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Watch Drunk Frat Boys At The University Of Albany Destroy A Car
As part of some ridiculous drinking holiday at SUNY Albany this weekend called "Kegs n' Eggs", we're treated to video of idiotic frat-boys destroying cars, two girls wrestling drenched in baby oil, and a kid getting stomped in the face. [Jalopnik]...
Sergio Martinez, The Celtic War, And An Evening In Foxwoods With The Boxing Scumbags
MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — The Foxwoods Resort and Casino is an abomination that rises incongruously from the empty woods in Connecticut as if to challenge all accepted notions of urban planning, and, indeed, logic. It also has good fights....
Ron Jaworski Reminisces About Past NFL Work Stoppages
Former Philadelphia Eagles QB and current ESPN football analyst recently discussed his memories of NFL work stoppages in 1982 and 1987. He thinks the lack of off-season work hurts the QB position particularly hard and doesn't buy it when today's players say they'll keep working out because, back i...
Lakers Blogger From Japan Offers Disaster Updates, Perspective
Don Landrigan, who blogs about the L.A. Lakers at With-Malice.com, lives with his family on the southernmost of Japan's main islands. What that means is he's not in the heart of earthquake-and-tsunami disaster zone, but his take on the subsequent devastation doesn't match what he calls "half-crazed...
LeBron James Gets Hit In Mouth By Foe, "Hammered" By Teammate
Sure, the Miami Heat beat the Memphis Grizzlies by 33 yesterday, but this "Fox X Mo" clip from the end of the first half still bears mention. Why? Because America loves when LeBron James gets hit in the face and runs into teammate Dwyane Wade who, with a lowered shoulder, dropped him the floor lik...
Costumed Man Gets Publicly Shamed For Messing With Canadian Dance Team
Your morning roundup for March 13, the day Villanova probably gets the tournament bid it in no way deserves....
A Brief Reminder That Kevin O'Neill Is One Of College Basketball's All-Time Dickheads
Whatever went down last night between USC coach Kevin O'Neill, his wife, and a 60-something Arizona booster at an L.A. hotel — and reports so far seem to rate the proceedings somewhere between a barroom shoutfest and Antietam — it is worth noting that O'Neill has been a unabashed prick for so long a...
Short White Guy Is On His Way To The College Dunk Contest
Jacob Tucker's strategy of putting his dunk reel on YouTube has paid off, with two million views and the attention of the NCAA. But the 5'11" Tucker ("probably 5'10½"," he says) will need to take down one more small-school dunker to get into the contest....
Dolan Decides One Year At .500 Atones For Past Decade, Knicks Prices Up 49 Percent Next Year
So, you probably hear a lot of grousing from Phil Mushnick, et. al about how expensive it is to take a family of four to a game, buy some frankfurters and not hear the gangster hip hop music. But high prices happen when you have a popular product with limited supply in a big, wealthy market. We get ...
An NBA Regular Season Game Actually Felt Important
Yes, there were the subplots, and there were an awful lot of them. But mostly it was two players who made the game feel like it mattered, because they matter, and because it mattered to them....
Bleacher Report Uses Japan Earthquake As Excuse For Sports Slideshow
"Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: The Worst Natural Disasters in Sports History." Seriously....
The Miami Heat Have Failed Us; Or, How Chris Bosh Is Like The Space Station
FreeDarko's Bethlehem Shoals, co-author of The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History (visit the FreeDarko store, too!) and our erstwhile Heat Strokes diarist, picks up his pen again on the occasion of tonight's Most Important Basketball Game Ever, Lakers-Heat....
How Virginia Choked Away A Statistically Unchokeable Lead
UVA was up 10 with 42 seconds left in their ACC tournament game with Miami. That's a lead that a Bill James formula defines as 100 percent safe. Then, this happened: Miami three, missed free throws, Miami three, turnover, Miami dunk, turnover, Miami layup....
This Game-Winning Chris Stewart Goal Made An Announcer Say "Holy Jumpin'!"
Chris Stewart's second goal of the night lifted the St. Louis Blues over Columbus in overtime last night, 4-3. It was Stewart's ninth goal in 11 games with the Blues, and it was a nice one. Holy jumpin', it was nice....
Blake Griffin Shows Hint Of Personality, Channels Mars Blackmon To Hype USC's Jordan Cameron
Mars Blakeman, nee Blake Griffin, took the time to film this promotional video for NFL hopeful Jordan Cameron, who played both football and basketball at USC. I'll leave the commentary here to tipster Brian, who wrote in with the link (sic): "This is kind of an odd thing, Why does this exist?" I a...
Texans CB Kareem Jackson Tweets A Dominican Cockfight
Well, this is one way to spend one's last NFL paychecks before the impending labor doom arrives....
Wade And LeBron Pretend They're Invisible After Another Crushing Loss
Your morning roundup for March 7, the day the Times informed us that Hollywood stars are "insulated from the consequences of their bad behavior."...
The Brains Behind Jägermeister Have Gone To Heaven
Please raise a shot glass to Günter Mast, who died last week of heart failure at 84 years young. Mast's tombstone should read, "Brought Excellence To The World One Bottle Of Jägermeister At A Time." Germans consider Mast a "marketing genius." Jäger's current boss says he's "one of the top businessm...
Man U Player Suffers "Horrific Injury That Cut To The Bone"
It wasn't quite Lawrence Taylor meets Joe Theismann's leg, but Manchester United's Nani suffered a pretty gnarly leg injury during today's 3-1 loss to Liverpool....