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ESPN President's Memo: Support The Troops; Also, We're Firing People
Below is a memo from ESPN president John Skipper, sent companywide just before the Memorial Day weekend and forwarded to us by a Bristol tipster. "This is the only communication we've received from upper management this week that mentions the layoffs," our tipster writes. Happy Memorial Day!...
Down on the Corner, Out in the Street
From the SI Vault, check out Gil Rogin's 1964 story, "Confessions of a Stoop Ball Champion":...
The Ugly American
Here's a good sports-related scene from The French Connection II. ...
Scary Video From Under The Snapped Camera Cable At The Coca-Cola 600
On lap 121 of Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte, a cable supporting an overhead camera snapped and fell across the track. Ten fans were injured, three hospitalized, and the race was red-flagged for nearly a half-hour after several cars were damaged. It could have been much worse, and the eyewitnes...
Indy 500 Winner Tony Kanaan To Reporter: "I'm Gonna Get Hammered"
If race car drivers are good for one thing, it's giving memorable post-race interviews. This one, from Indy 500 winner Tony Kanaan, doesn't share the meandering goofiness of Brad Keselowksi's half-drunk dissertation on believing in oneself, but the two are united in spirit. The spirit of getting ha...
Indy 500 Fans Passed Out, Puking In The Back Of A Moving Truck
The Indianapolis 500 isn't just about the racing; it's also about drinking toxic levels of alcohol, and getting thrown in the back of a pickup truck like so much drunk lumber....
Same Faces, Same Result: The Spurs Are Back In The Finals
The Spurs get the "boring" label because basketball is supposed to be hard. As San Antonio heads to its fifth finals since 1999, its fourth with its multinational power trio intact, you wonder if they've made some cosmic bargain, or discovered a real-life cheat code, because the alternative—that the...
People Will Say We're in Love
Here's Frank Deford's classic 1985 Sports Illustrated bonus piece, "The Boxer and the Blonde":...
Dusty Baker Wants Fights To Settle Disputes In The MLB
In the sixth inning of Sunday's Cubs-Reds game, Cincinnati's Johnny Cueto threw a pitch over the head of David DeJesus, causing umpire Bob Davidson to warn both teams....
Danica Patrick's Boyfriend Causes Her To Crash At Coca-Cola 600
With 82 laps to go in Sunday's Coca-Cola 600, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. bumped Danica Patrick, causing her to crash, along with Brad Keselowski. Worth noting: Stenhouse Jr. and Patrick are dating. Drama!...
MLB Network Is Just Inventing New Statistics Now
If only my dog could shit with at least a .275 average....
A Camera Cable Fell On Kyle Busch's Car During The Coca-Cola 600
The cable, which belonged to FOX, snapped and struck several cars at lap 124 of the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Kyle Busch was in the lead, and presumably driving upwards of 200 miles an hour when the cable snapped and struck his car and others', causing the race to be red-flagged....
"This Is Becoming Comedy Central": NJ Senators Want Rutgers AD Fired
Two State senators, Governor Chris Christie and other New Jersey officials want to put an immediate end to the Rutgers/Julie Hermann circus. Senators Ray J. Lesniak and Richard Codey have gone on record as wanting to see newly-hired athletic director gone and university president Robert Barchi follo...
Munenori Kawasaki Hits Walk-Off Double, Is A Post-Game Delight
This is just a whole lot of fun. Kawasaki hit a walk-off two-run double off Baltimore's struggling closer Jim Johnson—giving the Blue Jays a 6-5 win in a game they trailed 5-2 going into in the ninth—and delivered a great impromptu-yet-also-scripted post-game interview. ...
Watch This Sideline Reporter Almost Get Smoked By A Baseball
On another day, this story would've been an obituary. Well...that's a little hyperbolic, but on another day this story would've been about how Brewers sideline reporter Sophia Minnaert has to spend the next couple of months in a cast after getting a few metacarpals broken, or at least bruised. But t...
Indy 500 Milk Preference List Is Something That Exists
The Indy 500 will begin shortly, so here's a list of drivers and their celebratory milk preferences. ...
Ángel Pagán's Walk-Off Inside-The-Park Home Run Was Just Foolish
So this is what the San Francisco Giants do. Sort of. They lead the majors with seven walk-off home runs already this year, so we guess that they found a way to win at home to the Rockies even when they were down 5-4 in the 10th inning shouldn't be too much of a surprise. This, though, wasn't just a...
Rutgers Has A Problem Beyond Its Lying And Allegedly Abusive New AD
Rutgers has tried to clean up the Mike Rice/Tim Pernetti mess by introducing a new mess to distract everyone. The newly-hired athletic director Julie Hermann was involved in a lawsuit with a former assistant, Ginger Hineline, while head coach of the women's volleyball team at the University of Tenne...
A Wisconsin Festival Claims A Record Bratwurst Because Of Course
The Midwesternest piece of Memorial Day Weekend news has broken, and it is that the self-proclaimed World's Largest Brat Fest has achieved its destiny by grilling and bunning perhaps the world's largest brat....