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Auto Club 400 Ends With Denny Hamlin In An Ambulance And Tony Stewart Brawling With Joey Logano [UPDATE: Now With Smoke's Profane Post-Race Interview]

Kyle Busch took the checkered flag today in California, but attention quickly turned to Denny Hamlin—whose crash sent him to the hospital and which let Busch take the lead on the final lap—and Joey Logano, who tangled with Hamlin and eventually found himself the target of Tony Stewart's fists....

Still Filling Out Your NCAA Tournament Bracket? Consult Our Handy Expert Metabracket

Presenting your 2013 NCAA Tournament Metabracket. Click the annotations to see which teams Nate Silver, Joe Lunardi, Seth Davis, Barack Obama, Matt Norlander, Jay Bilas, and Luke Winn picked to advance through each round. (Click the "Next" button in the lower right corner to see the Sweet 16 and onw...

Joe Morgan And Family Find NIT Basketball Enthralling

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Read Joe Paterno's Disapproving Letter To A Player Who "Cheated" Penn State Out Of $12.99

A 1982 letter from Joe Paterno to one of his former players first popped up on CBS Sports last Thursday, and it also appeared on former NFL player Dustin Fox's Instagram account. In the letter, Paterno takes the player to task for not paying $12.99 in hotel service charges that he racked up while t...

Joe Flacco Continues To Be A Super Boring Dude

Anyone who was under the impression that Joe Flacco's father was being overly harsh when he described his son as "dull" will be changing their minds after reading this tweet from CBS Sports' Will Brinson:...

Leaked Memo: How Texas Tech Could Craft The Image Of Its New Coach And Become "The Hippest School In The Game"

A tipster sends along the following email, which was originally sent from Stephen Spiegelberg, a Texas Tech alum and proprietor of Lubbock clothing store Chrome, to Joe Parker, the deputy athletics director at Texas Tech. According to the tipster, the message was bcc'd to a few of Texas Tech's regen...

What's Joe Flacco's Record Deal Really Worth?

Let's put this simply: Joe Flacco's six-year, $121-million contract is actually for three years and $62 million....

Reports: Joe Flacco—That Joe Flacco—Will Soon Be The Highest Paid Player In NFL History

Yep, Joe Flacco. The big-armed oaf. The doofy bridegroom. The guy whose dad said he was "dull" four times in two sentences five days before the Super Bowl. That guy. No, not the plumber who stripped the washers off your sink and left his wrench on your kitchen table—I mean the guy who backed up Tyle...

The Ravens and Joe Flacco have a deal....

Penn State Trustee Anthony Lubrano Says Board Deserves Refund For Freeh Report

You remember Anthony Lubrano: he ran for and won a seat on the Penn State board of trustees amidst the Sandusky firestorm after criticizing the way the school fired Joe Paterno. He was well-known in the community as the namesake of the Penn State baseball field and a four-year varsity letter man in...

Singing Wrestler May Lose Scholarship Because The NCAA Is The Worst (Even When It's Not Doing Anything)

I suppose we all agree that the NCAA is terrible. The organization does so many wretched things in the name of protecting academics and amateurism in college sports that it's hard to keep track. (If you remained unconvinced after this latest mess at Miami, where the NCAA's half-assed shadiness wou...

Joe Johnson Makes Two Perfect Last-Second Shots In One Game

There are two types of great buzzer-beaters. The first kind is the end result of a well-executed inbounds play, one that involves screens and misdirection and ends with a shooter getting open just long enough to rise up for a clean shot at the rim. (See: LeBron James saving Cleveland's season in G...

ESPN Announcers Dress As Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, And Ben Franklin To Celebrate President's Day. Wait, Ben Franklin?

We're all for ESPN's talent going the extra mile to spice up a broadcast, especially when it's a less-than-thrilling midweek Rutgers-Villanova matchup. So here's LaPhonso Ellis and Adam Amin getting into the holiday spirit and dressing up like their favorite presidents last night: Lincoln for Ellis...

Joe Flacco Wasn't The First To Consider Leaving The Sideline To Tackle An Opponent

After the Super Bowl, it was revealed that Joe Flacco had seriously considered running onto the field from the sideline to tackle Ted Ginn if Ginn had broken off a big kick return on the last play of the game. Flacco's idea was a ridiculous one, and would have resulted in the 49ers being awarded a ...

Joe Buck Calls A Hockey Game (Sort Of)

St. Louis's favorite son, Joe Buck, was on hand for Blues-Kings last night and the St. Louis booth of Darren Pang and John Kelly invited Joe inside for some lively banter and a surprise play-by-play turn. Buck admittedly has no idea who any of the Kings are—to be fair to Joe, neither does Los Angel...

The Seven Stages Of Phil Knight Not Knowing What The Hell He's Talking About

The NCAA and Louis Freeh have found spots on Phil Knight's ever-changing shit list. One group never on the list? The Paternos; Knight's feelings for the late Joe Paterno and his family have never wavered. Rather, he's just struggled with accepting those feelings depending on who happened to have re...

What The Paterno Family's Investigation Got Right And Wrong About The Freeh Report

The Paterno family's exhaustive evaluation of the Freeh report, prepared by the family's attorney and other experts who were paid to reach the conclusions the family wanted, is right about this much: The proof that Joe Paterno orchestrated or even participated in a malicious cover-up of Jerry Sandus...

Here Is The Paterno Family's Response To The Freeh Report

Joe Paterno’s family’s PR machine is up and running. The family of the late Penn State coach’s response to the Freeh report is now live online, and three of the four men who prepared the report—former Pennsylvania governor and ex-U.S. attorney general Dick Thornburgh, Paterno family attorney Wick So...

Here's The Letter Joe Paterno's Widow Sent To Penn State Football Lettermen Today

The Joe Paterno PR offensive is in full swing, and in advance of it, Paterno's widow, Sue, sent out a letter addressed to Penn State football lettermen this morning. The letter, which was posted to Twitter by Seattle Seahawks fullback and former Penn State quarterback Michael Robinson, explains more...

The Paterno Family's Counteroffensive Has Begun

As we mentioned the other day, the widow of Joe Paterno's big interview with Katie Couric is all set to go down on Monday afternoon. But the timing of that interview now makes much more sense: The Centre Daily Times of State College, Pa., is reporting that the Paterno family's long-awaited rebuttal ...