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Are Messi And Barcelona Sending Secret Messages To Help Rebels Smuggle Guns Into Syria?
The answer is, no, obviously not. That would be stupid. But we can't ignore it, because at least one entity is buying into the conspiracy theory that Messi, Pedro and their Barcelona teammates are sending hidden messages to the Syrian resistance via their on-field play in a recent Clásico: Syrian...
Darren Rovell Thinks This Jets Logo With A Crucified Jesus Christ Is Worth Your Attention
There is absolutely no reason why the Jets would need to redo their logo just because Tim Tebow, who happens to be extremely religious, is about to bring his own unique brand of "football" to the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. Therefore, we're confused why CNBC's Darren Rovell would feel com...
Stephen A. Smith And Skip Bayless Are "Best Friends," And Other Horrifying Things We've Learned About "Skippy"
We learned yesterday that Skip Bayless was an Emmy nominee. O, were that where the parade of horrors ended. Instead, the New York Observer is here to torture us further, devoting a cool 2,000 words to a profile of Ol' Skippy. Here are some of the odious things you would read were you to read Thomas ...
Here's Bob Knight Saying "Kentucky" No Fewer Than Five Times This Morning
Bob Knight said the word "Kentucky" five times this morning on ESPN Radio's Mike & Mike In the Morning. Since this is, apparently, important, here's all five of his utterances. A full transcript of the relevant conversation appears below. [ESPN2]...
Twitter's Favorite Anonymous Sportswriter Has Some Thoughts On Bobby Knight's Latest Embarrassing Debacle
Angry former basketball coach Bobby Knight, now an ESPN color analyst, will not speak the name of those loathsome Kentucky Wildcats on air. Most everyone knows this by now, but no one has been able to get Knight on the record regarding his bratty behavior. So when The Big Lead's Jason McIntrye procu...
This 1969 St. Louis Blues Hand-Drawn Media Guide Is Wonderful
We love cool old things. And while this may not be the oldest hockey relic we've come across, it's absolutely one of the coolest....
Skip Bayless, Emmy Nominee
Did you know that sports has its very own Emmy Awards? It's perfectly fair to honor the great work being done out there in the televised sports field, with amazing technical inovation in game broadcasts and shows like Outside the Lines, E:60 and Real Sports doing real, actual journalism on par with ...
Arizona Newscaster Hears Manning Signed With Denver, Lets Out A Big Old "Fuck!" [Update]
Sometimes you can't hide your emotions. Kaley O'Kelley of Good Morning Arizona certainly couldn't, when she found out that Peyton Manning had eschewed the Cardinals for the Denver Broncos. (Unspoken subtext: "Fuck! Kevin Kolb.") [via Jimmy Traina]...
A Clearly Bored Steve Smith Tried (And Failed) To Touch Virtual Graphics On-Air Today
Former Michigan State basketball star Steve Smith is part of the revolving door of Turner basketball analysts feeding the NCAA tournament frenzy on TNT, TBS, and TruTV—and it seems he's already grown bored, given his wandering off-set and into the augmented reality graphics onscreen. It's only mad...
Dick Vitale Couldn't Hear The People Interviewing Him, But That Made The Segment No Less Informative
They're talking a lot of college basketball on the television now. Dick Vitale's the only man in the country who understands it. He knows what's up, and you don't. Certainly the overcaffeinated hosts on WGN's morning show don't. So that's why they're consulting Dickie V. Of course, he can't hear t...
TV Station That Fell For Parody Of Hines Ward Signing With The Ravens Now Says He's "Returning To The Ice"
Pittsburgh's WPXI-TV meant to say Sidney Crosby, just like they never meant to say this....
Tampa Radio Host Who Called NFL Free Agents "Monkeys" Is No Longer Tampa Radio Host
Dan Sileo, who responded to rumors of Jonathan Vilma, Cortland Finnegan, and Vincent Jackson coming to Tampa Bay with an excited "If they get those three monkeys, I'll be good," needs a new job. WDAE cut ties with Sileo today, a day after his remarks....
ESPN Keeps Interrupting Its Programming To Give You Gambling Advice In The Most Annoying Way Possible
"Bullshit." "Ridiculous." "Pissing me off." "Hopefully it never happens again."...
Tampa Radio Host Hopes The Buccaneers Sign "Those Three Monkeys" In Free Agency [UPDATES]
Dan Sileo's your standard issue jock-turned-shock-jock, currently plying his trade at WDAE ("The Sports Animal") in Tampa. A former U of Miami lineman who had a brief stint in the pros, he got into a bit of trouble for exaggerating the length and importance of his NFL career....
DadBoner Unmasked: Cracking The Internet's Biggest Mystery
Last week, we chronicled our efforts to find out the comic mastermind behind the great DadBoner twitter feed, an effort that was met with resistance by certain fans of the feed and by Karl Welzein himself, not to mention his fictional wife Ann Welzein. But that didn't stop tipsters from flooding us ...
Clippers Broadcaster Michael Eaves Spends Commercial Break Talking About "Bums" And Naked Girls
The NBA's had some technical issues today in their network distributing the League Pass package and one of them let viewers in on the private thoughts of Los Angeles Clippers broadcaster Michael Eaves, who during a commercial break expounded upon the use of the word "bum" and addressed a too-quick...
The Prospect Of A Kentucky-North Carolina Championship Game Blew Several Of Dick Vitale's Fuses
Dickie V's one of ESPN's most polarizing personalities, with people falling either on the side of adoration of his positivity or dismissal of his antics. But we can't quite say we've ever seen anything like what happened at the end of ESPN's NCAA Tournament coverage, in which Vitale had a complet...
NBC Stalks Tiger Woods's Car With A Blimp; ESPN Asks If Peyton Manning Was Riding Shotgun
Tiger Woods dropped out of today's final round at the Cadillac Championship, citing leg trouble before he drove away. In an apparent attempt to ascertain the degree of injury based on his driving, the Peacock Net tasked its blimp with chasing Tiger's car as it escaped Doral. It's unclear what's b...
Digger Phelps Does Not Like To Be Touched
ESPN's resident college basketball crank Digger Phelps has let some bad blood boil with fellow analyst Fran Fraschilla today—especially regarding how the North Carolina-NC State game ended—but Phelps's disdain for Fraschilla is no more apparent than in this clip, when Digger really, really does n...
We Interrupt This Report On Performing Breast Self-Exams To Bring You Stalker Video Of Peyton Manning's Plane
Denver station KMGH had no qualms interrupting a program on breast health to bring viewers the urgent news that Peyton Manning's plane had arrived in the Mile High City so Manning could continue meeting with Broncos staff. Citing Manning as "the greatest free agent of all time, at this moment," K...