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The First Look At The Mustachioed Mopper From Texas
Your morning roundup for March 1, the day Charlie Sheen rode a mercury surfboard on the media tsunami....
We Are All Dave McKenna XXV
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit goes out the window like Blanket Jackson. Today: an excerpt from a recent post in Legal As She Is Spoke, a New York Law School blog, which calls Sn...
The Unique Challenge Of The NHL Trade Deadline: Twitter Impostors
The deadline is minutes away, but already the NHL has seen some major movement: Brad Richards to the Leafs, Marty Reasoner to the Canucks, Dustin Penner to the Canadiens...oh wait, none of those moves actually happened. They were all reported by fake Twitter accounts impersonating hockey writers, an...
Dicky Eklund Does The Ali Shuffle In Sugar Ray Leonard's Mug
Christian Bale won an Oscar last night for his portrayal in "The Fighter" of Dicky Eklund, the former New England welterweight champion who got hooked on crack, went to prison then resurrected himself as a trainer, most notably for his brother Micky Ward. During his acceptance speech, Bale ordered...
Rex Ryan's Combine Diet: Hooters, Steak 'N Shake, and Almost One 225-lb. Bench Press
Wheaties has advertised itself as the "Breakfast of Champions" for over 80 years. Surely someone must be interested in "Dinner of Guaranteed Champions." Because that slogan could apply to Steak 'n Shake, Hooters, or probably anywhere in Indianapolis....
Kendrick Perkins Will Not Win An Oscar For Pretending To Be Happy In OKC
God, that's heartbreaking, isn't it? Going from a title favorite, where you actually like all the guys on your team, to a talented-but-unready Thunder squad. Perk couldn't even fake a smile for the welcome-to-the-team photoshoot....
Donald Sterling Wants You To Know He Cares About Black People
Here's your morning roundup for Feb. 28, the day an ESPN cameraman may have lost a job....
Jared Jeffries Is Probably Coming Home To NY Soon, Too
Those of you able to commandeer a television tonight will likely watch the Knicks/Heat, right? ...
Totally Amped Male Cheerleader Almost Cost Louisville A Game
A guy who feels inclined to formally root, root, root for the Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team decided to rally himself out onto the court with 0.3 seconds left in overtime of today's game vs. Pittsburgh. Per the CBS announcers, Pitt got two free throws for the technical violation. The s...
We Are All Dave McKenna XXIV
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit gets drawn-and-quartered in the town square....
High School Wrestler's Vision Quest Involves A 400-Pound Tiger
Kaz Dymek is so totally stoked by his chance to become a Sarasota, Fla. high school's first state wrestling champion that he's sparring with "Old Buck" who, per the Herald-Tribune, "weighs 400 pounds, eats 30 pounds of meat a day, growls with a ferocity that can peel paint, and is a Bengal tiger."...
John Wooden's Benchwarming Great Grandson Hits The Last Basket At UCLA's Pauley Pavilion
As feel-good endings to basketball-arena timelines go, what happened yesterday at UCLA's slated-for-renovation Pauley Pavilion is scripted perfectly. In the building where his great grandfather, the late John Wooden, coached eight national-championship teams, Tyler Trapani made his third on-court ...
Rip Hamilton Yelled At Coach John Kuester So Hard The Younger Pistons Were Mortified
Your morning roundup for Feb. 27, the day that Earth's show-business sect finally recognizes all that Queen Amidala of Naboo has done for them, and for all the rebellion....
Charlie Sheen Puts Lenny Dykstra In A Position "Where I'm Actually Ready To Make A Big Move In My Life"
The Lenny Dykstra/Charlie Sheen revival tour can't do nothing but gather steam. Just two days after Dykstra vouched for the coke-fueled genius that is Sheen, they took to the radio waves to "set the record straight on the myriad of exaggerations, misinformation and outright falsehoods about his li...
Jimmer Defeats San Diego State Fans Kim Jong-il And Miley Cyrus, Basketball Team
Neither being triple-teamed nor an opponent's revenge angle nor fans who claimed to have "some images of Jimmer as a chubby teenager" kept Jimmer Fredette from the swift completion of his appointed rounds. Today, that meant dropping 25 points on San Diego State University in BYU's 80-67 win over th...
Your Guide to Video Gaming’s Sportspocalypse 2011
Sportspocalypse. Sportsmageddon. Spörtsnarök? Whatever you want to call it, the coming month is packed with sports video game releases - a seven-way showdown of licensed sports titles in a month that normally sees only two baseball games. How'd we get [Kotaku] Kotaku at 02/26/2011 15:47:20...
Fifth Grader Wins 500 Pizza Bucks With Half-Court Shot
At a Kennesaw State (Ga.) men's basketball game the other night, 11-year-old Cody Collins was challenged to drain a half-court shot during a media timeout, with Pizza For A Year at stake. He did it. But, if I were Papa John's, I'd challenge anyone to find irrefutable evidence that he didn't foot-fou...
Your Good Day For College Basketball Fans Open Thread
Syracuse at Georgetown is about to tip off. The game comes about two weeks after the Hoyas won in the Land of Orange, but they'll be without Chris Wright, whose 93-consecutive-starts streak will end....
We Are All Dave McKenna XXIII
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit dissipates like any financial worry No. 23 DeAngelo Hall had when Danny Boy signed him to a six-year, $54 million deal in 2009....
The Detroit Pistons Went With A Malcontent-Free Six-Man Roster Last Night
Your morning roundup for Feb. 26, the day San Francisco starts looking for messages in the snow....