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Keith Olbermann Annihilates Prisco Column

For close to eight minutes Olbermann does to Pete Prisco what Prisco does on the john and calls a column. ...

Vice's Artsy MMA Site Is Pretty Much A UFC Front

Last December, Vice launched Fightland, a mildly artsy fight game site. So far, it's more or less lived up to the expectations you'd have for a mildly artsy fight game site run by Vice....

Moron Columnist Completely Misunderstands NFL Concussion Lawsuit

CBS Sports football columnist Pete Prisco has some thoughts about the NFL's concussion settlement. He compiled those thoughts, which are incredibly stupid, into an incredibly stupid column. This is how it begins:...

NY Post Declares "Carolina" Its Own State

Make sure to pick a copy of next Thursday's Post for a preview of the Potato Bowl, where we'll finally get to see who's the best team in "Dakota."...

This Is Perhaps The Most Moronic Argument In Sports Radio History

Yesterday, we told you about local-sports-reporter-turned-vigilante Vic Lombardi defacing Joe Flacco posters in downtown Denver. For whatever reason, Glenn Clark of WNST in Baltimore was pissed about this, and got into a Twitter spat with Lombardi. That led to Lombardi calling into Clark's radio sho...

Today In Bad Ledes: "Football Can Be Confusing...Especially For Women"

The lede is the most vital line in a story. A reporter's chance to draw you in, tell you what the story is going to be about, and most importantly, not immediately alienate 50 percent of the readership....

Go check out Tomas Rios's brief history of the hot take, which traces the form's roots back to the cloying mythmaking of Grantland Rice and the bitter misanthropy of Dick Young, and argues that those two things aren't really very different at all. [PSMag]...

Here's The Race Result From "Death Of A Racehorse"

W.C. Heinz’s “Death of a Racehorse” owes none of its fame to nostalgia. Written in one hour, in one draft, on a manual typewriter, on deadline, the 1949 classic is hailed by many in the industry as quite possibly the perfect story. Jeff MacGregor called it “the Gettysburg Address sportswriting. A ru...

Leaked Memo: Bleacher Report's Top Eight Ways To Not Piss Off The UFC

A tipster passes along the following email sent around to Bleacher Report's MMA writers last year. It was written by Jeremy Botter, a lead MMA writer for B/R who also covers the fights for the Houston Chronicle. There is some good advice here (don't publish random bullshit!) and some weird advice he...

In Lieu Of UFC Highlights, Embarrassing Videos Of A UFC Executive VP

The UFC, a leading mixed martial arts promotion, has an exciting pay-per-view card scheduled tonight, on which fighters will surely demonstrate beautiful artistry and competitive spirit. We would like to show you brief clips or .gifs of the exciting action, which would perhaps encourage you to buy f...

Reporter Is Really Concerned About All The Condoms In This Parking Lot

Is it just me, or are there not actually any condoms in that parking lot?...

The Trouble With ESPN's Big Johnny Football Story

The most interesting passage in Wright Thompson's new and much-discussed profile of minor league football player Johnny Manziel comes about three-quarters of the way into the story, which is long and rich with detail, so that you could forgive a reader whose eye ran past it. At this point in the pi...

Dick Young's America ... The Reactionary Who Changed Sportswriting ...

Originally published in the Aug. 1, 1985, issue of Sport magazine. Reprinted here with permission of the author's widow, Laura Ross....

Charles Barkley Sees Media's “Hidden Agenda" In George Zimmerman Case

Charles Barkley's eternal frankness makes him one of the most beloved media personalities in sports. His comments about the George Zimmerman trial, specifically in regards to the media's "hidden agenda" and the "racist views" spouted by "black or white" observers, are certainly frank....

This Is Not How You Ask Rob Gronkowski About Aaron Hernandez

Here's talking haircut Don Dahler trying to get Rob Gronkowski and his family to talk about Aaron Hernandez while filming a sit-down interview for CBS This Morning. ...

"Hernandez Arrest Bodes Well For Tim Tebow At TE," Guy Actually Writes

George Diaz, writing for the Orlando Sentinel:...

Someone Wrote The World's Dumbest Column About John Wall's New Tats

This, from the Washington Post's Jason Reid, is not so much a column as it is an extended pageant answer. It's as if someone had just asked: "Miss DC, do you think the Washington Wizards should give John Wall a max contract in light of his recently revealed predilection for body art?" And Miss DC h...

Lynn Hoppes, Who Was The Worst, Is Out At ESPN

ESPN's Dancing with the Stars correspondent Lynn Hoppes—a man who drooled over swag, recruited a scam artist, plagiarized Wikipedia, and stole my girlfriend—has been laid off, three sources have confirmed. ESPN is also shutting down Playbook, Hoppes's home for the past year. An ESPN spokesman decli...

We Had A Seventh-Grade English Teacher Grade Rick Reilly's Poem

Remember last week, when Rick Reilly tried to pass off this stupid poem as a sports column? Since he's an adult who gets paid an exorbitant amount of money to write about sports, Reilly was rightly lambasted by most everyone who saw his poem. But we wanted to give Reilly's poetic skills a chance to ...

ESPN's Darren Rovell And The Fitness Model: A Brief History [Update]

May 11, 2009: Darren Rovell writes about Nora Tobin, a model he's never heard of whom he saw in an advertisement on his CNBC blog:...