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College QB Beaten Up By Opposing Players Day Before Game [Update]
Rudy Johnson, quarterback for D-II Winston-Salem State, was reportedly assaulted and hospitalized by five members of the Virginia State team this afternoon, according to the Winston-Salem Journal....

Ivan Johnson Is Shooting Threes And Doing The Big Balls Dance In China
After failing to find a new deal in the NBA this past offseason, Ivan Johnson continued his basketball career in China, signing with the Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Bulls. He seems to be having a great time....

ESPN: WSOP Champion Wins While Wearing "Charles" Johnson Lions Jersey
Good job, ESPN. Now you've made everyone in Detroit think about Charles Rogers again. ...

Which NFL Pundit Has Made The Worst Picks Through Nine Weeks?
Originally published on PunditTracker....

Calvin Johnson Is Football Drugs
Forget about Dez Bryant's sideline meltdown. Forget about Matt Stafford's comeback and the spontaneous brilliance of his fake-spike-turned-touchdown. Forget about the lily that Peyton Manning keeps painting. Yesterday belonged to Calvin Johnson. Hell, every day belongs to Calvin Johnson....

Lions Shock Cowboys With An 80-Yard Drive In Less Than A Minute
With 1:03 left in the fourth, Calvin Johnson had accrued 290 receiving yards, sixth-best in NFL history, but the Lions were still losing 30-24. Over the next minute, a ridiculous game would get even more ridiculous, with Detroit engineering an 80-yard drive to shock the Cowboys in the most entertai...

Calvin Johnson Is Ridiculous
Calvin Johnson has 290 yards on 12 catches as of writing this. The Dallas Cowboys have 254 yards of total offense. Even when Megatron's double-covered—or sometimes triple-covered—he still does the seemingly impossible. Matthew Stafford's love of passing gives Johnson the ability to do amazing thing...

Here's Woody Johnson With The Jets Fan Who Punched A Woman
Pictured above is Jets owner Woody Johnson, smiling alongside a man named Kurt Paschke. You probably know Paschke as the man identified as the Jets fan who punched a woman in the face on Sunday. A tipster sent along the photo, saying it had been tagged to Paschke's Facebook page....

Calvin Johnson Is Unguardable
Vontaze Burfict is 6'1". Reggie Nelson is 5'11". George Iloka is 6'4". Calvin Johnson is 6'5", but more importantly, Calvin Johnson is Calvin Johnson....

GQ
Up North Trips gives us some of GQ's basketball covers. I remember most of these issues well—from our man Peter Richmond's heyday at the magazine. ...

Browns Sign Player With Torn ACL, Because They Are The Browns
Last week, the Cleveland Browns found themselves with a roster spot to fill after quarterback Brian Hoyer was placed on injured reserve. So like any savvy franchise, they went looking for talent on other teams' practice squads. They found rookie wide receiver Charles Johnson and signed him away from...

Sage Steele Will Be The Host Of <em>NBA Countdown</em> If She Wants The Job
NBA Countdown may have found its new host. We've learned that SportsCenter anchor Sage Steele has been offered the job, according to four sources familiar with the process. It is not clear if she'll accept....

Randy Johnson Is Still Photographing Rock Stars
We've known about Randy Johnson's side hustle as a concert photographer for some time now, but pictures of the giant, floppy-haired man trying to find just the right angle will always be funny to us....

Sources: Magic Johnson Left ESPN Because Of Bill Simmons
So, why did Magic make his sudden announcement that he's leaving ESPN, less than three weeks before the NBA season begins? An announcement so sudden that the newest addition to NBA Countdown, Doris Burke, appears to have had no idea it was going down?...

Magic Johnson Is Leaving ESPN
ESPN announced today that Magic Johnson is leaving NBA Countdown and the network. Johnson, per ESPN, is leaving "due to his other commitments," which haven't been a problem in the past....

Do You Believe In Magic? Restoring The Dodger Way
Over at ESPN, Howard Bryant has a long piece on the rebuilding of a once-proud franchise:...

Terry Pendleton Roughed Up Chris Johnson For Sliding Into First Base
We've proven time and again that sliding into first base gets you there slower than if you run through it. Chris Johnson joined that Idiot Club of first-base-sliders and ended the Braves' rally tonight against the Phillies. His punishment was an enraged Terry Pendleton getting physical with him in ...

Risk And Romance Among NBA Groupies: An Embed's Report
Originally published in the April 1992 issue of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author's permission....

Sin City: Magic, HIV, And A Night At Roxbuy
In 1992 Paul Solotaroff wrote "The Skin Trade," a story for GQ about Roxbury, the famous L.A. nightclub. Looking back, Solotaroff doesn't think much of his story but I wanted to share its conclusion with you because it touches on the nature sports, celebrity and sex:...

Rashad Johnson's Severed Finger Is Absolutely Disgusting
Just a few moments ago, Cardinals safety Rashad Johnson tweeted images of the finger he didn't know he lost—sweet Christ, did he ever lose it—and it is a raw scene. Your not-safe-for-lunch pictures are down below....