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Juan Uribe Sends The Dodgers To The NLCS With This Bomb
In the bottom of the 8th in Los Angeles, Juan Uribe sent the Atlanta Play The Game The Right Ways packing with an absolute monster blast to left field....

Harry Potter's Fantasy Football Team Is Named "Barkevious Mingo's Mum"
The New York Times Magazine cover story this weekend was about Daniel Radcliffe, better known simply as the boy who played Harry Potter. It's an interesting read if you like learning about celebrities who seem pretty grounded and only just a little bit tortured by fame. You learn that Radcliffe is h...

Impostors Posing As USC Reps Reach Out To Potential Football Coaches
So you know those reports that say USC has reached out to Tony Dungy and (possibly) Jack Del Rio to replace Lane Kiffin? Yeah, well, those overtures never happened. Oh, someone claiming to be from USC did call Dungy and a member of the Denver Broncos coaching staff. Whoever it was just wasn't actual...

Dodgers To Start Clayton Kershaw Tonight On Short Rest
Had they lost last night, the Dodgers let it be known, they would have considered starting Clayton Kershaw tonight in what would have been an elimination game. Sensible enough—Kershaw is the best pitcher in baseball, after all! No reason not to start him in an elimination game. But then they went ou...

Win Or Lose, Carlos Beltran Is The King
Carlos Beltran hit the 16th postseason home run of his career yesterday, passing Babe Ruth on the career postseason home run list. If you've watched playoff baseball over the last decade you know all about Beltran's surreal ability to come up big in October, but there probably aren't that many casua...

HS Punt Returner Breaks So Freaking Many Tackles For A Touchdown
Fuck it, it's High School Football Monday. Via MaxPreps, here's Cliff Kurker,of Needham (Mass.), turning in a 71-yard punt return with the highest possible degree of difficulty. PLAY TO THE WHISTLE, FRAMINGHAM....


The Night Johnny Carson Found Out His Wife Was Banging Frank Gifford
Tucked inside the Hunger Games promotional pamphlet that was last week's issue of Entertainment Weekly was a rather amazing book excerpt from Henry Bushkin, lawyer to the late Johnny Carson. In the excerpt (not yet online), Bushkin describes accompanying Carson on a late night break-in of his seco...

The Pirates Are Five Wins Away From The World Series
This single from Pedro Alvarez in the bottom of the eighth gave the Pirates a 4-3 lead in Game 3 of the NLDS and proved to be the game-winning run. Pittsburgh is now one win away from the NLCS. Four wins there would get them to the World Series for the first time since 1979. ...

Did Wil Myers Blow This Play, Or Was He The Victim Of Gamesmanship?
Here's Rays outfielder Wil Myers, in the fourth inning of today's playoff game against the Red Sox, doing God knows what....

Paul Rhoads Goes On Rant For The Ages After Officials Screw ISU
Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads, already on the hot seat after losing the Cyclones' opening game to Northern Iowa of the FCS, had a right to be upset with officials after tonight's game against Texas, a 31-30 Longhorns win....

Cleveland Spanks: Your Browns-Bills GIF Roundup
Browns 37, Bills 24: Even with both starting quarterbacks leaving due to injury, this was probably the most entertaining Thursday night game this season. Yes, even with Brandon Weeden and Jeff Tuel....

ESPN Cancels International X-Games; More Job Cuts Coming
ESPN is canceling the international edition of the X-Games, Reuters reports. ESPN announced the expansion in May 2012 but apparently hasn't found a way to make any money off the games this year. This also means more job cuts are coming to Bristol....

All The MLB Pundits Made Dreadful Picks This Year
Republished with permission from PunditTracker....

An Indians Fan Hurled His Dip Spitter At David DeJesus
We thought this was beer at first, but the slow-mo gives away the greatly increased viscosity of the liquid in the cup. That's dip spit....

The Braves Are Leaving Their Highest-Paid Player Off The Playoff Roster
Braves second baseman Dan Uggla made $13 million this season, more money than any of his teammates did. That seems like a pretty OK deal for a second baseman that can hit 22 home runs in 448 at-bats. Except that Dan Uggla also sucks, and now he sucks bad enough to be left off the Braves' roster for ...

Johnny Cueto Gets Jeered, Drops Ball, Gives Up Home Run
PNC Park finally got to host playoff baseball, and the fans in Pittsburgh made it a party, screaming and chanting and jeering from the moment they passed through the turnstiles. And while there's no way to know for certain, it sure looked like the standing-room-only crowd got to Reds starter Johnny ...

Some Jagoff Celebrated The Pirates' Win By Jumping Off A Bridge
The Pirates did a lot of shit in the last 21 years to make their fans want to take a flying leap and end it all. But that's all in the past. Tonight, the Buccos won the NL wild-card game, and this dumb Yinzer—not to be confused with this dumb Yinzer, or these dumb Yinzers—decided it was just the rig...

