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Dumb Shining Moment: Your 2012 NCAA Tournament Lowlight Reel
While the NCAA tournament isn't yet finished—the Final Four starts Saturday, after all—the 64 games played thus far have been short on the drama (one overtime game, zero buzzer-beaters) but long on the blunders. While a good number of these mistakes can be blamed on the officials, players (and fa...
Trent Richardson Smash!
Pro days are serious business. With fewer players taking part in the Combine, whether due to injury or the founded fear that performing can only hurt their draft stock, the highly controlled pro day has become the showcase of choice for the top prospects. This is bad news for the NFL Network, and ...
Texas Death-Row Inmate Shouts "Go Cowboys!" During Execution
Jesse Joe Hernandez was convicted of beating a 10-month-old boy to death back in 2001. He also beat the boy's four-year-old sister, who managed to survive. Because the crimes happened in Dallas, which happens to be in Texas, which happens to be ranked No. 1 in the nation in the application of capit...
Nike Wins: Tim Tebow Jets Jerseys Are Now Illegal
Yesterday, Nike filed a lawsuit against Reebok, demanding they cease selling the Tim Tebow Jets jerseys they had rushed into production after Tebow was traded to New York. Last night a judge granted Nike a temporary restraining order, meaning you cannot legally buy a Tim Tebow Jets jersey anywhere r...
Why Can't Roger Goodell Go One Day Without Lying?
Let's go on a magical trip to the NFL's fantasy world, where the penalties on the Redskins and Cowboys have anything to do with football. Indulge them when they tell you that two teams spending more than a nonexistent salary cap in the uncapped 2010 season constituted "an unacceptable risk to future...
How A Career Ends: I Made 11 Threes In An NCAA Tournament Game And Hit Rock Bottom Overseas
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: Jeff Fryer, teammate of Hank Gathers and Bo Kimble at Loyola Marymount and a record-setting NCAA tournament sharpshooter. ...
Tim Tebow Is So Uncontroversial The <em>Times</em> Is Afraid To Say What's Not Controversial About Him
Hey, anyone want to fire up the ol' Tim Tebow culture war again? It's been, what, three days? Well, here's a "meet the new guy" story in today's New York Times called "Tebow, a Careful Evangelical." It is a generally inoffensive look at the quarterback so beloved by people who collect Hummel figurin...
Larry Brown Interested In Job
For the 13th time in the last 40 years, Larry Brown is between head coaching jobs. He's been unemployed since he left the Charlotte Bobcats in December 2010, after a 9-19 start. Lately, the college-ABA-NBA-college-NBA-college-NBA legend has been traveling with the Kansas basketball team and telling ...
Nike Sues Reebok Over Controversial Tim Tebow Jets Jerseys
Late yesterday, Nike Inc. filed suit against Reebok and parent company Adidas over what it claims is the unlicensed selling of Jets uniforms bearing Tim Tebow's name and number. The full lawsuit is below, but the Cliffs Notes version is this: the league's most popular player (and jersey seller) chan...
Andrew Bynum's Mini-Mutiny Included Trying A Three, Pouting
There has to be some reason why Andrew Bynum thought it would be a good idea to chuck up a three-pointer with plenty of time on the shot clock in a close game against Golden State. These are the Lakers, and they spend more time sending each other passive-aggressive messages than actually playing b...
We Asked A Celebrity Boxing Promoter To Weigh In On A Street-Fight Video Featuring A Face-In-Butt Moment [NSFW]
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fight: "GHETTO RIVERDALE FIGHTS BOOTISE VS CHINA BYLOCO DA DON PART1." Tonight's commentator: Damon Feldman, celebrity boxing promoter....
An Ohio State Superfan Was Hospitalized By A Flying Turkey
If all you know about Ohio is from watching WKRP, you might think that turkeys can't fly. Not so, claims Ohio State superfan John Chubb—better known as "Buck-I-Guy"—who claims one of the birds smashed through his windshield as he returned from the Buckeyes' 3rd-round win over Gonzaga last weekend....
The Rob Gronkowski Magical Mystery Tour Stopped At A Dunkin' Donuts Today
Aruban travel guide Rob Gronkowski continued his post-Spring Break whirlwind today by stopping off at a Dunkin' Donuts near Gillette Stadium to celebrate the two-year sponsorship deal he signed with the omnipresent global donut conglomerate. This customer, in particular, was super-gronked to see Gro...
Mario Balotelli Does Thing
Inter Milan sacked manager Claudio Ranieri this week, and introduced interim manager Andrea Stramaccioni this morning at a press conference....
Rob Gronkowski Is Now Partying For Charity
The stated mission of the Celebrities for Charity is pretty straightforward: "To unite the goodwill of celebrities with the generosity of their fans to assist people in need." Its list of past beneficiaries includes schools, hospices, and cancer foundations. As we learned last week, Rob Gronkowski i...
How A Career Ends: I Blew Out My ACL In A Pre-Draft Tournament And Was Never The Same
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: Ricky Blanton, undersized postseason hero for the 1986 LSU Tigers. ...
Mistaken ESPN Text Alert Reads Like A Cry For Help
A number of readers have sent screen grabs of this mobile text alert sent out a short while ago by the Worldwide Leader. Was it simply an innocent error, or was someone somewhere in Bristol trying to tell us something?...
It's Good That The NFL Is Punishing Washington And Dallas For Breaking No Rules
I'm glad, gosh darn it, that NFL owners voted 29-0 to enforce salary cap penalties against the Redskins and Cowboys for spending a lot of money in the uncapped 2010 season. It's a good thing that the league is coming down hard, $36 million for DC and $10 million for Dallas, on two of the most powerf...
Al Trautwig Is Worried About Amar'e Stoudemire's Bulging Dick
Every time an athlete comes down with a bulging disc, we start the countdown. It took MSG's Al Trautwig but a few hours to make the inevitable slip-up....
Six Sandwiches More Fitting Than The Carnegie Deli's New Tebow Sandwich
The Village Voice's intrepid Robert Sietsema taste-tested the 3.3-pound Tebow Sandwich at the Carnegie Deli. It's roast beef, corned beef, pastrami, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, and mayo on white bread. Wrote Sietsema, "What a way to ruin good pastrami and corned beef. They were warm, but the r...