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38-Year-Old Rasheed Wallace Would Only Be The Fourth-Oldest Player On Knicks Roster

According to ESPN's Jared Zwerling, Rasheed Wallace is all but officially announced as a New York Knick. Ideally, he'd play some minutes behind Tyson Chandler and lead the team in technical fouls. Wallace was last seen in the NBA yelling at referees after the 2010 NBA Finals....

Maurice Jones-Drew Still Sounds Pretty Ticked Off At Jags Management

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: The issues that prompted his holdout? They're still issues....

Justin Timberlake Opened The Ryder Cup By Reading A Shitty Poem About Golf

Justin Timberlake is serving as a Team USA "Ambassador" for this year's Ryder Cup at Medinah, a job title apparently created especially for the pop singer, actor and golf lover. Timberlake's appearance at today's opening ceremony was preceded by an introduction by Olympian Michael Phelps and accom...

ESPN Spoils Its Own Demetrius Jackson Announcement (He's Going To Notre Dame), Then Pulls Spoiler Video [UPDATE]

Well, ESPN's Dave Telep had quite a scoop earlier today. A video by Telep was posted to ESPN about an hour ago that reported big time basketball recruit and point guard Demetrius Jackson was heading to Notre Dame. The video was titled "Telep: Jackson's Impact on Notre Dame." For folks following this...

Seahawks Truthers Continue To Insist Golden Tate Caught That Touchdown

Everyone still refers to Seattle's game-winning touchdown as "controversial," but that's a misnomer. It's actually one of the least controversial plays out there, one that everyone from sports writers to casual fans agree should have been an interception. This is only a slight simplification, but th...

Charles Barkley Lost Money On Packers-Seahawks, And He's Mad As Hell

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: Barkley learned a valuable lesson about replacement refs and bad breaks....

The NFL Told Broadcasters To Go Easy On The Scab Refs

Hoo boy. Notice how every broadcaster has come down so hard on the replacement refs? But it only really seemed to start in Week 2? This is not a coincidence....

Some College In Minnesota Painted Its Midfield Logo On The Wrong Yard Line

The University of Minnesota, Crookston, allows student volunteers to paint the logo on the field in advance of its homecoming game. But when the students got to working on the midfield "M" last Friday, they inadvertently skipped a step and did it before the yard markers were on the field. A mistake,...

Official Who Signaled Seahawks Touchdown Was Deemed Not Ready For Division I Football This Summer

To clear things up: Yes, the owners are wholly responsible for the lockout. But we identify and delve into the backgrounds of the replacement refs not to be mean, but for two legitimate reasons. First, they're scabs, and without them crossing the picket line, the lockout would have been over months ...

Ask George Atallah, Spokesman For The NFL Players Association, About Last Night's Shitshow In Seattle

As the NFLPA's assistant executive director for external affairs, George Atallah is the official spokesman for the NFL players. As you might expect, he's a busy man right now. "What a nutty day," he told us earlier, when we approached him to see if he'd be willing to do a live chat. ...

Did This Angry Packers Fan Hock A Mean Loogie On The NFL Headquarters' Window? [UPDATE: Yes, As Confirmed By The Spitter Himself]

This afternoon, we were forwarded the following email from someone who claims to work in the same building where the NFL league offices are housed:...

No, The Scab Refs Do Not Make The NFL More Exciting

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What Can NFL Players Do To End The Referee Lockout (Besides Tweeting About It)?

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Clarification: SportsBook.ag Is NOT Refunding American Gamblers Who Bet On The Packers

PR stunt? Sure as hell sounds like a PR stunt, one that's going to piss off a lot of people who thought they were getting their money back....

Packers Lineman Josh Sitton Is More Upset With Pete Carroll And Golden Tate Than He Is The Replacement Officials

Green Bay Packers guard Josh Sitton, whose angry postgame tweets made him an Internet superstar (and quadrupled his follower count overnight), appeared on The Jim Rome Show today and remarked that while replacement officials "have no idea what they're doing" and stated he'd go on strike if it was ...

NFL Admits Very, Very Quietly That The Seahawks' "Touchdown" "Catch" Could've Been Overturned

Here is the most important part of the NFL's official statement on the final play of last night's Packers-Seahawks game:...

The Packers-Seahawks Refs: Who Are Those Guys?

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Here's The NFL's Official Statement On The Refereeing Clusterfuck

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New Jersey State Senator Wants To Ban Replacement Referees

After witnessing the debacle that was last night's Packers-Seahawks game, New Jersey state senator Stephen Sweeney announced that he is planning to introduce legislation that will ban replacement officials from being used in professional sporting events, a move that is totally reasonable and defini...

Join us at 3 for a live chat with George Atallah, the spokesman for the NFL Players Association. What to talk about?...