in Page 3385 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
This 2008 CBS News Sarah Palin Campaign Headline Now Has A Whole New Meaning, Doesn't It?
Oh, sure. The original story was about her qualms with the McCain camp's decision a month before the election not to campaign actively in Michigan. But now that Seth Davis has called everyone's attention to it again, let's all completely reconsider its thrust....
Here's Sarah Palin Reporting On Glen Rice's Michigan Team Three Months After They Allegedly Humped
Just about three months after her alleged one-night stand with Michigan star player Glen Rice, Sarah Palin (then Sarah Heath) reported on a Wolverines game for Anchorage's KTUU-TV. In the clip above, she's reporting on Michigan's 80-67 loss to Purdue on March 3, 1988, in which clinched the Big Ten...
Meet The Miami Marlins (New Look! Same Slightly-Below-.500 Taste!)
Next year, the Florida Marlins will become the Miami Marlins. So, I guess, another hollywood as hell team to hate, then?...
I-Team: Which College Basketball Team Guaranteed A Walk-Out If They Made The NCAA Final?
We gave you a cheat sheet to The Atlantic's long NCAA takedown this morning, but we left one surprising bit out, to which reader Aaron has directed us....
Ines Sainz Showed Up To Jets Practice Today In Four-Inch Heels And An Azure Cocktail Dress
You'll recall that Sainz, the TV Azteca person who started a big kerfuffle last year over professionalism and women in locker rooms, also attended the Jets-Cowboys game Sunday....
Chris Carpenter Was Not Pleased With Himself After Giving Up A Game-Tying Homer Last Night (Video)
The highlight shows Derrek Lee bouncing out harmlessly to end the inning, but Andrew McCutchen had belted a two-run homer on the previous at-bat to tie the game at 4 in the seventh. Golly, Carpenter's reaction is a heckuva lot worse than what Jaws said during Monday Night Football, even if it was ...
Sparks Really Did Fly When Alex Avila Took A Foul Ball Off His Facemask Last Night (Video)
Your morning roundup for Sept. 14, the day we learned how to grow, um, tomatoes—yeah, tomatoes!—indoors. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
New Biography Claims Sarah Palin Had A One-Night Stand With Glen Rice In 1987
The National Enquirer grabbed some details from the upcoming Joe McGinniss Sarah Palin book, and this chunk is too delightful not to share with you immediately. Apparently Palin had a fling with former Heat/Hornet/Laker Glen Rice while he was in college and while she was a sports reporter in Alaska,...
This Evening: Tupac Shakur, Dead 15 Years To The Day, Forever A Dookie
Your p.m. roundup for Sept. 13, the day we learned The Dark Knight's chase scene makes no sense. Photo via the SI Vault. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Maybe Justin Bieber Isn't The Most Loyal Maple Leafs Fan After All
Yesterday Bieber went on the radio and gushed about his Leafs fandom, being from Ontario and all. No bandwagoner he. Today he's rocking the Blackhawks cap....
Theo Epstein Says The Red Sox's Nosedive Is "A Tremendous Opportunity"
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: Boston's GM is not freaking the fahhk out....
Today In Mistress-Related Scuba-Gear Death News
"For the second time in three years Edythe Maa, a renowned dominatrix known as Jade Vixen who was also once a Ph.D. student at Penn, has had a close male companion die under unusual circumstances in the Philadelphia area. ......
The Same Ref Who Worked The Seahawks-Steelers Super Bowl Will Work This Week's Seahawks-Steelers Game
They're still not over Super Bowl XL in Seattle, especially after referee Bill Leavy admitted last year he had "kicked" a couple of calls in the fourth quarter. That Leavy was assigned to work Sunday's game will at least take the city's focus off the state of the current Seahawks for a while. [PFT,...
West Virginia Athletics Requests That Students Refrain From Wearing "West Fuckin Virginia" T-Shirts
You know, like the one you see above. The open letter from WVU AD Oliver Luck to the Mountaineer faithful echoes the mass email sent this week to Maryland students by its AD....
What Are the Odds That You Know A Murderer?
Before we get to the Funbag, a quick reminder that the next reading for The Postmortal will be at 7 p.m. at Book Court in Brooklyn on Monday. Will Leitch will also be there as a special guest, and we can all tease him about eating raisins and fingerblasting himself to pictures of Ricky Ankiel. So jo...
Tom Brady Is No Novak Djokovic
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Fat Curt Schilling Air-Mails A Ceremonial First Pitch
Here he is on Saturday night, throwing out the first pitch alongside former teammate and eternal beanpole Randy Johnson at Chase Field. How the mighty fall....
The 2011 MLB Rookie Hazing Costume Collection
Forcing rookies to dress in costume is an MLB tradition that's as childish as it is time-honored. A gloriously dumb reminder that most baseball players are manchildren, forever stuck in high school. We are too; it's a major reason baseball players are perhaps easier to connect with than athletes in ...
Maryland Athletics Requests That Students Refrain From Yelling "Fuck You" At 11-Year-Olds During Football Games
A few tipsters have passed along the mass email that Maryland's Athletic Director, Kevin Anderson, sent out to the entire student body some of the university's students yesterday. In it, Anderson requests that Maryland students refrain from "aggressive and offensive behavior," such as confronting 11...
How Did Tony La Russa Cost The Cardinals The Game This Time?
A masterpiece of overmanaging in the bottom of the eighth, with two position changes, three pitching changes and an intentional walk that would come around to score the winning run. David Schoenfield has more, but the bottom line is that John Mozeliak should probably decline the option to expand the...