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Soccer Ref Gets Lifetime Ban For Shoving, Kicking Player
It's in Russia, because of course it's in Russia....
Metta World Peace's Reaction To Jason Collins Coming Out Is The Best
From his press conference today:...
Mike Francesa Really Can't Stand This Jason Collins Story
Ugh, Mike Francesa thought. A gay player? Why do we have to talk abut this? Who cares? This is so stupid, a ploy by Sports Illustrated for some buzz:...
Tony Parker And Bruce Bowen Share A Similar Respect For Jason Collins
Well, at least the PR person who runs both of their Twitter accounts respects Jason Collins....
Here's Everything ESPN Covered Before Mentioning Jason Collins
The sports world blew up at a little after 11 a.m. this morning when Sports Illustrated posted its Jason Collins coming-out story. News takes a while to travel up to Bristol, apparently. How did ESPN cover it?...
Mike Wallace Has Dumb Thoughts About Gay People
If you had Dolphins wide receiver Mike Wallace in your "Who Will be the First Athlete to Say Something Homophobic in the Wake of Jason Collins Outing Himself?" pool, then congratulations! You win!...
Kenneth Faried Kicked This Hole In A Wall After Last Night's Loss
"I hate to lose," Kenneth Faried told USA Today's Sam Amick after the Nuggets fell behind the Warriors three games to one. "I hate to lose more than I like winning." Translation: This poor bit of drywall in Oracle Arena's visitors locker room had it coming....
Grand Master
Spring brings with it a bum's rush of new sports books. This year, one of the most prized titles comes from the distinguished Library of America—American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (edited by Dan Okrent). Smith is our most venerated sports columnist and we'll have much more on him and this...
Rays Reporter Captures Moment Of Her Near-Death With A Selfie
This is Kelly Nash, who covers the Rays for Fox Sports Florida, taking a photo of herself at the exact moment that a baseball went whizzing by her head. This is perhaps the greatest selfie ever taken....
Black Magic
Here is Woody Allen's Sport magazine story about Earl "The Pearl" Monroe:...
Is There Any Joy In Sweeping These Lakers?
"Let's try for a miracle," Mike D'Antoni told his undermanned, overmatched team before Game 4. "Why not?"...
Sympathy For the Devil
Here's a treat—Joe Flaherty's 1981 Inside Sports piece on Jake LaMotta:...
Roundup: What You Missed The Weekend Messi Got Back To Being Messi
Messi Back To Scoring Ridiculous Goals, Bringing Ray Hudson To Orgasm...
Jets Release Tim Tebow
Our long National Football League nightmare is over. The Jets have done the inevitable and released Tim Tebow into the wild. When you love something, you have to let it go....
Dwight Howard Gets Ejected And Kobe Bryant Returns To A Hero's Welcome
Dwight Howard was ejected in the third quarter of Game 4 against the Spurs after he received his second technical foul. The shorthanded Lakers were already getting manhandled with Howard actually in the lineup so this game, and series, is over....
This Heckler At Staples Center Really Wants Matt Bonner's Attention
We don't know why this gentleman, presumably a Lakers fan, wants the attention of Spurs big man Matt Bonner. (Perhaps he suspects Bonner of having gotten him pregnant.) Regardless, he is very close to TNT's court mic, which we've isolated here....
Goalie Makes Behind-The-Back Glove Save
Be sure to watch the entire clip to catch all the angles. Drew MacIntyre is a goalie for the Toronto Marlies, the AHL affiliate for the Toronto Maple Leafs. At the time MacIntyre made the save, the Marlies were tied 3-3 with the Rochester Americans in the second period of the opening game of their p...
Security Guard Celebration Is An Homage To Rasheed Wallace
It's natural to focus on all the Knicks celebrating Raymond Felton's huge, buzzer-beating three at the end of the third quarter of today's Boston win. Melo is pumped up. So is Tyson Chandler. Steve Novak is undoubtedly doing a very subtle and very intense discount double check that we just can't see...
Jason Terry Prolongs Celtics-Knicks Series
At the end of the first half, Boston owned a 54-35 lead over the Knicks. With 1:18 left in the fourth, Raymond Felton gave the Knicks their first lead of the day at 84-82 on a pull-up jumper just inside the key. Kevin Garnett immediately tied the game and after a couple misses from Carmelo and anot...
Don King's Acting Like A Crazy Person Again
It's hard to see what is actually going on here, but it looks like Don King steps out of the ring at the very beginning of the video and makes his way to the corner where he is met by a woman....