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Is Lenny Dykstra A Hot Fucking Mess? "Yes, Your Honor."
You name your child "Leonard" and you have certain hopes and expectations. Chief amongst them being that, no matter what, he doesn't wind up a guy named "Lenny." The Dykstra's lost out on that one and the gritty hits just keep on coming. Lenny pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud on Friday and could ...
The London Olympics Website Does Not Want You Linking To It Unless You're Going To Be Nice
As a mega-moneyfest, the Olympics demand a massive amount of corporate sanitizing. For spectators, this means having anything you didn't obtain from an official Olympic sponsor confiscated, but this has been going on for years and for the most part, that's the Faustian bargain you make in order to ...
Caution: Running Alongside Bikers At The Tour De France May Result In Face Planting
Showing off your California state flag can be a fun way to enjoy the race. Just watch out for that joker who's recklessly standing there....
The Freeh Group Will Investigate The Saints Next
Freeh Group International Solutions—the firm that just dumped 267 pages of dirt on Penn State—isn't done internally investigating embattled football programs. On June 8, nola.com reported Saints ownership had hired former FBI honcho Louis Freeh's consulting and investigations firm to look into two t...
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Everything You Need To Know About Louis Freeh's Damning Report On Penn State [Updating]
After a lengthy investigation into years of sexual abuse within the Penn State football program, former FBI director Louis Freeh released a report of his findings today. We're still thumbing through it. It's withering. Here's what we've learned so far: ...
Jay Paterno: The Freeh Report Contains "No New Facts," Just "Some New Interpretations Of Things"
In all seriousness, I can't imagine how difficult today must be for the Paterno family. That said, at this point, it's probably best for all of them to decline to comment further. Paterno's son, Jay, went on SportsCenter about an hour ago and dismissed the findings of the Freeh Group as "really an...
Penn State Failed To Comply With Federal Law For Two Decades
Aside from being morally repugnant, Penn State officials' failure to report the incident concerning Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulting Victim 2 to the university police department in 2001 was a violation of federal law....
Last Night's <em>The Franchise: Miami Marlins</em> Distilled Down To Its Motherfucking Essence
The Miami Marlins all-access curse-fest that is The Franchise premiered last night on Showtime, and the first episode made for enjoyable viewing (more enjoyable, at least, than the ESPY Awards, which it ran against). Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria bet the house on the 2012 season, hoping a new stadiu...
The 10 Most Appalling Revelations About Graham Spanier, And Why He Could Be The Next One Charged
The majority of attention given to today's Freeh Report has centered on figuring out Joe Paterno's role in allowing Jerry Sandusky to go unstopped. But the most actively nefarious character—other than Sandusky himself—in the commission's story is former university president Graham Spanier. Even bef...
The NCAA Is Reading The Freeh Report Very Closely
Is the Penn State scandal an NCAA matter? We are a lot closer to finding out. The official statement, released earlier today:...
Freeh Report: Detective Alludes To Penn State Administrators' Habit Of Interfering With Investigations
Ronald Shreffler, a detective in the police department at Penn State, was first informed of the 1998 Jerry Sandusky shower incident on the morning of May 4, 1998, one day after it happened. Within 30 minutes, he had interviewed the boy now known to the world as Victim 6. And later that afternoon, Sh...
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Report: TVs At Penn State's Student Center Were Switched Away From Live Coverage Of The Freeh Report's Release [UPDATE]
The Philadelphia Inquirer has the details, including reaction from those who were there, but here's the gist:...
Freeh Report: Joe Paterno Knew In 1998
In his testimony before the grand jury investigating Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno denied knowing anything about the 1998 incident in which Sandusky was investigated but never charged after police received a report from a woman who claimed Sandusky had showered with her son and touched the boy. And in...
In 1998, Buying $400 Worth Of Clothes For A Player Got You Banned From Penn State. Being Investigated For Child Sexual Assault Did Not.
One of the central themes of the Freeh Report is the hopelessly twisted moral compass of the former Penn State administration. The report concludes that university leaders were far more concerned with protecting the school from bad publicity than they were with protecting the victims of abuse:...
Janitors Didn't Report Jerry Sandusky's 2000 Rape Incident Because They Feared Joe Paterno Would Fire Them
Janitors who observed Jerry Sandusky performing a sexual act on a young boy in the Lasch Building showers in 2000 kept quiet out of a fear of Joe Paterno and the power he held at Penn State, according to this morning's Freeh Report....
Joe Paterno Gave Jerry Sandusky The Option To Keep Coaching "As Long As He Was The Coach"
In 1999, at which time Paterno, Schultz, Curley and Spanier were all aware of the incident with Victim 6 the year before, Jerry Sandusky was given the choice of retiring, or staying on indefinitely....
Here Is The Official Report Of Louis Freeh's Investigation Into Penn State
The findings of the former FBI director Louis Freeh's months-long inquiry into Penn State has just been made public on the Freeh Group's website. There's much to parse through, and obviously many questions to be asked. We've already shown you some preliminary documents we believe were preparation ma...
An Actor Explains Just How Bizarre Bob Kraft's Casting Video Was
We asked you last night for information about the bizarre audition tape Bob Kraft made with his girlfriend, Ricki Noel Lander. This morning, a reader (no, not Jon Hamm) wrote in to give us some sense about how audition tapes work in Hollywood:...
Phillies Announcer Melts Down: "Somebody Figure Out How To Fucking Get Scott Hairston Out!"
Scott Hairston owns the Phillies. Just plain steals their lunch and eats it in front of them, then poops in the bag and gives it back. He's a journeyman against everyone else, an All-Star against Philly....
Jeremy Lin's Mad At The Knicks, But It's A Healthy Kind Of Mad
The honeymoon may not be over, but Jeremy Lin's New York marriage has definitely begun. Though he hasn't yet put pen to contract, he's already got one tabloid trying to stir up shit between him and the Knicks. That's about an official a welcome as the New York media has to offer....