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Remember When UConn Won A Title, And They Wanted You To Narc On The Rioting Students?
It was just seven short years ago that the Dean asked the UConn community to email him at [email protected] with the identities of those tipping cars and starting fires in the great Storrs Conflagration of '04. The school had posted the photos stolen from Facebook, in an all-time shady move. It...

If You Wanted A Think Piece About The "Hockey Luvin Homos," Puck Buddies Got Your Back
From the preeminent website "for boys who like boys who like hockey" comes a follow-up to this week's widespread discovery of Vancouver's front-row "Hockey Luvin Homos."...

A Sad Cubs Fan Has Questions About Wrigley Field Rules Pertaining To Obese Cubs Fans
Tipster Andy from Waukesha, Wisc. has a question. Here it is: "I am watching the Cubs pregame and behind the hosts is a HUGE guy, I don't think I've ever seen someone that big let alone sitting in a stadium seat. How does this work? What about the people next to him? So many questions but this make...

Dennis Rodman Recognizes The Importance Of Family
Your morning roundup for April 2, the day that the color starts returning to the knuckles of passengers and crew on Southwest Flight 812, the plane with a three-foot hole in its side....

Holy Shit Los Angeles, You Might Have The Worst Sports Fans In America
First, a fan tries to rush the court at the Staples Center. Then we read about a group of Dodgers fans stalking and beating Giants fans after last night's game, critically injuring one. Eight years ago, the same sort of incident ended in murder in the parking lot. Stabbings in Anaheim. Another murde...

Out-Of-Date Fantasy Advice From Someone Who Isn't Really Paying Attention
If you take fantasy sports seriously, you read the experts. Disclaimer: I am not an expert, but I will write about fantasy sports anyway. And if you want to win your leagues handily, I can't think of a better advisor than someone who only stays half aware of what's actually happening in sports. So w...

Sad Jayhawk Has "Absolutely No Regrets" About Being Sad Jayhawk
Before he was Sad Jayhawk, Matt Rissien was just another superfan: going to away games, wearing a costume, posing with luminaries like Erin Andrews and Scot Pollard. But, thanks to the vagaries of the universe and an alert cameraman, he's become more: a symbol of fallen hubris. A Crying Duke Kid or ...

Orioles Fan Booted From Spring Training Game For Yelling Racist Comments At B.J. Upton
In his updated account of today's big Spring Training matchup between Tampa and Baltimore, Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times noted that Rays Manager Joe Maddon "had a fan - who was in in Orioles jersey - removed from the stadium after he was making racist comments about B.J. Upton."...

Young Man Cries Like The Heat Locker Room When He's Showered With Plexiglass
You have to assume this young man was bragging pretty hard about having rinkside tickets for the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles's Quebec Major Junior Hockey League game in Nova Scotia last weekend. You also have to assume that classmates who sat in the second level, if they even got in, are still ha...

Guy Who Won A Year's Worth Of Doughnut-Shop Coupons From The Astros Whines About The Tax Bill
When Bob Choate won a year's supply of coupons from Shipley's Do-Nuts at Astros Fan Appreciation Day in October, he "went up to the customer service window, fat, dumb and happy, and signed a form and picked up a fistful of certificates." Well, last month, the tax bill for free gluttony arrived. He ...

Jubilant Nets Fan Does Not Know What To Do With His Hands
The Nets beat the Celtics in Newark last night, 88-79. Deron Williams had 16 points and 9 assists and was 4-for-6 from three-point range as New Jersey won its fifth straight game, and no fan was more enthusiastic about it than this young Polo-shirted man....

Three Arrested, Six Ejected At FA Youth Cup; Remaining Man U Fans Chant About Terrible Disasters
Liverpool and Manchester United played in the annual FA Youth Cup on Sunday. United came back from two goals down to win, 3-2. The other final count at Anfield: three fans arrested for drunkenness, six ejected for what was likely more controlled drunkenness, and reports that a section of United fa...

Montreal Sportstalker Wields Profanity At An Impressive Pace
Someone who has been identified as Marco Campagna of Montreal's sports-talk radio was none too happy with the performance of equipment in 990 AM The Team's studios on Thursday. To remedy the situation, he dropped 11 F-bombs in 48 seconds, not knowing the mic was live....

We've Been Spelling Kendry Morales's Name Wrong For Years
It's Kendrys, you see, but that last S was left off his Angels contract in 2004, and he just never bothered to tell anyone. To be honest, we will probably continue to get this wrong for years to come. [LA Times, via HBT]...

Tom Brady Dance Party!
Today, footage emerged of a be-ponytailed Tom Brady being getting his goofy white guy on in the streets of Rio. But I don't think the few seconds were enough to really capture the essence of dancin' Tom. Consider this our contribution to the institution of sports journalism....

American Hero Catches Flying Bat, Doesn't Spill Beer
David Goldman of the AP caught this magical snapshot on Friday at the Jays-Braves game in Kissimmee. Mitch Davie is the Gators fan with the quick hands, protecting his seatmates and protecting his drink. Props to him for stepping up and preventing something like this, and props to the Braves for ser...

Hines Ward Is One Of The Stars With Whom People Will Dance
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: Ward on his DWTS chances....

Here's Another Kid-Crying-Because-Of-Sports Video
Per the description of this clip posted Thursday night, "Our little 5 year old is so upset after the Michigan State Senior Night basketball game because his favorite 'basketball friends' are graduating. ... What a true MSU Spartan fan."...

Requiem For FanHouse: The Fantasy Sports Girls Mutiny
FanHouse ceased to exist as an independent identity today, being swallowed up by the Sporting News. After many years of excellent work and one of the more talented writing staffs ever assembled, we thought we'd recall the site's finest moment: when some higher-up decided sex sells, and the writers r...

There Is A Pau Gasol Impersonator For Hire At A Bargain $600 Per Hour
We give you Michael Fanter, a guy who has kind of made a name for himself by kind of looking like Pau Gasol....