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Urban Meyer's Former Florida Players Revel In His Failure
Auburn fans (and anyone who hates Ohio State) enjoyed Ohio State's loss to Michigan State in the Big Ten championship last night, foiling the Buckeyes' chance at a national championship. Others with a personal beef—such as, say, some of Meyer's former players and commits at Florida that remained wh...

Rutgers-Camden Advances To Championship On 75-Yard OT Goal
Rutgers-Camden midfielder Keegan Balle scored from 75-yards out, less than two minutes into overtime, to give the Scarlet Raptors a 3-2 win in their semifinal matchup with Loras. Rutgers-Camden tied the game in the 88th minute just to get to overtime....

Ohio Wesleyan Basketball Player Crosses Street, Gets Hit By Cop Car
Caroline Welker, a junior wing at Ohio Wesleyan University, was hit by a Delaware, Ohio police officer driving to the scene of a disturbance in the early hours of Thanksgiving. Welker was in the crosswalk on Central Avenue when officer Mark Jackson turned onto Central and immediately collided with ...

Watch Charles Barkley Ride An NYC Subway For The First Time
The Chuck Wagon was in Brooklyn last night to do color commentary for the Knicks-Nets Toilet Bowl, and since he's a man of the people, he decided to take the subway to the Barclays Center....

Man Pops Out Of Mascot Costume To Propose To Bulls Cheerleader
Who says love is dead?...

The Best Part Of Tonight's Texans-Jaguars Game
You haven't missed much by ignoring tonight's Texans-Jaguars game. Here's one entertaining highlight, though: DeAndre Hopkins and Alan Ball slapping each other around. Come on, guys, stop fighting about whose team is worse. They're both awful....

Just Another Reason To Love Nate Robinson
Nate Robinson has been playing with a banged-up right hand in his last two games, but if you think a messed up shooting hand is going to prevent Nate Robinson from taking pull-up jumpers, you don't know Nate. He's still got a left hand, after all....

Larry Sanders Got Real Pissed Off On Instagram
Full-time Milwaukee Bucks forward and part-time bar-fighter Larry Sanders has taken to Instagram to voice his unhappiness with the media's response to his recent night club antics. Going full-on Nation of Islam, he attributes the negativity to the timeless tale of The Man trying to keep the black ma...

The NBA Is Apparently Handing Out Red Warning Cards To Unruly Fans
This was posted to Reddit last night by a user who claims that his friend was handed this card at an NBA game....

Mexico City Smoke-Out Only Second Strangest Delay In Spurs History
The NBA's "Global Games" are off to a hilarious start. I mean, it wasn't funny for the 22,000 Mexico City fans who didn't get a chance to watch the Spurs and Timberwolves thanks to the arena filling up with smoke, but images like Tony Parker masking up and rushing into a burning building are pretty ...

Here's The Smoky Arena Before The Wolves-Spurs Game
You had one job, Mexico City. One. Job....

Milwaukee PD Says This Is Video Of Larry Sanders In A Bar Fight
The Milwaukee Bucks' young ref-thumbing 6-foot-11 occasional defensive lynchpin tore a thumb ligament last month during a bar fight for which the city fuzz are going to cite him....

This Nick Young Impression From Byron Scott and James Worthy Is Epic
So, this is just great. Former Los Angeles Lakers teammates Byron Scott and James Worthy were on Time Warner Cable Sportsnet prior to a Lakers game, when they were charged with doing their best Nick "Swaggy P" Young impression. Turns out, Swaggy P sounds exactly how we all expect Swaggy P to sound....

Nuggets Announcer Praises Timofey Mozgov's "One Hand Jobby"
Nuggets center Timofey Mozgov had a fantastic game last night, finishing with 17 points and 20 rebounds against the band of desiccated corpses that currently makes up the Nets roster. But none of Mozgov's points were as impressive as the two he scored here, after executing a smooth "one hand jobby."...

Avery Bradley Knocks Down Astounding Behind-The-Backboard Shot
Look at Avery Bradley putting up a nice highlight for the Celtics! With the shot clock winding down, Bradley salvaged Jared Sullinger's airball, sinking a fantastic shot from behind the backboard to avoid a 24-second violation. He didn't even need a helpful bounce....

"Real America," Minus The Condescension: <em>Out Of The Furnace</em>, Reviewed.
When Barack Obama made his comment during the 2008 presidential campaign about some Americans clinging to "guns and religion" during hard times, he might have been referring to the characters in Out of the Furnace, the new drama from Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper. A subdued portrait of a blue-co...

The Dumb Iron Bowl Question You Were Afraid To Ask
I watched the Iron Bowl on Saturday and after basking in the glorious HOLYSHIT-ness of it all, I wondered what would happen if you returned a field goal in the middle of a game but failed to bring it all the way to the house. Do you get the ball at the spot you returned it? Or does the ball automa...
