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Dolphins-Bills Is "A Test Of Manhood," Reporter Writes In Earnest
Here is the Sun-Sentinel's Chris Perkins on tonight's Dolphins-Bills game:...
Um, Colin Cowherd Has Been Picking Football Games Really Well This Year
ESPN's Colin Cowherd is, even by sports-shock-jock standards, pretty loathsome. He's an inveterate race-baiter. I needn't carry on, but if you'd like me to, I will—he periodically lapses into a nasal whine that no one needs to hear on pay-TV....
Police Officer Suspended For Dunking His Head In A Bucket Of Urine At A Browns Game
Is your pride worth $450? That's how much one Browns fan earned from his friends for sticking his head into a bucket of human piss, before Cleveland's Week 6 game last month. He was none the worse for wear, and the Browns won, so it seemed like the man identified only as "Phil" wouldn't regret his...
Greg Monroe Nailed A One-Eyed Free Throw
In the second quarter of the Pistons' 94-76 win in Philadelphia, their first of the season, Greg Monroe was poked in the eye by Spencer Hawes. With his contact lens out of place, Monroe swished a free throw. After adjusting it—and regaining binocular vision—Monroe missed the second....
Even ESPN Deportes Is Subject To The Tebowization Of The Worldwide Leader
ESPN's Tebow obsession—one that even weaves its way into college basketball broadcasts—is so broad, it even extends to affiliate networks, as we saw yesterday during Cronómetro, the ESPN Deportes version of Pardon The Interruption. Stuffed into the rundown amongst coverage of soccer and baseball ne...
Steve Young Gamely Tries To Explain That He Was Just Giving Rick Reilly A "Bro Stare"
Safe to say the one person who emerged from Rick Reilly's "I had that first on Twitter" debacle relatively unscathed was Steve Young, who at least had the presence of mind to get (by all appearances) seriously pissed off at Reilly's crowing over due credit, misguided as it was, with a death stare f...
Charlotte Bobcats Commit A Chris Webber, Escape Minnesota With A Win Anyway
The hapless Charlotte Bobcats won in spite of themselves tonight against the Timberwolves 89-87, needing a Kemba Walker score in the final seconds to seize a lead partially frittered away when Reggie Williams called a time out the Bobcats didn't have and incurred a technical foul....
Mark Sanchez And The Jets Are Wearing Team Shirts That Say "We Will Persist"
The New York Jets have had a rough few days. Killed on the road in Seattle, killed by the media, and now killed—if you consider dismissing the throwing abilities of a backup quarterback who can't pass "killing"—by an anonymous member of their own defense. But do the Jets despair? Hell no. They made ...
UCLA's Joshua Smith Raises Bar On Trend Of Airballed Free Throws, Airballs a Crucial Layup
UCLA needed help in beating UC Irvine 80-79 last night at Pauley Pavilion. That help came first in the form of the Anteaters' Will Davis missing free throws at the end of regulation that would have locked up a UCI win, and then in the closing seconds of overtime as referees swallowed their whistle...
Belgian Basketball Player Makes The Worst Play In History
Taking a shot at your own basket is a bad thing to do. Taking four shots at your own basket is an even worse thing to do. Missing those four shots is an incredibly—well I guess that's actually kind of a good thing to do....
Now Even ESPN's Announcers Are Mocking ESPN's Tebow Obsession
Bob Wischusen and Dan Dakich were calling Butler-Xavier game on ESPN this afternoon as part of the network's tip-off marathon coverage and—naturally—Tim Tebow came up. Wischusen is the Jets' play-by-play guy for ESPN Radio, and as such he is in a position to truly understand Tebow's irrelevance ri...
A Philadelphia Team Is In The Big East West
Sorry, it was physically not possible to make that headline any less confusing while remaining factually accurate. The Big East, in the midst of major realignment, is going to look a lot different next year. Commissioner Mike Aresco announced today that the 12-team conference will be split into two ...
The University Of Washington Has Put Twitter Restrictions On Media Members
Are you a college basketball or football writer who constantly tweets while covering games? Cut that shit out when you're at the University of Washington. The university has implemented limitations on tweeting about football and basketball games, because...well, we're not really sure. No media memb...
Do Foreign Footballers Really Dive More?
This Regressing entry is brought to you by our clever friends at the Harvard College Sports Analysis Collective. Today: how Premier League diving might be a cultural phenomenon....
Here Is A Drunk And Racist Texas A&M Fan Starting A Fight In An Airport
You have to listen carefully, but this drunk Texas A&M fan definitely drops two n-bombs while trying to goad another passenger into fisticuffs. He doesn't get the beating you might wish upon him, but let's hope plenty of internet shame is coming his way....
ESPN Camera Catches Rick Reilly Ordering Stu Scott To Credit His Twitter Feed
Producers didn't give ESPN's Monday Night Football crew enough warning before heading out to them live for a postgame wrap-up from Heinz Field, leading to this bit of inside chatter amongst the panelists—most noticeably, Rick Reilly ensuring that Stuart Scott gave him the credit for being "first ...
Steelers Fans Are Inescapable And Terrible
I have been broadcasting to you live from Walt Disney World all weekend and, man, Steelers fans are everywhere. Even here, at the tiny little corner of a bar at my resort. This woman was so loud and so pro-Pittsburgh and only asked once what was the score. Immediately after I stopped recording her...
A.J. Green On The Fallacy Of The Trap Game: "We Lost To Freakin' Cleveland"
The Bengals and Browns are a bitter, bitter rivalry. For Ohioans, it's almost as bad as soap vs. human skin—you just have to pick a side. It makes sense, then, that A.J. Green would be upset about losing to the Browns, but it would make sense regardless of geography because the Browns are terrible....
Jerry "The King" Lawler Returned To WWE Tonight, Two Months After Suffering An On-Air Heart Attack
Two months after suffering a shocking on-air heart attack that led the WWE to assure viewers that "this is not part of the show," wrestling legend Jerry "The King" Lawler returned to Raw tonight to deliver a heartfelt message to fans—though exactly how heartfelt we'll never know, because his speec...
Chris Berman Apologizes After <em>Monday Night Football</em> Graphic Reads: "Roethlisberger Drink & Drunk"
Ben Roethlisberger may be a "jagoff" notorious for his barroom antics, but when an item showed up in ESPN's televised rundown before Monday Night Football tonight titled "Roethlisberger Drink & Drunk," it caught many viewers by surprise....