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The Rose Goes in the Front, Big Guy

Over at Baseball Prospectus, Michael Clair looks at some MLB beefcake....

Comedian Says Lance Armstrong Asked Her To Eat His Butt

Comedian April Macie is a frequent guest on the Howard Stern Show, and on Monday morning she joined Stern to dish some gossip about disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong. Specifically, she told Stern that Armstrong once asked her to lick his butt in a hotel bathroom....

Joakim Noah Dances To "Pump Up The Jam" With Some Bros And Ladies

This video comes to us from a reader who spent some time partying with Joakim Noah this weekend. It's a short clip, but we like it a lot, mostly because Noah is clearly leading the party through a spirited rendition of "Pump Up The Jam." ...

Sweet Dreams

From Carlo Rotella's collection of essays and stories Playing in Time, check this out:...

A Brutal No-Goal Call, And The Blackhawks Are On The Ropes

Hockey's never been much for the sanctity of seeds. No one blinked last year when the eight-seeded Kings blew through the competition on the way to a Cup. So it's not any sort of mathematical upset that the Red Wings took a 2-1 lead in their series with the top-seeded Blackhawks last night—but they ...

She Wants The D

Man Breaks Record For Most Backflips On A Pogo Stick

We throw the word "hero" around a lot on the internet, but sometimes there is simply no other word for doing more backflips on a pogo stick than any other person in the history of human-and-pogo-stick coexistence. ...

Jerry Colangelo Says He Punched A Bulls Fan During The '93 NBA Finals

The man in charge of USA Basketball once owned the Suns and the Diamondbacks, the WNBA's Mercury, and the arena league's Rattlers. He was also responsible for bringing the NHL to Phoenix. But if you were to say something nasty to his mom, Jerry Colangelo wasn't always above behaving like some beer-s...

Metta World Peace Did The Weather Report Again

This is becoming an annual tradition: the Lakers get eliminated, and Metta World Peace does a local weather report....

Listen To The Evolution Of Rappers Referencing Alonzo Mourning

OK, so this is just brilliant, and I can't believe that nobody has thought to do this before. A rapper who goes by the name Young Braised created a track that contains every instance of former NBA star Alonzo Mourning getting name dropped in a rap song, running in chronological order from 1993-2012....

We Have No Idea Why Kobe Bryant's Wife Posted This To Instagram

Vanessa Bryant's Instagram sometimes can be a valuable source of actual news. Today, it featured an image of these four photos, which were taken yesterday at a barbecue....

Say Goodbye To The Premier League On ESPN With This Outtake Reel

Yesterday marked the end of ESPN's Premier League coverage, and to commemorate it, the network aired this blooper reel of Ian Darke and Steve McManaman, the best soccer broadcasting duo on American television. ...

<em>Damn</em>, Barclays Center, Why You Smell So Fine?

It's been a while since the Nets played in a building that didn't reek of inadequacy and failure. But if you've been to a game in Brooklyn, perhaps you noticed the air was a little...sexy? It's not just that new-multipurpose-arena smell. The Barclays Center has been pumping perfume through the vents...

Get Lost, Norman

From Bob Klapisch and John Harper's entertaining book about covering the Mets in the early '90s, The Worst Team Money Could Buy:...

Sharing the Beat

Jane Gross to Roger Angell in his 1979 New Yorker story, "Sharing the Beat" (subscription required):...

Skylar Diggins Got A Mercedes From Jay-Z's Sports Agency

Last month, former Notre Dame and soon-to-be WNBA superstar Skylar Diggins became the third athlete to sign with Roc Nation Sports, Jay-Z's latest vanity project/sports agency. Yesterday, the people at Roc Nation celebrated Diggins's graduation from Notre Dame by doing exactly what you'd expect an a...

Troy Tulowitzki Takes The Postgame Handshake To A New Level

Baseball, everyone!...

Chelsea Player's Adorable Son Adorably Scores Adorable Goal

After Chelsea's final match of the season, friends and family gathered on the pitch to listen to the retiring Paulo Ferreira's farewell speech. But even Ferreira had to pause as Josh Turnbull, son of goalkeeper Ross Turnbull, made a run on net....

ESPN's Darren Rovell And The Fitness Model: A Brief History [Update]

May 11, 2009: Darren Rovell writes about Nora Tobin, a model he's never heard of whom he saw in an advertisement on his CNBC blog:...

Personal Best

From Pauline Kael's 1982 review of one of the great sports movies:...