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Mike Leach Fired
"Terminated with cause effective immediately," according to the school's letter, which was handed to Leach's attorney just before today's hearing on the suspension. [AP]...

Minnesota "Wild Fire" Pun Used in Headline
Oh, here is some non-skeleton racing news, for you! Everything the Minnesota Wild own burst into flames in Canada, yesterday. Everything! Also they all have the flu....

South Jersey Pep Rally Turns Into Jerry Bruckheimer Film
Did your high school have a Thanksgiving bonfire? Did it explode, shaking the ground for 7 miles around and injuring a firefighter? If not, then yours sucked. [Press Of Atlantic City]...

In Detroit, Even Production Trucks Are Burning
A small fire in an FSN Detroit production truck prevented Pistons fans at home from watching most of the second half of Detroit's 104-96 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. So, there you go. [USA Today/AP]...

Football-Talking Person Shaun King "Let Go" By Tumultuous Company In Bristol
Apparently, this had nothing to do with him getting handsy with the wrong people either. Strictly for "performance" reasons, ESPN snitches say. Bully for Shaun....

HGH Is P.O.'ed At T.O.
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....

September: <em>Fin</em>.
We produce a lot of posts every month. Most of them disappear quickly. Some of them don't. Here are the 10 most popular posts from September, ranked low to high....

Geiger! Let's Go! (Again)
Remember Colby Rasmus Girl? Of course you do. It's always playing in your head when you've had a long day and all I really want is to sleep but it's stuck in my brain...Well now there's a remix. [imeem]...

Sean Salisbury Has A Few Things To Get Off His Chest
Former ESPNer Sean Salisbury was fired from a Dallas radio station two weeks ago and he finally responded to us about the allegations— in the most colossally unhinged way possible. Brace yourselves for the mother of all media meltdowns....

The Relatively Short Goodbye Part II
Goodbye, cruel internet. Again....

Expository Writing
Hi everyone! Did you guys say you wanted us to write another thing about Derek Jeter? Okay! Your funeral!!!...

Adrian Peterwho?
Sure, we don't know our football all that well. But that's actually part of the reason we feel pretty justified calling bullshit on Tom Curran's list of "Five Players Ready to Become NFL Superstars."...

The Exception That Proves Exactly Nothing
One of our favorite gambits here at FJM is the old "use the exception that proves the rule to yell at someone for not thinking the exception is the rule" gambit....

"What-If" The "What-If"
Steroids steroids steroids, you crazy son of a bitch. What have you gone and done now? You've made Gene Wojciechowski write this little bit of insanity....

Why Your Stadium Sucks: La Scala Opera House (Teatro alla Scala; Milan, Italy)
This is a weekly feature in which I (and maybe you, too, readers) detail the various reasons for hating your ballpark. This week: La Scala Opera House....

Remember This Guy Is In The Hall Of Fame
What would an FJM reunion be without the mocking of an ancient, stat-hating, online weblog writer who insists that his online weblog is not a blog?...

Sir, You Did Not Read The Memo Carefully
(GolfTippin via Shane Bacon)...

Jesus Is The Derek Jeter Of Christianity
He's good at what he does (for Jeter, it's baseball; for Jesus, it's healing the sick or whatever). People love him. He says and does the right things at all the right times....

Food Metaphor Of The Year
"In the Boston cookbook, most of its tasty concoctions based on defensive ingredients, Kessel is viewed as that little sprig of parsley that makes the plate look better but really doesn't factor into whether the meal is a true success."...