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Ravens-Steelers: The NFL's Annual Holiday From Namby-Pambyism
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
ESPN Asks The Question The Penn State Grand Jury Wouldn't
"How does PSU scandal affect recruiting?" [ESPN.com]...
KHL Coach Grabs Stick, Tries To Bash In Some Fans' Brains
As a well-traveled NHL player, Andrei Nazarov was very large and enjoyed fighting. He wears a suit and tie and glasses now, and coaches Vityaz Chekhov in the KHL, but is still very large and still enjoys fighting. So we would very much recommend you not throw bottles at him....
CNN Makes The One Typo You Shouldn't Make With Sandusky Story
Well, this was unfortunate....
Jerry Sandusky And The Culture Of Secrecy At Penn State
The late Myron Cope is best known for being the colorful radio voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But in his younger days, he made a name for himself as a reporter and writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Sports Illustrated, including this widely acclaimed 1967 profile of Howard Cosell. Even as ...
If You're From That Ohio Town Overrun By Wild Animals, College Hoops Fans Will Never Let You Forget It
Zanesville, Ohio, was put on the map by the release of 56 exotic animals, but the fun never stops as the Ohio University-Zanesville Tracers kicked off their not-even-NAIA basketball season on Friday night. Upon arrival at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, they were greeted by the Student Section of ...
Why The Giants' Comeback Yesterday Says Much More About The Patriots Than It Does About Eli Manning
Here is a list of quarterbacks who have had higher QB ratings against the Patriots this year than Eli Manning did yesterday: • Chad Henne • Philip Rivers • Ryan Fitzpatrick • Jason Campbell • Mark Sanchez • Tony Romo • Ben Roethlisberger...
A Night At The Movies, Watching <em>Moneyball</em> With Yogi Berra
Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal took Mr. and Mrs. Yogi Berra to see Moneyball. Yogi liked the movie, although not Philip Seymour Hoffman's dour Art Howe. "'Art's a good guy,' he says. 'And I never saw him that fat. He's thin.'" [WSJ]...
Did This Plaxico Burress Pregame Tribute Spur The Giants To Victory?
"Police say a 50-year-old man accidentally shot himself in the leg in a parking lot at Gillette Stadium before the New England Patriots game against the Giants." He's reportedly OK, so now we can look forward to the play-by-play. [AP]...
Early Doucet's Buttcheeks Are In The Red Zone
Thanks to reader "Woolsworth Featherbottom," who sits around pausing his DVR when overachieving receivers on underachieving teams expose various body parts to the world....
Caroline Wozniacki And Rory McIlroy Obnoxiously Remind Us That They Are Nos. 1 And 2 In The World
We should only be so cynical about young love, but young love should only give itself so many insufferable personalized nicknames and offer so many reminders that the young people in question—the Wozz in "Wozzilroy" is 21 years old and the Ilroy is 22—hold the best and second-best world rankings in ...
Jerry Sandusky, Questioned At His Home By A Reporter, Still Wearing A Penn State Jacket
Hey, why wouldn't he? Sandusky, who remains free pending trial, had nothing to say when ABC News caught up with him yesterday at his home. But his choice of attire said it all. WE ARE! [@bustedcoverage]...
You Must Watch This Long, Bizarre Video Résumé For Free Agent Cuban Defector Yoenis Cespedes
Maybe you remember Aleksey Vayner, the man whose video résumé took the snarking corners of the internet by storm in 2006. Or perhaps you're familiar with the glossy books that MLB superagent Scott Boras prints up to pitch his clients to MLB teams. And, you know, if you're familiar with both of the...
Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, And Why "Good" People Fail To Do The Right Thing
At some point in the coming weeks, Joe Paterno is gonna step down as the head coach at Penn State, and the reason why is because there's no possible way to reconcile the statement he issued yesterday with the details from the grand jury report that say, specifically, that Peterno was told that Jerry...
Alabama Waited Until Sunday To Give Students SEC Championship Ticket Info
There's poor timing, then there's sending out a schoolwide email telling Bama students to get on the waiting list the day after their overtime loss to LSU. This isn't as wrong as it seems, though. Crimson Tide fans have just as much right to purchase tickets to the SEC Title Game as do fans of the s...
The Woozy, Barfy Aftermath Of The New York City Marathon: A Video
The finish line at the New York City marathon is a strange place to be: There is a general air of triumph, of course, but physical despair and agony nearly overshadows it. Yesterday in Central Park, there was stumbling. There was vomiting. There were tears, and they were not always tears of joy. A...
Andrei Arlovski Hasn't Knocked Out A Top Fighter In Years, But Good Lord Did He Knock Out This Guy
There was a time when Andrei Arlovski stirred fear in the hearts of other heavyweight fighters. That time was in 2005, before the world discovered that Arlovski's jaw had the consistency of a tortilla chip. A few years later, Arlovski suffered several hideous knockouts, the kind where you'd litera...
John Beck Ate It Hard
If we're going to declare the John Beck era a failure, we can't just look at the fourth-worst passer rating in the league (ahead of Rex!), or the twice as many INTs and TDs, or the zero passes for 40+ yards. We've got to ask: does he have the look of a quarterback: standing tall under pressure, prou...
ShortCenter: Hannah Storm And Jeremy Schaap Use Their Serious Voices To Talk About Jerry Sandusky
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....