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Penn State Students Get It Right With The "Blue Out"
A Nittany Lions football game is going to happen tomorrow, whether we're ready for it or not. It was never going to not happen, no matter how hyperbolic the calls for death penalties both literal and figurative. It would be nice if there could be more clarity to a murky situation by game day, but co...
Elderly San Diego Woman Wakes Up To Find Drunk Chargers Fan Passed Out On Her Couch
In Pacific Beach—far from Qualcomm Stadium—an 81-year-old woman woke up today to find a man wearing a Chargers jersey asleep on her couch. He's charged with public intoxication and believing in Philip Rivers. [San Diego Union-Tribune, via Sportress of Blogitude]...
Preeminent Knuckleballers Hang Out Together In Their Spare Time
Unlikely Mets ace R.A. Dickey tweeted last night about an event that we've imagined so often in our dreams. Great knuckleballers are friends in real life!...
Sandusky Made Nearly $500K At The Second Mile After Admitting He Showered With A Boy, According To Tax Records
We've obtained tax returns for The Second Mile charity from 1998 to present. Some disturbing tidbits in there. Easily the most disturbing is the amount of money Jerry Sandusky earned through his nonprofit organization after 1998, when at least one person affiliated with The Second Mile learned that ...
Swedish Hockey Player Snaps Stick On Breakaway, Improbably Scores Anyway
Jonte Berg is a winger for Västerås, in the second-highest tier of Swedish hockey. As he got set on a breakaway last night against Malmö , the last thing on his mind was that his stick might snap. After the stick broke, the last thing on his mind was that a Malmö defender would kick it into the ne...
Happy Veterans Day! Here Are Some Really Happy Dogs Welcoming Soldiers Home
Originally published Nov. 11, 2010....
Lockout Latest: Amar'e And Carmelo Make Adorable <i>Sesame Street</i> Appearance
Not everything that happens during the NBA lockout is bad: Delonte West makes his job applications public, Delonte West makes his broken-down Ford Bronco public, Chris Paul goes on Family Feud, and—provided that they cover up the Adidas logo on their shirts—Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire ge...
You Will Never Be As Excited About Anything As A HS Football Announcer Is About This Field Goal
The big Marist/St. Patrick game came down to the final second. We presume all of Chicago stopped what they were doing and pulled their cars off the road to watch a field goal try for the win. What they got: Pyrotechnics. [Awful Announcing]...
What Did Everybody In State College Know About Jerry Sandusky, And When Did They Know It?
We've already highlighted the extraordinary work and original reporting being done on the Penn State sex abuse case by Sara Ganim and her colleagues at the Patriot-News of Harrisburg. But we feel the need to do it again, since Ganim has now written a single narrative that lays out who seemed to kno...
A Penn State Attorney Who Reviewed The 1998 Police Report Against Jerry Sandusky Also Represented The Second Mile
In 1998, Victim No. 6 told his mother he had showered with Jerry Sandusky. She called Penn State University police, who interviewed both the boy and Sandusky and prepared a report containing details of inappropriate conduct. PSU's outside general counsel, Wendell Courtney, reviewed that police repor...
Gaah! Torry Holt's Finger Will Haunt Your Dreams
Your morning roundup for Nov. 11, the day we learned you can be arrested for being annoying. Photo via Carmine R. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Mike McQueary Has Received Threats, Won't Coach Penn State Saturday Against Nebraska
Here is the statement from the Penn State athletic office:...
An Interview With The Radio Host Who Dropped That Jerry Sandusky Kiddie-Sex-Ring Rumor On Everybody
Mark Madden wanted to make one thing perfectly clear, right from the start....
"This Is Almost Like A Modern Day Crucifixion": Penn State Players React To Paterno's Dismissal
Last night, the members of the Penn State football team watched the man who more than likely played a major role in bringing them to Happy Valley get unceremoniously canned. While thousands of other students took to the streets to tip over news vans and get pepper-sprayed, the current Nittany Lions ...
Watch A 101,300-Ton Bin Laden-Dumping War Machine Become A Basketball Court
Love time-lapse videos. Love them. Nothing better for the arrested attention span than to compress a week's worth of construction on the USS Carl Vinson in San Diego into a handy YouTube video. And on the eighth day, they balled. [via SBNation]...
A Curated Selection Of Jerry Sandusky's Writings From The Annual Reports Of His Youth Charity
Jerry Sandusky founded The Second Mile in 1977. The charity probably issued some form of an annual report from the start. But the ones I managed to find online date from 2005-2010, which are very important years in both Sandusky and the charity's existence. By 2005, Sandusky had already been investi...
The Saddest Sad Faces Of Sad Penn State Bros
Bros, we must mourn. The greatest bro of all, Joe Paterno—whom one could affectionately refer to as Bro Paternbro—has been fired as head coach of PSU football. Life will never be the same, bros. Football will never be so pure again. Hang your head, remove your backwards New Era cap, and say a prayer...
Mike Tyson Thinks Heavyweight Boxing Will Someday Return To Its Ali-Frazier Peak
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: optimism from Iron Mike....
Rest Easy, America: The White House Disapproves Of Penn State Child Rape
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today that "the president's thoughts and prayers, and all our thoughts and prayers, are with the victims of the abuse and the family members of those victims."...