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Raiders Owner Mark Davis Cheered By Fans He Wants To Abandon Or Steal From
The NFL held its third and final town hall meeting on relocation last night. After giving fans in San Diego and St. Louis a chance to vent and make a case for why their football teams shouldn’t be relocated to Los Angeles, a group of NFL execs trudged into the Paramount Theater in Oakland to hear it...

Mark Cuban Is Still Incredibly Heated About The DeAndre Jordan War
Over the summer the Dallas Mavericks thought they had signed DeAndre Jordan, only for him to renege on his verbal commitment and re-sign with the Clippers. The NBA schedule-makers—ever the delightful trolls—gave us a national TV Mavericks-Clippers game for the Clippers’ home opener, and reporters na...

GM Alex Anthopoulos Shockingly Leaves The Blue Jays, Who Might Be Getting Cheap
GM Alex Anthopoulos, under whose six-year tenure the Blue Jays emerged as one of the best teams in the AL, will not return to Toronto, reportedly over philosophical disagreements over how he built a winner, and concerns that his power over baseball operations would be severely curtailed under a new ...

Mark Davis Travels 500 Fucking Miles To Look Like That!
Probably no haircut in human history has communicated as devastating a summation of its owner’s entire life as the insane orange Moe Howard bowl cut sported by Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis. Carve the shape of it into the wall of his father Al Davis’s mausoleum and it will tell a richer and truer...

The Raiders Are Less Metal Than We Thought, Will Paint Gold Marks On Field
Dammit, Chris! You lied to us Chris!...

Barry Zito And Tim Hudson Will Face Off On Saturday
Congratulations A’s and Giants fans, you did it! You successfully wished something cool into existence!...

Vernon Adams Jr. Says He'll Play After Taking Cheap Shot To The Head
Oregon quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. told media he’ll play this Saturday against Michigan State despite being dazed by a shot to the head that knocked him from this past weekend’s game against Eastern Washington....

Markieff Morris Says He Won't Be A Sun Next Season, Demands Team Trade Him
In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer Tuesday, Phoenix Suns power forward Markieff Morris got straight to the point: he has no intention of playing in Phoenix next season, and the Suns should trade him sooner rather than later....

Mark Teixeira Yelled At A Coach And Beat Up A Trash Can
It’s been a resurgent season for Mark Teixeira and the first-place Yankees, but that doesn’t mean he still can’t get frustrated. A combination of Leonys Martin’s defense and an underzealous third-base coach had Teixeira taking out his anger on objects both animate and inanimate....


Pacers Unveil Corny <i>Hoosiers-</i>Inspired Alternate Jerseys
In what will probably go down as the most effective marketing ploy directed solely at white people since the invention of gourmet mayonnaise, the Indiana Pacers have announced that the team will wear Hickory High jerseys—the very same worn by the fictional high school basketball team in the movie Ho...

Mark Cuban Will Not Accept DeAndre Jordan's Twitter Apology
Dallas Mavericks owner and world’s last Cyber Dust user Mark Cuban is still fed up with Clippers center DeAndre Jordan. ...

Cuban: I Went To DeAndre Jordan's House, But He Said He Was On A Date
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has more to say about losing DeAndre Jordan to the Clippers, specifically ESPN dingus Chris Broussard’s reports that he was driving around Houston like a madman trying to find Jordan’s house on Wednesday night. ...

It Was A Crazy Night, But DeAndre Jordan Re-Signed With The Clippers
One of the most bizarre free agencies in NBA history is set to draw to a close, and the ending is definitely the weirdest part about it....

A Sure-Why-Not Theory Explains Why The Mavs Might Lose DeAndre Jordan
DeAndre Jordan was all set to become a Dallas Maverick last week, but now he might be staying in Los Angeles after all, and everyone is wondering what the hell happened. Well, good news! We just received an illustrated theory from a tipster that lays out a very compelling case for how the Clippers g...

The Greatest Hurdler In The World Makes His Escape From Perfection
This piece originally appeared in the June, 1988 issue of Esquire, and is featured in the essential new anthology, Great Men Die Twice: The Selected Works of Mark Kram....

Fuck This Bear: <i>Ted 2</i>,<i> </i>Reviewed
1. How sincere is Sincere Seth MacFarlane? I know I’m a dope for even asking—associating a genuine emotion with such a sniggering clown is a sucker’s bet—but I really do want to know. Because Ted 2 has moments, lots of moments, that it seems to play completely straight, as if we are watching an actu...

Only the Lonely
Over at The New York Review of Books, check out this essay by the late Mark Strand on Edward Hopper:...

NBC Sports Chairman Has Pushed NHL Players To Shave Their Playoff Beards
NBC appears to “get” hockey in a way that ESPN never wanted to. That’s apparently mostly thanks to middle management, because the head of NBC Sports thinks one of hockey’s most venerated traditions is just getting in the way of marketing....

Cavs Fan Promises To Eat Ancient Mark Price Bar If Cleveland Wins
Cavaliers fan Tim Brady has sworn he will consume a long-frozen Mark Price chocolate bar if Cleveland wins an NBA title. We can tell him from personal experience that this is a very bad idea....