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Murray Chass Is Everything That's Wrong With The Hall Of Fame Election
Murray Chass, a once-great baseball reporter turned bitter crank, recently revealed his 2013 Hall of Fame ballot in a blog post in which he proudly stated that he did not vote for Craig Biggio or Mike Piazza because he believes that they used steroids. It was the kind of thing that was written speci...
Cody Zeller Made The Poor Decision To Attempt Dunking
The Charlotte Bobcats are a pretty bad basketball team, and they lost again tonight to the Los Angeles Clippers. One reason they're bad might be that Cody Zeller is trying to dunk....
Mark Dantonio Wins 100th Rose Bowl, Picks Nose
Michigan State wins the Rose Bowl and Mark Dantonio gets a new contract that makes him one of the "three highest paid coaches in the Big 10"? There are worse days to get caught picking your nose on television. ...
Somehow The A&M <i>Defense</i> Was The Hero Of A 52-48 Bowl Win
Johnny Manziel will get much of the credit, and deservedly so since the Texas A&M defense allowed 38 points in the first half, but Johnny Football doesn't do what Johnny Football did unless his D tightened up in the second half. ...
Nebraska Goes Big For 99-Yard TD Strike
After an eight-yard sack on second down left Nebraska with a third-and-14 play from their own one-yard line, Nebraska did not go with the bullshit draw play. The Huskers went for it all....
Detroit NBC Winter Classic Broadcast Gets Angry, Profane
"C'mon, man, what do you want us to fuckin' do?" ...
Watch Al Roker's Soul Leave Forever
Al Roker and Hoda Kotb are hosting the Rose Bowl Parade. It looks like...fun....
"David Lee, Bodied By Big Dick Baby"
I'm trying real hard to come up with possible words Bob Fitzgerald, the Warriors play-by-play man for CSN Bay Area, could have said instead of "Big Dick Baby" and I'm coming up short. ...
AP Photographer Dave Martin Dies After Chick-Fil-A Bowl
Dave Martin, a longtime AP photographer based out of Montgomery, Alabama, was taken to Emory Hospital Midtown after suffering a heart attack on the Georgia Dome field. He was pronounced dead, at 59 years old, early Wednesday morning....
AP Photog Has Heart Attack On Field At Chick-Fil-A Bowl
At the conclusion of Texas A&M's thrilling comeback against Duke, an AP photographer collapsed of an apparent heart attack and required CPR at the scene. It was predictably intense. ...
Which NFL Team Has The Most Game-Ending Turnovers In The Last Decade?
You can take the Romo out of the Cowboys, but, well, you know how this goes. Sunday night, Kyle Orton threw a game-ending interception to Eagles defensive back Brandon Boykin with 1:49 remaining, and effectively ended the Cowboys' season. It's become something of a ritual for Cowboys fans, but have ...
The Lesson Of Black Monday: Your NFL Team Doesn't Know What It's Doing
Yesterday was Black Monday in the NFL. My team's coach got fired. Your team's coach got fired. EVERYONE'S coach got fired. If six Fortune 500 CEOs were all shitcanned on the same day, the markets would crash; there'd be barricades in the streets by noon. But it's a telling sign of football cultu...
T-Wolves Radio Announcer Flips His Shit After Game-Ending No-Call
Last night's Mavericks-Timberwolves game ended on what appears to be an egregious non-call. With just three seconds left on the clock and the T-Wolves down by two points, Kevin Love's potentially game-winning shot was snuffed out by Shawn Marion. It looks like Marion hacked Love's arm on the shot, ...
A Full-Speed Marcus Mariota Makes Oregon Look Like Oregon Again
The Oregon Ducks' 30-7 trouncing of Texas in the Alamo Bowl tonight was no real surprise, given that Vegas pegged the Longhorns as two-touchdown dogs, and that Marcus Mariota is back, iffy knee and all. Mariota finished 18 of 26 for 253 yards and 133 yards rushing, his best overall game since before...
A Feisty Reporter Gave Jimmy Haslam The Business Today
So, Jimmy Haslam, you think you can just fire Rob Chudzinski and not have to answer to the fans? You cannot! At least not while there are real "news guys" around who are willing to ask the tough questions....