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A&M Chancellor Blasts Darren Rovell, Declares Johnny Manziel Innocent
Big-time college football! Where a university system chancellor can be indistinguishable from a Paul Finebaum caller. Administrator John Sharp sent out a bizarre screed that decried the biased and untrustworthy media, and declared Johnny Manziel innocent of all the allegations against him, before ad...
Johnny U Or The Mick?
Would he rather be a Unitas or a Mantle? That's the question Ralph Wiley asked in this 1983 Sports Illustrated article on John Elway:...
Despite Layoffs, ESPN Will Soon Have "More Employees Than Ever"
Earlier this year, ESPN went through a unexpected series of layoffs, in the end shedding somewhere close to 400 people. It was done, ESPN folks were told, as a critical cost-cutting measure in the run-up to the launch of Fox Sports 1 and with higher fees looming for Monday Night Football and basebal...
Got Beef? Cassavetes Mixes It Up At A Lakers Game
Via cupofcoldsick, dig Peter Falk's story about John Cassavetes at a Lakers game:...
Love, Boxing and Hunter S. Thompson
Check out this long 2012 essay on Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson by John Kaye over at the Los Angeles Review of Books:...
Cops: John Mellencamp's Sons, Son Of IU Baseball Coach Stomped A Guy
This story has a lot of moving parts, college football players, and the offspring of an aging rocker, so try to keep up....
Dez Bryant Says The NCAA's Johnny Manziel Problem Is Some Bullshit
It's important to remind ourselves, every now and again, just why the NCAA suspended Dez Bryant for an entire year, if only to remind ourselves what sort of operation we're dealing with. He met with Deion Sanders—not a violation!—and, confused and threatened by the interrogation from the NCAA's heav...
Dry Bones
Doug Miller has an uncommonly thorough piece on Dr. Frank Jobe over at MLB.com:...
The Long Con: How The Manziels Conquered America
When news broke eight days ago that reigning Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel faces an NCAA investigation into whether he sold autographs, the college football world reacted with either confusion or outright skepticism. After all, the press had created an image of the Manziel family that sugges...
John Amaechi Asks 2014 Sochi Olympians Not To Stick To Sports
Openly gay former NBA player John Amaechi penned an open letter to the National Olympics Committee and athletes competing in the 2014 Sochi Olympics on his site. He urged them not to ignore Russia's horrific anti-gay laws while they compete, but publicly speak out against them....
Worst Columnist In America Compares Johnny Manziel To Rosa Parks
You wanna see some shit?...
A Catcher Pitched To A Pitcher Last Night, And It Was Great
Last night's Dodgers-Cardinals game was well out of hand by the ninth inning, so fans were treated to one of baseball's rarest joys: a position player taking the mound for some mop-up duty. And this particular instance was made all the better by the fact that it involved a relief pitcher who was mak...
Hey, The NCAA, You're Still Selling Johnny Manziel Jerseys Here, Too
The NCAA isn't profiting off of "amateur" athletes' names or likenesses, OK? That's why that inconvenient search option was taken down from from the website of the NCAA shop earlier today. But if you still wanna buy something by doing a search on the name of your favorite "amateur" athlete, you're i...
Reminder: Johnny Manziel May Not Profit From The Use Of His Own Name
Because doing so would violate the spirit of amateurism. Rules are rules. Shipping not included....
