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Because Of Some Alleged Hard Bargaining From The Astros, About 60% Of Houston Can't Watch The Rockets
Is there anything worse than a local baseball franchise that hasn't been competitive in four seasons, telegraphs its plans to stay non-competitive by carrying almost no payroll, and is widely expected to occupy the basement of its new league when they switch over this spring? Yes. A local baseball ...
Steve Nash Wipes His Armpits With A Towel, Metta World Peace Uses Same Towel To Wipe His Face
This video comes from last night's Lakers-Rockets game, which ended as another demoralizing loss of the Lakers. That's Steve Nash wiping the sweat from his armpits with a towel, casually handing the towel to his teammate Metta World Peace, and then walking away as World Peace proceeds to bury his ...
Roger Clemens Will Teach Young Astros Pitchers Everything He Knows
I hope everyone is ready for Roger Clemens to make the long, painful transition from controversy-dogged outcast to wizened baseball mentor, because it's going to happen. With two bizarre perjury trials and a flirtation with an MLB cameo in the rearview mirror, Clemens is turning his thoughts to coac...
Rob Parker: <em>First Take</em> Producers Knew What I Was Going To Talk About
Rob Parker's suspension for asking if Robert Griffin III was a "brother or a cornball brother" ends in a week or so and 1.) he really doesn't seem that sorry about what happened and 2.) he says First Take producers knew what he had to say....
The Poor Astros Will Be Sent To Slaughter On Baseball's Opening Night
MLB just announced which two teams will be facing off in the first game of the 2013 season, and the matchup is a curious one. On one side there are the Texas Rangers, a team that has proven itself to be one of the most exciting and watchable squads in baseball over the course of the last three seas...
$70 Million For NASCAR Tracks And Other Surprising Pork In The Fiscal Cliff Bill
Unless you've been nursing a hangover so intense that it has kept you away from the news in recent days, you probably know that the U.S. House voted late yesterday to approve legislation that would avert the so-called "fiscal cliff." The bill was sent to President Obama today for his signature....
It Looks Like Kyrie Irving Had Himself A Nice Christmas (As Did The Two Ladies On His Lap)
Judging from the picture at the right, Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving had himself a pretty great Christmas. Irving tweeted the photo on Christmas day before deleting it and going into a totally inept mode of damage control:...
ESPN Suspends Rob Parker For A Month
After taking a week to think about it, ESPN has hit Rob Parker with a 30-day suspension for his "brother or cornball brother?" comments. Also, ESPN is promising "enhanced editorial oversight" over the show, which means ... well, I'm not sure what. In a statement, Marcia Keegan, vice president of pro...
Rob Parker Lowers The Bar On <em>First Take</em>: Is Robert Griffin III "A Brother Or A Cornball Brother?" [UPDATE]
Yes, amazingly, today's cringe-inducing, bang-your-ahead-against-the-wall moment from First Take does not come from Skip Bayless. It comes from Rob Parker, who is First Take's new Saturday host! He's taking to the role perfectly....
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Workers Are Picketing The Pac-12 Network Broadcasts Today, So Be Sure To Tune In For Some Technical Difficulties [Update]
The Los Angeles Times reports that technical workers for the Pac-12 network—all members of the IATSE— have walked out, and will be on site picketing all Pac-12 networks broadcasts today:...
NASCAR Driver Brad Keselowski Is Tragically Bad At Basketball
We are unabashed fans of Brad Keselowski, because he gave this awesome, boozy victory speech on SportsCenter after winning the Sprint Cup. Keselowski is a good driver and a great interview, but as you can see in the video above, he is a horrendous basketball player....
Interviewer Solicits Questions For Danica Patrick On Facebook; It Goes About How You'd Expect
Before interviewing Danica Patrick yesterday, SBNation's Amy K. Nelson asked her Facebook fans to help her come up with questions for the famous driver. She got over 80 submissions, and right off the bat, they were about as awful as you'd probably expect. Toward the end, Nelson jumped in to express...
Jerry Reinsdorf Will Basically Bribe DePaul To Move To The United Center
DePaul's in the market for a new basketball arena. Currently they're way out at the Allstate Arena, next to the airport, but they'd really like to be closer to campus, or at least somewhere in Chicago. Rocky Wirtz and (especially) Jerry Reinsdorf want them to make the United Center their home, and t...
Brad Keselowski Wins The Sprint Cup, Does Awesome Half-Drunk Interview On <em>SportsCenter</em>
Brad Keselowski won the Sprint Cup last night, which is a NASCAR thing, I think. After winning the cup he went on SportsCenter to give a post-race interview, at which point he transformed into your semi-drunk friend who always corners you at the bar and insists on on the two of you having a "real ...
How ESPN Ditched Journalism And Followed Skip Bayless To The Bottom: A Tim Tebow Story
In October, Doug Gottlieb, a radio host and basketball analyst who'd decamped for CBS the previous month after nine years with ESPN, went on The Dan Patrick Show and dropped something of a truth bomb about his time in Bristol: ...
The Lakers Found A New Coach In Seven Seconds Or Less: Mike D'Antoni
ESPN's Ramona Shelburne and Marc Stein are reporting that the Los Angeles Lakers have settled on Mike D'Antoni as the team's replacement for Mike Brown. This move is surprising for a few reasons, first among them the fact that D'Antoni is still recovering from knee surgery, and as recently as last ...
Jeff Gordon Crashed Out Clint Bowyer, And It Led To A Massive Brawl
Today's AdvoCare 500 in Phoenix was nearly unwatchable in its boringness until late in the race, when all hell broke loose. After Clint Bowyer made contact with Jeff Gordon, Gordon retaliated just before the end of the penultimate lap, wrecking both himself and Bowyer and sparking a brawl between ...
A Skydiver Damaged Kevin Harvick's Car Before Yesterday's Race
Kevin Harvick has never won a Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway, and two hours before Sunday's race he received a sign from above: This wasn't going to be the day....
Stephen A. Smith To Babe: "Family's Fine...Nothing But A Power Outage"
Everyone is, thankfully, safe. We assume that includes jokes-having peeps. ...
The Time Steve Nash Showed Up For Opening Night Wearing A Bow Tie And Sweater
Steve Nash is going to dress how he want to dress. You got a problem with that? You better not, even if he is wearing a salmon (?) sweater and bow tie....