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Here's Penn State Coach Bill O'Brien Doing An Impression Of His Mother
Bill O'Brien just concluded a stand-up routine coaches' caravan tour around Pennsylvania. Yesterday, he addressed whether he said "fuckers" or "fighters" on live TV after the Nittany Lions' season-ending win against Wisconsin. Turns out even his mother thought it might not have been "fighters."...
Searching for Bobby Fischer
In the mid-1980s, Bill Nack went searching for the chess master and recluse Bobby Fischer. He wrote about his experience for Sports Illustrated:...
A One-Way Ticket to Palookaville
Back in 1998, Tom Scocca wrote a good one, "The Mayor of Palookaville," for the Boston Phoenix:...
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...
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...
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: ...
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? ...
So, Sloane Stephens And Serena Williams Really Aren't Friends
Back in January, before 19-year-old Sloane Stephens upset Serena Williams in the quarterfinals at the Australian Open, we went through the dumbest possible pre-match story: the fake mentorship narrative. ...
Fart Interrupts Snooker World Championship Semifinal
Ronnie O'Sullivan is en route to his fifth snooker world championship title, but his win over Judd Trump in the semifinal was a real stinker....
Outdoorsman And TV Host Bill Dance Has A Spectacular Blooper Reel
Bill Dance has been imparting his knowledge of the outdoors as the host of Bill Dance Outdoors since 1968. He has also spent much of that time committing hilarious fuck ups while filming his show—fuck ups which have been compiled into one wonderful blooper reel....
Utah Soccer Referee Punched By Teenage Player, Dies A Week Later
Richard Portillo, a 46-year-old soccer referee from Salt Lake City, was officiating a game on April 27 when a player punched him in the head after Portillo gave him a yellow card. Portillo slipped into a coma and died Saturday night, exactly one week after the incident....
Sure, Why Not, Give Blind Boy Some Credit For Ryan Howard's Homer
We can’t say with certainty that Ryan Howard a home run Friday for a little boy who is blind. What we can say for sure is a little boy named A.J., who is 7 years old and who is blind, asked Ryan Howard before the game to hit a home run and that Ryan Howard clobbered the first strike Ricky Nolasco pr...
LeBron's Fourth MVP Is Pushing Him Into Ludicrous Territory
Reports are swarming that LeBron James will be named the NBA’s MVP for the fourth time in the past five seasons. Somehow this makes Derrick Rose’s 2011 MVP — the only blemish in that stretch for LeBron — seem all the more impressive, if all the more anomalous. Only four other players (Kareem Abdul-J...