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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...

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...

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...

Video: Toronto Blue Jays Pitcher J.A. Happ Hit In Head By Line Drive

In the second inning of tonight's game against the Tampa Bay Rays, J.A. Happ was struck in the head from a line drive hit off of Desmond Jennings. He immediately collapsed, bloodied, and his teammates and medical personnel rushed to his side. ...

1985 Bo Jackson Scouting Report: "The Best Pure Athlete In America"

Bo Jackson was already known as an extraordinary athlete in April 1985, when he was a junior at Auburn. But just how gifted did those who were paid to evaluate his talents think he was at the time? According to a baseball scouting report unearthed by a Reddit user, the answer ranged somewhere betwee...

It kind of looks like the Twins' bullpen catcher purposely overthrew Jared Burton here to give a fan a souvenir. But that throw also might have just been terrible. Whatever. If you choose to sit right next to the visitors bullpen at Fenway, you're hereby reminded to pay attention....

So, Uh, The Bulls Won?

What the hell's going on here? The Bulls just beat the Miami Heat 93-86 and, well, what in the hell is going on here? ...

Holy Shit, Look At Jay Mariotti's Shoes

This picture comes to us from a reader who spotted Jay with a lady friend outside of the Club Monaco clothing store in Santa Monica, Calif., yesterday. Our tipster tells us that that Jay was "slumped on a bench" wearing a "sad/pouty look on his face" before his companion emerged and led him inside t...

He got the silent treatment yesterday after his first home run as a member of the Blue Jays, but Melky Cabrera still got to high five all of his imaginary teammates....

Boston College Softball Player Goes Over Fence To Make Amazing Catch

Georgia Tech's Alysha Rudnik hit the ball over the fence to lead off yesterday's third inning. But BC senior centerfielder Maria Pandolfo jumped and lunged over the fence to take away her certain homer, startling even the person who had been taking video just a few feet away....

Why A <em>Boston Globe</em> Writer Didn't Vote LeBron James For MVP

Mystery solved. The lone writer who listed Carmelo Anthony first, denying LeBron James the first-ever unanimous MVP, was Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe. And he sounds almost...apologetic?...

So Maybe Dan Le Batard Wasn't The Guy Who Snubbed LeBron For MVP [Post Corrected]

UPDATE: OK, it appears we screwed up and jumped the gun. Dan Le Batard has yet to confirm or deny what player he voted for regular season MVP, or whether or not he even had a vote. We've just gotten word that he didn't vote for Anthony, and we sent Le Batard an email for comment, so let's see what h...

AAU Coach Says He Accepted Money To Influence Ben McLemore

Ben McLemore's former AAU coach says he accepted money and benefits to influence the star Kansas guard's decisions, according to USA TODAY....

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...

Tim Brando's and Asante Samuel's reactions to Jason Collins coming out have revealed a new type of homophobia: The "I don't want to know about it" gambit. [Slate]...

Jay Onrait And Dan O'Toole Are Coming To America

The duo of Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole, SportsCentre anchors and the two of the three most important people in Canadian history (with Chris Hadfield, of course), will be leaving TSN in June and heading to Los Angeles, reportedly to work for the soon-to-launch Fox Sports 1....

The Reds Auctioned Off A Ball Covered In Jeff Samardzija's Blood

I don't know why you'd want this unless you planned to clone Jeff Samardzija, but hey: we don't judge....

This Sure Looks Like Jay Cutler Drinking A Beer While Feeding His Baby [UPDATE]

This picture is making the rounds on Twitter and various other websites, and the dude doing double bottle work looks a hell of a lot like Jay Cutler. Those middle-American features could belong to anyone, but everything we know about Cutler leads us to believe that this is absolutely something he wo...

Under Pressure

In the summer of 1968, Jack Olson wrote a series for Sports Illustrated about race (it was later turned into a book). Here is the first piece: "The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story." ...

Westboro Baptist Got A Warm Welcome When It Protested The OKC Game

The Westboro Baptist Church's protest of last night's Rockets-Thunder game—in response to Jason Collins's coming-out, naturally—was sad and trivial, as the WBC's protests always are. Six picketers showed up. Many more were there to greet them....