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Aaron Hernandez's Girlfriend Indicted For Perjury
The Bristol County District Attorney's office announced today that Aaron Hernandez's girlfriend Shayanna Jenkins has been charged with perjury. She's accused of lying to the grand jury that eventually indicted Hernandez for first-degree murder. Citing documents and text messages, investigators belie...

Vanderbilt O-Lineman Motivates His Team By Freaking The Hell Out
Last Saturday, Vanderbilt led UMass 10-7 heading into halftime. Vandy offensive lineman Wesley Johnson was apparently not impressed by the three-point lead, and he let his team know about it by flipping his shit in the locker room....

NBC Sports Host Who Shoots Elephants Compares Critics To Hitler
Of course he does. Tony Makris, the gun-humping NRA lobbyist whom we last saw on the NBC Sports Network shooting an elephant in the face, has recently been dealing with some people who are critical of his decision to shoot an elephant in the face. To Makris, those people are just like Hitler....

The Confidence Man
From Samanth Subramanian's 2011 story on Lalit Modi for the Caravan. ...

Which NFL Pundit Has The Worst Picks Through Week 3?
Originally published on Pundit Tracker....

It's Matt Cassel Time For The Vikings
The fact that Matt Cassel will start for Minnesota on Sunday against the Steelers in London actually does nothing to settle the Vikings' unsettled QB situation. Sure, Christian Ponder's been terrible, tossing five INTs to two touchdowns and sitting in the third tertile of nearly every passing stat, ...

Deadspin Up All Night: I Want To Change Your Mind
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. There's baseball and football on tonight, and our crew will be observing the goings on....

Tipsters: Here's Why You Should Give Your Stories To Us Instead Of TMZ
Bryant McKinnie went on his Baltimore radio show Wednesday to deny most of the details in TMZ's report about his birthday party. (In case you forgot, it involved Jacoby Jones getting hit on the head with a champagne bottle on a party bus by a stripper named Sweet Pea.)...

Risk And Romance Among NBA Groupies: An Embed's Report
Originally published in the April 1992 issue of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author's permission....


Half-Marathoner Takes Wrong Turn, Wins Marathon
Meredith Fitzmaurice had never run a full marathon in her life. She'd never run more than 20 miles. But she was working up to it, and hoped to use Sunday's half-marathon in Amherstburg, Ontario, as a tuneup. ...

We've Found The Craziest Fantasy Football Player In The World
Reader Trajan alerts us to the existence of a man who really, really, really likes fantasy football. We don't know his real name, but we do know that he has created a fake radio personality named Mark Callahan, who is the host of the "Mark Callahan Fantasy Football Radio Show," which is a fake radio...

Intramural Horror Stories: Misplaced Racism And Dislocated Ankles
Yesterday, we asked you to send us your horror stories about intramural sports, and you did not disappoint. Please enjoy the first installment of Intramural Horror Stories, and please continue to send us your wretched tales of recreational athletic disasters....

Old Lady Flips The Bird In Couple's Proposal Photo
This incredible scene unfolded at a recent Colorado Rockies game. That's Kenny Lovelace proposing to his girlfriend, Molly Ryan, in the background. And that's a salty old lady wanting nothing to do with the romantic scene, in the foreground. ...

Map: The Long Summer Of Gronk
Rob Gronkowski played his last game for the Patriots on Jan. 13, breaking his arm in a playoff win against the Texans. A week later, New England was eliminated from the playoffs and Gronkowski was once again free to roam the Earth. The Summer of Gronk had begun....

A Brief History Of Adults Taking Baseballs Away From Children
For whatever reason, an old clip of a woman yanking a baseball away from children in Houston is making its rounds today. With that in mind, we dove into the archives to grab some other regrettable moments in adult fan behavior. As always, when attending a baseball game consult our convenient chart ...

Let Hunter Pence Teach You How To Play Baseball Like An Idiot
Anyone who’s ever watched Giants outfielder Hunter Pence play baseball has had at least one of the following thoughts cross their mind: Why does he run like that? Why does he throw like that? Who the hell taught this guy how to play baseball?...

Are Thursday NFL Games Actually As Terrible As They Seem?
It's conventional wisdom that the Thursday night NFL games, whether because of the short break or the quality of the teams involved, are crap. The conventional wisdom's not always right. Over at Sports on Earth, Aaron Gordon dove into 13 years' worth of games to puzzle out the truth....

