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Watch Florida State's Nick O'Leary Survive An Insane Motorcycle Crash
It is important to note this: Florida State tight end Nick O'Leary not only survived this horrific motorcycle crash this May, he walked away from it....
J.J. Redick Responds To Abortion-Contract Reports
J.J. Redick just fired off a few tweets in response to earlier reports that he and former acquaintance Vanessa Lopez entered into a contract concerning certain details regarding Ms. Lopez's impending abortion. Redick's response was emphatic and technical....
Boston TV Reporter On Bill Belichick Presser: "He Has Shorts On"
WCVB reporter Mike Lynch covered Bill Belichick's life-changing press conference addressing Aaron Hernandez's alleged murder of Odin Lloyd today, and he made absolutely sure to let his audience know the most inconsequential details of the scene....
Happy Derrick Rose Makes A Sad Dunk
This video from his recent Euro tour makes it official: Sad Derrick Rose isn't sad anymore. He jumped off his left foot! He put the ball between his legs in the air! He dunked! He smiled! So that rim was only eight feet high? So what? Don't be a party pooper. Happy Derrick Rose is back!...
Look At These Slobbering Media Reviews Of Bill Belichick's Presser
With Aaron Hernandez facing charges for first-degree murder and on the verge of being charged with two more slayings, I think it's time that all of us asked the most important question, which is: HOW DID BILL BELICHICK DO IN HIS FIRST PRE-PRESEASON PRESS CONFERENCE?! Well fear not, America, for the ...
Heaven Ain't What It Used to Be: Dick Young Goes To Hell
New York sportswriting legend Dick Young was a lot of different things. Among them, for reasons laid out in this classic Ross Wetzsteon profile, he was a man one could easily imagine having a great time filing his column from the depths of Hell. Warren Leight and Charlie Rubin ran with the conceit i...
Prosecutors Seek To Charge Aaron Hernandez For 2012 Double Murder
The Boston Globe reports that prosecutors are arguing before a grand jury that Aaron Hernandez should be charged with the shooting deaths of two men outside a Boston nightclub in 2012, a previously unsolved murder in which Hernandez emerged as the prime suspect last month....
TV Panel Erupts In Epic Screaming Match Over Aaron Hernandez
So, this is the best thing I've seen today. New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is addressing press tomorrow, and people think he'll be speaking for the first time about Aaron Hernandez, who was arrested on murder charges last month. Of course, the press conference could be about anythin...
J.J. Redick And His Ex-Girlfriend Had An Abortion Contract
The muckrakers at MediaTakeOut have done it again, this time uncovering a very odd legal document that was drawn up in 2007 by lawyers representing NBA player J.J. Redick and his then-pregnant ex-girlfriend, model Vanessa Lopez. The document is essentially a contract that seems to be the result of R...
Dick Young's America ... The Reactionary Who Changed Sportswriting ...
Originally published in the Aug. 1, 1985, issue of Sport magazine. Reprinted here with permission of the author's widow, Laura Ross....
Guy Lets Jeremy Roenick Punch Him In The Face
Reader David sends along this video, from the Tahoe celebrity golf tournament, and this note:...
Phil Mickelson Had One Of The All-Time Great Comebacks
"I'm playing the best I've ever played," Phil Mickelson said after winning his first Claret Jug, and maybe that's true, maybe it was a back nine, or a weekend, or a season of especially inspired golf. But Mickelson's run—four birdies on the final six holes, as the rest of the leaderboard stumbled t...
Jose Reyes Takes A Pick-Off Attempt Right In The Dick
The most painful part of Jose Reyes being hit in family jewels here is the replay. The second-most painful part is the entire stadium reacting to the replay being aired in the stadium before the broadcast has shown it....
Phil Mickelson Wins British Open With Sunday 66, Now “True Champion”
Shots like this approach on the 18th hole at Muirfield helped Phil Mickelson shoot a final round 66 and win the British Open going away. They also got him hilariously overpraised by Paul Azinger....
Sunday Sermon: Al Green, Greg Maddux, And The Power Of Softness
Greg Maddux used to talk about throwing softer rather than harder when he was in a tight spot. Back in August of 2004, Mark Prior told Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci:...
PSG Is Threatening To Buy Lionel Messi. Wait. That Can't Happen, Right?
Soccer's the best. One of the reasons it's the best is that there are lots of leagues all over the world with lots of teams within them, and they all come together twice a year during the transfer windows to form one huge clusterfuck. Some of the richest clubs are owned by actual princes and/or oil ...