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Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Cleveland Browns
Some people are fans of the Cleveland Browns. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Cleveland Browns. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....

Roger Goodell Is The NFL Owners' Best Publicist
Seven employees of Browns owner Jimmy Haslam's company, Pilot Flying J, have already pleaded guilty in a rebate-fraud scheme that's being investigated by the FBI. Some have told the feds that senior executives were aware of what was going on, and Pilot Flying J recently reached a multimillion-dollar...

Live Fast, Love Hard, And Don't Let Nobody Borrow Your Comb
Here's a little more Kornheiser, from when he was at the Times (’76-79). He worked at Newsday and then the New York Times before joining the Washington Post....

Racing's Angriest Young Man And The Greatest Hits of 1961
Though it's not easy to navigate I think it's worth your time to cruise on over to the Internet Archives to read the full text of The Best Sports Stories 1961. It includes pieces by Stanley Woodward, W.C. Heinz, Myron Cope, Red Smith, Blackie Sherrod, Dick Schaap, Tex Maule, Dick Young, Roger Kahn, ...

And It Happens Every Day
Over at Narrative, dig David Thomson on The Long Goodbye—...

It's Been 40 Years Since The Great Soap Box Derby Cheating Scandal
It's been called "Watergate on Wheels." It drew the attention of Walter Cronkite and the New York Times. It was a sports cheating scandal involving a child, and it's been an object of occasional fascination ever since, from newspaper articles to trivia questions to a television documentary. This sum...

Jimmy Butler Does Not Support “Pussy, Money & Weed”
This picture of Bulls forward Jimmy Butler has been making its way around the internet today. That's a pretty snazzy shirt! Unfortunately, Butler is afraid that not everyone will find it so snazzy, so he took to Twitter to apologize and clarify his stance on pussy, money, and weed....

Here's Jim Carrey On A School Bus With A High School Baseball Team
So last Tuesday, Iowa's Pella High School baseball team played their final game of the regular season against Fairfield. They got smoked, 7-1. After their loss, they stopped at a Fairfield Burger King for ice cream. This is where our story begins....

How Jim Leyland Gave Mariano Rivera The Perfect Moment
For all its aggressive pointlessness, the All-Star Game can do ceremony like none other. Last night was maybe the best example of that since 1999, when baseball's All-Century Team took the field at Fenway: Mariano Rivera, with just a few more months left in his singular career, had the field all to ...

Here's Security Tackling The All-Star Game Idiot, As Called By Jim Ross
You knew it was coming, didn't you?...

Jimmy Fallon's Interview With “Michael Jordan” Is Surprisingly Funny
This is the kind of bit that has the potential to be gimmicky and unfunny, but Fallon and Kristen Wiig have the comedic timing that's necessary to make a five-minute interview with "Michael Jordan" worth watching. Also, it's pretty hard not to laugh at that bald cap....


Lede Time
Lenny Shecter is best remembered as the man behind Jim Bouton’s classic Ball Four but for a generation of sports fans who followed Shecter’s columns in the New York Post in the late Fifties and the early Sixties he stands as one of the great sports writers of them all. He had a quick-witted, thought...

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Nice piece by Jim Dwyer in the Times on Louis Requena, a fixture of the New York sports scene for decades:...

Jimmy Fallon's Awards For The Bruins And Blackhawks Were Damn Funny
On Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, they occasionally hand out yearbook-style superlatives. Last night, they did it for the Stanley Cup finalists. It's worth your time....

What's Your Hurry, Joe?
Found combing through the excellent and most bookmark-worthy site The Sports Curator, I came across this 1941 column by Jimmy Cannon:...

Why, Yes, We Have Jim Ross Calling LeBron's Block On Tiago Splitter
We aim to please....

NBA Players Read Mean Tweets About Themselves
Jimmy Kimmel has been making celebrities read mean (often fake) tweets about themselves for some time, but now he's expanded to the world of the NBA. And that's a good thing, because now we get to watch Rajon Rondo face the fact that he looks like Franklin the Turtle....

Gentlemen, Start Your Coffins
Another good one—Rick Reilly's 1986 SI tribute to the columnist Jim Murray—"King of the Sports Page":...

Yes, That's Jim Harbaugh On <em>Judge Judy</em>
Jim Harbaugh may be a master of rage, but when he attended a taping of fake justice program Judge Judy he was all smiles....