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Ron Zook Works At A Florida Bank Now, And He'll Respond To Your Email
Former Florida and Illinois coach Ron Zook has given college coaching the old college try twice, and failed twice. Now he's in an exile of sorts in Florida. And he's working at a bank....
Kung-Fu Karaoke Dad Stars In The Most Canadian Video Ever Made
This could only be more Canadian if he were riding a goddamn caribou. From YouTube user Ryan Doucette:...
Joe Paterno Interview Transcript: “Yea, I Guess You'd Call It Sexual”
John Ziegler, the Joe Paterno apologist whom even people related to Joe Paterno want nothing to do with, recently published a book that defends Joe Paterno's role in the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal. And by "recently published a book" I mean Ziegler posted some 80,000 words on his website last w...
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Worst Person In America Teams Up With Worst Charity In America [UPDATE]
Every day, optimistic PR people fill our tips box with mumbo-jumbo about new sports websites, book review offers, and other pitches that usually get auto-tagged as spam and are subsequently binned. Today, though, we received the following—and it's so perfect we can't help but share it with you:...
Newspaper Typo: Senior Basketballer Wins “Hot Shit Contest”
From today's Daily Times in Maryville, Tenn. An easy typo to make, but not inaccurate: I have no doubt that Peggy "Baller" Ballard is indeed hot shit....
Jason Kidd Pleads Guilty To 2012 DWI
Just a few days after signing with the Knicks, Jason Kidd veered his Escalade off a Hamptons road, smashing directly into a telephone pole. He had had "a couple of drinks," he told a judge, "three or four." Now, exactly one year and one day later, Kidd is receiving his punishment....
Marrying Television, Football Gained An Audience But Lost A Game
Dig Sherry Kafka's 1973 Texas Monthly article on Don Meredith: "Tuning In Dandy Don":...
ESPN's Mark May Needs To Shut Up About Johnny Manziel
Here's Mark May, responding to the latest bit of news about Johnny Football:...
Phil Mickelson Hit A Ball Backwards (He Meant To Do It)
[Video by Geoff Shackleford.]...
MLB Player Puts Ketchup On Hot Dog, Outrage Ensues
Send stories, photos, and anything else you might have to [email protected]....
Jimmy Fallon's Interview With “Michael Jordan” Is Surprisingly Funny
This is the kind of bit that has the potential to be gimmicky and unfunny, but Fallon and Kristen Wiig have the comedic timing that's necessary to make a five-minute interview with "Michael Jordan" worth watching. Also, it's pretty hard not to laugh at that bald cap....
Awesome Little Kid To Shaq: “Don't Ever Disrespect Houston Again!"
This kid makes me want to root for the Rockets. H-Town, baby!...
Night-Shifting For The Hip Fleet
“Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet,” by Mark Jacobson. From New York Magazine, 1975, this piece was the idea that spawned the TV show, Taxi:...
Pump, Pump, Pump, Pump It Up
Paul Solotaroff had a terrific piece on the original Gold’s Gym and the rise of bodybuilding in the February, 2012 issue of Men’s Journal:...
Diggin’ in the Crates: Behind Bars
Prince Paul put out a little mix of his work on cassette back in 1999 as a teaser for his record, A Prince Among Thieves. He played all of his classics—from Stetsasonic and De La to tracks he did for Kane, BDP and 3rd Bass. There was one cut that was a real head-nodder, a version of Slick Rick's "Be...
Here's Matt Harvey Asking New Yorkers What They Think Of Matt Harvey
Jimmy Fallon got Matt Harvey to do some man-on-the-street interviews with one goal: ask New Yorkers their thoughts on Matt Harvey. It goes exactly how you'd expect and it's just good, clean fun. Plus, it's always good to put a few dents in the myth of the Savvy New Yorker. ...