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Brett Favre Retires, Take 2
After starting more consecutive games than any quarterback in history, Brett Favre will (probably) never play another NFL game again. Will you miss him? Or can you not wait for him to go away?...

Baylor: Clippers Were Like 'A Vision Of A Southern Plantation'
Not taking sides in Elgin Baylor's lawsuit against the Clippers, but you hate to see it go down like this....

High School Basketball Team Pulls Off Rare 17-Point Play For The Win (UPDATE)
Your team is down by five with 12 seconds left and has just committed an intentional foul. Game over? Not if you can find a way to get eight technical fouls called on your opponent....

Hansbrough Still Undefeated At Cameron Indoor, MIMI!
I'm not sure exactly how the whole Tyler Hansbrough-as-a-Muppet phenomenon got started, but Duke fans took it to a new level last night....

Naked Nebraska Wrestler Doing Just Fine At New School
Remember those Nebraska wrestlers who occasionally liked to take their clothes off for gay porn sites? It turns out that they also like to wrestle! One of them is pretty good at it, too....

A-Rod Just Days Before His Baseball Legacy Was Tarnished Forever
Radar online snags photos of Alex Rodriguez on his Bahamian getaway weekend nuzzling with what appears to be a not-so-shemale-y type. Selena Roberts is actually hiding in that black purse on the chair. [RadarOnline]...

Join The Mile High Club With Bar Refaeli
• Stop trying to look out the window: Southwest Airlines—which usually bans scantily-clad women on its rides—unveiled its bikini girl plane. There were no survivors. [Lewp]...

Insufferable Team Beats Irritating Team In Annoying ACC Rivalry
North Carolina clobbers Duke at Cameron Indoor, then burns Krzyzewskiville to the ground and enslaves its inhabitants. [USA Today]...

Adam Dunn Goes To Washington
They did it! The Nationals signed a free agent! Two-years, $20 million for long-time Red/short-time Diamondback Adam Dunn. It's almost like they're a real baseball team! [SI]...

An Alcohol-Free Bay To Breakers? What?
Event sponsor ING, San Francisco Police decide to ban alcohol at this year's Bay to Breakers run in San Francisco. So, what's the point, now? [Sports Rubbish]...

Andy Kennedy's Wife Still Not Getting Any
As you may recall, the wife of former Cincinnati basketball coach Andy Kennedy is claiming that a pending lawsuit against a cab driver is so traumatizing that it's affecting the couple's sex life....

Usain Bolt Is Never In A Hurry To Finish
• Speaking of premature celebrations: Usain Bolt hits the dancefloor (in German.) But only for nine and a half seconds. [Speigel]...

NCAA Wants You To Point That Finger Somewhere Else
The NCAA rules committee wants to consider stricter taunting penalties, including taking points off the board for premature touchdown celebrations. Fine, but I'm not giving up my bullhorn. [ESPN, photo via]...

Roberto Alomar's Accuser, Ilya Dall, Is A Pro Arm Wrestler?
According to this article in The Village Voice, Ilya Dall of Whitestone, Queens is “an impressive female arm wrestler.” Or at least she once was....

Earliest Known Baseball Card Fetches 75 Grand
Bernice Gallego has sold her 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings card on eBay. Her fingernails are not for sale, however. [Fresno Bee]...

Back To Bitches: Tales From Westminster
Once again, Deadspin has deputized Barry Petchesky as its professional pooch reporter to cover the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show mess. Here is his day two report....

More From Selena Roberts: "A-Rod's Worst Nightmare"
Roberts explains how she broke the Alex Rodriguez story: "He's probably upset with me and maybe he wants to divert the attention to the credibility of the article, which is not in dispute." [NY Observer]...

Things Are Still A Bit Frosty Between Billy Gillispie And Jeannine Edwards
Jeannine Edwards had a rather awkward run-in with coach Billy Gillispie the last time she worked the sideline at a Kentucky game, so naturally ESPN sent her right back into the fire last night....

And Here's How You Really Know The Brett Favre Era In NYC Is Officially, Blessedly Over
Remember this photo of an overexcited Jets fan prancing around Manhattan on a balmy August afternoon with his homemade Favre jersey soon after the news broke that Brett!Brett!Brett! was coming to town?...

Why Do You Make Me Hit You With This Hockey Stick?
Moon went down in a junior league (CHL) game after Oshawa Generals captain James DeLory slashed him in the knee from behind. Then DeLory rabbit-punched him in the face, but that's neither here nor there. But Greg Wyshynski over at Puck Daddy offers a different interpretation of the assault—Moon was ...