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Figure Skating Is Much More Tolerable When Routines Are Super Mario-Themed
Here's Tatiana Volosozhar and partner Maxim Trankov doing their graceful skating thing at the 2011 World Championships in Moscow earlier in the week. No Beethoven. No Handel. No terrible 70s ballads. Just Mario....
Diamondbacks Front Office Uses All-Star Game As Excuse To Lip Synch Worst Song Ever Created
Somebody in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization decided that the best way for the staff to promote the 2011 MLB All-Star Game, which will be held at Phoenix's Chase Field on July 12, was to dub Smash Mouth's "All Star." We're impressed by the unity and enthusiasm shared by the organization, but ...
Aaron Rodgers Got Shafted In The Madden Cover Vote
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: forget the Super Bowl MVP — it's down to Peyton Hillis and Michael Vick....
ESPN Will Now Attempt To Be Kind Of Honest About Its Personalities' Endorsements
The ESPN transparency project, otherwise known as the giving of a different name to public relations, otherwise known as "Front Row," released the company's new endorsement policies last week and came out with a list of its commentators' "endorsement relationships" this morning. We documented a fa...
<em>Barkley Shut Up And Jam!</em> Predicts The Thunder-Nuggets Series, And More
SB Nation's Jon Bois has gone and done something brilliant again: a complete simulation of the first round of the NBA playoffs, using "the worst" — or is it best? — of 1990s basketball video games. [SB Nation]...
<em>Madden</em> Moves Its Release Date To The End Of August
Traditionally arriving by the first or second Tuesday of August, Madden NFL 12 will be released three weeks later, Aug. 30, in a move EA Sports says will carry into… [Kotaku] ...
Sterger Tears Her Way Through Second Part Of <em>GMA</em> Interview
Jenn Sterger's Good Morning America two-day extravaganza has come to a close, with this abbreviated three-minute clip from today's show. There are tears here, at the memory of her mother's coworker asking "what it was like to have Brett Favre's grandbabies," and there's some strained commentary ab...
EA Sports' <em>NBA Elite</em> Takes The Year Off, New <em>NBA Jam</em> Coming This Fall
After the disastrous, last minute cancellation of NBA Elite 11, Electronic Arts is keeping its basketball sim video game on the bench for another year, saying that it won't ship a new entry in the NBA Live/NBA Elite franchise until… [Kotaku] ...
PETA Protests The Michael Vick Madden Cover That Doesn't Exist Yet
When ESPN and EA Sports announced that they would team up to let fans select the Madden 2012 cover boy, we predicted that the angry loud people would quickly sound off about the selections. The pool is now down to 16 selections, and the shit-stirring has begun: in a totally unoriginal outcome, the ...
We Heard From The Robot, And It Wrote A Better Story About That Perfect Game
This morning we covered Will Roberts, the University of Virginia player who threw a perfect game yesterday. More specifically, the game story at GWSports.com, which only bothered to mention the little fact of 27-up-27-down in the penultimate paragraph....
College Pitcher Throws Perfect Game, Gets Mentioned In Seventh Paragraph Of Eight-Paragraph Game Story
Will Roberts of UVA threw a perfect game yesterday, only the 19th in D1 history and the first since 2002. But you wouldn't know it if you read the recap from George Washington University, which came out on the losing end of the feat....
Here's Video Of The Game-Winning Backdoor Alley-Oop In Last Night's Blazers/Spurs Game
The box score will show that the Portland Trail Blazers (42-30) defeated the San Antonio Spurs (57-15) by a score of 98-96 last evening. The replay shows the fantastic manner in which the game's final two points were scored....
Vote For The Most Deserving Madden Cover Athlete, Or Just Stir Up Shit
Madden NFL 12 is the most important video game of all time, topping previous title-holder Madden 11, which usurped the title from Madden 10, etc, etc. Same game, a couple new features, and most notably, a new cover athlete. The Madden Cover jinx is a thing of the past, but it's still quite the honor...
We Have The Surprisingly Cock-Obsessed Pilot For Mark Schlereth's Sitcom
CBS has ordered a pilot for Home Game, a sitcom about Mark Schlereth, ESPN analyst and former Broncos/Redskins guard. Why? It's unclear....
Color Guy Bares His Soul After San Diego State's Game-Winning Layup
Marty Fletcher has always been a Gay guy. Watch him tell you all about it while footage of San Diego State's D.J Gay's game-winning layup against UNLV is replayed during CBS's post-game wrap-up. Next up up for Gay guy: SDSU vs. BYU for the Mountain West title....
This Wu-Tang Clan Super Game Boy Commercial Was Banned For Being "Too Ill"
In 1993, members of the Wu-Tang Clan produced a 40-second spot for Nintendo's Super Game Boy. Filmed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1993, it featured a beat by Prince Paul, voice-over from RZA and ODB, and a work of graffiti from the COD Crew. A member of COD found the old video and uploaded it to V...
NFLPA Boss Says Union Won't Accept An 18-Game Season
NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said last night that his members aren't interested in, and won't negotiate about, expanding the regular NFL season by two games a year. Here's what he told SI.com:...
We've Been Spelling Kendry Morales's Name Wrong For Years
It's Kendrys, you see, but that last S was left off his Angels contract in 2004, and he just never bothered to tell anyone. To be honest, we will probably continue to get this wrong for years to come. [LA Times, via HBT]...
Greg Jennings Responds To Fan's Religious Experience As Greg Jennings On Madden
Back in October in the virtual realm, Packers WR Greg Jennings scored a 99-yard touchdown on a broken leg in Madden. The gamer's voice-over went viral — it has been viewed over four million times on YouTube — but Jennings himself hadn't yet responded to the most famous play of his career. At ESPN ...
The Smart Way To Expand The NFL Season: 18 Weeks, Not 18 Games
This is Regressing, a numbers-minded column by our clever friends at the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective. Today: Why a second bye week makes sense....