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How A Career Ends: I Blew Out My ACL In A Pre-Draft Tournament And Was Never The Same
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: Ricky Blanton, undersized postseason hero for the 1986 LSU Tigers. ...
How A Career Ends: Uwe Blab Tried And Failed To Price Himself Out Of Basketball
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: Uwe Blab, the 7-foot German import who manned the pivot for the Indiana Hoosiers in the early 1980s....
How A Career Ends: I Ditched Basketball For The Decathlon
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: Rick Wanamaker, a center for the Drake Bulldogs, who in 1969 provided one of college basketball's great "holy shit!" moments when he blocked Lew Alcindor's sh...
How A Career Ends: The State Of Iowa Begged Me Not To Go Pro
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: Dolph Pulliam, defensive leader and emotional catalyst for the 1969 Drake Bulldogs....
How A Career Ends: George Gervin Blew By Me, And I Knew That Was It
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: Willie Wise of the 1969 national semifinalist Drake Bulldogs and the 1971 ABA champion Utah Stars....
How A Career Ends: When The Cast Came Off, My Leg Was Shriveled
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: Former Tar Heel center Joe Quigg, a key member of the McGuire's Miracle team that won the 1957 national championship....
How A Career Ends: I Was Tired Of The Grind Overseas
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: Marc "Showbiz" Brown, likely the greatest basketball player ever to wear a Siena uniform....
How A Career Ends: Physically, I Just Didn't Have It Anymore
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: former basketball player Rick Robey. Robey was a fourth-year senior when Kentucky beat Duke 94-88 on March 27, 1978, to win its first national championship in...
Tell Me When It's Over: A New Feature
Tomorrow, with the help of our pal Rob Trucks, we're launching a series in which we talk to retired athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. We'll start with a batch of conversations with former March Madness heroes, from the '57 North Carolina Tar Heels to the '98 Kentuck...
Stop The #SILINSANITY! Great Moments In <em>Sports Illustrated</em> Crapping All Over Its Cover With A Twitter Hashtag
If you can't be first, at least be the most inane. That's how Sports Illustrated is handling the challenge of being a weekly magazine chasing the fast-moving phenomenon that is Jeremy Lin. Instead of running a nice, straightforward dead-tree cover of the Knicks' new point guard attacking the Lakers...
Darren Rovell Gets On One Knee, Asks Kate Upton To Be His Valentine, Is Rejected
The very married CNBC sports business expert Darren Rovell (very married as in his wife is very pregnant) continued his ill-advised campaign of Kate Upton obsession (see: his Twitter avatar and this article) today when after a group conversation about Upton's appearance on the cover of this year'...
You Have No Idea Whether Greg Jennings Really Fumbled Or Not, So Shut Up Already
Here's the definitive camera angle on the play from yesterday's Packers-Giants game that everyone is so twisted out of shape about. Greg Jennings is on his way to the ground, and the ball is a fraction of a second from being wrenched out of his grasp, and you can clearly see—what? Unless I missed th...
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Just As He Promised, Nick Saban Finds A Way Around The SEC's Oversigning Rules [UPDATE]
Remember this? When the SEC reduced the annual signing limit from 28 to 25, in order to curb the growing scourge of schools signing more players than they could offer scholarships? And how SEC coaches voted unanimously against the new rule, because it limited their "flexibility," but the rule passed...
With New OT Rules, Demaryius Thomas Didn't Realize The Game Was Over
So, this new playoff overtime. It's more fair, but it's also confusing. This is because hypotheticals are confusing, and I would rather have Phil Simms orgasm an explanation after the fact than have to keep in mind multiple scenarios while the game is still going on. The new, non-sudden death OT can...
Brock Lesnar Just Retired From UFC. Here's Why (And The Official Announcement)
Here's the shot from Alistair Overeem that knocked Brock Lesnar out of UFC (along with Lesnar's announcement that made it official). The announcement seems to have come a fight too late, given how miserably Lesnar managed to defend himself against Overeem's strikes. Bon voyage, real-then-fake-then-r...
Former Security Director Sues NBA, Claims League Fired Him After Blowing The Whistle On Sexual Harassment
In June, NBA security official Warren Glover received a gold watch and a letter from David Stern celebrating his 10 years with the league. A month later, he was fired, the highest-level NBA employee to be let go during the lockout. Glover says it was retribution for speaking up against repeated inst...
Low-Level Sources Close To Pumpkin Ron Washington Say That Pumpkin Ron Washington Is Not Racist, Still Awaiting Word From Pumpkin
An email, received in 24-point font:...
BREAKING: LOCKOUT TALKS BREAK DOWN, ACCORDING TO HIGH-LEVEL EMPLOYEES ACTUALLY INVOLVED IN NEGOTIATIONS
DATELINE—A NICE HOTEL Negotiations between the players and the league broke off without an agreement this afternoon. Neither side is willing to budge on the BRI split: the players are firm at 52 percent, the owners at 50. No talks are scheduled, though both sides hope to meet again this weekend. We ...
Texas Pumpkins Accused Of Racism Over Ron Washington Blackface Costumes
Two Dallas-area pumpkins have caused a stir over their costume choices for local Halloween contests. The pumpkins, one from Irving-based 21st Century Dental (left) and the other a part of the Dawson & Sodd law firm in Corsicana (right), showed up to a statewide "pumpkin contest" dressed in the offen...