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The Making Of “Homer At The Bat,” The Episode That Conquered Prime Time 20 Years Ago Tonight
On Feb. 20, 1992, more American homes tuned into The Simpsons than they did The Cosby Show or the Winter Olympics from Albertville, France. A foul-mouthed cartoon on a fourth-place network bested the Huxtables and the world's best amateur athletes. Fox over NBC and CBS—its first-ever victory in prim...
Carmelo Anthony And Baron Davis Will Play For The Knicks Tonight
Remember these two injured guys with oversize glasses? Yeah, they're playing professional basketball for Jeremy Lin's team tonight, reports ESPN....
The Worst College Basketball In America Is Played In The State Of Rhode Island
The nation's smallest state is home to four Division I men's basketball programs. As of right now, all four are in last place in their respective conferences: Brown is 1-9 in the Ivy, Bryant is 1-15 in the Northeast Conference, Providence is 2-13 in the Big East, and Rhode Island is 2-11 in the Atla...
Greg Oden Undergoes Knee Surgery, Sun Rises In East
They're opening up Oden's left knee (not the one that was operated on earlier this month) to "remove debris," which can only help. It's not good to play basketball with debris in your knee. [Oregonian]...
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Report: This Is Terry Francona's New 20-Something Girlfriend [UPDATE: Nope!]
A few months back, the Boston Globe wrote, more or less, that deposed Red Sox manager Terry Francona spent the 2011 season popping pills and wallowing in the wreckage of his failed marriage. The paper said he lived in a hotel all year....
Chris Arreola Responded To Don King's "Wetbacks" Comment By Calling King A "Fucking Asshole"
Chris Arreola knocked Eric Molina out in the first round of their heavyweight bout this weekend in Corpus Christi, then sent Showtime ring reporter Jim Gray reeling with a closing statement on Don King....
Manny Ramirez Has Signed With The A's
After Yoenis Cespedes signed in Oakland, we told you that the A's had one of the strangest offseasons in recent memory, in part because of their extended flirtation with Manny Ramirez, who, facing a PED suspension, retired from baseball last year after a forgettable short stint in Tampa. But we didn...
The Diary Of A Man With The Stomach Flu
One of my main goals in life is to make it through an entire winter without getting sick, and I was so, so very close this time around. The mild winter combined with the flu shot and my wife's demands that I wash my hands 9,000 times a day—to the point where the skin has been stripped away from my h...
Three Journalists Arrested For Publishing Boobsy Photos Of Real Madrid Player And WAG
Earlier this month, Real Madrid midfielder Sami Khedira posed for this photo for the cover of the German edition of GQ. The half-Tunisian Khedira is fully dressed; his girlfriend, model and TV personality Lena Gercke, is decidedly not. The spread was republished in Tunisian newspaper Attounissia, an...
Manchester City Files Complaint Alleging Porto Fans Racially Abused Mario Balotelli
Manchester City is asking UEFA to punish Portuguese team Porto for alleged racial abuse directed at Mario Balotelli during Man City's 2-1 Europa League win Thursday....
Bristolmetrics: <em>SportsCenter</em> Said "Lin" More Often Than "If" Or "But" Last Week
This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week. Graphic by Jim Cooke....
Ron Jaworski Is Sad To Leave <i>Monday Night Football</i>, But At Least "They're Paying Me A Lot Of Money"
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Jaws calls his parting bittersweet....
The Bad Spring Training Twitpics Site Is The Best Thing On The Internet Today
Every baseball beat writer has a cameraphone and a Twitter account, and they've all descended on lush, verdant camps without direction. Bad art happens. Bad Spring Training Twitpics has captured the best of it, with hostile captions. It's great. [BadSpringTrainingTwitpics]...
ESPN.com Passes Along Kessel-For-Nash Rumor, As Reported By Fake Pierre McGuire Twitter Account
ESPN's rumor section is a place to find some of the more out-there trade possibilities, so we don't go in expecting everything prophesied to come true. We just kind of hope that when a blockbuster trade possibility is floated, the source is a real person....
Where Is The Black Jeremy Lin?
Is Jeremy Lin unprecedented? William Rhoden takes a whack at the question in The New York Times today:...
Mets Pitcher Jon Niese Got A Nose Job After Carlos Beltran Suggested It And Offered To Pay For It
Remember a few hours ago when we were reliving the embarrassment of the first Mets spring training, glancing over our shoulders, marveling at how far we had come, how professional things are now?...
In Victory For Tokenism Everywhere, Qatar Will Send Two Women To The Olympics
For the first time, Qatar is including women on its 2012 Olympic team. A swimmer and a sprinter will represent the country in London, an announcement made (totally coincidentally, we're sure) on the same day Qatar's bid to host the 2020 Olympics was released. [AP]...
Lakers Radio Guy Vigorously Applies Makeup Without Knowing He's On Camera, Realizes It Soon Enough
John Ireland, who doubles as a TV sportscaster, thinks out loud: (sigh) Damnit. I just HATE the way this cold weather dries out my skin. My forehead, especially. I mean, pretty much everything below the eyes is OK, but all it takes is even a few hours in one of these northern hellholes to make my...
Buster Posey And The Dusk Of The Slugging Catcher
The 2010 NL Rookie of the Year played in just 45 games last season because, and solely because, he is a catcher....
The CBA All-Star Game Featured The Worst Sequence Of Professional Basketball Ever
The Chinese Basketball Association All-Star Weekend just passed, and featured the same things you'd expect from such an event: a rising stars game, slam dunk contest, three-point competition, and a half-heartedly played All-Star Game....