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Skip Bayless Is Making Up Shit About The Michigan-Notre Dame Rivalry
This morning we illustrated how one ESPN blowhard will make up facts in order to argue for continuing a college football series lucrative for the WWL. Not to be outdone, Skip Bayless chimed in on the topic this morning on First Take, and somehow managed to get it even more wrong than Mark May....
Bad Beat Turns Pro Poker Player Into The World's Saddest Man
Here's a bit of action from this year's World Series of Poker. As you can see on the screen, Carter Gill had a 93 percent chance of winning the hand when his opponent called his bet. Now sit back and let the agony wash over you....
Anchor Inserts Pro Wrestlers Into Sportscast—Can You Catch Them All?
Via Awful Announcing, this is WHAS-Louisville's Adam Lefkoe livening up a sportscast by inserting the names of pro wrestlers. Sometimes they're subtle. Other times, not so much....
Mike Fisher Bitten While Saving Carrie Underwood From Chipmunk
Important hockey news!...
I Must Go On. I Can't Go On. I'll Go On.
Our man Mark Jacobson has a beautiful story on Sonny Rollins in the latest issue of Men's Journal. Rollins played with the great musical innovators of the mid-century—Parker, Monk, Dizzy, Miles....
Australian Footballer Sets Dwarf On Fire, Gives League CEO The Giggles
Here is Australian Football League CEO Andrew Demetriou demonstrating exactly now not to react to news that one of his league's players set a dwarf entertainer on fire at a team party. ...
Don't Give The Kid That Baseball, Exhibit No. 3,328
Children are grabby, grubby little monsters who take and take and take and how do they thank you? By flinging your good will out of the upper deck....
Mark May Is Now Blatantly Lying To Viewers
Notre Dame is ending its series of football games against Michigan, and Irish coach Brian Kelly raised controversy over the weekend when he claimed the Wolverines weren't a rival. That led ESPN's college football panel of Joe Tessitore, Mark May, and Lou Holtz to take on the topic during halftime o...
You're All Right, Jack
The title is a riff on the Peter Sellers movie, I'm All Right, Jack. Now, check out Dan Jenkins on the 1975 Masters:...
Where Have You Gone, Mickey Mantle?
I'm in a taxi, trying to get to Yankee Stadium. I'm late and I've got my uniform on. But when I get there the guard won't let me in. He doesn't recognize me. So I find this hole in the fence and I'm trying to crawl through it, you know? But I can only get my head in. I can see Billy and White and Yo...
Jets Sign Handsome, Bad QB To Temporarily Replace Handsome, Bad QB
The Jets weren't satisfied with their quarterbacks after the cutdown to a 53-man roster, so they made another move Monday, signing Brady Quinn....
Brutus The Buckeye Showed Up At A Wedding In Columbus
After pumping up Ohio State fans on Saturday, Brutus the Buckeye certainly deserves a me-day. The mascot apparently chose to spend Sunday partying at a wedding in Columbus, and it looks like everyone involved had a grand time....
Craig James Fired From Fox Sports Southwest After One Show
That didn't take long....
Alabama High School Football Coaches Get Into Postgame Brawl
Alabama high school football coaches coming to blows after a game shouldn't be that surprising, considering how seriously Alabama takes football in general, but that doesn't make the incident any less ridiculous....
The Raiders Have Already Cut Their 2013 Fourth-Round Pick
As the deadline for 53-man rosters came to a close, the Oakland Raiders made unique decisions while cutting players. In this case, "unique" doesn't necessarily mean "good."...
Alleged Female Idiot On The Field Blows .341 BAC, Has Amazing Twitter
An Idiot on the Field might have made history for being the drunkest Idiot ever recorded as she allegedly tried to jump onto the field during Saturday's Northern Illinois-Iowa game in Iowa City....
University Of Arkansas Intern Injured By Exploding T-Shirt Gun
An intern from the University of Arkansas athletic department was taken to the hospital Saturday after the t-shirt gun he was using exploded...
When The Treadmill Makes You Hate What You Once Loved
I discovered something this week on the treadmill. God, the treadmill is just the worst. The absolute worst. That's not the discovery. Calling that a discovery is like saying Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. What I'm saying is: the Vikings were somehow involved in the manufacturing of a...
The Best Recipes And Tips You've Sent In So Far, Scum
This Labor Day weekend, as you well know and have indicated on all of your calendars, both paper and e-, marks the first anniversary of Foodspin—and, while this is not the precise reason why many of you will receive an extra day off from work tomorrow, it is the reason why you have clung to life lon...
Oklahoma City Thunder Player Arrested On Domestic Abuse Charge
Shooting guard DeAndre Liggins of the Oklahoma City Thunder was jailed Saturday night after reportedly getting into an altercation with a woman that police believed to be his girlfriend....