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LeBron James Says He's Open To Playing Again In Cleveland, Maybe
I admit it: I was skeptical when sources passed along something like this a couple of weeks back to a reporter from Cleveland. It all seemed so ridiculous, considering there are still two years remaining on LeBron's contract with the Heat. So much can happen between now and then. Besides, does anyon...
Darren Rovell Appeared On WFAN To Explain His Indecent Proposal To Kate Upton
CNBC's Darren Rovell dropped by WFAN this morning and attempted to explain Tuesday's appearance on the network with Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton, during which the sports business reporter asked Upton to be his Valentine (and was rejected)....
Are New York’s Most Exclusive Restaurants More Eager To Seat Jeremy Lin Or Eli Manning? Deadspin Investigates
Who's the biggest thing in New York right now? Is it Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin, the unlikely guy leading his team on an improbable charge to .500, collecting terrible, punning tabloid headlines along the way? Or is it Giants quarterback Eli Manning, the unlikely guy who led his team on an improb...
A Delivery-Truck Driver From Oregon Predicted All The Linsanity
Ed Weiland's May 2010 forecast for Hoops Analyst examined Lin's two-point field-goal percentage and RSB40 at Harvard, among other factors. "Jeremy Lin is a good enough player to start in the NBA," Weiland wrote, "and possibly star." [WSJ]...
A Clearly Linsane Mike Tyson Curses, Talks About His 3,000 Pigeons During MSG Interview
Mike Tyson was MSG Network's special halftime guest during tonight's broadcast of the Kings-Knicks game, and the interview was about as much of a trainwreck as you'd expect—though interviewer Jill Martin's somewhat to blame (at one point it sounds like she interprets Tyson's answer to "What sport...
Colin Cowherd's Awkward Interview With Kate Upton Ended Equally-Awkwardly [UPDATE]
ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd found himself talking to a dial tone today on The Herd With Colin Cowherd after Sports Illustrated cover model Kate Upton hung up on him following a series of invasive and creepy questions. Update: see below....
Won't Someone In Pittsburgh Give Antonio Brown A Ride From The Airport Tomorrow?
Taxis in Pittsburgh are notoriously fickle compared to other cities, and the airport flyer bus can be a bit of a pain if you've got bags. [via]...
Introducing Glory Days: Send Us <em>Your</em> Greatest Sports Moments
The scene: Kenney Gym in Urbana, Ill. A winter's evening in 1996. University High School trailing DeLand-Weldon 57-50 with 38 seconds to go. A skinny kid from Uni, No. 22, knocks down a three-pointer. Then, after a foul and a missed free throw the other way, he nails another one. DeLand-Weldon mak...
Dear MSG And Time Warner Cable: Eat A Bag Of Salted Dicks
Linsanity reached a fever pitch last night, and judging from Twitter, all of North America saw it happen. Not me. I can't watch the most exciting thing to happen to the NBA in years, and I can't watch any Knicks games because I live in New York....
Stop The #SILINSANITY! Great Moments In <em>Sports Illustrated</em> Crapping All Over Its Cover With A Twitter Hashtag
If you can't be first, at least be the most inane. That's how Sports Illustrated is handling the challenge of being a weekly magazine chasing the fast-moving phenomenon that is Jeremy Lin. Instead of running a nice, straightforward dead-tree cover of the Knicks' new point guard attacking the Lakers...
TCU's Upset Of UNLV Triggers Saddest Court-Storming Ever
Your morning roundup for Feb. 15. Photo via SportsGrid. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
George Mason Won On A Buzzer-Beating Three-Pointer, Too
George Mason downed rival (and reigning Final Four participant) VCU with a Sherrod Wright 30-footer as time expired in a matchup between rivals in what's quietly become one of the NCAA's best college basketball conferences....
Someone Just Tried To Disrupt The Best In Show Judging At Madison Square Garden
We have practically no information about this, other than that a woman with a sign tried to rush the stage as Best In Show was about to be announced at the Westminster Kennel Club show at Madison Square Garden. Twitter rumors say the sign said something about PETA, but we don't really have any con...
Here's What An Own-Goal Header Off An 80-Yard Assist Looks Like
You probably already know that Once Caldas and Itagüi Ditaires drew their Liga Postobón match at two goals each in Colombia this weekend....
This Division II Player's Dunk Is One Of The Best You'll See This Season, At Any Level
That's Cal State San Bernardino's Kwame Alexander taking off with two feet just before the free-throw line and basically dunking over a defender from Cal State Stanislaus on Friday night. And it happened exactly one week after Alexander had done this with another dunk on an alley-oop. [The Dagger]...
Darren Rovell Gets On One Knee, Asks Kate Upton To Be His Valentine, Is Rejected
The very married CNBC sports business expert Darren Rovell (very married as in his wife is very pregnant) continued his ill-advised campaign of Kate Upton obsession (see: his Twitter avatar and this article) today when after a group conversation about Upton's appearance on the cover of this year'...
ESPN Reporter Doing Linsanity Story In Chinatown Runs Into ESPN Reporter Doing Linsanity Story In Chinatown, Interviews Her
Here is ESPN's Robin Lundberg speaking with ESPN's Rachel Nichols somewhere in Manhattan's Chinatown. This is a moment, people. This is an Escher drawing of an Escher drawing of a guy who's standing between two mirrors and dividing by zero. [ESPN; H/T Mike N.]...
Melo Says Jeremy Lin Is "Like A Dream Come True" For Him
Talk radio callers and internet people alike are foretelling doom regarding Carmelo Anthony's return to the Knicks later this week. He'll need to share the ball with Jeremy Lin, the Socratic ideal of a point guard. (The ideal point guard shoots it all the time and turns it over a bunch, right?) The ...
If Omaha Is Giving Jake "The Juggernaut" Ellenberger A Key To The City, Omaha Must Have Too Many Keys
Omaha has produced some important people: Warren Buffett, Marlon Brando, Malcom X, Chris Klein. But what's all this about MMA fighter Jake "The Juggernaut" Ellenberger getting a key to the city? Hold on a tick. Ellenberger is a very good fighter who's beaten a couple very good fighters and a bunch o...
Bristolmetrics: At Least Tom Brady Beat Eli Manning In <em>SportsCenter</em> Mentions
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. Graphic by Jim Cooke. ...