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FBI Informants: 1981-82 Knicks Shaved Points For Drug Dealer
Three members of the 1981-82 Knicks reportedly fixed games as a favor to their drug dealer, according to FBI documents....
Report: Giants Plan To Work Out Kerry Rhodes On Tuesday
The fact that no NFL team signed or even worked out All-Pro safety Kerry Rhodes in the offseason is mind-boggling, but at least one team now wants to give him a look....
How To Pitch A Perfect Ninth In A One-Run Game And Not Get A Save
In the same game that brought you this bibelot, Mariano Rivera entered the ninth inning with the Yankees up one run. He retired the Orioles 1-2-3. He did not get the save—but he did get a win. Huh?...
Alex Rodriguez Is The Hero The Yankees Need But Don't Deserve
Hey, remember Alex Rodriguez? The most evilest, steroid-guzzling clown fraud who just a month ago was at the center of the biggest shit storm of the MLB season? The aged, disgraced slugger that everyone wished would just disappear? Well, his old, flawed team is thisclose to making the playoffs, and ...
Chris Stewart Struck Out On A 1-1 Pitch
Yankees catcher Chris Stewart is...not a good hitter. He might be better if he didn't give up after two strikes....
The Patriots Win Ugly As Tom Brady Looks Ready To Murder His Receivers
Last night's 13 New England win over the Jets was a godsend for fans of frustrated and furious Tom Brady reaction images. Fans of football? Not so much. ...
Giants Player Accused Of Faking Injury Placed On Season-Ending IR
The Giants are really taking this ruse to slow down the Cowboys offense seriously....
More Illustrated NFL Playbook Fun
When we did the Bills edition of Why Your Team Sucks, reader Matt E. sent in a phony drawing of the team's playbook that was so awesome, we asked him to do a few more of them. Here now are the playbooks of five more NFL teams, as designed by Matt:...
Report: Mark Sanchez Likely To Have Season-Ending Surgery
Well, that'll do Mark. That'll do. Mere days after SportsCenter put to rest what will undoubtedly be in the first line of his obituary, Mark Sanchez's season is done. According to Chris Mortensen, Dr. James Andrews has determined that Sanchez has a "labral tear in his right shoulder." Sanchez still ...
Bobby Valentine Says The Yankees Didn't Help Out After 9/11. Really?
Here's Bobby V. doing what Bobby V. does when you put him near a microphone: Making bizarre, unnecessary, and not particularly accurate comments about the 2001 Yankees' response to the September 11th attacks....
The Yankees Will Pay $29 Million In Luxury Tax This Year
The most interesting aspect of the luxury tax penalties isn't what the Yankees are paying for the right to spend money—more than Alex Rodriguez's salary, more than the Astros' entire payroll. It's that the Dodgers, with a nearly identical payroll, owe just a third of the Yankees' tax bill....
J.R. Smith Remembers 9/11 With A Poor Choice Of Words
Oh, J.R. You poor son of a bitch. We're sure you did this with good intentions, but this is not a good look....
The Time MLB Shut Down The Mets' Planned 10th Anniversary 9/11 Tribute
On the 10th anniversary of September 11th, the Mets planned to wear caps honoring the NYPD, FDNY, and other first responders—just as they did during the emotional first game after baseball resumed in 2001. MLB said no way—because it had its own patriotic caps to sell....
Memories Of Terror
I lived in Brooklyn from the fall of '95 to the summer of 2000 and was in my Bronx apartment on the morning of September 11, 2001. But I still had a lot of friends in Brooklyn like my pal who was in his Carroll Gardens apartment. When the second plane hit he walked to his roof to see what was happen...
Chris Smith Got His Brother J.R.'s Face Tattooed On His Back
Monday was J.R. Smith's birthday and to celebrate, Chris Smith apparently got a tattoo of his brother's face on his back. It also say "Always got my back" beneath the portrait. Kind of inspirational, when you think about it. Kind of really weird when you think about it some more. ...
Benches Clear; Buck Showalter And Joe Girardi Need To Be Restrained
Baseball, it's still here! Between innings in Baltimore, a red-faced Buck Showalter came out of the dugout yelling at Joe Girardi and had to be restrained by the home plate umpire....
This 7-Year-Old Jets Fan Is A Little Asshole
And so is his cousin. She posted this on YouTube, and clearly thinks that the fact that this kid is a little asshole is super cute. It's not super cute. It's going to get him punched in the face in ten years....