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Joe Frazier's Youngest Son Claims Frazier Told Him He Was Poisoned Two Months Before His Death
On the day before Joe Frazier died in November, his 20-year-old son, Derek Dennis Frazier, made a YouTube video saying he had not spoken with his father in two months. Derek, the youngest of Frazier's 11 children, also said he did not know where his father had been, even as he lay dying in a Philade...
Baseball Executives Continue To Show They Have No Idea How Baseball Works
Hidden in this interesting piece about identity fraud from Tyler Kepner in the The New York Times is the perhaps not so stunning realization that many of the people charged with evaluating, acquiring and displaying baseball talent don't know a thing about baseball. Sandy Alderson, the current gener...
The Winter X Games Are Underway, Which Means Gnarly Snowmobile Crashes
Snowmobile Freestyle is perhaps the the most batshit insane of all professional sports in North America (snocross comes close) due simply to the ridiculous things competitors are able to tweak out of their 450-pound death machines. So here's 22-year-old Texan Colton Colten Moore failing spectacula...
The Mystery Team Wins: Prince Fielder Signs With The Tigers
Just five days ago, GM Dave Dombrowski said Prince Fielder was "probably not a good fit" in Detroit. That was after C/DH Victor Martinez went down for the year, but with 1B/3B/DH Miguel Cabrera still under contract through 2015. That's a logjam of immovable objects, though the Tigers have indicated ...
Why The Giants Targeted A Player Prone To Concussions
The day after a conference championship game, there is an avalanche of coverage, usually sticking to the main storylines. But other than this New York Magazine story, it's odd that no one had made much of a fuss over two Giants saying they specifically targeted Kyle Williams because he had a history...
The Giants Went After Kyle Williams Because He Had A History Of Concussions
On NYMag.com, the splendid Ben Wallace-Wells takes a look at fumblin' Kyle Williams and the Giants' strategy. "They'd targeted Williams for extra violence because they knew he had suffered several concussions in the past, and they think it worked." [NYMag]...
Why We Scapegoat
Because Billy Cundiff exists, Ravens fans don't have to come to terms with the fact that one of the best rushing teams ceded the turf to one of the worst. Or that they could only turn three New England turnovers into six points. Or that their offensive line turned to soggy swiss cheese at the merest...
New York Giants At San Francisco 49ers: Your NFC Championship Game Open Thread
Welcome to the last open thread before the Super Bowl. I hope you've enjoyed yourselves and continue to do so down below....
Ricardo Clark's 97th-Minute Goal Gave The U.S. Their First Win Over A South American Team In Five Years
A 13-match winless streak against South American squads came to an end tonight when Ricardo Clark finally found net in the final moments of stoppage time of the United States' friendly against Venezuela....
UCF Pre-Med Coed Propositions Dwight Howard
These girl-propositions-an-athlete videos are becoming a bit of an epidemic, aren't they? Today we have Margo. She is a junior at the University of Central Florida who dreams to one day be a pediatrician. And has she got a deal for Dwight Howard. Margo admits to stealing the idea from our sorority...
Franco Harris Wants Joe Paterno Reinstated For Four Games Next Season, Because Franco Harris Has Lost His Mind
Never mind the alleged victims of Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse: Joe Paterno is the biggest victim of all. At least that seems to be the opinion of those deluded Penn Staters who continue to make Paterno their primary concern. And arguably no one has tilted more stupidly at that stupid windmill ...
Undercover Cops Will Be Wearing Giants Jerseys At Sunday's Game
The trap has been baited for the drunk and stupid. San Francisco PD will be dressed as Giants fans at Candlestick Park, the better to sniff threatening behavior on the part of the locals. After a number of Saints fans reported being verbally and physically abused last week, the Niners and the city a...
Are The Giants Really Better Than The 49ers?
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
ShortCenter: The Giants And The 49ers Are The Same Team, To Judge By ESPN's Buzzwords
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....
Before It's Made Public, Louis Freeh's Independent Investigation Of Penn State Will Be Reviewed By Penn State
That's according to what two members of the university's Faculty Council who had met with Freeh last week told ESPN. Freeh, the former director of the FBI, had promised "complete independence" when he was hired by the school in the weeks after the Jerry Sandusky scandal broke. This is from ESPN:...
Joe Biden Congratulates The San Francisco Giants "On Their Way To The Super Bowl"
Like everyone, we love a good Joe Biden gaffe—especially when it's about sports....
Fernando Torres Gets Cuckolded, And Other Videos Of Note From Last Weekend's Premier League Action
As NFL football winds down, are you ready for some ... EPL football? From now until the end of the season, we'll be posting a number of clips from the previous weekend's English Premier League games. These won't necessarily be goal videos. These may not even be highlights. These will merely be momen...
ShortCenter: The Giants Are Confident, ESPN Says Over And Over And Over
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....
The View From The Wrong Side Of An NFL Instant Classic
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Jack Harbaugh On His Sons: “They Have No Weaknesses. They’re Just Like Their Mother. They’re Stealth.”
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: the coaching patriarch refuses to play favorites....