mo Page 523 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
How Muhammad Ali Conquered Fear And Changed the World
More Ali. This one's from Mikal Gilmore, Men's Journal, 2011:...
WVU Player Commits Robbery In Team-Issued Sweatpants, Gets Arrested
When robbing someone, make sure your victim can't identify you by your football team number plastered on your pants....
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Florida's Antonio Morrison Arrested For Barking At A Police Dog [UPDATING]
Florida linebacker Antonio Morrison, arrested in June over a dispute at a nightclub, was arrested again late Saturday night on charges of resisting an officer without violence and harassing a police animal—because he barked at a dog....
Auction House Offering $1 Million For Signed Black Sox Confessions
The sports auction house Leland's announced on Thursday that it was willing to pay $1 million for the signed confessions of the eight Chicago White Sox accused of throwing the 1919 World Series, which the heavily-favored Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds. The only problem is, they might not exist....
American Hero
If you're in New York anytime over the next six months do yourself a favor and head over to the Museum of Modern Art and see the Walker Evans show....
Vat The Hell Is This? It's Garbage, That's What It Is
And while we're talkin' Mel Brooks, you must for to watch this:...
Measuring The Ridiculous Physics Of Disney's <em>Hercules</em>
Two years ago, our friends at the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective applied their usual rigorous statistical scrutiny to a series of basketball movies. We pick up the idea again with this analysis of Hercules, by Anthony Zonfrelli and Dmitri Ilushin....
Hey Look, Kent Bazemore Is Also Good At Dunking
Warriors guard Kent Bazemore captured the hearts and minds of NBA fans everywhere when he became the league's preeminent bench-warming hype man during the Warriors' playoff run last season. It's hard to think about Steph Curry raining threes all over the Nuggets without also thinking about Bazemore...
The Last Swinger
Earlier this year, Tom Junod was kind enough to let me reprint his 1996 GQ Tony Curtis profile, "The Last Swinger" over on The Banter....
Send Us The Worst Moment Of Your Life
Richard Deitsch has been collecting followers' photos of the best moments of their lives. It's mostly ugly babies. So we're putting out the call: Please email [email protected] with photos or video of The Worst Moment of Your Life....
How Fox Faked Crowd Enthusiasm For Neil Diamond Last Night
Last night's MLB All-Star Game in New York featured a few high moments, several low moments, and one weird moment. Neil Diamond's distorted, off-tempo rendition of "Sweet Caroline" just prior to Mariano Rivera's final appearance as an All-Star was one of the worst—but Fox did its best to cover that...
Diamond Nuggets
From Roy Blount, writing for the Atlantic back in 1997:...
Driver Slams Car Into Motorcyclist, Because Russia
Just another dashboard-cam reminder that Russia and driving don't mix. Good thing this guy stops to check the damage to his vehicle first....
Marrying Television, Football Gained An Audience But Lost A Game
Dig Sherry Kafka's 1973 Texas Monthly article on Don Meredith: "Tuning In Dandy Don":...
LeeRoy, He Ain't Here No More
Pete Dexter's 1980 story on LeeRoy Yarbrough for Inside Sports has a chilling lede:...
Steve "Mongo" McMichael Ran A Red Light, Has Sub-Par Letter Carrier
From a reader and neighbor of the former Super Bowl champ:...
Ex-NFL Player Charged With Leaving Toddler In Car At Strip Club
Former University of Florida linebacker Monty Grow, who later played two NFL seasons as a defensive back for the Chiefs and Jaguars, faces a child abuse charge after allegedly leaving a 3-year-old girl in his car while he hung out at a strip club....
“I Think That ‘E’ Made The Whole Fucking Difference”
From Hollywood: Stars and starlets, tycoons and flesh-peddlers, moviemakers and moneymakers, frauds and geniuses, hopefuls and has-been, great lover and sex symbols, Garson Kanin's appealing, gossipy memoir:...