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Mexico City Smoke-Out Only Second Strangest Delay In Spurs History
The NBA's "Global Games" are off to a hilarious start. I mean, it wasn't funny for the 22,000 Mexico City fans who didn't get a chance to watch the Spurs and Timberwolves thanks to the arena filling up with smoke, but images like Tony Parker masking up and rushing into a burning building are pretty ...

Don't Swear While Playing <em>NBA 2K14</em>; You'll Get A Technical Foul
I used to throw my controller across the room when I got frustrated. These days, with touch screens and gyroscopes and motion sensors, that's probably not such a good idea. I'm well out of the video game loop by this point, but I can tell you this: I damn sure wouldn't want my console enforcing its ...

Who's The Bigger Cheater: Jason Kidd Or Mike Tomlin?
Originally published in Bloomberg View...

Gaybashing Abounds: Your Alabama-Auburn <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
The Iron Bowl, Alabama's annual tree-murderer-and-RV showcase kicks off this afternoon and College GameDay is right in the middle of it at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Our first sign is another tribute to the ingenuity of lunkheads and the hapless ESPN producers powerless to stop them. "Jesse Palmer's Queer...

Did Mark Cuban Out Del Harris As The Inventor Of The Spilled-Soda Move?
On Wednesday night, Jason Kidd bought himself an extra timeout against the Lakers when he told Tyshawn Taylor to bump into him, spilling his drink. The Nets were losing 96-94 at that point and had no timeouts. The clean-up, before Jodie Meeks's second foul shot, gave the Nets some extra time to dra...

Sadly, This Sign Did Not Make It Onto <em>College GameDay</em>
Lots of good signs made it onto ESPN in Stillwater on Saturday. This was not among them....

"Name That Blue" Tests How Well You Know Your Sports Colors
Who's up for a rousing round of Name That Blue, the logo-color guessing game that only sounds dumb until you realize you've been playing it for 20 minutes?...

Hairy Balloon Balls: Your Baylor-OK. State <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
ESPN's College GameDay rolls on to Stillwater this week for Baylor-Oklahoma State, which kicks off at 8:00 pm on ABC. Right now, though, we've got signs. Filthy, disgusting, sweaty signs concerning the Baylor quarterback....

Finally, A "Keys To The Game" Segment That Makes Sense
I mean, he's not wrong....

Killing Jennifer Lawrence: <em>The Hunger Games: Catching Fire</em>, Reviewed.
1. The first Hunger Games movie was entertaining enough, but still plodding, awkward, and weighed down with so much exposition that you found yourself wishing everyone would stop sketching out the rules of this universe and get down to mourning all the dead children falling from the skies. The movie...

This Is How That Jonathan Martin "Pussy" Sign Made It On ESPN
If you want to get a sign on ESPN's College GameDay you have to make it through ESPN security. They screen the signs for religious and political messages and, more generally, anything that could be deemed offensive. One sign that fit the criteria for offensive—the "Pussy" sign with Jonathan Martin'...

Jonathan Martin Is A Pussy: Your Stanford-USC <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
Well, this was bound to happen when you take the College GameDay crew to USC for a game against Stanford. Jonathan Martin, who met with the NFL yesterday to discuss the Richie Incognito/Miami Dolphins bullying issue, is a Stanford man and so the Trojan faithful had plenty of Martin-themed signs to s...


In 1984 Epyx Sent A Commodore 64 Copy Of <em>Summer Games</em> To The Soviets, Who Couldn't Play It Because They Only Had Ataris
Thirty years ago, we didn’t have fancy PS4s to drool over. No, we had to type in things like “LOAD”*”,8,1 to play games, and those games were real. One of the best, of course, was Epyx’s Summer Games, which let you take part in such Olympic competitions as swimming, diving, sprinting, and gymnastic...

Every NHL Team As A <em>Mega Man</em> Sprite
Reddit user adam4283 has created 31 sprites (including the North Stars) from everybody's favorite 8-bit side-scrolling platform shooter. For just a few pixels, it's amazing how instantly recognizable most teams are. That's testament to Adam's work, as well as the clean and distinctive logos and colo...

Here's Michael Jordan Playing Beer Pong
Also, Michael Jordan cheating at beer pong. Elbow rule, Mike. ...

Michael Jordan Traded His Flu Game Sneakers For Applesauce (Sort Of)
Graham crackers and applesauce. That's all Michael Jordan wanted during an early-season game in Utah. The Bulls' trainer had his graham crackers, but applesauce was nowhere to be found. ...

The Two Rogers
Here is a memoir story I wrote last year for SB Nation. It is about my father and also about Roger Angell and Roger Kahn:...

