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How To Barbecue Ribs: A Guide For The Perplexed
Pork ribs are to Serious Barbecue—which is something distinct from the burgers-and-dogs routine for which your average Suburban Dad-type unfurls his "Kiss The Cook" apron on the odd sunny July weekend—what the four-seam fastball is to pitching....
Keith Olbermann Annihilates Prisco Column
For close to eight minutes Olbermann does to Pete Prisco what Prisco does on the john and calls a column. ...
Trapped In The Water Closet, Featuring Fernando Rodney
Fernando Rodney had himself a bit of an adventure in the dugout bathroom at O.co Coliseum last night. It's unclear what exactly caused it, but the Rays closer found the exit blocked and required the introduction of a foreign object before he was finally free....
FAU Spiked The Ball On Fourth Down
When you're one of the worst teams in major college football, you need all the breaks to go your way and to call a perfect game. FAU lost by several touchdowns to the University of Miami tonight, and the way they ended the game might suggest why they struggled so much....
I Kind Of Like Tim Tebow Now
The hatred of Tim Tebow and the hatred of the attention lavished on Tim Tebow are wrongly, if understandably, mixed. In a Baylessless vacuum, in a place where the word "intangibles" isn't used by pundits for the purposes of invidious distinction, Tebow would probably be an OK dude, and a lot of fun...
Hawaii QB Lays Out USC Defender With Monster Block
This is almost not fair. Hawaii quarterback Taylor Graham is listed at 6'5", 235. He has five inches and 35 pounds on his prey, USC cornerback Kevon Seymour. Still: head on a swivel, Trojans....
Steelers Announcer Illustrates Why Not To Play With Your "Peter"
We understand Pittsburgh announcer Edmund Nelson is a bit of a legend in those parts of the Allegheny plateau. We can see why, after this call on a blown punt return in tonight's preseason matchup between the Steelers and Carolina....
Wake Forest Tries To Clock Ball At End Of Half, Turns It Over Instead
ACC football at its best: a team trying to spike the ball, stop the clock, and set up a field goal attempt instead turns it over....
That Joe Schad Tweet About Erin Andrews's Peephole Video Is Fake
Update: The tweet from Schad is a fake. We've changed our headline. Sorry, Joe....
Hecklers Bring Turkish Soccer Player To Tears
A Super Lig game between Trabzonspor and Çaykur Rizespor was hit with a big dose of the sads when Trabzonspor midfielder Volkan Sen broke down into tears after being heckled by a group of fans....
Brandon Phillips Curses Out <i>Cincinnati Enquirer</i> Reporter
C. Trent Rosecrans, the Reds beat writer for the Cincinnati Enquirer, and Brandon Phillips seem to have a little beef going on. Rosecrans has been critical of Phillips's on-base percentage and Phillips apparently thinks Rosecrans is a motherfucker. ...
Logan Morrison Gives Up On Pop-Up Because A Fan Called For It
You can't actually hear anyone from the crowd yell a version of "I got it!" but if you watch Morrison, that's the only explanation why he didn't make a play on this ball. ...
Two Runners, One Base
This GIF of two Marlins sliding into third base could only be better if we could see the third base coach's face. Do you think he's wincing? I bet he's wincing. ...
If The Jets Are Going Down, They're Taking The Media With Them
The New York Jets have graduated from hapless ne'er-do-wells to full-blown snowball rolling down the mountain, taking out everything in its path. Tonight, the Jets jump-started an ugly dustup between national and local media. Maybe, just maybe, some good can come out of this Jets season: total media...
The Sportswriter Who Wrote American Better Than Anyone Anywheres
Below is John Lardner's introduction to a 1959 edition of Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al, a fictional series of letters from professional ballplayer Jack Keefe to his friend Al. Those stories are included in the Library of America's new collection. (There was also a comic strip based on the same char...
Jerry Jones Says He Has A Super Brain
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones recently got a CT scan, and afterward he had this to say about it to the Dallas Morning News' Rainer Sabin:...
Bottom Line: How Sports Leagues Crack The Whip On ESPN
"We're not in the business of antagonizing our partner," the ESPN executive told the New York Times, defending the network's sudden withdrawal of support for a program that made the NFL look bad. This wasn't last week. This was nine years ago. ...
This Is Perhaps The Most Moronic Argument In Sports Radio History
Yesterday, we told you about local-sports-reporter-turned-vigilante Vic Lombardi defacing Joe Flacco posters in downtown Denver. For whatever reason, Glenn Clark of WNST in Baltimore was pissed about this, and got into a Twitter spat with Lombardi. That led to Lombardi calling into Clark's radio sho...
Denver Sports Reporter Turns Vigilante, Defaces Joe Flacco Banners
Because of scheduling complications, the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens will be playing on the road during the NFL's Thursday night opener, a game which the previous year's champion customarily gets to play at home. This has led to some awkwardness from a marketing standpoint, as the NFL has p...