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The Browns' Coaching Search Has Reached DEFCON Schiano
The Cleveland Browns 2014 Coaching Search of Sadness (sponsored by Pilot Flying J) appears to be entering its final days, with a pair of surprise entrants: one guy who had previously taken his name out of the running, and another that many assumed would never coach in this league again....
Mike Francesa Opening A Super Bowl Goodie Bag Is Performance Art
Fans attending the Super Bowl will receive a swag bag full of things to keep them comfortable and warm, like a seat cushion, hat, handwarmers, and so forth. Mike Francesa devoted an entire 10 minutes of his show today to going through the bag and talking about what he pulled out. It was amazing....
Mike Francesa Gets Owned By Earmuffs
Mike Francesa had a special treat for his WFAN listeners this morning: a sneak peek at this year's Super Bowl goody bag. There was, I assume, some good stuff in there, but these earmuffs did not agree with poor Mike....
Joey Goldstein Was A New York City Legend
"I am not a hustler. I am a practitioner who enlightens the American populace and brings joy to the world." Joey Goldstein....
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HBO Boxing Extreme Closeup Is Really Gross [Not Safe For Stomachs]
HBO's airing a bout between Mike Perez and Carlos Takam on the undercard of a Bute-Pascal light heavyweight fight from Montreal tonight, and Perez suffered a nasty cut in the third round. Read on only if you want to see something pretty gross....
This Looks Like Jack Nicholson Telling Mike Brown To Get Out Of His Way
Jack gets the best seats in the house, but those seats aren't very good if you've got a big Mike Brown standing between you and the court. ...
Vikings Hire Pottymouth
The Vikings have hired Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer to be their next coach, according to every football reporter you follow on Twitter. It's his first head coaching gig after being passed over numerous times in a 20-year NFL career. ...
Mike Tomlin Said "Obviously" 322 Times In Press Conferences This Year
We've noticed that Mike Tomlin likes to say "obviously" a lot, but just how much is a lot? Andrew McGill of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has crunched the numbers for the last four years of Tomlin pressers, finding that "obviously" was the coach's 25th-most used word, trailing only essential pieces of...
Tyson, Truth & Toback
Over at her great movie blog, Sunset Gun, Kim Morgan interviews James Toback about his Mike Tyson documentary....
Weekend Stacked
The Stacks now has a weekend home over at The Daily Beast. ...
Bobby Valentine Suspected Ruben Sierra Of Roiding, Was Told To Drop It
Former MLB manager and current NBC baseball analyst Bobby Valentine opened up to WFAN today, expressing exasperation at Mike Piazza's Hall of Fame denial and suggesting that he suspected at least one player of steroid use as early as the 1980's....
The <em>PTI</em> Guys Said Some Really Dumb Things About Dan Le Batard
Here's some on-air ESPN-on-ESPN violence, with Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon giving us their thoughts about their colleague Dan Le Batard's decision to turn his baseball Hall of Fame vote over to Deadspin. Were their takes hot? They were so hot....
Chris Kluwe Says Wishing Unemployment On Mike Priefer Was "Too Harsh"
In his column alleging that Vikings special teams coach Mike Preifer used homophobic slurs and pushed him off the team, Chris Kluwe said he wanted to make sure Priefer "never holds a coaching position again in the NFL, and ideally never coaches at any level." He's backing off that a bit....
Tyson Vs. Ali
A performance piece at PS122 reviewed in the Times and also featured in the Wall Street Journal. ...
Hey Mike Burke, Don't You Wish You Were The Boss Of The Mets?
From Jock magazine, here's Stan Issacs' 1969 story on Mike Burke....
Mike Munchak Left The Titans Rather Than Fire His Assistants
After three seasons in Nashville, all with nine or 10 losses, and 31 years with the organization, Mike Munchak parted ways with the Titans this weekend. And to hear him tell it, he fell on his sword....
Mike Priefer Denies He Is A Bigot
Minnesota Vikings special teams coordinator Mike Priefer has issued a statement in response to former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe's accusation that he is a bigot who once said, "We should round up all the gays, send them to an island, and then nuke it until it glows." In the statement, Priefer claims...
I Was An NFL Player Until I Was Fired By Two Cowards And A Bigot
Hello. My name is Chris Kluwe, and for eight years I was the punter for the Minnesota Vikings. In May 2013, the Vikings released me from the team. At the time, quite a few people asked me if I thought it was because of my recent activism for same-sex marriage rights, and I was very careful in how I ...
The Lesson Of Black Monday: Your NFL Team Doesn't Know What It's Doing
Yesterday was Black Monday in the NFL. My team's coach got fired. Your team's coach got fired. EVERYONE'S coach got fired. If six Fortune 500 CEOs were all shitcanned on the same day, the markets would crash; there'd be barricades in the streets by noon. But it's a telling sign of football cultu...