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<em>Daily News</em> Anoints Geno Smith The Next Mark Sanchez

This is either a serious failure of back-page wood creativity, or a really bad omen for Geno Smith....

Abby Wambach Marries Longtime Girlfriend In Hawaii

According to TMZ, USWNT soccer star Abby Wambach was wed to her longtime girlfriend, soccer player Sarah Huffman, this past weekend in Hawaii. ...

NBA Cameraman Tries To Be Cool About His Foot Falling Asleep

Dude was working Saturday's Bulls-Pacers preseason game. He had to spring into action during a timeout, but his right foot needed a few more seconds to wake up. He tried to act all nonchalant by sticking his hand in his pocket, but it was already too late. Most of us aren't carrying a television cam...

Contained Space: <em>Captain Phillips,</em> Reviewed.

1. There's a moment in Paul Greengrass' United 93, one of the best films of the last decade, in which we are invited not to sympathize with the hijackers of Flight 93, exactly, but at least take a look at them as humans, if just for a moment. They're monsters, but they're people, on that plane, too,...

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Reminder: <em>League Of Denial</em> Is Tonight. Here's A Clip You Haven't Seen

Here's a clip from the Frontline documentary League of Denial. It premieres tonight at 9 p.m. tonight on ES—oh right, on PBS....

Pacman Jones acquitted: A judge in Hamilton County, Ohio, found the Bengals cornerback not guilty of misdemeanor assault. Jones had been accused of hitting a woman outside a Cincinnati bar back in June. The judge determined Jones had reacted after the woman came at him with a beer bottle. [PFT]...

What if the NHL played an NFL-style season? We did this last week with basketball and baseball, but a reader noted the omission* and did some number crunching of his own. Good news for the Rangers and Flyers! [Mitchell's Blog]...

Here's Vin Scully Calling Don Larsen's Perfect Game 57 Years Ago Today

On Oct. 8, 1956, in Game 5 of the World Series, Don Larsen took the mound at Yankee Stadium against the Brooklyn Dodgers and threw what remains the only perfect game in MLB postseason history. Behind the microphone in the broadcast booth that day was 28-year-old Vin Scully, already in his seventh se...

Reporter Alan Schwarz Changed The NFL; He's Here To Talk Concussions

We're joined now by New York Times enterprise reporter Alan Schwarz. Best known for his groundbreaking work on football's concussion crisis, he also wrote a terrific history of the role of statistics in baseball, and is a regular recipient of warm holiday greetings from Roger Goodell. Have questions...

Insane College Football Drive: 24 Plays, 90 Yards, Zero Points

So if you didn't catch Saturday's Colorado School of Mines-Western New Mexico game—I DVR'd it*—you missed out on one of the longest, strangest, and ultimately fruitless possessions in college football history....

There's almost no way the USMNT can earn a top seed at the World Cup: The top eight seeds for Brazil will be decided by this month's FIFA rankings, where the U.S. currently sit 13th. Even if they win both matches this week, moving into the top seven (host Brazil are automatically in) would require s...

What Would A Jaguars-Alabama Betting Line Look Like?

There's a dude at my gym who blasts Linkin Park through his Beats when he's in the locker room. But he doesn't WEAR his headphones. He uses them as speakers and plays the butt rock loud enough so that he can hear them without putting them on all the way. And then he sings along. That's grounds for m...

Hip Hop Pioneers: Two Old White Guys

My man Steinski, and his partner, Double Dee....

Here Are Some Clips Of LeBron And The Heat's Video Shoot To Laugh At

The Miami Heat are shooting footage for the team's pregame introduction video today, and someone has been posting behind-the-scenes clips on the team's Instagram page. We owe a debt of gratitude to that someone, because he or she has graced us with clips like this one:...

Less Awesome Map: The Provinces Of Canada, By Regional Sport

A reply to "Awesome Map: The United States Of America, By Regional Sport," by Carrie Hunt and the Spoonerisms....

Join us at 5:00 Eastern for a chat with Alan Schwarz, the New York Times reporter whose groundbreaking work on the NFL's concussion crisis should have won him a Pulitzer. He'll be here to talk about League of Denial and whatever else comes up....

Jadeveon Clowney Shouldn't Play Until He Gets Paid

South Carolina's all-world DE Jadeveon Clowney didn't play this weekend with a muscle strain, or maybe bruised ribs, and also some bone spurs in his foot. He's not been particularly clear on the ailment, or the state of his recovery, and the Gamecocks were surprised and confused that Clowney himself...

Report: Injured Julio Jones Could Be Done For The Season

The Falcons' season just keeps going from bad to worse. Last night's loss to the Jets at home dropped them to 1-4, and now there's this:...

The Meaning Of The First Sonny Liston-Muhammad Ali Fight

Over on The Stacks, we're republishing Murray Kempton's classic dispatch from the first Clay-Liston fight, in 1964; you can find the story below. Kempton was an elegant columnist and essayist with a great ear for the overtones and undertones of any public spectacle—mob trials, nominating conventio...