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Haughty Dipshit Gregg Easterbrook Makes Terrible Book Recommendations
For today's Buffalo News, columnist Greg Connors did a neat thing, asking a bunch of sports media people—some local, some national—to name their favorite sports books. They listed some really good titles, and it's fun to see what writers like Bryan Curtis, Will Leitch, and Josh Levin came up with. Y...
Football Player Who Was Convinced He Had CTE Found To Have CTE
The really heartbreaking thing about today's Associated Press profile of former college linebacker Michael Keck, who died last year at age 25 from unrelated causes, is just how damned banal it is. Normal kid plays football. Normal kid suffers head injuries. Normal kid turns violent and depressed and...
Michael Sam Bailed A Fan Out On An Unpayable Twitter Bet
Michael Sam sacked Johnny Manziel on Saturday. It was all very exciting. Sam did the "money" thing and everything. And, through a roundabout fashion, a bad-idea Twitter bet turned into a donation to a good charity. Everybody won....
Report: Jets Sad That Backup Michael Vick's Cool With Being Backup
Today's Michael Vick is obviously not 2006 Michael Vick, but the Jets picked him up in an attempt to push second-year quarterback Geno Smith to suck less. Then, they told Vick they were going with Smith, barring a disaster. Believe it or not, the 34-year-old Vick accepted that he'd be a backup, and ...
The Lady Was A Champ
The latest from Michael Brick over at SB Nation:...
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Cop Pointing Rifle At Ferguson Protestors: "I Will Fucking Kill You" [UPDATE]
This is remarkably bad copping. ...
Washington Players Paid Tribute To Michael Brown
Last night, Washington's defensive backs entered the field with their hands held high, a silent but striking tribute to Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old shot to death by police in Ferguson, Mo., earlier this month....
The Gay Games Show What The Future Of Sports Can Be
The more we learn about the differences between sex, sexuality, and gender, the more opportunity there is for sports to really muck it up. Therefor, it's illuminating to examine how the Gay Games, a quadrennial event currently underway in Akron and Cleveland, Ohio, handle the issue. ...
America Is Not For Black People
The United States of America is not for black people. We know this, and then we put it out of our minds, and then something happens to remind us. Saturday, in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., something like that happened: An unarmed 18-year-old black man was executed by police in broad dayli...
Huge Wreck Delays Cheez-It 355
Ryan Newman and Michael McDowell were involved in a significant wreck at the Cheez-It 355 in Watkins Glen that destroyed both cars. Ryan Newman spun out, slammed into the wall, and then spun back out into the track where he hit Michael McDowell. McDowell then went just has hard into the barrier on t...
The Time MJ Reffed A 3-On-3 Game Between NBA Stars And Sumo Wrestlers
Here's some fascinating video out of 1996 Japan. While on a promotional tour for Nike, Charles Barkley, Jason Kidd and Michael Finley took on three sumo wrestlers in a game refereed by Michael Jordan. ...
Video: Michael Jordan's And Kobe Bryant's Games Were Remarkably Similar
Youtuber Youssef Hannoun has put together this video showing Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant pulling off identical plays, sometimes switching between the two mid-play. It's uncanny....
How Dan Snyder Bought Off The D.C. Media
In 2000, then-editor Wes Pruden of the Washington Times blasted Dan Snyder's efforts to control the flow of information about the Redskins as "chickenshit" tactics....
What If Baseball's Unwritten Rules Applied To Real Life?
No time for charming intros, so let's get right to it. ...
Tony Dungy Still Isn't Sure What The Problem Is
Tony Dungy tried again today to explain his Michael Sam comments, this time on the The Dan Patrick Show, and it somehow became all about Jonathan Martin. ...
Michael Sam On Dungy: "Thank God He Wasn't The St. Louis Rams Coach"
Maybe Tony Dungy really should rethink whether he would draft a guy like Michael Sam because, for a player dealing with his first NFL training camp controversy, Sam responded to Dungy's I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin' homophobia pretty perfectly. He was funny, mildly self-deprecating, and even said ...
Tony Dungy Is Sorry You Made Such A Big Deal Over What He Said
Tony Dungy has released a statement on his comments that he wouldn't draft Michael Sam. And wouldn't you know it, we're all really to blame....
How To Legitimize Bigotry: Embrace Debate
This morning, Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless shouted at each other about Tony Dungy's comments that Michael Sam's sexuality would be an overriding distraction in an NFL locker room, and whether it was a bigger distraction that Michael Vick's return from prison. I'm sorry, that's the worst sente...
Keith Olbermann Blasts Tony Dungy
On last night's show, Keith Olbermann took Tony Dungy to task for his comments that he "wouldn't have taken" Michael Sam because he "wouldn't want to deal with" the accompanying distractions. ...