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Why Howard Beck Left <em>The New York Times</em> For Bleacher Report

"I understand the reactions," Howard Beck said over the phone, "because of where I have been working for the last nine years and because of where I'm going." ...

The NFL Wants $1.5 M. From M.I.A For Flipping The Bird At Super Bowl

Remember when M.I.A. flipped the bird at the Super Bowl halftime show? Yeah, it's sorta fuzzy for me, too. The NFL apparently does remember, and being that this is the NFL, the offense will not go unpunished....

Bleacher Report Poaches Howard Beck From The <em>Times</em>

Well, then. Six weeks after Bleacher Report poached Mike Freeman, Turner's flagship sports site has gone and hired New York Times basketball reporter Howard Beck. ...

BBC Presenter Introduces News Report Holding A Pack Of Printer Paper

We're big fans of the BBC 24-hour news channel around here, but when we saw presenter Simon McCoy introducing a story about drunk tanks while holding a pack of printer paper, we wondered if this was some kind of British journalism tradition that never made its way to our shores....

How An MMA Fighter Faked His Own Death

The Times has produced another intimidatingly pretty story this morning, in the "Snow Fall" vein. This one concerns a low-rent mixed martial arts fighter in Michigan, and unlike with "Snow Fall," you will actually read this and enjoy it immensely and not merely pretend to. ...

Mark May's Twitter Broke And Gave Us So Many Hot Takes

Mark May's Twitter account just went bananas, and it was delightful. Judging by the timeliness of the tweets sent, all of May's drafts went out at the same time. We got a good look at all the gems May chose not to send....

Thanks for the lesson, Phil....

Fox Cuts To Halftime Show With A Minute Left In Vikings-Bears

It's a banner day for Fox production. There have been video problems, audio issues, hinky telestrators, rogue tickers. But this takes the cake....

Fox Ticker Has Spontaneous <em>Spartacus</em> Moment

Orlando CBS Affiliate Apologizing To Viewers For Airing Jaguars Game

Oh, that hurts....

This Is The Most Impressive "Pick-Off Throw" You'll Ever See

I mean, it's not even the pitcher and he uses a bat! These pennant races are crazy....

OK State Registrar: <em>Sports Illustrated</em> Still Hasn't Called Us [Update]

Over the last day, one of Sports Illustrated's main sources for the second part of its five-part investigation into Oklahoma State has been under attack. Fath' Carter claimed that he graduated from the university with a degree in education, and, more significantly, that he and former Cowboys runni...

Ron Morris Again Allowed To Cover Steve Spurrier And South Carolina

A day after Jim Romenesko reported that Steve Spurrier had bullied The State into banning Ron Morris, a columnist often critical of Spurrier and the Gamecocks program, from writing about South Carolina football, the newspaper has backed off its stance....

College Team Limits Media Access. Paper Says <em>OK, We Won't Cover You.</em>

This is the exact reverse of the Steve Spurrier/The State kerfluffle that saw the newspaper bowing to the coach's wishes and taking a critical reporter off the beat. But where in the world does a local newspaper have more power than the football team? The SWAC, obviously....

ESPN: Whitlock's Thayer Evans Comments "Not Acceptable."

Jason Whitlock torpedoed SI's Thayer Evans on Tuesday—"It wouldn’t shock me if Thayer Evans couldn't spell 'cat'"—and now he's running into trouble with his persnickety soon-to-be employers at ESPN. ...

ESPN's Jason Whitlock Craps On Author Of <em>SI's</em> Oklahoma State Story

Jason Whitlock went on the Oklahoma City Sports Animal radio show today to talk about the first part of Sports Illustrated's five-part investigation into Oklahoma State University. He spent a good chunk of time talking shit about Thayer Evans, a former colleague of Whitlock's and one half of the inv...

That Time Jim Harbaugh Broke His Hand Punching Jim Kelly

Coach/angry person Jim Harbaugh is still talking about an incident in yesterday's Niners-Packers game where Clay Matthews took some slaps at the head of Joe Staley during a scrum. "Come with some knuckles," Harbaugh said. He would know....

Jim Mora Jr. Flips Out On Reporter Who Interrupts Him

Yesterday, UCLA Bruins player Nick Pasquale was killed in a car accident. Head coach Jim Mora Jr. spent some time eulogizing Pasquale during today's press conference, but was interrupted by a reporter in the room who was apparently talking loudly on his phone. Pro tip for that reporter: don't do th...

<em>Sports Illustrated</em> Falls For Satire About Nick Saban Visiting Texas

What you see above is the story that went screaming out on the SI Wire at SI.com earlier today. Technically, it's true: Nick Saban is indeed visiting Texas this weekend—but only because Alabama's showdown with Texas A&M is still scheduled for Saturday in College Station. But that's not all SI.com is...

Serena Williams Finally Has A Real Rival: Vika Azarenka

Over the past week, it's been tempting to compare Roger Federer with Serena Williams, two tennis greats approaching the same bad end of the aging curve in very different ways. Federer, 32, lost last week to Tommy Robredo in a three-set blowout in the fourth round. Federer didn't win a Grand Slam thi...