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There's A New Bleacher Report Clone Out There, And It Costs Only $50 To Write For It
Say hello to Fancloud.com, a sports website in the Yardbarker Network that wants you to pay $50 in exchange for the opportunity to write for it. The three dipshits in the video above are the site's founders, and they can explain everything to you, but if you're not in the mood to have some wannabe...
USC Fires Student Manager Who Supposedly Tampered With Game Balls
This was the entirety of the statement the school issued last night:...
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MLS Couldn't Dig Itself Out Of The Snow Or Its Own Ass [UPDATE]
The weather had already shafted DC United. The higher seed, they lost homefield advantage when MLS switched the legs of their home-and-home with the Red Bulls because the New York area was still cleaning up after Hurricane Sandy. It wasn't fair, and United fans were pissed, but it's hard to see that...
Editor Of <em>ESPN The Magazine</em> Asks Staff To Vote In Meaningless Online Poll So They Can Beat <em>Sports Illustrated</em> For Meaningless Bragging Rights
Times are tough in magazine land! Ad pages are dropping, magazines are folding, Newsweek is just a pile of bones and vitamin cover stories bleaching in the noonday sun, etc. You know the drill. So there's a little practice that's become very popular in magazine land over the last couple of years tha...
Joey Barton Finally Arrived For Marseille With A Direct Corner Kick Goal
The last time we checked in on Joey Barton, he was playing his part in the most exciting day in Premiership history with a fantastic red card meltdown. It all helped him earn a season-long ticket out of London and into Marseille, where he's thus far been quiet....
Ask Joe Buck Whatever Your Despicable Heart Desires
We have Fox broadcaster and occasional Deadspin contributor Joe Buck in the discussion below. He'll be taking your questions for however long he can stand it. Fire away, Deadspinners. ...
Black Lacrosse Player Boycotts Equipment Company Over "Ninja, Please" Slogan, Threatens To Retire
Every joke ever made about lacrosse is based on the premise that the players are obnoxious, privileged white kids from elite Northeastern prep schools. Stereotypes exist for a reason, though. So it shouldn't be a surprise that Warrior Lacrosse's "Ninja" line of products (such as training shoes calle...
Bristolmetrics: Marcus Lattimore's Injury Tests <i>SportsCenter</i>'s Policy On Showing Really Gross Things
This a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week....
Coaches Are Freaks
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season....
The Poor Detroit Pistons Are Currently The Most Depressing Team In The NBA
The video above is what it looks like when the 0-5 Detroit Pistons attempt to play defense. Yep, that's JaVale McGee taking the ball from the three-point line to the rim for an uncontested dunk. The Pistons somehow managed to out-JaVale JaVale....
Auburn Has A Private Security Firm Enforcing Players' Nightly Curfews
College football players are men. They're at least 18, so they can vote, they can serve in the armed forces, they can smoke, and they can roam the streets of America until all hours, doing whatever it is college kids do, so long as they don't do anything illegal. But not at Auburn, where the program...
Rajon Rondo Taught Math To Some High-School Kids Like Only He Could
On Tuesday, Rajon Rondo stopped by Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester, Mass., to tour the school, meet some of the students, and teach a little math. The picture above was tweeted by Rondo that morning, and Boston Magazine has more on the story behind it:...
Mike Keenan, The NHL's Last Great Asshole Coach
Playing for coach Mike Keenan in Chicago was like camping on the side of an active volcano. You had to accept the reality that he erupted regularly and that there was always a danger of being caught in his lava flow. He was a tyrant, a schoolyard bully, an oldschool coach who tried to motivate playe...
Aaron Rodgers Feels He Got Screwed By <i>60 Minutes</i>
Aaron Rodgers is not short. But he used to be short (for a quarterback), and it still rankles him immensely, and just about the worst thing you can say to him is that he looks smaller in person. 60 Minutes's Sunday profile of Rodgers caught him at a fan meet-and-greet, and when one unlucky contest...
Field Hockey America Vs. Rodeo America: Mapping The Faultlines Of America's Regional Sports
America is a beautiful, horrifying, crazy-ass mishmash of distinct geographic regions, as we know from watching John King's index finger on election night. This extends to all aspects of American life, of which the most important is obviously sports. Beyond the televised pro leagues (and their colle...
A Week Into The Month, Alexi Lalas Wins Movember
While literary types may know November as the month to write crappy novels, those of us of the hirsute persuasion know it simply as Movember. While many of us have significant others whose aversion to upper lip hair preclude participation, it seems ESPN soccer commentator Alexi Lalas is not one of ...
Jalen Rose: TV's Last Honest Man
Jalen Rose on SportsCenter just now:...
Kevin Garnett Gave A Weird, Profane Postgame Screed On Team Chemistry And Comcast
The Celtics eked out a six-point win in OT over the Wizards, but the close call unleashed something deep inside Kevin Garnett, something about how a team plays and whatever tenuous comparison that may hold to how a cable company operates and the very nature of advertisements, DVRs, and ... ah, we'...
Jeff Kent Departs <em>Survivor</em> With One Final Rant: "I'm A Game 7 World Series Loser"
The last time we checked in with budding reality TV star Jeff Kent, he was kicking off his appearance on this season of Survivor in a truly inauspicious manner. Since then, he's managed to keep his head in the game. Tonight, though, the dream suddenly died for Kent, who was voted off the island in...
Christian Ponder Says To Lay Off His ESPN Girlfriend, She's Not The Reason He's Struggling
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Leave Samantha Steele out of it....