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Gary Hoenig, A Founding Editor Of <em>ESPN The Mag</em>, Has Been Laid Off
The first-ever hire at ESPN The Magazine, Gary Hoenig, has been laid off, three sources tell me. Hoenig was the executive editor at the magazine in 1998, and was promoted to editor-in-chief in 2003. He's been the GM and editorial director of ESPN's publishing division for the last five years. Hoeni...
The Spurs Are Up Six At Half Thanks To Gary Neal's Buzzer-Beater Three
The San Antonio Spurs are leading the Miami Heat 50-44 at half. Gary Neal leads all scorers with 14 points. LeBron James only has four points to go along with six rebounds and four dimes, but Dwyane Wade has 12 points and five assists....
Don't Mess With Texas
If you've never read it, this is a treat: Gary Cartwright's classic 1968 piece for Haper's: "Confessions of a Washed-Up Sportswriter." Here we have a first-hand account of Bud Shrake, Dan Jenkins, Blackie Sherrod and the legendary Forth Worth Press in the Fifties:...
Leroy's Revenge: Two Dogs, Father And Son, Fight To The Death
Originally published in the August 1975 issue of Texas Monthly. Reprinted here with permission. As the author explains in the postscript, names have been changed, and the final scene is a composite. ...
Oxbow Wins The 2013 Preakness Stakes
Oxbow won the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes this evening at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Oxbow led wire to wire, and the win was a feel-good story for the jockey, Gary Stevens. Stevens, 50, retired in 2005 and worked as an analyst. He returned this January....
Why A <em>Boston Globe</em> Writer Didn't Vote LeBron James For MVP
Mystery solved. The lone writer who listed Carmelo Anthony first, denying LeBron James the first-ever unanimous MVP, was Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe. And he sounds almost...apologetic?...
Demolition Derby
Head on over the SB Nation's Longform page and check out this profile on Gary Stevens by Joe DePaolo:...
Memphis Radio Hosts Play Terrible Basketball Game Against "The Ribs"
Chris Vernon and Gary Parrish are radio hosts in Memphis. The Memphis Grizzlies provide halftime entertainment that includes a group of geographically-significant-food costumes called "The Ribs." Chris Vernon and Gary Parrish played The Ribs in a game of basketball at halftime of the Grizzlies 104-8...
Tom Coburn Wants To Revoke Sports Leagues' Tax-Exempt Charity Status
Last week Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma introduced an amendment to a bill called the Marketplace Fairness Act (the so-called "Internet tax") that would revoke the tax-exempt status of sports leagues. This is the news, and Think Progress has covered it nicely here. Also news, to most peop...
NHL, NHLPA Partner With Gay Rights Group
Mortal and philosophical enemies Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr will sit down together today and announce a pioneering partnership between the NHL, NHLPA, and the You Can Play Project (YCP), the latter a non-profit group formed last year to promote LGBT tolerance in sports....
The judge who let Penn State's lawyer into the grand jury room says whether that decision should spoil the criminal case against the three university administrators accused of covering for Jerry Sandusky is not his call. Also, the trials for those three administrators probably won't take place until...
Mitch McGary, "A.K.A. 'White Chocolate' A.K.A. 'White Thunder,'" Had A Blog On ESPN In High School
While he was a high school recruit from New Hampshire, Michigan's now-star forward, Mitch McGary wrote about the process for ESPN....
Michigan Misses All The Free Throws, Wins Ugly Against Syracuse Anyway
A wire-to-wire (foul-fest, timeout-filled, commercial-break heavy) battle ended in Jim Boeheim making a number of very Jim Boeheim faces and a relatively easy call for the refs: Jordan Morgan taking a charge from Brandon Triche with 20 seconds left, which, in hindsight, finished off Syracuse. Michi...
What Makes Them So Good? A Video Breakdown Of The Final Four Teams
The Final Four play tonight, with Wichita State-Louisville at 6:09 p.m. ET and Syracuse-Michigan following it up at 8:49 p.m. Here, we're breaking down the four teams' special qualities: What should you know about Syracuse's zone? Who's that white guy who hits all the threes for Wichita, and how the...
Trey Burke May Have Hit The Equalizer, But It Was Mitch McGary Who Played The Game Of His Life
Florida Gulf Coast stopped scoring at the wrong time, while Louisville and Duke won by maintaining solid, boring leads, so the chatter last night naturally turned to Trey Burke's remarkable game-tying shot against Kansas. Michigan clawed back from a 14 point deficit in seven minutes, Burke scored al...
What The Hell: Jarome Iginla Traded To Penguins
We went to bed thinking Jarome Iginla was going to be a Bruin. Nearly every single rumor had the 17-year vet heading to Boston, and when Iginla was a healthy scratch for Calgary's late-night game, it seemed a fait accompli. The sun rises to find Iginla in black and gold, but without the Bruins' spok...
Fan Streaks On Ice At Calgary Flames Game
Here's a rare ice-based version of the idiot on the field trope. We don't know much, other than some guy decided to strip down to his boxers, climb the glass and strut around barefoot on the ice in Calgary tonight....
The <em>Daily News</em> Is Just Trolling Jets Fans Now
Robinson Cano's stalled contract negotiations lead the back page of today's New York Daily News, but there's a reefer, up top: "FLIGHTMARE: Revis to Pats? It could happen." This means trouble. Tell us, Gary Myers, should Jets fans—and otherwise affiliated enemies of Patriots dominance, which is to s...
The Flames Just Made The Most Inexplicable Trade Of The Year
Brian McGrattan is no catch: the journeyman brawler has bounced around from team to team, and up and down from the AHL, since the lockout. So when the Predators waived him, he cleared easily. He was assigned to their AHL affiliate yesterday. This morning, Calgary traded for him....