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Skydivers Involved In Fiery, Two-Plane Crash Caught It All On Video
If two planes are going to collide mid-air, it's probably best that they're full of people who have some experience jumping out of them. Every single person involved in this collision in the sky above Wisconsin on Saturday survived because they were skydivers in the process of executing a jump. It's...
"You Got Fired": Huskies Fans Remind Lane Kiffin Why He's In Seattle
We isolated the audio to give you a few good minutes of Lane Kiffin schadenfreude. Please enjoy....
Impostors Posing As USC Reps Reach Out To Potential Football Coaches
So you know those reports that say USC has reached out to Tony Dungy and (possibly) Jack Del Rio to replace Lane Kiffin? Yeah, well, those overtures never happened. Oh, someone claiming to be from USC did call Dungy and a member of the Denver Broncos coaching staff. Whoever it was just wasn't actual...
Banner Plane Crashes On Flavet Field Before Florida-Arkansas Game
Around 4:00 pm this afternoon, a plane carrying an advertisement for Geico Insurance McDonald's crashed on an unoccupied car in Flavet Field, an open field at the University of Florida that, from the look of it, serves as a tailgating site for Florida games. The Gators are playing the Arkansas Razor...
R.I.P., Lane Kiffin's Career As USC Head Coach (2010-2013)
We won't have Lane Kiffin to kick around anymore, and that makes us a bit sad. We're gonna send Kiffykins out with a bang in the only way we know (and the only way you expect)....
Lane Kiffin Was Fired In The Most Cold-Blooded Way
After last night's 62-41 loss to Arizona State, USC head coach Lane Kiffin was unceremoniously dumped like a bag of trash at the airport by athletic director Pat Haden. Judging from the details, he never saw it coming, and needed a ride home from LAX....
USC Fires Lane Kiffin
He went 28-15 in three seasons and change, with the last of the losses coming yesterday, a 62-41 trash fire against Arizona State. You could see this move coming from the last tree in Siskiyou County. We said as much in our assessment of Kiffin earlier this month. Read it below....
Has Any Coach Ever Done Less With More Than Lane Kiffin?
Watch enough football for long enough, and eventually you'll see everything. I believe this: In this calendar year alone we've seen a one-point safety, a Heisman finalist cop to having an imaginary girlfriend, and a 300-pound left tackle score on a hook-and-lateral, among other improbable feats. And...
Roy Hibbert Wants You To Know He's Too Tall For An Airplane Bathroom
So you were wondering whether a person who's 7-foot-2 can squeeze into the bathroom on a airplane. Never mind. You likely weren't wondering that at all. But Pacers center Roy Hibbert posted proof of the answer on his Instagram anyway. And the answer is that Roy Hibbert cannot squeeze into the bathro...
Two Teens Charged With Murder Of Australian Baseball Player
Two Oklahoma teenagers, ages 15 and 16, were charged with first-degree murder in the thrill killing of college baseball player Chris Lane, and will be tried as adults. A third was charged as an accessory....
Three Oklahoma Teens Allegedly Murder Baseball Player Out Of Boredom
This is just insane. An Australian man playing baseball for East Central University in Oklahoma was shot and killed by three kids, aged 15, 16 and 17, because they were bored. Seriously, that's what one of the kids reportedly told police....
Producer Fired Over “Ho Lee Fuk” Prank Says His Reputation Is “Intack”
That incredible prank that snookered a Bay Area television station into reporting names like "Sum Ting Wong" and "Ho Lee Fuk" as the flight crew of that downed Asiana airplane? It cost three producers at KTVU in the Bay Area their jobs. TheWrap reached out to all three. One of them responded....
NTSB Blames “Summer Intern” For Confirmation Of Fake Asiana 214 Names
That epic prank that someone pulled on Bay Area TV station KTVU? The National Transportation Safety Board is blaming a “summer intern” for their part in it....
Pranked TV Station Reports “Ho Lee Fuk,” “Wi Tu Lo” As SF Crash Pilots
Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU purportedly learned the names of the flight crew of Asiana flight 214, which crashed last Saturday at San Francisco International Airport, killing two. These—"Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow"—are not their names. The newscaster's credulous rea...
Rob Delaney Sang The National Anthem At Dodger Stadium Last Night
When Rob Delaney dies, the first line in his obituary will remind you that he was famous for being funny on Twitter. It may also reference his affinity for farts and hairy beavers. It will now also include "once sang the National Anthem at a Dodgers game." And it wasn't terrible. Yay!...
Scottish Soccer Player Admits To Booze-And-Hooker-Fueled Bender
It was about a month ago when Paul Slane, once a rising star in the Scottish Premier League and a member of Celtic, tweeted out some salacious photos of himself getting, uh, "friendly" with two women (NSFW picture after the jump). This came shortly after Slane suffered a series of debilitating injur...
Combine Interviews With The Bengals Are Not Like Combine Interviews With Other Teams
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: Oklahoma OT Lane Johnson was asked some tough questions....
Seth MacFarlane Wasn't The Worst Oscar Host Ever: In Defense Of A Boob
For Seth MacFarlane's critics, Sunday night was supposed to be the moment we finally got to see the guy get his comeuppance. A "billion" viewers around the world, one of the most prestigious gigs in all of entertainment: As Oscar host, this was his chance to justify his swiftly, perhaps inexplicably...