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Fox 5 New York: "Gary Carter Will Be Remembered As One Of The Elite Pitchers In Baseball History"
WNYW's Adrienne Supino did her best to report on the passing of Gary Carter tonight, but struggled a bit when it came to knowing which position the Hall of Fame catcher played in the majors. It wasn't the first Fox blunder today when it came to Carter's death....

Florida State Erased A Nine-Point Deficit In 70 Seconds To Beat Virginia Tech
Michael Snaer proved the hero again for Florida State tonight, hitting a three-pointer in the final seconds to help the Seminoles beat Virginia Tech 48-47....

It's Official, Dominic Moore Is Always Worth A Second-Rounder
In 2009, Dominic Moore went from Toronto to Buffalo for a second-round pick....

How Not To Tell Fans That Your Ninth-Place Team Is Raising Ticket Prices
"It certainly has been an interesting and challenging year from the outset, but I guess that's what makes sports such an exciting and unpredictable entertainment option." [Washington Times]...

Gary Carter Went Out With A Win
There's a great line in the New York Times obituary of Gary Carter that says he "may have led the 1986 Mets in hugging teammates."...

Jim Boeheim Says 10 Teams Can Win The Title This Year
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Boeheim says Syracuse is just one of many potential champs....

Steal, Fast Break, Pass Off The Glass, Dunk. All By The Same Player.
That's Darrion Pellum of Hampton University last night against Maryland Eastern Shore. There's really nothing else to say, is there? [via]...

Gary Carter Has Died
After months of increasingly dire reports of Gary Carter's battle with brain cancer, the Hall of Fame catcher passed away today at the age of 57. The news was first reported by the Times's Richard Sandomir....

Sarah Palin Has A Bootleg Linsanity T-Shirt
Linsanity is dead. Sarah Palin killed it. (Sorry, "Pa-Lin.")...

The Rays Now Lead The AL East In Mascots
Say hello to DJ Kitty, who has crossed over from scoreboard videos to a real live man-in-suit. Don't worry, there's still a home for Raymond (who, as I learned from his bio, is actually a Canus Manta Whatthefluffalus). It's just that the Rays wanted to be the first team to get their mascot-to-specta...

The Piggyback Bandit Has Now Been Banned From High School Sporting Events In Minnesota, Too
On Friday we brought you an update to the story of Sherwin Shayegan, the inveterate piggyback bandit, who's spread his terror throughout the northern United States over the past several years....

The New York Rangers Made The Day's Worst Jeremy Lin Pun
You're the Rangers. How do you enlighten an oblivious public that there's a New York team that somehow has fewer championships in the last 70 years than the Knicks, and ohbytheway is in first place? With this ad in today's Newsday, apparently. No Carl HageLin? No Ryan CalLinhan? No Marian GaboJeremy...

Darren Rovell Appeared On WFAN To Explain His Indecent Proposal To Kate Upton
CNBC's Darren Rovell dropped by WFAN this morning and attempted to explain Tuesday's appearance on the network with Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton, during which the sports business reporter asked Upton to be his Valentine (and was rejected)....

There's A White Guy In The Slam Dunk Contest
Fair warning: the lineup for the dunk contest at All-Star weekend is out, and it is uninspiring. You've got Indiana's Paul George, Minnesota's Derrick Williams, New York's Iman Shumpert (assisted by Jeremy Lin), and Houston's Chase Budinger. The superstars won't do these kinds of competitions any mo...

Jeremy Lin Will Be In The Slam Dunk Contest, Sort Of
What? You thought Linsanity wasn't going to be part of all-star weekend? David Stern knows a good thing when he sees it and, this morning, the NBA confirmed that Lin will participate in the Haier shooting stars competition, making the Knicks guard eligible to help out his teammate Iman Shumpert, who...

A Delivery-Truck Driver From Oregon Predicted All The Linsanity
Ed Weiland's May 2010 forecast for Hoops Analyst examined Lin's two-point field-goal percentage and RSB40 at Harvard, among other factors. "Jeremy Lin is a good enough player to start in the NBA," Weiland wrote, "and possibly star." [WSJ]...

St. John's Fires Administrator For Scalping Basketball Tickets
Brian Colleary, a senior associate AD and the former AD at Duquesne, allegedly scalped tickets to last year's game against Duke and to the Big East tournament. He will not face criminal charges. One source told the New York Post the amount of money involved was not significant, while another said it...

The Baltimore Orioles Have Pissed Off Korea
This fresh-faced young man is Kim Seong-Min, who as recently as last month was a regular high school student in South Korea. But he's a lefty pitcher, which automatically makes him one of the most desirable people on Earth, and the Orioles swooped in to cause an international incident and get their ...

The Trolling Of Jeremy Lin Has Begun
Your morning roundup for Feb. 16. Photo via Mocksession. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

A Clearly Linsane Mike Tyson Curses, Talks About His 3,000 Pigeons During MSG Interview
Mike Tyson was MSG Network's special halftime guest during tonight's broadcast of the Kings-Knicks game, and the interview was about as much of a trainwreck as you'd expect—though interviewer Jill Martin's somewhat to blame (at one point it sounds like she interprets Tyson's answer to "What sport...