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ESPN Mentioned Tim Tebow 137 Times In 120 Minutes
The Worldwide Leader has really outdone itself....
Fuck You, Bill Belichick
I was close, Bill Belichick. I was thissss close to spending an entire NFL season free of Tebowmania, or Tebow Time, or whatever fucking brand stamp ESPN decides to put on all its coverage of the Jesusback. I was really looking forward to it, too. I was gonna watch every game safe in the knowledg...
Fan In San Diego Can't Get To Home Run Ball, So He Leaps Into Bushes
It's the late innings, the Padres are way ahead, and whoaboyherecomesahomerunball....
Next Round Of ESPN Layoffs Coming This Week
Layoffs are coming to ESPN's production unit this week, according to several sources. A tipster told me this morning that "tension is at an all time high in production operations," and the cuts will begin tomorrow....
Royal Flushed
Here's Michael Mooney's 2008 story about poker for the New Times:...
Sometimes, Victory Can Be Agony Too
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Judge Who Wants Chad Johnson In Jail Is Legally Blind
The story out of Florida domestic court this morning was that Chad Johnson was this close to entering his plea deal when, for some reason, judge Katie McHugh asked him if he was happy with his attorney's performance. Johnson said yes and slapped his ass. When Judge McHugh saw this she rescinded the...
Here's The Scene At Wrigley Tonight
Kind of an improvement....
Kobe Bryant Got His Parents To Apologize To Him In Writing
Every kid's dream, right? Minus the whole ugly-lawsuit-over-personal-belongings part, anyway....
The Rays' Alex Cobb Is Having His Twitter Hacked During A Bad Start
So it's a bad day when you give up six runs to the Red Sox in the first inning. It's a bad day, too, when your Twitter gets hacked. Both of those things are happening to Rays pitcher Alex Cobb right now! Don't click on this link....
Custody Battle Over Baby Orphaned By Jovan Belcher's Murder-Suicide
When Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher murdered his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, before killing himself last December, the saddest consequence was that little Zoey Michelle Belcher would be left without parents. Relatives of both Belcher and Perkins have staked custody claims, and they can't agree on...
Want Free Stanley Cup Tickets? Try Impressing This Craigslist Weirdo
Are you a Chicago Blackhawks fan who desperately wants to go to Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Wednesday? Well this is your lucky day, because somebody is offering up two free tickets to the game on Craigslist. But don't go thinking that you won't be earning these tickets, buddy. Oh no, if you ...
Here Is Video Of The Latest Pacman Jones Incident
ESPN radio in Cincinnati got hold of the security footage that shows Bengals cornerback Pacman Jones hitting a woman after the woman first came toward him with what looks like a bottle. The altercation, which happened last week outside a Cincinnati bar, begins around the 1-minute mark of the video b...
A Japanese Team Was Interested In Alex Rodriguez
There's nothing the Yankees can do about the five years and $114 million remaining on Alex Rodriguez's contract unless he retires, or unless they can find a Japanese GM who hasn't been paying attention to MLB for the last three seasons....
Tim Donaghy On Game 2: Trying To Keep A Blowout Interesting
As he has done for us in years past, Tim Donaghy, the owner and operator of RefPicks.com and a former NBA referee who spent 11 months in prison for relaying inside information to gamblers, will review the performance of his former colleagues during the NBA Finals. Here's a quarter-by-quarter breakdo...
Fred Smoot Has A New Disgusting Term To Explain The Love Boat
Former NFL cornerback Fred Smoot, late of double-donging two hookers while on the Vikings sex boat, is trying to make it big in the D.C. sports-talk-radio biz now, and accordingly he's spilling everywhere he can. Spilling his stories. Jeez. You're gross. He did an ask me anything on Reddit today, wi...