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Chien-Ming Wang Injures Himself Attempting The Always-Tricky "Step On First Base" Play
Wang left in the third inning of today's spring training start after breaking down while attempting to beat a runner to the bag. It's funny, but it's not funny, because it was another non-pitching related activity—running the bases in interleague play—that turned Wang from a 19-game winner into a ...
Roy Halladay Accuses Ken Rosenthal Of Throwing Some Shit Against The Wall
It's one thing when an intern indulges a little skepticism about Ken Rosenthal's rumor-mongering. Now, though, it's Phillies ace Roy Halladay. Yesterday, after Halladay was roughed up in his latest spring outing, Rosenthal cited the observations of two scouts who "expressed concern" about Halladay:...
British Media Can't Stop Talking About How David Cameron Ate Hot Dogs At A Basketball Game
The British press has already dubbed President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron's trip to Tuesday's Western Kentucky-MVSU First Four game "The Hot Dog Summit," and U.K. news reports all appear to be uniquely concerned with Cameron's consumption of the mid-game snack....
The Southern Miss Band Chanted "Where's Your Green Card?" At Kansas State's Angel Rodriguez
Kansas State guard Angel Rodriguez was born in Puerto Rico, but don't tell the Southern Miss band that. (Maybe they don't know Puerto Rico is in the United States either, anyway.) Here's what it sounded like on the court late in the first half of their matchup today in Pittsburgh. [TruTV]...
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread: The Sneak-Out-Of-Work Games
Here comes the second batch of the first round, starting at 2:45 with BYU-Marquette. As national productivity dwindles on toward zero, we get UNC-Asheville against Syracuse at 3:10, Long Beach State and New Mexico at 4:10, and Harvard-Vanderbilt at 4:40. To the comments, while you're still sober eno...
Go Away Now, Pat Knight, You Loser, Bully, And Pathetic Rage-Case
Who are you going to yell at today, Pat Knight? Who is going to get humiliated in public now that your Lamar basketball team got destroyed in the NCAA play-in game last night?...
Police Pointed A Gun At Zach Randolph While He Was In Bed With A Woman
No charges were filed relating to a mansion party hosted by Zach Randolph outside of Portland last year, where a marijuana dealer alleged he was assaulted by Randolph's entourage after a "disagreement in price" over the weed he was selling. This week, police have released a trove of documents relati...
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread: The Pretend-To-Still-Be-Working Games
Here come the Murray State Racers and the rest of your early-early games, starting with the 12:15 Murray State-Colorado State tipoff. At 12:40 Southern Miss meets Kansas State, at 1:40 it's Davidson and Louisville, and at 2:10 your college basketbinge is fully underway, with Montana against Wisconsi...
Sex Offenders And NHL Success: An Astonishingly Accurate New Metric
I'm not big on advanced stats in hockey. It's not because I don't think they're valuable, but because it's tough to translate the concepts to what I'm seeing on the ice. It's my own ignorance, yes, but for a new generation of hockey metrics to take hold, they'll have to be more relatable to the aver...
DC Assault Coach Charged With...Assault
Curtis Malone, who coaches the AAU DC Assault team, which has sent scores of players to Division I basketball programs and several to the NBA, including Michael Beasley and Jeff Green, has been charged with second-degree assault after some shit allegedly went down last month at a Maryland high schoo...
We Will Never Be Rid Of Tony La Russa
La Russa "retired" after winning another World Series in St. Louis, but he may not be done. Like many retirees, he's seeking the warm weather and easygoing lifestyle of Southern California: La Russa could be a big part of the new Dodgers regime, if that team ever gets sold....
Just Another Spinning, Jumping, Behind-The-Back Pass From Rajon Rondo
Ho hum, just your run-of-the-mill no-look, mid-air, behind-the-back assist from Rajon Rondo, one of 14 on the night in a Boston win at Golden State. He doesn't care if you're not in his field of vision, or if he's double-covered, Rondo will get you the ball....
If You're Gambling On March Madness With Your PayPal Account, You Might Want To Stop Now
If you're a tech-savvy gambler of a certain ilk, then you may already be using PayPal to make your payments and transfers convenient and easier to track (illicit or otherwise). The thing is, that's not kosher as far as PayPal is concerned, and eBay's in-house payment subsidiary has started actively ...
Bulls Fans Never Did Much Care For The Presidency Of Lyndon Baines Johnson
The Summer of '68 still looms large in the memories of politically-minded Chicagoans....
New 49ers Stadium Will Now Cost $1.2 Billion Thanks To Stuff That Doesn't Exist Yet
Last season was a major step forward for the San Francisco 49ers, who advanced to the NFC Championship despite having a rookie head coach, no star wide receivers, and Alex Smith as QB1. Now they've signed Randy Moss to a one-year deal and maybe Peyton Manning will end up by the bay (though probably ...
Here's Blake Griffin Airballing Consecutive Free Throws
Blake Griffin is good at many things, like dunking and shilling inexpensive Korean automobiles. He is also not very good at some things, and one of them is shooting free throws. Don't expect much reaction from the Clippers broadcast team, though—they're too busy debating the merits of Tracy McGra...
Jawanza Poland's Play-In Game Tip Slam Was Final Four Quality
Jawanza Poland's USF team is making as much a case to warrant their inclusion in the NCAA tournament as they are for the committee being completely out of their minds when offering a bid to Cal. It's been a thorough thrashing all game, and there's no better example of USF's dominance than Poland'...
Marcus Camby Wrecked Landry Fields With A Flagrant Foul
Former New York Knick Marcus Camby clearly doesn't have much love for his former team, or maybe he was just frustrated by the ass-kicking the newly-D'Antoni-free New York squad was handing his Trail Blazers. Either way, he put the hit out on Landry Fields and earned a Flagrant 2 for it (reduced t...
The ATP's 404 Error Page Is Brilliant, Unique, Groan-Inducing
You cannot be serious....
Barack Obama Is The Kentucky Of World Leader March Madness
Barack Obama may have pulled off a stunning victory over Vladimir Putin in the finals of last year's inaugural World Leader March Madness (orchestrated by the folks at Foreign Policy magazine), but his road to a second title will be decidedly tougher this year....