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It Looks Like Some Bad Shit Is Going Down At UTEP [Update]
Two Texas-El Paso players, including the team's leading scorer, have been suspended indefinitely, and coaches and administrators won't give even the slightest hint of a reason. Now comes word that the FBI is involved. We think we have a pretty good idea of what might be going on....
It Was A Great Year For Sportswriting; Here's Some Of The Best Of It
Every so often, some crank will write something suggesting that sportswriting is in decline. The argument goes that due to ease of publishing, a general lowering of standards, the reading public's divided attentions, and millennial narcissism and careerism, an entire art has been lost, subordinated ...
Why I Believe Jameis Winston's Accuser
My rape wasn't much different from the sexual assault described by Jameis Winston's accuser....
ESPN Fired The Guy Who Made That Genius Olbermann/Tupac Video
Remember the Keith Olbermann-as-Tupac video? It was a bit of a thing a couple of weeks ago. We posted it; so did the The Big Lead and Complex and Awful Announcing. Apparently the guy behind it—Will Schleichert—worked for ESPN. He was a PA. Emphasis on the was. He was fired last week. ...
Jameis Winston Accuser's Family Attorney: "This Was A Rape"
On Thursday morning Jameis Winston's attorney, Timothy Jansen, suggested that his client engaged in consensual sex with his accuser. On Friday night, the accuser's family specifically denied that claim. In a statement released to the media, the family's attorney Patricia Carroll was unequivocal: "To...
Let's Celebrate The Least Efficient Scorer in The Premier League
The chart above shows the Premier Leaguers with the highest ratios of goals to shots on goal this season among those who've both scored and averaged two tries per league game. It seems like the sort of thing you could write quite a lot about, but then the more you think about it, the less clear it i...
Aaron Ramsey Scores When He Wants, Which Is All The Time
Maybe the story of Arsenal's season boils down to the story of Aaron Ramsey. The young kid with as much talent as anyone endured years of setbacks until finally putting it all together in a wonder campaign where he shows he's better than you could conceive. Can it continue? Who knows. But it's a jo...
Atlanta Newspaper Tweets Some Dumb Shit About Lottery Winner
It's since been deleted (of course), and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has yet to offer an apology or an explanation, but some announcement about their account being hacked will probably hit the Twitter machine any moment now....
Bid On This Awesome Velvet Painting Of "Macho Man" Randy Savage
I'll be honest: I had reservations about posting this phenomenal eBay listing of a black velvet painting of "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth in the style of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss, because I'd like to score it cheap for myself. But the creator of this masterpiece deserves to be compensa...
NBC Sports Network Cancels NRA-Sponsored Elephant Hunting Show
NBC Sports Network is dumping the show that featured a guy shooting an elephant in the face. The show—hosted by NRA lobbyist Tony Makris—isn't being canceled for that episode with the elephant shooting, exactly (though that didn't help). Instead it's because Makris compared his critics to Hitler ea...
NBC Sports Host Who Shoots Elephants Compares Critics To Hitler
Of course he does. Tony Makris, the gun-humping NRA lobbyist whom we last saw on the NBC Sports Network shooting an elephant in the face, has recently been dealing with some people who are critical of his decision to shoot an elephant in the face. To Makris, those people are just like Hitler....
Here's A Dude Shooting An Elephant In The Face On NBC Sports Network
What is this shit? For some reason, NBC Sports Network has been airing an NRA-sponsored hunting show called Under Wild Skies, on which gun-humping NRA lobbyist Tony Makris shoots elephants in the face....
The Astros Drew A 0.00 Nielsen Rating
Last week we cringed to the news that the Astros drew an average local viewership of 1,000 people for a game—less than for an out-of-market WNBA game on at the same time. How bad could it get for yesterday's 9-2 loss at Cleveland, which went up against the Texans' game? Pretty damn bad....
The New <em>SportsCenter</em> Commercial You're Going To See Everywhere
It's been a rough stretch for ESPN and SportsCenter. Ratings for ESPN's flagship show have been sagging, bringing in about 828,000 viewers this year, down from about 1 million last year. Primetime ratings for ESPN and ESPN2 have seen declines too. ESPN's gotten really defensive about it, especially...
A Conversation With Ron Rapoport
Best of Chicago: Westbrook Pegler on Babe Ruth's called shot | Wendell Smith on the White Sox in Jim Crow Florida | Bob Greene on a hockey "intellectual" | Skip Bayless on Harry Caray | John Schulian on the end of summer...
Bill "Spaceman" Lee, Age 66, Played All Nine Positions Last Night
The Spaceman's still going, man. Baseball's most famous old hippie again made a couple of appearances with the independent San Rafael (Calif.) Pacifics this week, nearly one year to the day after he tossed a complete game for them at the age of 65. Far out....
For The Boids
Last summer, Molly Langmuir wrote a nice piece for New York magazine about pigeon racing: ...
ESPN's July Ratings Are Down, Too
This is starting to feel like a thing. ESPN's ratings were down in the first half of the year—alarmingly so in the spring—which prompted ESPN's PR machine to swing back hard, labeling the drop a bizarre fluke, an aberration. Well, July numbers are in and ... ...
It's Something More
Chris Jones delivers a good one for ESPN the Magazine:...
ESPN Gets Defensive About Ratings Drop
Earlier this week we told you about ESPN's recent ratings woes. The numbers dropped significantly in the second quarter this year. They were down in the first quarter, too, and they were flat last year. Now that the news is getting around, ESPN PR—which usually projects an air of lordly remove in t...