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Bus Carrying 23 Seton Hill University Lacrosse Players Crashes, Killing The Driver And A Coach [UPDATED]

UPDATE: See note at bottom....

You Can Tell The NFL's New Proposal To Help Limit Concussions Is Good By The People That Hate It

Recently, the British Journal of Sports Medicine published a "Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport," which sought to define concussions, lay out diagnostic procedures, differentiate between types of concussion victim (teenage athletes vs. adult athletes, for example), and determine how best to...

UCLA Freshman Jordan Adams Topped Off His Game-Saving Performance By Breaking His Foot On The Very Last Play

Last night, the UCLA Bruins advanced to the Pac-12 finals after winning a hard-fought game against Arizona, 66-64, in Las Vegas. The fortituous final play, in which Arizona missed a jumper and tip-in opportunity, may also have taken UCLA's season out behind the proverbial woodshed. ...

Steve Carell Needs A New Trick: <i>The Incredible Burt Wonderstone</i>, Reviewed.

1. Steve Carell, leading man, is a lot funnier when he's not trying to be funny. He tends to work better in supporting straight comedy roles (most famously Anchorman, but also Bruce Almighty and even Bewitched) than as the lead (Dinner For Schmucks, Get Smart). His sweet spot as a leading man is ba...

Ryan Glasspiegel runs through sportswriting's reaction to the sad death of the Boston Phoenix, where Charles P. Pierce and Bill Simmons both got their careers started (and where the infamous George Kimball served as a writer and editor for many years). The Phoenix folded yesterday after a 46-year ru...

The National Sport Of Afghanistan Is Called Bukkake, According To Clueless Pittsburgh Sports-Talk Hosts

Ron Cook and Vinnie Richichi hold down the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. slot on Pittsburgh's 93.7 The Fan. Four hours can be a lot of time to fill for five days a week, even in a town with a hockey team on a winning streak, an NCAA-bound college basketball team, the Steelers just being the Steelers, and someth...

Why Is One Of The NBA's All-Time Greatest Scorers Working As A Crossing Guard Now?

Day after day, Adrian Dantley hangs out on a street corner in his hometown, like some cliché of a pitiful ex-ballplayer years after his athletic prime. But Dantley's neither a cliché, nor is he pitiful. He's a crossing guard....

Who Hit The Most Home Runs During Each Pope's Reign Since 1876?

We already knew that John Paul II was the best baseball player of all the Popes. But which major leaguer took the home run crown under every Pope since the National League formed in 1876? This is an important question, and thankfully, someone took the time to figure it out....

Bill Walton Made A Ray Lewis Limo Joke And Referenced Bill Simmons's Twitter Suspension On Tonight's ESPNU Broadcast

Bill Walton's on-air behavior has been consistently weird this college basketball season, and that didn't change tonight as broadcasting's biggest Grateful Dead fan launched into numerous questionable tangents during ESPNU's Pac-12 tournament coverage of Washington-Oregon from Las Vegas....

While The Jets Try To Trade Him, Darrelle Revis Is Embracing His Inner Hipster In Paris

Darrelle Revis wants a lot of money from the Jets to extend his contract, which expires at the end of 2013. If the Jets opt not to give him that money, and to trade him, he wants the money from whichever team acquires him from the Jets. And if the Jets don't give him that money, and let him play out...

The Potential New Sonics Arena Sure Would Have A Lot Of Standing Room

The optimistic Seattle ownership group led by Chris Hansen has released some mock-ups of what the interior of a new arena might look like, and huh—it looks a lot more crowded than the last time the Sonics played in Seattle....

ESPN Suspends Bill Simmons From Twitter After <em>First Take</em> Criticism

Apparently Bill Simmons is not beyond reproach....

This Atlantic 10 Tournament Game Had One Of The Craziest Endings You'll Ever See

Shit got weird at the end of the Charlotte-Richmond game today. With five seconds remaining in the game, Richmond was up by three as Charlotte's Pierria Henry, who had just been intentionally fouled in order to prevent a made three-pointer, stepped to the line for a one-and-one. Henry sank the first...

AEG, The Conglomerate That Controls Sports In Los Angeles, Isn't Being Sold After All

Nobody knows much about the Anschutz Entertainment Group, the massive sports/entertainment entity that owns Staples Center (and the whole L.A. Live complex), a healthy slice of the Los Angeles Lakers, and majority stakes in the Los Angeles Kings, L.A. Galaxy, and oodles of other franchises. What's t...

Gus Johnsons's First Gusgasm Of March, Courtesy Of An Illinois Buzzer-Beater

Here's Brandon Paul dispatching Minnesota from a first-round Big Ten tournament game with a gorgeous buzzer-beater, and giving Gus Johnson an excuse to lose his shit. ...

RGIII Photobombing Ken Starr Is A Delight

Yes, it's that Ken Starr....

Matt Cassel And Kevin Kolb Are Getting Cut

It's the end of two eras. Two sad, frustrating eras marked with wasted promise and ill-advised trades and inept quarterbacking. Matt Cassel was released by the Chiefs today, and the Cardinals are expected to cut Kevin Kolb by the weekend. The only question left is: which one of them will end up on t...

Josh Cribbs Bid Browns Fans A Heartwarming Goodbye On Instagram

Put this on in the background; it's time to get emotional....

Enjoy David Villa's Goal From Yesterday's Barça-Milan Game, As It Was Seen From The Stands

Fan-made clips of big sports moments are always a raucous delight. This one, shot during yesterday's Champions League match between Barcelona and AC Milan, is no exception. Come for the high-quality camera work, stay for the screaming Spaniards. ...