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Drunk Red Sox Fan Heckles Yankee Fans, Speaks In Tongues
This very confused young man, who seems to think that Dez Bryant has something to do with the Boston Red Sox and that people can actually understand the words that are coming out of his mouth, was spotted at Sunday's game between the Red Sox and Yankees. He probably had too much to drink....
Why Do Most College Football Kickers Suck? Chris Kluwe Explains.
So Drew asked me to fill in for him on this week's Funbag, because apparently as an unemployed former punter I'm supposed to have oodles of free time to do his job while he goes off and teaches his kids how to cook meth with his neighbor Chad, or whatever the fuck it is parenting entails in Yonkers....
Life, Death, And Yasiel Puig: <em>LA Mag</em>'s Jesse Katz Is Here To Chat
Los Angeles Magazine's Jesse Katz, who wrote that great story on Yasiel Puig's defection from Cuba—you can get a refresher here—is in the comments below, ready to take your questions. Follow Jesse on Twitter @byjessekatz, stop by his website, and/or check out his book The Opposite Field, a memoir on...
How Nolan Nawrocki Made Himself Into The NFL's Most Infamous Scout
Nolan Nawrocki lives in the nicest house in a tidy neighborhood in Elmhurst, Ill., a western suburb of Chicago. When I visit him a couple of weeks before Easter, the windows are already awash in signage....
Deadliest Wave
The latest long form goodness from SB Nation comes from Joe Spring:...
Lawyer Who Aided NCAA's Miami Investigation Faces Ethics Charges
Yesterday, the Florida Bar formally filed ethics charges against Maria Elena Perez, the attorney who represented booster Nevin Shapiro and helped the NCAA illegally obtain evidence against the University of Miami. Perez is accused of 15 separate violations of Bar rules, in providing help for the inv...
The Braves Are Getting Racist Hate Mail About Hank Aaron
It's Jackie Robinson Day, a day when baseball takes a moment to recognize the man who broke the sport's color barrier, and the Braves continue to sift through hundreds of letters, many of them littered with racial slurs, bashing Hank Aaron....
Meet An Elite: Gebre Gebremariam
Now that it's cool to care about the Boston Marathon again, Fittish would like to familiarize you with the runners at the front of the pack. Today's elite: Gebre Gebremariam. ...
Kevin Love Gives Us One More Gorgeous Outlet Pass
The Minnesota Timberwolves' season has been a big disappointment, and Kevin Love lost his spirit a long time ago. But Love played balls-out in a duel against Stephen Curry and the Warriors last night, posting a 40-14-9 stat line and launching another one of his patented outlet passes....
The Pirates And Reds Hit All The Home Runs
The Bucs and Reds combined for 10 home runs in just six innings, before being suspended due to rain. Here are all 10 of them, hit to dwindling crowds, increasing rain, and—because it was Cincinnati's "Bark in the Park" promotion—presumably a growing stench of wet dog fur....
ESPN Deportes Baseball Analysts: Slightly More Attractive Than ESPN's
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Don't Tell Joakim Noah It's Snowing Again
It snowed across much of the Midwest last night, including in Chicago, where reporters had to break the news to Joakim Noah just as he was enthusing over the delightful spring weather. We are all Joakim Noah....
Chorizo Sausage Eats It During Sausage Race
A reader sends in this front-row view of the Chorizo Sausage eating it during tonight's Sausage Race at Miller Park. ...
This Oilers Fan Is Fed Up With Everything
The Oilers missed the playoffs for the eighth consecutive year. They finished dead last in the Pacific and only the Panthers and Sabres had fewer points in the entire league. This is what being a sports fan can do to a person. It can make you throw a personal item at a building. ...
Phillies Fans' Reactions To Dan Uggla's Grand Slam Are Amazing
Your most compelling sports video of the year comes from ESPN, which caught these Phillies fans taunting Dan Uggla—then being rudely interrupted by Uggla's grand slam. It was brilliant enough (seriously, great job ESPN) but we took it a bit further with extreme slow motion....
Braves-Phillies Turned Into A Home Run Party
The Braves outlasted the Phillies 9-6 in what turned out to be a surprise slugfest. The game was a 2-1 snoozer until the eighth inning, when Evan Gattis, Dan Uggla, and Andrelton Simmons went back-to-back-to-back for the Braves. Between the two teams, there were five home runs in the final two innin...
Andrew Bogut Has A Fractured Rib Dangerously Close To His Lungs
Andrew Bogut is out indefinitely following this injury from the closing minutes of regulation of Sunday's wild Golden State-Portland game. With around 24 seconds left in the fourth, LaMarcus Aldridge and Bogut collided and Bogut went sprawling to the court. He immediately clutched his pectoral area...
Bill O'Reilly Questions John Calipari On "Hip-Hop, Rap Stuff, Hustlers"
Kentucky head coach John Calipari appeared on The O'Reilly Factor tonight on Fox News, and managed to keep his cool despite a series of leading questions about the ability to maintain discipline in a "coarser" age of "rap stuff," "hip-hop stuff," and "hustlers."...