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Blake Griffin Did The Impossible And Sold Out A Nets Game
Blake Griffin has impressed us all this year. He has dunked a lot, sometimes over cars, more often over humans, and it's been fun to watch. This may trump it all, though: Blake Griffin sold out a home game for the New Jersey Nets. He can retire now....
Dolan Decides One Year At .500 Atones For Past Decade, Knicks Prices Up 49 Percent Next Year
So, you probably hear a lot of grousing from Phil Mushnick, et. al about how expensive it is to take a family of four to a game, buy some frankfurters and not hear the gangster hip hop music. But high prices happen when you have a popular product with limited supply in a big, wealthy market. We get ...
Here's How God Helped The NCAA Totally Screw Baylor Off The Tournament Bubble
Earlier this week, the New York Times ran a story about Baylor freshman forward Perry Jones III. Detailing his eighth-grade verbal commitment — "[H]e never wavered, even as coaches from more-traditional college-basketball powers, including Kansas and U.C.L.A., sent letters to his home" — it painted...
If March Madness Were Only About Spending Money, Syracuse Would Be National Champion
Mike Dang at Bundle calculated March Madness's most tournament-obsessed colleges, using basketball program expense and revenue, game attendance, and school spending. Syracuse wins, but not in everything: George Mason students spend 257% more at bars during the tournament. [Bundle]...
Here's Video Of Messi's Pretty Goal From Today's Barca-Arsenal Match
FC Barcelona defeated Arsenal 3-1 this evening in Camp Nou. Lionel Messi scored twice — first on this pretty self-assist over the goalkeeper's head just before halftime, and second on a penalty kick in the 71st minute of play. With a 4-3 lead over Arsenal on aggregate, Barcelona will now go on to ...
Let's Stage A Citizen's Intervention. Here's Charlie's Sheen's Phone Number.
We got a hold of Charlie Sheen's cellphone number (one of them, at least) and distributed it to some people who were desperate to contact him. Then it occurred to us that everyone seems desperate to contact Charlie Sheen these days. So now you can, too. Watch the video above and you'll hear Sheen ...
Don King Embroiled In Knockdown Court Battle With Puerto Rican Taco Stand
Having tired of fighting Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis in court, Don King has set his sights on a new opponent – Delia Esquilín-Mendoza, the owner of a taco shop in Puerto Rico. On March 1 2003, Delia's Tacos intercepted a closed-circuit transmission of the Roy Jones Jr.- Jon Ruiz fight and deprived K...
Women Surfers Shouldn't Be Judged By The Beauty Of Their Skin, But By Their Talent On The Board
Your morning roundup for March 6, a day of toeing the "No shark's fin soup, you're cheap" classist line....
When Ivan Lendl's German Shepherd Attacks And Pops Wood
Occasionally, we'll select stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime — that we urge you to read for one reason or another. Today: The hazards of crossing rackets with Ivan Lendl when a German Shepherd (or four) is court side....
Reporter With Giant Balls Breaks Up Street Fight
Gonzo journalism at its finest, as Seattle reporter Shomari Stone stumbles across the beginning of a fight on Seattle's waterfront as he's filming his standup. Stone jumps in and stops the fight, something that pansy Murrow never would have done....
Pacman Jones Wears A Neck Brace To Court, Has His "Life In Order," Gets A Year Probation
Your morning roundup for Feb. 25, the day you can feel safer because the Army may have used mind-control ops to persuade U.S. Senators to throw more war-bucks and war-flesh their way....
Everything Right With Soccer, In Three Minutes Of Incredible Non-Dives
Technically, Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi dove a few times, in a literal sense, as he was hip-checked, tripped up and otherwise impeded by lesser talents. Problem is, Messi missed several opportunities to flail about to pad his stat sheet. He is the Best Soccer Player On Earth....
Here's Video Of White Guys On Skates Rapping For Charity
Here are several members of the Cincinnati Cyclones organization performing "I'm On The 'Clones," which is not only billed as an awareness-builder for volunteer-group Hockey Players for Kids (HP4K), but it's the "first official music video in team history."...
Zamboni Fumes Sicken 28 College Hockey Players
On Thursday night, Curry College faced off against Johnson & Wales University at the Rhode Island Sports Center. When the victorious Curry Colonels got back to campus after the game, some players didn't feel all that well. Turns out 28 of them needed hospital treatment for toxic nitrous-dioxide exp...
Goalkeeper Gets Sent Off After 10 Seconds Of Terrible Soccer
Ebbsfleet goalkeeper Preston Edwards was sent-off, but the true villain of the piece is the left-back. No.3 — damn right you should hold your head in your hands....
James Earl Jones Does Justin Bieber
It's the karaoke precisely no one was waiting for, but now that it's here, we couldn't be more thrilled. Enjoy James Earl Jones's rendition of "Baby," in a proper context....
Samuel Eto'o Saw Wayne Rooney's Excellent Goal And Did The Opposite
Inter Milan's Samuel Eto'o managed to hit the crossbar from about four yards away from the wide-open goal, with just a few moments left in the match. His team trailed Juventus 1-0. That's how it ended....
Here's Video Of Wayne Rooney's Brilliant Goal For Manchester United Today
The English Premier League match between first-place Manchester United and third-place Manchester City was tied at 1 in the 78th minute ... until cheeky boy Wayne Rooney fielded a pass from Nani roughly 10 yards from goal. His upper-corner, overhead-kick game-winner was the stuff of highlight lege...
Karl Malone Talks About The Impact Jerry Sloan Had On Karl Malone
Karl Malone made it perfectly clear at last night's Utah/Phoenix game that Karl Malone thinks former Jazz coach Jerry Sloan is not a quitter. Karl Malone says that he would drop everything Karl Malone is doing at any given time to support Sloan in any venture he undertakes....
Listen To Jim Gray's Awful Super Bowl Sign-Off
Jim Gray delivered the Super Bowl sign-off for Westwood One Radio. It was already quite the piece of work, but adding the "Rudy" theme song really just brought it to another level....