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"Mitch McConnell Just Lost His Seat In The US Senate": Kentucky Fans React To Seeing Mitch McConnell Praise Louisville During Louisville-Kentucky
During this afternoon's Kentucky-Louisville tilt, CBS cut away for a moment to show a clip, from November 29, of senior Kentucky Senator and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell giving a speech on the Senate floor praising Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich. Politicians rarely fare well on s...
Hockey Fight That Starts As A Whole Team Against One Player Eventually Envelops Everyone On Both Teams, Including Trainers
"Referees grabbing one guy, I don't know why he's grabbing one guy, there's about 50 guys involved," says the announcer about midway through this vast, all-encompassing hockey brawl between the Hunstville Havoc and the Mississippi Surge of the Southern Professional Hockey League. The answer is tha...
"Occupy Steubenville" Gathers To Support Rape Victim, Call For Coach's Job
Protestors in Steubenville, Ohio, today braved crappy weather to rally at the county courthouse and call for further investigation into an alleged sexual assault. In August a 16-year-old girl, in a state of blackout intoxication, was lugged about by two Steubenville High School football players who ...
33 Bowl Games Ranked As If They Were Dishes
The custom of calling post-season collegiate contests "bowl" games stems from the granddaddy of them all, the Rose Bowl, so-called for the eponymous bowl-shaped stadium. But our first association with the word "bowl" of course is as a container, most often for food, keys, change, or cereal milk and ...
Avery Johnson Was A Dead Man Walking Even As He Accepted His Coach Of The Month Award
When the Nets fired Avery Johnson this past Thursday after he compiled a .500 record with a new and newly talented roster, many people noted that Johnson had suffered a particularly dramatic reversal of fortune: After going 11-4 in November, Johnson won Eastern Conference Coach of the Month; after t...
Philly Motorist Finds Snow-Drawn Penis With His Parking Ticket
As anyone who's ever tried street-parking a car in Center City Philadelphia knows, the town's parking authority is notoriously efficient at issuing tickets. But one unlucky driver discovered earlier today that the ticket isn't always the biggest dick move....
Did A Virginia Tech Player Pretend To Shoot A Machine Gun At A Rutgers Player?
Above, freshman cornerback Donaldven Manning (wearing #30)—who was nearly kicked off the team as recently as November after racking up two misdemeanors and three minor traffic charges since arriving in Blacksburg last January—shit-talking Rutgers during the Russell Athletic Bowl by, it looks like,...
Your Crappy College Bowl Game Schedule And Open Thread
Schedule and broadcasters via, rankings from the final AP Poll of the regular season, all times (EST). If you haven't read our Shitty Bowl Games FAQ, read our Shitty Bowl Games FAQ....
Chris Ault, Creator Of The Pistol Offense, Will Leave Nevada After 28 Years
Chris Ault, the innovator behind the pistol offense and long, long-time head coach of Nevada Wolf Pack football, is officially stepping down after 28 (non-consecutive) years. In that time, Ault recorded some impressive statistics, including only two losing seasons in his tenure, and 27 seasons of o...
Brandon McCarthy Is A Woman, According To His Driver's License
The mistake is right there on the Diamondbacks' pitcher's new Texas driver's license, which was tweeted out this afternoon by McCarthy's wife, Amanda. But I dunno, Brandon. Those nails look pretty feminine to me....
Inbounding From Half-Court, 0.7 Seconds Left: No Problem.
Mattoon (Ill.) High School, which counts editor emeritus Will Leitch as a notable alumnus, won its game against Rantoul yesterday off a last-second inbounds pass in a tie game. The Jared Pilson pass was so on-the-mark, Ryan Hutchinson's placement so perfect, that the Green Wave bench started to er...
College ShameDay: Would Air Force Losing To Rice Be Our Country's Most Shameful Military Defeat? A Shitty Bowl Games FAQ
Our weekly college football shame index previews the bowls through New Year's Eve. ...
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Here's A Picture Of Mike Leach Possibly Macking On A Young Lady In A Key West Bar [UPDATE]
What does a college football coach do in order to celebrate escaping allegations of abusing his players? He heads to Key West, throws on some cargo shorts and a nice pair of sandals, and chills the fuck out....
Here Is The Police Report For The Sexual Assault Allegation Against Two University Of Texas Football Players
There have been no arrests, and the subjects of the investigation have not been identified by police, but Mack Brown has suspended quarterback Case McCoy and linebacker Jordan Hicks for Saturday's Alamo Bowl game against Oregon State, according to what sources told 247 Sports' Bobby Burton. Brown sa...
Today's World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Action Featured A Remarkably Devastating Hit
The junior ice hockey world championships are currently underway in Russia, and these kids are not messing around. The video above comes from today's contest between Canada and Slovakia, and features Canadian Anthony Camara absolutely demolishing Slovakia's Patrik Luza with a vicious forecheck....
Former Louisville Football Player Files Lawsuit Alleging Assault Cover Up And NCAA Violation
On Dec. 21, former Louisville football player Patrick Grant filed a lawsuit against the university and head football coach Charlie Strong. In the lawsuit, Grant claims that he was asked to cover up the circumstances of an assault that he suffered at the hands of two teammates. On Oct. 24, 2010, Gra...
Everything You Need To Know About New Browns Quarterback Thad "The Champ" Lewis
Per Mary Kay Cabot, Browns head coach until Monday Pat Shurmur announced today that third-string quarterback Thad Lewis would start against the Steelers in Week 17, as Brandon Weeden and Colt McCoy are terrible "dealing with injuries." Lewis will be the Browns' 18th starting quarterback since 1999,...
<em>The Odd Couple</em>'s Oscar Madison, Everyman Sportswriter For All Time
Originally published in Bloomberg View....
Straight From 1984, Here's The Disco Version Of "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" That Never Quite Caught On
A reader named Brian, presumably going through his old VHS tapes, has been uploading a number of old Virginia news broadcasts. He sent along this one, a 1984 broadcast from Hampton Roads station WAVY-10, about the Tidewater Tides (then the Mets AAA affiliate) and a local band trying to update the ...