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The Best And Worst Beat Reporters In Baseball: NL West
Welcome back to Deadspin's Beat-Off, a crowd-sourced effort to determine the best and worst reporters covering Major League Baseball teams. This week, we've covered the NL East and NL Central. Today we'll finish off the senior circuit with the NL West....

The Best And Worst Beat Reporters In Baseball: NL Central
This week, we're posing a question: Who's the best (and worst) beat reporter for each MLB team? Yesterday, we tackled the NL East, and today we move to the NL Central. We've organized the threads by team. Jump in the discussion down below and tell us why your favorite/least-favorite reporter is the ...

The Best And Worst Beat Reporters In Baseball: NL East
With the trading deadline a day away and with the MLB season sliding headlong into third, it's time we all start paying attention to baseball again. Where to turn? For the next week, we'll be posing the question to you: Who's the best beat reporter for each MLB team? ...

This One Goes To Eleven
Slide on over to the Hollywood reporter and check out this excerpt from Michael Walker's new book What You Want Is in the Limo:...

Halftime Interview With Just-Concussed Athlete Doesn't Go So Well
They call sideline reporters boundary riders in Australia. Boundary rider and former Australian rules footballer Cameron Ling thought it would be a good idea to do a halftime interview with St. Kilda's Dylan Roberton the other day. It wasn't....

Badminton Player Beats The Crap Out Of His Former Playing Partner
A world-class badminton player beating the shit out of his opponent in the middle of a match isn't something you ever expect to see, but here we are....

The Tony Pena Story
Here's Joe Posnanski's Tony Pena story. It originally ran in the Kansas City Star back in 2003. Joe reprinted it on his blog in 2010:...

Let Them Wear Towels: How Far Have We Really Come?
Never mind the All-Star Game, tonight on ESPN gives Let Them Wear Towels. Over at ESPNW, Robin Herman asks How Far Have We Really Come?...

Not Everyone Is Turning Their Backs On Aaron Hernandez
Apparently this would have been at the Pouncey brothers' birthday party last night, which NFL beat writer Omar Kelly attended unironically/journalistically:...

You Know...For Men!
Sure, this picture brings to mind the Stanley Kubrick over-the-edge look, but hey, it's just needle point fellas. Good and good fuh ya. ...

The "My Little Pony Convention 2013 Highlights" Video Is Amazing
What can we say about this video, other than it comes to us via several of our dearest commenters? It is so utterly bizarre, sad, funny, and horrifying that you will either immediately look away or watch it 25 times in a row....

Reporter Gets Run Over By Football Player While Conducting Interview
Here's Fox Sports Next reporter Amy Campbell conducting a run-of-the-mill interview while at a showcase for the nation's top high school football recruits. Everything is going fine until HOLY SHIT AMY LOOK OUT!...

Anna Benson Was Armed For War, According To The Police Report
Yesterday we learned that Anna Benson—the Baseball Wife who once vowed to sleep with the entire Mets roster if Kris, her pitcher husband, cheated on her—stormed Kris's house in Smyrna, Ga. on Sunday night with a gun, metal baton, and a bulletproof vest, demanding money. He called the cops. Today, th...

Robert Griffin III And New Wife Release First Rap Video
So here's Robert Griffin III and his wife (and one other lady) rapping about candy. It's on the weird side, I guess, but it also seems like the kind of thing a couple does when they enjoy each other's company. So good for them. ...

I Can't Stop Looking At These Pics Of Pierre McGuire Scaling The Boards
NBC rinkside reporter Pierre McGuire is presumably allowed to leave his spot between the benches; we just can't picture him anywhere else. But a series of photos shows that Pierre does need the occasional escape—and it's not that easy for him to get back in....

Why Do We Say Three-Pointers Come From "Downtown?"
If you've ever watched a basketball game, you've heard a play-by-play announcer exclaim something along the lines of, "From way downtown!" after a made three-pointer. But when did this become the go-to turn of phrase for describing three-point shots? On this week's excerpt of Slate's Hang up and Lis...


Basically Everyone Related To An MLB Player Was Drafted
We've gone over this before, but there's no sport that can match baseball for pure draft nepotism....

Liveblogging That Joe Posnanski Column About Hockey
5:50.27 p.m.: "HOCKEY: A WRINGER OF EMOTIONS LIKE NO OTHER"...