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Mike Florio Calls Out David Letterman For Being A Comedian
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was a guest on The Late Show last night, and the segment was lighthearted and puffy, as are most of the interviews David Letterman conducts on his show. Obviously, Letterman made some jokes about the Ballghazi scandal, because David Letterman is a comed...

Gronk Plays Dodgeball At Minor League Hockey Game, Loses
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, who wasn't born so much as fermented in a vessel for two months, played dodgeball at Wednesday night's Florida Everblades game. Gronk's instinct was probably to catch any ball thrown near him, but it failed him this time. He got eliminated twice, by throws that loo...

How To Clean A Soot-Stained Fireplace
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She’ll be here every week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Check the Squalor Archive for assistance. Are you still dirty? Email her....

Keith Olbermann Uppercuts Charles Barkley Into An Erupting Volcano
Charles Barkley said some really dumb stuff about basketball analytics on Tuesday night, and so Keith Olbermann dedicated a segment of his show to calling Chuck an idiot many, many times....

The Josh McCown Era Is Over In Tampa
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have released quarterback Josh McCown after one season....

Greg Anthony's Soliciting Charge Will Be Dropped
CBS and Turner NBA analyst Greg Anthony will have the soliciting prostitution charge that was brought against him dropped thanks to a deal with the D.C. Superior Court....

The Browns Appear To Be Up To Some Pre-Draft Shenanigans
The Cleveland Browns, who are a goddamn mess, have found themselves a nice little loophole in the NFL rule book that they might be able to use to get an edge in the upcoming draft. ...

Jon Stewart Should Run For Office
So Jon Stewart formally announced his impending retirement/Jeter Farewell Tour last night. (Twitter, as it does, reacted as if he had died, so my condolences.) And naturally, he took a moment to say that he might use his time off to spend more time with his family. Now, you and I have heard this fr...

Charles Barkley And His Crew Had The Dumbest Discussion About Analytics
There once was a time when TNT's Inside the NBA could be counted on to be the only sports studio show worth watching on a regular basis, but things have been trending downhill lately. Case in point: Last night's brain-dead discussion about basketball analytics, during which the collective ass-showin...

Watch Jon Stewart Tell A Shocked Audience He's Leaving <i>The Daily Show</i>
Jon Stewart's plans to end his long run as host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show emerged earlier today—he even acknowledged that viewers already knew something his live audience at the taping didn't—but watching him make the announcement really makes the news seem real. Here's how Stewart deli...

Boston Snowfall Can Only Be Measured In Athletes
It may never, ever stop snowing in Boston, where they've run out of places to dump it, and two more storms appear on the way over the next week. To illustrate the record-breaking snowfall this winter, the front page of today's Globe put it in terms every Bostonian can understand—slightly under one f...

How To Survive A Round Of Golf With Your Boss Or Father-In-Law
Anyone who plays golf and has been stupid enough to tell other people that they play golf—"Oh, you play? That's wonderful! Lisa's dad would love to take you out for a round when you guys visit for Thanksgiving! Isn't that right, Herb?"—is at some point in his or her life going to have to play golf...

How Players Manage To Scalp Their Super Bowl Tickets
The MMQB's Robert Klemko has a great story about a ticket broker hustling his way through the crazy, somewhat-shady secondary ticket market that sprung up at this year's Super Bowl. There's a lot of good stuff in here, including an answer to the question we've all found ourselves asking: Do players ...

WWE Star Seth Rollins Learns To Keep Nude Photos To Himself (NSFW)
Some wacky stuff is going down in the wrestling world tonight, reminding everyone of the number one rule of social media: only bad can come from it....

An Exceedingly Polite Beginner's Guide To Anal Sex
Anal play, as you likely well know by now, is having its moment. Hell, even Vogue is writing about it, and Harvard is, like, teaching classes about the basics of butt-banging. But we can't all go to Harvard (and thank God for that), which means that the 101-type stuff that a lot of curious folks m...

Tony Dorsett On CTE: I Didn't Know "The End Was Going To Be Like This"
In 2013, NFL hall of famer Tony Dorsett was among the first few living football players to be diagnosed with signs of the chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease that manifests as dementia and depression. It's gotten worse—by definition, it'll get worse until he dies—and in a r...

Don't Read These Beloved Children's Books To Your Kids
I’m a stay-at-home dad with two kids. My daughter is seven, but before she was old enough to go to preschool, I watched her when she was awake and worked odd hours from home while she slept. My son is two, and we’re on the same schedule, except that I’ve recently joined the jobless recovery, so now...

High School Basketball Game Derailed By Brawl Involving Fans And Players
A high school basketball game in Indiana had to be called off midway through the first quarter after an ugly foul sparked a brawl that involved both players and fans....

Don't You Dare Ask Fran McCaffery About His Eye-Poking Player
Iowa's Adam Woodbury poked another guy in the eye yesterday, a thing that he's been doing far too often this season. After the game, a few reporters tried to ask Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery about all the eye poking. He was not having it....

Iowa's Adam Woodbury Can't Stop Poking People In The Eye
Okay, man, this is starting to get a little ridiculous....