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Riley Cooper And Cary Williams Got Into A Fight At Eagles Practice
And several teammates had to step in and break it up—including Michael Vick, as you can see in the photo above, which was tweeted out by Philadelphia Daily News photographer David Maialetti....
King Sun's Memorable Tupac Diss Record
I first heard this King Sun diss record late one Thursday night—or was it Friday morning?—on the Stretch and Bob KCR show. This was in the spring of 1996. It's my favorite of the East Coast-West Coast diss records that came out around that time. Man, I remember walking into Fat Beats the day Tupac d...
Payback Is A Bitch
Friend of mine in London sent me the following. Taken from Maiden Speech by Eleanor Brown, published by Bloodaxe in 1996:...
Ed And Steve Sabol: The NFL Dream Machine
Today gives the start of the NFL season. What better place to start than Rich Cohen's excellent portrait of Ed and Steve Sabol? The league as we know it is hard to imagine without them. Published last October in the Atlantic, here's "They Taught America How to Watch Football":...
Reds Run Suicide Squeeze With Two Outs In The 15th Inning
Dusty Baker called for a suicide squeeze with two on and two out in the 15th inning and guess what? It didn't work. The Cardinals took the lead the following inning on a Matt Adams home run and defeated the Reds 5-4....
Columnist Amazed College Football Players Aren't Scumbags
That is the major takeaway from this overcooked word-soup from Rick Reilly. Sure, he bizarrely shoehorns George Zimmerman into an article about "young, urban athletes" who were neither murdered nor murderous, but the real gist of this column is that Rick Reilly is fucking shocked that those four kid...
The Nation's Best Players Who Will Be Ignored By Heisman Voters
Each week, Football Outsiders recognizes the most outstanding college linemen, defenders and other darkhorses from the previous weekend who are habitually overlooked in the hype for that other award (you know, that one, whatever it's called). These are the Lowsmen....
Robert Towne's Memories Of Sports In L.A.
We know Robert Towne as a great screenwriter—Shampoo, Chinatown, The Last Detail, Personal Best, Tequila Sunrise (never mind the script doctor work he's done, most famously on Bonnie and Clyde and The Godfather). But here's something for ya, a bonus piece he did for Sports Illustrated back in 1984:...
Here Is @Vodka_Samm's .341 BAC Mug Shot
Samantha Goudie, the University of Iowa college student who had a wild, drunken Saturday at the Hawkeyes football game—to put it mildly—looks like the saddest Ke$ha ever in her mug shot photo....
How To Pair Wine With Food: A Guide For Ordinary Drunkards
"Ew, I wouldn't date him. He's a Sauvignon blanc drinker!"...
Skip Bayless Is Making Up Shit About The Michigan-Notre Dame Rivalry
This morning we illustrated how one ESPN blowhard will make up facts in order to argue for continuing a college football series lucrative for the WWL. Not to be outdone, Skip Bayless chimed in on the topic this morning on First Take, and somehow managed to get it even more wrong than Mark May....
Anchor Inserts Pro Wrestlers Into Sportscast—Can You Catch Them All?
Via Awful Announcing, this is WHAS-Louisville's Adam Lefkoe livening up a sportscast by inserting the names of pro wrestlers. Sometimes they're subtle. Other times, not so much....
Mark May Is Now Blatantly Lying To Viewers
Notre Dame is ending its series of football games against Michigan, and Irish coach Brian Kelly raised controversy over the weekend when he claimed the Wolverines weren't a rival. That led ESPN's college football panel of Joe Tessitore, Mark May, and Lou Holtz to take on the topic during halftime o...
Craig James Fired From Fox Sports Southwest After One Show
That didn't take long....
Watch Fox Soccer Channel Die In The Most Undignified Manner Possible
When Fox Sports 1 replaced SPEED two weeks ago, it received a touching goodbye from longtime race coverage personality Mike Joy. Fox Soccer Channel was not provided a similar honor....
Alleged Female Idiot On The Field Blows .341 BAC, Has Amazing Twitter
An Idiot on the Field might have made history for being the drunkest Idiot ever recorded as she allegedly tried to jump onto the field during Saturday's Northern Illinois-Iowa game in Iowa City....
The Best Recipes And Tips You've Sent In So Far, Scum
This Labor Day weekend, as you well know and have indicated on all of your calendars, both paper and e-, marks the first anniversary of Foodspin—and, while this is not the precise reason why many of you will receive an extra day off from work tomorrow, it is the reason why you have clung to life lon...
Ray Lewis Still Not Making Any Sense
Ray Lewis thinks it was a conspiracy that turned the lights off at the Superdome during the Super Bowl last year. Lewis revealed his theory during filming for America's Game, an NFL Films series that discusses the previous Super Bowl with a few members of the winning team. This year, they spoke wit...
Patriots QB Tim Tebow: A Remembrance
As we learned earlier today, the Patriots cut Tim Tebow. It appears there are stones even the Mad Genius of New England cannot phlebotomize. Please watch and remember the good times we had this summer. ...