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The Specialists: What's In It For Oregon's Quarterbacks?

Finished in 2010 and funded by a $41.7 million gift from Phil Knight, the John E. Jaqua Academic Center rises from a reflecting pool like the pyramid of the Louvre, a monument to student-athletes gilding a busy Eugene, Ore. thoroughfare. This past August, the unveiling of the University of Oregon's ...

Banner At High School Football Stadium Has Regrettable Typo

Of all the letters in all the words on that banner, the Red Lion Area School District in central Pennsylvania just had to forget to include that one. The lesson here: Never underestimate the importance of quality pubic education....

Which Rookie Quarterback Had The Most Poise After His First Start?

Mark Sanchez was the king of "poise" during his rookie season in 2009. That year, you'd have been hard-pressed to find any writers using any other word to describe him (seriously, you would). Now, after just one game this season, five first-year quarterbacks—Robert Griffin III, Andrew Luck, Brandon ...

The Million Dollar Man Was The Minister At My Wedding: More Wrestler Run-Ins

Inspired by the saga of "Wrestling Superstar Virgil," we continue with readers' encounters with the titans of the squared circle. If you've had your own run-in with pro wrestlers past or present, e-mail us, subject line "Virgilbag."...

Know A Black Guy, And Other Tips For Being A One Percenter From Richard Gere's Stupid New Movie, <em>Arbitrage</em>

I try to avoid pre-release publicity, even trailers, as much as possible, but inevitably one gets blasted with the Internet news firehose no matter how much one tries to avoid it. So I knew that Arbitrage, which opens Friday, was supposed to be a thriller about a hyper-wealthy hedge fund manager and...

How Daytime Football Games Became Primetime Football Games

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The Astros' Manager Incentivizes His Players By Awarding A $200 Set Of Headphones After Every Win

We've made a lot of fun of the Astros recently. Just this morning, even. (Hey, at least we're paying attention.) But the joke of a roster they field and joke of a style they play likely leads you to mistaken assumptions. It probably makes you think the Astros aren't a first-class organization devote...

Roger Goodell Is Cool With NFL Players Supporting Gay Marriage

No, Roger Goodell didn't take sides in the gay-marriage debate. But he told Politico he's not going to stop NFL players like the Ravens' Brendon Ayanbadejo from doing so, either:...

Hey, America, Don't Let Your Children Shit At Restaurant Tables

Here's a fun little news item: a Utah woman named Kimberley Decker took her kids out to eat and snapped a photo of a nearby family toilet-training their kids right at the dinner table. Instead of having their kids sit on booster seats, the mother had them sitting on portable toilets, so that they co...

Here's your GIF of Mike Francesa rousing from his little nap....

The U.S. Avenged Its Jamaica Loss Before A Raucous Columbus Crowd, And Clint Dempsey Made A Bitchface For The Ages

Desperately needing a win after dropping the ball in Jamaica last week, the U.S. Men's National Team rode the wave of a rowdy crowd in Columbus to eke out a 1-0 World Cup qualifier win last night, though not without a bit of struggling....

Watch Mike Francesa Doze Off During An Interview

Mike Francesa has a demanding schedule. He's got the daily talk show on WFAN that spans more than five hours. He has the NFL Now Sunday morning show. And he's been doing all of this for years. Finally, he's showing his age. During Tuesday's interview with Yankees beat reporter Sweeny Murti, the 58...

A High Schooler Had The Weekend's Most Acrobatic Interception

That's Greenwood (S.C.)'s Kaleb Chalmers going all Troy Polamalu to bring down a pick during Friday's game against Irmo (S.C.). Gravity never had a chance....

Some Fantastic Photos Of A Fan Fight At The Raiders Game [UPDATED WITH VIDEO]

We don't know the particulars of this fight, which went down Monday night during the Chargers' win in Oakland. We know, at least, the guy on the right is a Raiders fan, as is the crying woman in photos four and five who attempted to beat security officers with their own handcuffs. We also know Raide...

Jerry "The King" Lawler May Have Brain Damage After Suffering Heart Attack On Live TV [UPDATE]

Following a collapse during Monday's live broadcast of Raw from Montreal, WWE legend Jerry "The King" Lawler now may be facing permanent brain damage, according to the L.A. Times....

T.J. Simers Trolled The Dodgers, And Matt Treanor Wanted To Fight Him

At the heart of it, a good percentage of sports columns are only about trolling. "What's wrong with Wes Welker?" "Jay Cutler just can't win." These things are written to play the contrarian, and to get a rise, and they tend to work because fans either enjoy being goaded, or can't let the effort pass...

The Astros Are Now Hurting Other People With Their Ineptitude

At first, we found the Houston Astros' nightly slapstick routine to be rather endearing, and it was easy to have laugh at their repeated shenanigans. But then, through no fault but their own, the Astros couldn't even run out simple ground balls without one of their own getting hurt....

Notre Dame Is Joining The ACC

Notre Dame is divorcing the Big East to run off with the ACC, though the ACC's news release doesn't say when. Football is part of the deal, too, though not all the way:...

Georgia The Country Is Not Georgia The State

This error was up on the screen during halftime of last night's U.S. national team 1-0 World Cup qualifier win over Jamaica for all of three seconds, yet nearly a dozen of you sent in emails about it. Say whatever you want to about soccer fans, they're attentive. Though, really, I'd have been more ...