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Report: NFL Won't Get To Force A Fun Team To Appear On <em>Hard Knocks</em>
After two seasons of scrambling to secure a team, the NFL added a new wrinkle to this year's Hard Knocks selection process: The league can compel teams that meet certain conditions to appear on the HBO/NFL Films documentary series. That opens the possibility of a marquee franchise being forced into ...
ESPN <em>First Take</em> Boss Is Finally Leaving For NBC
Looks like Jamie Horowitz, an influential ESPN VP once called "the midwife of Bristol's 'Embrace Debate' era" in these pages, will be leaving for NBC after all. New York Times media reporter Bill Carter tweeted this morning that Horowitz, who'd apparently sulked through his last few months at ESPN a...
French Professional Soccer Team Hires Woman As Manager
French soccer team Clermont Foot have hired Helena Costa as their manager. The club made an official announcement today:...
Jay Cutler Spawned Again
Jay Cutler, who has spawned before, has spawned once again. Cutler and his wife, Kristin Cavallari, welcomed Jaxon Wyatt Cutler into the world today....
Japanese Soccer Team Incorporates Half The Team In This Fake Free Kick
I’m not sure how much of an actual advantage Kyoto Sanga got from this five-man fakeout goal, but any innovation on the standard, one player half-heartedly jogging past the ball before the guy you always knew was going to shoot takes a swing is welcome. Next time, I want to see two lines crisscrossi...
Unobservant Fan Nearly Decapitated By Foul Ball
Everyone knows that the one thing you absolutely have to do when sitting behind one of the baselines is never take your eyes off the plate. This guy did not adhere to that rule, and he very nearly got his head taken off. ...
FiveFingers Maker Will Pay Millions To Suckers Who Bought Its Shoes
The favorite toe-shoe of vegan restaurant servers and 55-year-old men with ponytails has settled a class action lawsuit brought against it by what sounds like every person who ever wore its foot-condoms....
Newspaper Headline: "Heat Cut Nuts"
Playing against the Heat sounds like no fun at all....
Artifact: The "Quiet Founder" Of ESPN's $10 Million Stock Certificate
Long before ESPN was nestled against Disney's ample corporate bosom, Getty Oil owned 85 percent of the barely sentient TV network. The other 15 percent was owned by the group of entrepreneurs and speculators who got ESPN off the ground. This certificate for 100 shares belonged to one of them, Don R...
The Pirates Win MLB's First Walk-Off Video Review
With two outs in the ninth in a tie ball game, Starling Marte tripled off the right field wall, and came home on a throwing error on the relay. He was called out at the plate. A year ago, this game would have gone to extra innings. But thanks to replay review, the Pirates got to enjoy some delayed g...
<em>Family Feud</em> Contestant Spotted 182 Points In Fast Money Still Loses
We've seen some hilariously bad game show contestants lately, but nothing on par with yesterday's failure of a Family Feud competitor who let her entire family down with an embarrassing final round....
FSU Art Student Creates Painting Of Frat Bro Blowing Jameis Winston
A Florida State art major has made a piece involving the school's starting quarterback Jameis Winston in some, uh, interesting positions....
California Teens Hold NFL-Style "Prom Draft" To Pick Dates
A group of boys looked up to the NFL by choosing their prom dates with a draft, but their high school didn't approve of their shallow innovation....
Steve Francis Pours Booze All Over Himself In A Club
It's time for yet another edition of What the Hell is Going on With Steve Francis? Today's episode takes us to a club in Miami, where Francis was filmed grooving to "Drunk in Love" by himself while pouring booze all over his own head and face. At the end, he just falls right the hell over. It's all ...
Kiper Vs. McShay Vs. Mayock Death Match: Who's The Best Mock Drafter?
With the NFL Draft pundits rolling out their final mock drafts this week, which one should you pay the most attention to?...
SI's Tribeca Film Festival Awards
The good people over at SI's Extra Mustard Blog have put together awards for the best sports movies that screened at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. They've handed out a number of awards, from Ragtag Success Story to Best Fanboy Director. Above, the trailer for Next Goal Wins, a documentary follo...
How Did Roger Goodell's Twitter Chat Go? Not So Well!
Roger Goodell apparently didn't see what happened to NCAA president Mark Emmert when he held an #AskEmmert Q&A on Twitter a few weeks ago, because Goodell hopped on his computer and hosted an #AskCommish chat with NFL fans today. Predictably, he ended up getting flooded with people saying hilarious ...
Sidney Crosby Finally Scored. Will Rick Nash Before It's Too Late?
When Sidney Crosby scored early in the second period last night, his reaction was noteworthy. Here was the best player in the world celebrating a breakaway goal like someone who hadn't done this in the playoffs 40 previous times....
Chris Paul Reminds Us Who The Point God Is
The real bummer about last night's game between the Thunder and Clippers is that it turned into a blowout fairly quickly, and not just because blowouts suck. See, if the Thunder had managed to keep it close, Chris Paul probably would have dropped 60 on those suckers....
An Ex-Con's Guide To Prison Weightlifting
Lifting weights in an American prison means joining a culture unlike any seen in a free-world gym, full of crudely welded pig iron and rust. Men forsake masturbation to improve their bench-press stats and consume cans of Jack Mack, the cheapest tinned fish in the world, along with the filthy broth i...