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The Cincinnati Baseball Team Gives The Best Postgame Interviews
Postgame interviews are inherently dumb and almost never interesting. But not when they involve the Cincinnati Bearcats baseball team, which has turned the tired practice into a platform for wonderful comedic expression. Enjoy this compilation of the Bearcats being awesome. It really is the best th...

Hey, Shane Victorino, HIGH FIVE!
Koji Uehara came on in the eighth inning and retired the White Sox in order. He was a little fired up when he returned to the dugout, where Shane Victorino got caught looking....

Spider-Man Playing Basketball? Spider-Man Playing Basketball.
Andrew Garfield took a couple minutes off the set of Not Another Spider-Man Movie to shoot some hoops on a court in New York's Chinatown. In full costume....

Two Of The Yankees' Four "Import Beers" Are Not Imported
Yankee Stadium tries to be classy, and fails miserably. Again....

Norris Cole Gave David West A Mighty Forearm Shiver To The Balls
Last night's loss to the Heat hurt for a Pacers team that hit two late shots to tie in regulation and take what looked like a winner at the charity stripe in overtime, but it was especially painful for David West—mostly because of Norris Cole's blast to the 'nads....

Kevin Durant's Tattoo Might Not Have A Misspelled Word In It After All
Yesterday, we drew your attention to what looked like a misspelled word in Kevin Durant's massive back tattoo. The photo we shared seemed to offer incontrovertible evidence that someone had tattooed the word "mautre" instead of "mature" on KD's back. But now we have another picture of the tattoo, an...
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ESPN Is Now Hiring. Young And Cheap May Apply. [UPDATE]
One ESPN source put it this way: ESPN "hacked" hundreds of jobs and will replace those laid off "with younger, cheaper, less experienced people."...

LeBron's Layup As Seen From The Indiana Bench
Seems nice, but there's some big tall guy blocking the view....

Pacers Make A Mess Of Final Seconds, Still Force OT, Lose Anyway
The Pacers tried their damnedest to screw up the end of a closely-fought Game 1, but thanks to some uncharacteristic help from Ray Allen and an off-balance semi-prayer from Paul George, we went to overtime....

Man Catches Foul Ball While Holding Baby
It might be time to move on from the dad-holding-baby highlight. Maybe not right this moment with this specific clip, but sometime soon we have to up the stakes at least. We've been getting them more and more of late and dads with babies are getting too complacent. ...

Bills Fan Appropriately Honors Hall Of Fame RB
This is a pretty good tattoo of not-convicted-in-court murderer O.J. Simpson. ...

It Has Been One Week Since The Miami Heat Played Basketball
The Miami Heat have not played a game in however many hours are in a week (Rovell is not returning calls). What did people even do back in those primitive days of one week ago? Did they even have smartphones? To help give you a basic understanding of what it was like back when the Miami Heat actuall...

What Happened To The Jokes? <em>The Hangover, Part III,</em> Reviewed.
1. The Hangover, Part III is better than Part II, but not by much, and really only because it didn't just recycle, almost beat for beat, the plot of the first film. The plot it lands on this time isn't much better, though, and all told, it doesn't have much more energy than that film did. The two se...

Mayor Of San Francisco Calls Steph Curry "Steve Curry"
While presenting Curry with the key to the city, no less. How many gorgeous three-pointers does a basketball folk hero have to sink before he gets some respect in this town? ...

ESPN Guy Praises Johnny Manziel's "V-I-P-ness" (Say It Out Loud)
College Football Live's Joe Tessitore aroused attention today by stroking Johnny Manziel's total package....

The Famous Dominique Wilkins-Larry Bird Game 7 Duel Just Turned 25
25 years ago today, Dominique Wilkins and Larry Bird staged one of the greatest duels in NBA history when they went shot-for-shot in the fourth quarter of Game 7 of the 1988 Eastern Conference Semifinals. Wilkins scored 16 of his 47 points in that quarter, but Bird edged him by scoring 20 of his 34...

Lynn Hoppes, Who Was The Worst, Is Out At ESPN
ESPN's Dancing with the Stars correspondent Lynn Hoppes—a man who drooled over swag, recruited a scam artist, plagiarized Wikipedia, and stole my girlfriend—has been laid off, three sources have confirmed. ESPN is also shutting down Playbook, Hoppes's home for the past year. An ESPN spokesman decli...

Dipshit TMZ Photographer Is Not Worthy Of JaVale McGee's Time
What kind of dweeb finds himself in the presence of one of the most entertaining and personable players in the NBA, and then proceeds to waste everyone's time by bombarding that player with a series of idiotic questions and riddles? The kind of dweeb who works for TMZ....

Michael Crabtree Tore His Achilles, Could Miss The Season
Per USA Today's Mike Garafolo, 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree tore his Achilles during organized team activities yesterday. A source also told Garafolo that Crabtree will soon have surgery, and that the injury could be serious enough to keep Crabtree from playing this season....

Ex-ESPNer: Did Network Cut 300-400 Jobs To Pay For <em>SportsCenter</em> Set?
A recently laid-off ESPN source gave us more details about the ESPN job cuts, the first significant staff reduction in four years. First off, it appears these layoffs will stretch over several weeks. There will be more technology and creative services layoffs today. Layoffs in production are coming ...