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Stephen A. Smith Will Be On ESPN For Six Consecutive Hours Next Week
Well, ESPN2 technically. But yeah, this is happening on Monday: ...
ESPN Edits Fart Noise Out Of <em>First Take</em> Re-Air
Scandal! ESPN just aired its Best Of First Take clip show, which included a particularly fart-y piece of footage from this morning's edition of First Take, and where there was once a fart, there is a fart no more!...
College Baseball Players Help Save Toddler's Life
Here's something positive for you: A 21-month-old western Pennsylvania boy is likely still alive because of some quick thinking by a group of college baseball players who went for a late-night food run....
A Tribute To Rolando McClain's Brief, Brilliant NFL Career
23-year-old Ravens linebacker Rolando McClain retired from the NFL today, general manager Ozzie Newsome announced. But McClain will not be known as a Raven. He signed there just a little more than a month ago. He will instead be remembered as one of the Raideriest Raiders that ever Raidered....
Prince Harry Has A Pretty Decent Baseball Swing
Harry is in New York today, and he took part in a youth clinic in Harlem with Mark Teixeira. I can't think the prince has played much baseball in his life, but he got some good wood on that one. Or maybe Teixeira's just a horrible pitcher....
Galatasaray To Protest Racism Against Drogba By Wearing Blackface
Galatasaray's Didier Drogba faced your typical Euro-flavor of racism during this past weekend's derby match against Fenerbahce: monkey noises, bananas on the pitch, et cetera. In response, Drogba's teammates are pledging to wear blackface in their next match as a token of solidarity toward him and f...
Batter Celebrates Game-Tying Home Run Too Early, Flies Out
Don't celebrate your home runs before they come down....
Shane Robinson Had To Wipe His Hand, So He Used Pete Kozma's Jersey
The Cardinals' dugout had just greeted Matt Carpenter after he scored on Matt Holliday's double in the bottom of the first. Yeah. We know as much about this as Pete Kozma does....
Here's A Sad Picture Of James Dolan Watching Last Night's Game
So the picture's a little out of focus, but that just adds to the hilarity. Look at how sad he is! Just sittin' there, mid-facepalm, watching his team get torched by the Pacers while struggling to digest whatever used to be on that sad, empty plate. For once, I think Knicks fans can identify with ho...
The Summer Game
Nice piece by Adam Sobsey over at the Paris Review on what promises to be a great documentary: Bull City Summer....
The Latest Mets Scandal Is So Stupid Even By Mets Scandal Standards
Jordany "Took a Spring Training Fastball Right To The Dick" Valdespin doesn't do a whole lot on the Mets. He doesn't walk, he can't play much defense, and he's hitting .235. He pinch-hits, with a start in center or at second every so often. He'll steal a base or hit a home run on a special day. But ...
It Sure Sounds Like Someone Unleashed A Monster Fart On <em>First Take</em>
OK, so we can't say for sure that this was actually a fart, nor can we say for sure who was responsible for it. But we choose to believe that it was a fart, and that it came from Skip Bayless....
Murder Was the Case
Mark Seal goes inside the Oscar Pistorius murder trial for Vanity Fair:...
True Grit
Mark Kram Jr's heart-breaking book, Like Any Normal Day is now out in paperback. Check out this excerpt from SI.com:...
College Hockey Coach Accused Of Slashing Player With Hockey Stick
Dave Shyiak, former coach of the University of Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves, has been accused of violently striking a player with a hockey stick during a 2011 practice, the Anchorage Daily News reports. A former player, Mickey Spencer, alleged in a May 1 letter that Shyiak struck another player, Nick ...
Michigan State Signee Turns Down Football For Rap Career [UPDATE]
This is Jay Harris. He's one of the top high school wide receiver prospects out of Pennsylvania this year. He's 5-foot-11, 170 pounds, and until last month, was headed to Michigan State University this fall on a football scholarship after graduating Downingtown East High School. Not anymore. Instead...
Connnnnnnn! <em>Star Trek Into Darkness</em>, Reviewed.
1. I've never gotten the sense that J.J. Abrams really cares all that much about the Star Trek franchise. Abrams has said that he was far more into Star Wars—as any reasonable person would be—and that his first, well-received Star Trek was more about rebooting a franchise than any particular passion...
You Need that Spalding Touch
Fans of a certain age will remember this ad...it was in the back of almost every Marvel and DC comic for years. ...
Three 6 Mafia Member Is A Big Grizzlies Fan, Has Lots Of Guns
The Memphis Grizzlies have fostered kinship of sorts with the Memphis rap community. Al Kapone's "Whoop That Trick"—the most memorable song from Hustle and Flow—has become the go-to anthem in the team's arena, and now DJ Paul of Three 6 Mafia is showing his support for the Grizz in his own special w...