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Watch College Football Coaches Read And Respond To Mean Tweets

We've enjoyed Jimmy Kimmel's gimmick of having various celebrities and athletes read mean tweets about themselves, and the good times have continued today when College GameDay borrowed the idea. Hey, college football coaches aren't humorless tight-asses all the time!...

Report: Manchester City Join Arsenal, Real Madrid In Falcao Sweepstakes

We are in the final throes of what has already been a hectic summer transfer window, and it now looks likely that at least one more huge name will be on the move, with Falcao possibly strengthening an already way-too-good Man City attack....

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Andy Staples's oral history of the 2007 Appalachian State-Michigan upset is a lot of fun, as you would expect of an oral history that features an offensive lineman saying, "Man, I was throwing up out of both ends before that game." [SI.com]...

Here Are Two Of The Dumbest <em>GameDay</em> Signs You'll Ever See

The above picture, preserved by SB Nation, shows a startlingly large number of peppy Oklahoma State kids posing behind one of the stupidest GameDay signs we've seen—which itself is saying something. Don't they teach you kids nothin'?...

How To Grill A Skirt Steak, A Mere 11 Minutes Of Worthwhile Labor

Grilling skirt steak is the easiest, fastest way to get steak into multiple people at the same time. This makes it well suited to Labor Day's two traditions: the notion of a holiday from work, and the often contradictory practice of throwing a big exciting cookout on this day when you're supposed...

Why The Heck Some Good Runners Started Running In The First Place

It's back-to-school time and junior high players everywhere are contemplating how best to make their mark on the athletic world. Here's the thing—running until your sternum glows and your legs bend in unusual places lacks appeal to the youngster. Football has cheerleaders. Basketball has a crowd. G...

Tommie Frazier Got 5 On It

Tommie Frazier and Terrell Farley prepped for their blowout win over Florida in the 1995 Fiesta Bowl (which is still the most points a Steve Spurrier team has ever allowed) by rapping with Tabasco-looking bottles. His name is T-Fra, not Kurtis Blow...

Yep, That's An Idiot's Dong Featured On ESPN.com [NSFW]

Tonight's Cubs-Cardinals game in St. Louis was interrupted by an Idiot On The Field who invaded Busch Stadium's turf clad only in a pair of boxers. One AP photographer spotted the hooligan just as he was apprehended with his junk hanging out the fly of his shorts; ESPN proceeded to put the photo on ...

49ers' Aldon Smith Suspended Nine Games

Queen Harrison, the year's second-best 100m-hurdler in the world (and currently in a death-struggle with #1 Dawn Harper Nelson), announced today that she signed with Asics. It now places her on the same squad as world number-four Lolo Jones, who is thrilled....

Meet Jake "Steiny" Steinberg, the 20-year-old Jets marketer, publicist, reporter, blogger, agent, and superfan who had an Entourage character named after him. [SI.com]...

Reports: Astros' Manager And GM Definitely Not Getting Along

It's rarely a good sign when Ken Rosenthal declares that your club is "dysfunctional on multiple levels."...

Where To Sit If You Want A Ball

Using data collected manually over the last two years, IdealSeat has identified the sections in which fans are most likely to catch foul balls and home runs at four different ballparks, with the rest on the way....

Deadspin Up All Night: All Our Times Have Come

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Enjoy the long weekend. Tommy Craggs is my biological father. ...

According to someone at the building Saturday night, USC defensive back Josh Shaw got into an argument with his girlfriend, the two went their separate ways, someone else called police, and when Shaw returned to the apartment, he saw police and jumped off his girlfriend's balcony. [Los Angeles Daily...

I Can't Stop Watching This Dude Try To Hit A 186-MPH Fastball

Ever wondered what it'd be like to stand in against a big-league hurler? Yeah, this is kinda like that, but if the hurler was, like, a Terminator or something. Here's former Japanese ballplayer Takeshi Yamasaki, trying to get his bat around on a nearly 200-mph fastball (the fun starts at around ...

What's Wrong With Baseball?

Over at the New Yorker, Ben McGrath has a brief, characteristically thoughtful essay up about a question that people have been asking basically for as long as the game has been played but which, lately, seems to actually have something to it: What's wrong with baseball?...

Cheaper Bose Headphones, A Fleet of Roombas, SodaStream Gear [Deals]

Today's Amazon Gold Box deal is a pair of popular Bose OE2 headphones for $80, or $20 off their usual selling price....

How Heisman-Finalist Quarterbacks Have Changed Over The Years

It's the season for wildly premature Heisman speculation, and considering quarterbacks have won all but two Heismans since 2000 (Mark Ingram and Reggie Bush being the exceptions), a few quarterbacks and their gaudy stat lines will be in the running this year. But just how far have the goal posts mov...