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10 Years Ago Today, Joe Namath Wanted To Kiss You
Ten years! Where does the time go? A decade ago tonight, a Monday Night Football game between the Jets and Patriots, a drunken Joe Namath slurred and flirted his way through the most awkward sideline interview of all time....

Is Kobe Blood Doping? What Those Trips To Germany Are Really About
Kobe Bryant is just back from a ruptured Achilles tendon, but that doesn't mean the rest of him is magically fixed. He's still got to deal with all the damage that 18 years of professional basketball inflicts on the human body. In recent years, that's meant a trip to Germany and a promising, somewha...

Darryl Sutter's Math Will Make Your Brain Hurt
Here's Kings coach Darryl Sutter speaking at practice today, transcribed by LA Kings Insider and brought to our attention by Robert P. of Jewels From The Crown: ...

Pot Isn't Life And Death, And Tyrann Mathieu Isn't A Redemption Story
Tyrann Mathieu smoked some weed in college. If we're going to play this brain-dead association game, let's start by being clear about what he actually did. He smoked some weed, somehow got vilified for it, was thrown off his football team, went to rehab for weed, and now plays for the Arizona Cardin...

Off-Broadway Joe: The Song And Dance Of A Playboy Nearing Middle Age
Originally published in the July 1981 issue of Inside Sports. Reprinted here with the author's permission. For more on Namath, check out this reprint of a frank Playboy interview from 1969....

That Time Mike Matheny Took A Fastball To The Face And Barely Flinched
The World Series begins tonight, which means it's as good an occasion as any to look back at one of the more memorable moments from Cardinals manager Mike Matheny's playing career: The night a 90-something-mph fastball hit him square in the face and he barely reacted....

Tyrann Mathieu Returns To Louisiana, Gets First NFL Interception
The Cardinals still trail the Saints, but the Honey Badger came home, and he picked off Drew Brees. ...

Read this: On The Stacks, we've dug up a great old Playboy interview with Joe Namath in which he talks about sex, the mob, his racist college nickname, sex, women, sex with women, sex with women before important football games, and how many women he's had sex with. It is the most 1969 thing you'll ...

<em>Playboy</em>'s Candid Conversation With The Superswinger QB, Joe Namath
This interview, from 1969, is part of The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods, an ebook anthology that also includes conversations with Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Bill Jean King, Barry Bonds, and more. Buy it today at Amazon....

RGIII Would Like To Confuse The Hell Out Of You With This Quote
Robert Griffin III has been working with the first-team offense, and though the final approval from Dr. James Andrews is still pending, it's a given that he'll be starting in Week 1. But when asked to quantify just how ready he is, Griffin only made everyone's heads hurt....

This Soccer Photo Is An Incredible Optical Illusion
This Reuters photo, from today's Belgium-France friendly, has not been altered in any way. (Full version here.) Mathieu Valbuena is short, about 5'6"— but here he's leaning back at the exact perfect angle to make this look like Dorf on Soccer....

The NFL Is Banning Certain Customized Facemasks, For Some Reason
Customized facemasks are no longer welcome in the NFL, unless a player has a medical reason for wearing one....

Remember When Joe Namath Was Accused Of Beating Up A Reporter?
This one's dedicated to one SEC quarterback under fire for his hard-partying ways, and one Jets QB struggling to balance his on-field and off-the-field activities: It could be so much worse. It could be like Joe Namath, who 46 years (and one day) ago broke training camp curfew, got hammered at a bar...

The Cowboys Are Going To Lead The League In Geometry Exam Scores
College boy Jason Garrett wants his team to spend some time in training camp brushing up on the Pythagorean theorem. His explanation is remarkably logical!...

Stealing Signs In Baseball: A Hall Of Famer's Guide
There are many fair ways to steal the signs of the enemy, so many that the smart ball-player is always kept on the alert by them. Baseball geniuses, some almost magicians, are constantly looking for new schemes to find out what the catcher is telling the pitcher, what the batter is tipping the base...


All Night Long
Back in 1969, Jimmy Breslin spent a night hanging out with Broadway Joe Namath:...

It's Only A Matter Of Time Before Someone Says "Shushgate"
Aw, crap. It was me. ...