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This Is The Best Indication Yet That Linsanity Has Run Its Course
A Times Square drugstore slashes prices on 15 minutes of fame....
Watch This Fan Spit All Over His Hand, Then High Five Jeremy Lin And Other Knicks
The Knicks were in Chicago last night to play the Bulls. Both teams acquitted themselves well. The same can't be said for at least one of the fans at the United Center. That would be the soon-to-be-identified little bastard in this video. The video quality is crappy, but it looks like the bastard ...
Paterno Family Fires Back At Penn State Board Of Trustees: "The Ultimate Responsibility For This Crisis Is Theirs"
This morning, the Penn State Board of Trustees affirmed that the Penn State Board of Trustees did the right thing in firing coach Joe Paterno, citing his "failure of leadership." Now the attorneys for the Paterno family have issued a statement saying that the trustees did the wrong thing in firing J...
Penn State Is Still Glad It Fired Joe Paterno, Sorry It Didn't Find A "Dignified" Way To Do It In Person
Penn State's Board of Trustees posted a statement on the university's website this morning, explaining why it chose to fire coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier. The trustees already explained this in a New York Times interview in January. But with so many Penn Staters still foc...
Penn State Alum And Potential Trustee Is Not A Baseball Star, Doesn't Feel The Need To Correct Anyone Who Says Otherwise
The Penn State Nittany Lions play baseball in Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Anthony Lubrano, according to Penn State's media guide, was a four time varsity letter man at the school from 1979-1982. That bit of information has been in the guide "for years." Lubrano, it turns out, is actually just a r...
Nothing Brings Out The A-Listers Like Knicks-Sixers (Linsanity Is Officially Dead)
Ever wondered where all the big names in the Big Apple sit for the hottest ticket town? Well, keep wondering. In the interim, check out this seating chart from today's Knicks game against the Philadelphia 76ers....
Rick Ross Has Discovered A Strain Of Marijuana Named For Jeremy Lin
That's Linsanity OG, at what looks like a legal dispensary in Los Angeles. Which must be where you go when you like your weed a little stronger....
David Ortiz, You Are NOT The Father
"According to a report in the Dominican newspaper Hoy by veteran baseball reporter Dionisio Soldevila, a DNA test showed that David Ortiz was not the father of a 17-year-old in the Dominican Republic. Ortiz was the subject of a paternity claim by a woman whom Ortiz said he had never met." [Boston He...
Hot On The Trail Of Twitter's DadBoner, The Internet's Greatest Mystery
Bold flavors. Power moves. Chest beefers. A thousand beers, you guys. If any of those references are familiar to you, then you're probably one of the over 52,000 people who follow the DadBoner Twitter feed, which is probably the best Twitter feed ever written by an imaginary middle-aged Michigan man...
NBA Open Thread
Jeremy Lin and the Knicks take on the Celtics at 1:00 p.m. followed by the peerless Kobe Bryant taking on LeBron and the Miami Heat. Chat it up....
The Nationals Have "Natitude," And Stephen Strasburg Is Starting To Think "Dynasty"
There are legitimate reasons for the Washington Nationals to think they're ready to contend this season: Stephen Strasburg, Ryan Zimmerman, and Bryce Harper are healthy; and Edwin Jackson and Gio Gonzalez have been brought in to help the cause. But Strasburg is already looking past contending—he's a...
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So It's Come To This: Erotic Jeremy Lin Fan Art [So, So NSFW]
Well, shit. You win, Internet....
ESPN's Hines Ward "Happy Endings" Headline Is A Rorschach Test For Racists, Perverts Everywhere
Did you read ESPN.com's story about Hines Ward being cut by the Steelers, the only team he's known for 14 seasons? Did you see that their headline was "No Happy Endings," because Ward loves Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh loves Ward and it's sad that it had to end this way?...
If You Foul Jeremy Lin, Does He Not Bleed?
Your morning roundup for March 1. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
The U.S. Beat Italy For The First Time Ever Thanks To This Clint Dempsey Goal
With Landon Donovan unfit to take the pitch, the U.S. wasn't given much chance to beat Italy in today's international friendly match in Genoa. But Clint Dempsey—scoring machine for Fulham of late—drew first blood for the Yanks off a timely pass from Jozy Altidore. It was the first non-penalty sco...
Linsanity Is Now New York City Street Art
Your morning roundup for Feb. 29. Photo via ANIMALNewYork. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. ...
Bristolmetrics: Jeremy Lin's Knicks Got More <em>SportsCenter</em> Coverage Last Week Than All Of Men's College Basketball Did
This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week. Graphic by Jim Cooke....
NHL TRADE FUCKING DEADLINE
There's the closing bell, and we've broken out the all-caps and fired up the ol' siren gif. That can only mean one thing: the NHL's trade deadline has passed. Lots of smaller-but-significant moves made (trade trackers here, here, and here), but everyone wants to know: whither Rick Nash? We'll know i...
It's Settled: "Lin-Sanity" Ice Cream Flavor Deemed Racistly Delicious, Ben & Jerry's Apologizes
First, Ben & Jerry's hopped on the Jeremy Lin bandwagon with its "Taste the Lin-Sanity" flavor, featuring crumbled up fortune cookies. Then Ben & Jerry's took a few steps back and swapped the fortune cookies out for waffle pieces after a "bit of an initial backlash" about the fortune cookies. The m...
ESPN Had Another Headline Issue Today, And This One Included The Word "Gook"
Here's how the headline to this story looked early Saturday morning on ESPN's Soccernet site. We actually got a tip about it from Andy W, but dismissed it because we'd never heard of Lee Dong-Gook and figured ESPN had Westernized the order of his name (in other words, that his given name was Lee an...