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Billy Bush Was Kicked Out Of The Rangers Locker Room Tonight
Billy Bush is a thing with a face that is on television. A Current Affair, or something like that. Anyway, he was apparently at the Rangers game this evening—a game the Rangers won 4-3, tying the series at two games apiece—and pissed off a bunch of the local scribes when he brought the circus to the...
Phil Jackson Is Still Figuring Out This Whole Twitter Thing
Phil Jackson, or whoever is running Phil Jackson's account, has had an interesting run on Twitter. It started with a too-good-to-be-true debut that turned out to be a commercial and segued into book recommendations for Kobe Bryant. Now he's trying to congratulate George Karl on winning coach of the ...
Bill Simmons Is Sad About The Sports Emmys, So We Made A Prize For Him
It breaks our hearts whenever a big-name writerer—someone like Bill Simmons, or Chris Jones, or Jason Whitlock—doesn't get the temporal recognition from an elite sliver of elite opinion that he (and it's always he) demands. These men DESERVE their awards. They DESERVE to be showered in garlands and ...
Tim Duncan's Optical Illusion Photobomb Is The Best Photobomb
No, Tim Duncan does not want to sex the Spurs fan on the left. It just looks that way, because this is the most mind-bending photobomb we've ever seen. It belongs in the Internet Hall of Fame....
NFL Players' Sex House At Center Of Shooting Investigation
Let's make this clear up front: No NFL players are connected to last summer's shooting outside Orlando that left a 15-year-old girl with severe brain damage. But a house at the center of the case was a place where NFL players—specifically, former Jaguars and Rams receiver Mike Sims-Walker and Titans...
Bill Simmons Blames Haters For ESPN's "Bad" Night At The Sports Emmys
Awards make journalists crazy. All the time. Without fail. ...
What Does Grant Hill Think Of Derrick Rose's Critics?
Originally published in Bloomberg View....
Florida Trial Lawyer John Morgan Running Massive Pro-Tebow Ad Campaign
John Morgan, whose "For The People" slogan has made him Florida's most famed trial attorney, might not seem a likely Tim Tebow supporter. Morgan's a devoted supporter of liberal causes, and Tebow is not. That isn't stopping Morgan from launching a huge campaign to get the Jacksonville Jaguars to si...
Marlins Outfielder Hilariously Loses Track Of Routine Home Run Ball
When watching baseball, if you lose track of a live fly ball off the bat, the easiest way to locate it is usually to watch the outfielder's reaction. But you were shit out of luck if you relied on Marlins rightfielder Marcell Ozuna here. He really had a bead on that ball the Padres' Will Venable hit...
Cuba Libre
Check out "Kids Not Poor in Spirit," a story about pickup baseball in Havana written by Bonnie DeSimone for the Chicago Tribune back in 1998:...
Trouble in Mind
Here's one fuh yah: "You Gore Girl!" Joe Miller's 2002 story for The Pitch on running with bulls in Spain: ...
A Relegated Team Reaching The FA Cup Final Is Facepalm-Worthy
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Phil Jackson Turns Down The Brooklyn Nets Head Coach Offer
Legendary NBA head coach Phil Jackson reportedly spoke to the Nets today about their recently-vacated head coach position. Ex-coach P.J. Carlesimo was just fired after the Nets lost in the first round of the NBA playoffs to the Chicago Bulls. Jackson hasn't coached in a couple of seasons, and he's e...
The Dalai Lama Is A Giant Bandwagoner
Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th Dalai Lama, the latest in a long line of reincarnations of Avalokiteśvara, the bodhisattva embodiment of compassion. He's also an insufferable homer who loves free hats....
Hey, It's 25 Years (And A Day) Since Jim Schoenfeld Told "Fat Pig" Don Koharski To "Have Another Doughnut"
Yeah, the anniversary was actually yesterday—oops. But let's say that today is 25 years from the morning-after media coverage. Had this happened today, it would have exploded the internet....
Sunderland WAG Goes The Full Al Bundy
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Manu Ginobili's Stumbling Heroics, In His Own Words
After a furious comeback, two overtimes, and 44 points from Steph Curry, the game that had everything came down to Manu Ginobili. But not before he nearly gave Gregg Popovich and Spurs fans a heart attack. ...
Lost Soul on Ice
Here are three first-rate hockey stories by Guy Lawson:...
Can Mario Williams Get His Engagement Ring Back From His Ex?
Ah, every annoying property/contract student's favorite hypo: the engagement ring. What happens when a really expensive gift is made in contemplation of some future occurrence that never happens? ...