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Curt Schilling Is Just Going To Pretend He Didn't Say That Thing He Said

Sporadic baseball analyst Curt Schilling tuned in to Game 5 of the World Series last night, and he was really in favor of keeping Mets starter Matt Harvey in for the whole game, until he wasn’t. The progression of tweets is a fun ride....

Terry Collins Made The Right Call On Matt Harvey And Still Screwed Up

It was a Mets season that began with, and briefly threatened to founder upon, questions of how many innings Matt Harvey would be allowed to throw, and for how many innings he’d be able to be effective. In the end, Harvey threw 216 innings—the most ever for a pitcher coming off of Tommy John surgery—...

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Mateen Cleaves Is Being Investigated For Sexual Assault

Wayne County (Michigan) prosecutors are investigating former NBA player Mateen Cleaves for a possible sexual assault. The case was initially to be processed in Genesee County, but it was transferred due to a potential conflict of interest. Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton told MLive:...

Lee Corso Does Butt Chugs: Today's James Madison <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup

College GameDay made its annual FCS site visit, this time to Harrisonburg for today’s James Madison-Richmond matchup. The signs... are mostly regrettable....

Vince Wilfork Speaks Out About His Friend Killed By A Cop

Vince Wilfork’s childhood friend Corey Jones was shot dead on Sunday by Palm Beach Gardens (Fla.) police officer Nouman Raja. Wilfork spoke yesterday about doing what he can to make sure justice is served....

Don Mattingly And The Dodgers Have Reportedly Parted Ways

CBS Sports’ Jon Heyman is reporting that the Los Angeles Dodgers and manager Don Mattingly have come to a mutual agreement to part ways....

ESPN Gets A Ridiculous Amount Of Traffic From Fantasy Football News

ESPN may be getting ready to lay off a few hundred people, but the sports media behemoth still wants the world to know that it commands the attention of the all the world’s sports fans. ESPN just put out a rather boring press release trumpeting the 94.4 million unique visitors raked in by ESPN.com i...

Matt Harvey Took Out Insurance On His Arm

The controversy over Matt Harvey’s innings limit turned out to be a lot of nothing: the Mets merely skipped Harvey’s starts and gave him shorter outings, and he’s off the leash for however long this playoff run lasts. But that doesn’t change the fact that Harvey’s already thrown 23 more innings than...

How To Clean A Mattress, And Why

Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She’ll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Check the Squalor Archive for assistance. Are you still dirty? Email her....

Matt Millen Has Some Strong Opinions On Targeting

Northwestern’s Matthew Harris got called for targeting on this tackle on Michigan QB Jake Rudock. Harris was initially ejected, but the call was rescinded. Matt Millen was on the call and he asserted that were he to target, you’d know it:...

Jason Bourne Is The Paranoid-Assassin Hero America Needed, And Deserved

I don’t know if I can call Matt Damon’s Bourne movies the best action franchise that’s come along thus far this century. After all, the original Fast and the Furious came out in 2001, a year before The Bourne Identity, and the idea of picking between Fast and Bourne is the kind of thing that makes m...

Matt Hasselbeck Went From Puking And Pooping To Beating The Texans

What Matt Hasselbeck did was undeniably impressive: overcoming oldness and a “bacterial infection” that hospitalized him earlier this week to lead the Colts to a 27-20 win over the Texans, Indy’s second straight win over a divisional opponent without the services of Andrew Luck. But the Colts appear...

Matt Barnes Claims He Went To Estranged Wife's House Because He Was Worried About His Son

Today, Matt Barnes attempted to clarify his version of his uninvited weekend trip to estranged wife Gloria Govan’s home, where he allegedly fought former Lakers teammate and current Knicks head coach Derek Fisher. The 35-year-old claimed he drove to Redondo Beach after talking to his 6-year-old son,...

The Colts Are An Absolute Mess At Quarterback

The Colts have got to be cursing the NFL schedule makers for sticking them with the Thursday night game this week, because if there was ever a team that needed a few more days to rest up, it’s this one....

Matt Barnes Terrorizes Ex, Amusing Sportswriters

This past Saturday, Memphis Grizzlies forward Matt Barnes reportedly drove nearly a hundred miles from Santa Barbara to the Los Angeles home of his estranged wife Gloria Govan—whom he was arrested on suspicion of abusing in 2010—to harass and physically attack New York Knicks coach Derek Fisher for ...

Report: Matt Barnes Drove To Los Angeles To Fight Derek Fisher For Dating His Estranged Wife

Grizzlies forward Matt Barnes drove to his estranged wife’s Los Angeles home last Saturday when he learned that former Lakers teammate and current Knicks coach Derek Fisher was seeing her, according to the New York Post....

The Matt Harvey "Stuck In Traffic" Story Has Already Fallen Apart

Matt Harvey missed a mandatory workout today. The initial word—what Harvey apparently told the Mets—was that he was stuck in tunnel traffic. OK, it happens, traffic in this city sucks. But then Harvey finally made it to Citi Field and gave a different version of events....

Anyone Seen Matt Harvey? The Mets Are Looking For Him [UPDATE]

The Mets held a mandatory workout today, but starting pitcher Matt Harvey didn’t show up. Nobody seems to know where he is:...

Michael Bennett Crashes Postgame Interview To Demand Kam Chancellor Be Paid

Since returning from his holdout, Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor hasn’t done anything but lead an outright destruction of the Chicago Bears and save his teammates’ asses with one of the more brilliant individual efforts you’ll ever see on a defensive play. In other words, it’s been a good two weeks ...