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Donté Stallworth And His Girlfriend Are Reportedly OK After They Hit Some Power Lines While Operating A Hot Air Balloon

Beat this, weird spring training injuries: Donté Stallworth was reportedly hospitalized this morning for burns received after he and his girlfriend hit some power lines while operating a hot air balloon in Miami. The Patriots wide receiver is said to be in stable condition. ...

Northwestern Has Fired Bill Carmody After 13 Years Of Decent-By-Northwestern-Standards Basketball

In 13 seasons as the head coach at Northwestern University, an alleged Big Ten basketball program, Bill Carmody’s signature moment might’ve been getting hired in the first place. And that, presumably, is why the school fired him today. Cracker-box facilities, lack of tradition, and academic pressure...

Your College Basketball TV Schedule And Open Thread

So, so much potentially great basketball today. ...

Bus Carrying 23 Seton Hill University Lacrosse Players Crashes, Killing The Driver And A Coach [UPDATED]

UPDATE: See note at bottom....

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UCLA Freshman Jordan Adams Topped Off His Game-Saving Performance By Breaking His Foot On The Very Last Play

Last night, the UCLA Bruins advanced to the Pac-12 finals after winning a hard-fought game against Arizona, 66-64, in Las Vegas. The fortituous final play, in which Arizona missed a jumper and tip-in opportunity, may also have taken UCLA's season out behind the proverbial woodshed. ...

Rams Punter Snorts Green Jell-O

Just Johnny Hekker, snortin' green Jell-O because YEAH BRO....

Steve Carell Needs A New Trick: <i>The Incredible Burt Wonderstone</i>, Reviewed.

1. Steve Carell, leading man, is a lot funnier when he's not trying to be funny. He tends to work better in supporting straight comedy roles (most famously Anchorman, but also Bruce Almighty and even Bewitched) than as the lead (Dinner For Schmucks, Get Smart). His sweet spot as a leading man is ba...

Manchester United's Yank-Hating Fans Can Shove It

Originally published in Bloomberg View...

Bullying Dickhead Gets Knocked Out At South By Southwest

Keep your eyes on the guy in the grey shirt on the left side of the frame. He's just hanging out, watching afro guy strut around and slap people like a prick. He does not like what he sees....

This Is Awful: Jay Mariotti Has A Really Long Story On ESPN.com, For Some Reason

So, Jay Mariotti's no-seriously-I-have-a-girlfriend-in-Canada-I-met-her-at-summer-camp freelance project? Turned out to be real. ESPN allowed Mariotti to write more than 5,000 unforgivable words on Kobe and the Lakers....

The National Sport Of Afghanistan Is Called Bukkake, According To Clueless Pittsburgh Sports-Talk Hosts

Ron Cook and Vinnie Richichi hold down the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. slot on Pittsburgh's 93.7 The Fan. Four hours can be a lot of time to fill for five days a week, even in a town with a hockey team on a winning streak, an NCAA-bound college basketball team, the Steelers just being the Steelers, and someth...

Former World Series Of Poker Champion Busted In Bullshit Male Prostitution Sting [Update: It Wasn't Male Prostitution After All]

Back when the World Series of Poker was a thing, one of the game's biggest stars was Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer. You probably spent at least one lonely night in front of your television, watching Raymer tear his way through the 2004 WSOP main event while wearing his signature holographic sunglasses. T...

"She Was Like A Dead Body": Text Messages Read Aloud During Day 2 Of Steubenville Rape Trial

In Day 2 of the Steubenville rape trial, the prosecution revealed hundreds of text messages sent between the defendants and various witnesses in the hours and days following the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl. The messages, which were read aloud in the courtroom yesterday, are predictably stomac...

Why Is One Of The NBA's All-Time Greatest Scorers Working As A Crossing Guard Now?

Day after day, Adrian Dantley hangs out on a street corner in his hometown, like some cliché of a pitiful ex-ballplayer years after his athletic prime. But Dantley's neither a cliché, nor is he pitiful. He's a crossing guard....

Notre Dame's Uniforms Make Us Wish HDTV Had Never Been Invented

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Portland Fan Picks His Nose In Direct View Of TNT's Broadcast, Winks At Camera

This man has incredible form....

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Bill Walton Made A Ray Lewis Limo Joke And Referenced Bill Simmons's Twitter Suspension On Tonight's ESPNU Broadcast

Bill Walton's on-air behavior has been consistently weird this college basketball season, and that didn't change tonight as broadcasting's biggest Grateful Dead fan launched into numerous questionable tangents during ESPNU's Pac-12 tournament coverage of Washington-Oregon from Las Vegas....

No Holds Are Barred When It Comes To The Duke-UNC Rivalry, Including Brutal Lacrosse Nutshots

Discussion of the Tobacco Road rivalry between Duke and North Carolina usually focuses on basketball, but the two teams have long had a national presence in men's lacrosse. Both squads are ranked again this season, and last night's 11-8 Blue Devils victory in Chapel Hill wasn't without the bitter, t...