks, Washington's players and head coach talked about the "difference between being injured and being hurt," the importance of being there for your teammates, and how, in the words of Robert Griffin III, "you have to step up and be a m...
"You Gotta Get Tanked Before You Go In": Green Bay Efforts To Curb Excessive Drinking Predictably Backfire
Like many teams of late, the Packers decided to cut off the sale of booze earlier than usual to combat drunken disorderliness during Saturday's wild card game against the Vikings. Knowing full well that beer sales would be cut off at the end of halftime, Packers fans did the only thing sensible pe...
Watch A Darts Player Produce "Magic The Like Of Which We May Have Never Seen Or Ever See Again"
I won't pretend to know the rules of darts—I guess you don't have to hit the bulls-eye? I thought that was the main thing—but it's obvious something special is happening here when Michael van Gerwen takes over the PDC World Championship by hitting "a nine-darter"—and then nearly doing it again. Th...
"When Marrone Interviewed, He Must Have Been Extremely Impressive": Six Writers Talking Themselves Into New Bills Coach Doug Marrone
Chan Gailey was pretty much a washout from the start for the Bills, and fans who withstood his 16-32 record there are understandably happy to have him gone. Still—who's the new guy? Doug Marrone is: Syracuse's former coach, a one-time offensive coordinator under Sean Peyton, and...that's kind of it....
University Of Texas Track Coach To Step Down Following Investigation Into Relationship With Former Student-Athlete
Bev Kearney has been the women's track and field head coach at the University of Texas since 1993 and has overseen six National Championship squads in that time. In October, Kearney was placed on paid administrative leave when, it now seems, a former student-athlete with whom she had a "consensual i...
Hammer-Wielding Yinzer Tries To Break Into Steelers Locker Room
A man wearing (only?) a Pittsburgh Pirates hat and gray sweatpants attempted to break into the Steelers locker room at Heinz Field Saturday with a hammer. Security at the stadium noted that he busted a lock at Gate B to gain entry to the stadium and then took his own personal tour of the playing fi...
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Here Are A Couple Pictures Of Johnny Manziel Having A Nice Time At A Nightclub After His Cotton Bowl Win [UPDATED]
Our tipster says that these photos [click to expand] were snapped at Avenue Nightclub in Houston, also known as 4500 Washington Avenue, on the night of Texas A&M's resounding Cotton Bowl victory over Oklahoma. Manziel was in apparent violation of the Avenue dress code, but our tipster notes that he ...