k Page 3559 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Turkey Makes Soccer Games Less Drunk, Angry, Riotous By Banning Male Fans
The Turkish soccer association has finally permitted its sanctioned teams to play in front of fans again—so long as those fans are women and children who will not riot and attack journalists....
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Drake
For Music Week, our own Jack Dickey will be defending his seemingly indefensible music tastes....
Purple Drank And The Secret Of NFL Quarterbacking
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Is The Justice Department Responsible For Online Poker's Ponzi Scheme?
The Justice Department dropped another bombshell in their assault on online poker, alleging that Full Tilt Poker ran a Ponzi Scheme that saw owners being paid nearly half a billion dollars, while player accounts were filled with "phantom money" to the tune of more than $300 million. The original Bla...
Deadspin Classic: The Forgotten Man Of <em>Moneyball</em>
Moneyball the movie is in theaters on Friday. Eric Walker doesn't appear in the film, and he's mentioned only briefly in Michael Lewis's book, but he was central to the statistical revolution that Moneyball chronicles—the "pebble that started the avalanche," in his words. Two years ago, he told us h...
Former IT Guy "Will Ruin Shaq," One Embarrassing Leak At A Time
If you can keep track of the Miami New Times's Hack-a-Shaq saga, then we salute you. It is an overlapping jumbled mess of blackmailing and threats and nearly indecipherable text messages. We tried drawing a visual aid for all of the accusations cataloged here, but we gave up, because there are, like...
Michael Boley Hugged It Out With The Kid He Nailed In The Face
When Giants linebacker Michael Boley took a failed lateral 65 yards for his first career touchdown, he was so hyped up he was all "GRAARRR I'm gonna throw this ball as hard as I can," and he absolutely smoked a kid in a backpack. It was great TV, not so great for the kid....
SprtsCntr: All New York, All The Time
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....
Lady Gaga Poured Champagne Into A Disabled Section At The Giants Game Last Night
For those keeping score, she has also flipped the bird at a Mets game and chugged whiskey and fondled herself in the Yankee Stadium clubhouse. No word on whether she plans to continue her unique quest for the New York sports cycle by spitting on children at Madison Square Garden. [New York Post; Ph...
Ah Yes, The Old "Off The Back Of The Defender's Skull" Own Goal
In keeping with our mission to bring you the latest in Midwestern religious college soccer, we happily present a moment from this weekend's Oklahoma Baptist-MidAmerica Nazarene showdown. The OBU Bison keeper will be seeing this one in his dreams for a while, but we're particularly taken with the c...
The Enduring Myth Of Mookie Blaylock And Pearl Jam
Vacuous, unchecked rock lore holds that Pearl Jam—before they settled on the sploogiest name in pop music history—were first called Mookie Blaylock. Grunge's stadium heroes would have been named after a very good, but never great, NBA point guard, if only Blaylock hadn't taken notice and forced a na...
Mike Stanton Hit The Ball About 900 Feet Last Night
The Marlins don't do distance estimates, so we'll never know precisely how dead Stanton killed the ball. But rest assured, he killed it very dead....
The Rams Were A Real Pain In Ahmad Bradshaw's Nuts Last Night
Your morning roundup for Sept. 20, the day we learned that putting on a banana costume sometimes isn't worth it. Photo via tipster Ryan, who saw it on ESPN.com and wrote, "Thanks for the nut grab photo, ESPN." Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Eli Manning Told Suzy Kolber He Was Impressed With How Big Brandon Stokley's Package Grew During The Game
Here's Eli Manning with some important postgame football talk about how wide receiver Brandon Stokley's package size changed during tonight's game. Giants won, 28-16, even though the offense didn't play too well....
Giants LB Michael Boley Celebrates His Return TD By Whipping The Ball At Some Dude's Face
Whatever godforsaken gig has this guy standing on the sidelines—an innocent victim, forced into Boley's warpath—I hope like hell he's getting paid for it....
Your Monday Night Football Open Thread
Hakeem Nicks is likely to play; Steven Jackson will not. So it's Cadillac time in the Meadowlands! The Rams and the Giants both had hopes of competing this year, and one of them is going to have a lot less hope once this is done....
This Evening: LOLMets, Now With Rookies Dressed As Cheerleaders
Your p.m. roundup for Sept. 19, the day we learned sperm banks discriminated against redheads with impunity. Photo of Justin Turner via Busted Coverage. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
We're Not Saying You Should Vote Nickelback For Ottawa's Goal Song; We're Just Saying You <i>Can</i>
The Senators are letting fans vote for their goal song on the team Facebook page. Nickelback currently sits in third. A feisty third. Voting is open to all....
Mariano Rivera Just Became Baseball's All-Time Saves Leader (Video)
There he is, standing alone atop Michael Kay's "Closer Mountain" with 602 career saves....
Vince Young Says There's A Fake Vince Young In The D.C. Area (Updated)
"'I heard that he has been taking money, taking pictures with little kids at hospitals,' Young said on Monday. 'It's been real sick.'" Sounds a little like what Titans fans were saying once upon a time about the real Vince Young, doesn't it? [NBC Washington]...