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Here's Bob Costas Taking Some Swings In A Batting Cage
A reader who was in Cooperstown, New York, during this year's baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony sends along this video of Bob Costas takin' some cuts in the local batting cage. ...
What An Enormous Boner
Peruvian side Universidad César Vallejo took a 2-1 lead into the half against Colombian squad Millonarios in Copa Sudamericana action tonight thanks to the enormous boner of Millonarios keeper Luis Enrique Delgado....
Kid With Popcorn-Bucket Hat Gets Smoked By Foul Ball, Falls Onto Field
This really couldn't have gone worse for the young fan wearing a popcorn tub as a hat. ...
NFL Wants Potential Super Bowl Halftime Acts To Pay For Right To Play
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the NFL is being a real big jerk to the musical artists that have been selected as finalists to land this year's Super Bowl halftime gig. The league, seemingly unable to understand how concerts work, is asking the artists to pay money in order to p...
MLS Players Scores His Own Shoe (It Did Not Count)
Toronto FC's Bright Dike gave this a decent effort but MLS still requires that a valid goal must be scored with the game ball, not one's cleat. Bummer....
Hey, ESPN Sorta Asked Bob Bowlsby If He Works Harder Than His Secretary
This is pretty cool. On Thursday, I offered a leather-bound edition of Das Kapital to any reporter who asked Bob Bowlsby just one little question. Bowlsby is the Big 12 commissioner who, in an act of face-melting chutzpah, recently decided to wrap himself in Marx's labor theory of value as intellect...
NCAA Deadenders Are Running Out Of Arguments
On the heels of the NCAA's Division I board voting to allow the "Power Five" conferences to make some of their own rules, our man Bob Bowlsby, Big 12 commissioner and managerial-class Marxist, inadvertently made the best argument for why football and basketball players (at most schools) should be ...
The One Question To Ask The Commissioner Of The Big 12
Here's the commissioner of the Big 12, Bob Bowlsby, owning the absolute shit out of what's become the NCAA deadenders' Marxism of convenience:...
Phil Hughes Spazzes Out, Tries To Catch Invisible Liner
This happened on Wednesday night, but it's worth pointing out today because LOL, Phil Hughes, what are you even doing right now?...
The Rangers Cap Off Rough Sixth Inning With Outfield Beanball
The Yankees scored seven runs in the sixth inning, the last coming thanks to this fielding miscue in right-center field. Alex Rios looks like he had a bead on a fly ball from Brett Gardner, but closes his glove too soon, causing it to bounce into centerfielder Leonys Martin and ricochet off his skul...
High School Kid Pulls Off Free-Throw Line Dunk
This is Shelby McEwan, a high school player from Mississippi throwing down an honest-to-God free-throw line dunk. This isn't one of those fake-ass, one-foot-over-the-line dunks, either. It's the real deal....
Bumbling Defensive Play Is The Cubs In A Nutshell
The Cubs are playing a game against the St. Louis Cardinals today, and it didn't take them long to go full Cubs on everyone's ass....
Broncos Owner, Beset By Alzheimer's, Gives Up Control
Broncos majority owner Pat Bowlen will stand aside from running the team, the Broncos announced today, publicly acknowledging what most have known for a while: he is deep into the serious stages of Alzheimer's disease....
What's Karl Marx Doing In These Arguments Against College Athlete Pay?
Bob Bowlsby is a man with a very influential job. He is the commissioner of the Big 12 conference, one of the so-called power conferences that helps set policy for major college football. He also harbors a belief that is most commonly associated with pre-20th-century economics, and has really on...
Yankees Pitcher Shane Greene Can't Throw To First To Save His Life
Shane Greene made his third career start and first ever at Yankee Stadium tonight against the Texas Rangers. He had three errors on the night, two throwing to first base. It was not pretty....
Big 12 Commish Is Full Of Shit About Pay-For-Play Killing The Olympics
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby spoke to reporters during a press conference this morning, and spent a good deal of time painting a bleak picture of the future of college sports. What does Bowlsby see on the horizon, in a post-O'Bannon world? Athletes unionizing! Massive program cuts! The death of...
Hanley Ramirez Had A Real Shit Day At The Office Yesterday
Based on the box score from yesterday's game agains the Cardinals, it looks like Dodgers shortstop Hanley Ramirez had himself a perfectly fine game. He got on base four times in five at-bats, didn't strike out, and scored a run for his team. Lost in those numbers, though, is the fact that Ramirez ...
T.J. Oshie Discovers That Golf Is Cruel And Terrible
T.J. Oshie may be an Olympic hero, but he is just like the rest of us when it comes to getting owned by golf. ...
MLB Had The Highest Rated All-Star Game In Sports This Year
This year's MLB All-Star Game was the most watched since 2010 making it the highest rated All-Star event among pro sports this year, according to Forbes. This seems remarkable—but it isn't just a one-year Jeter spike. ...
That's Not How Putting Works, Ernie Els
Hi there, Ernie Els. I understand that you are successful professional golfer, so I hesitate to overstep my bounds here by telling you how to do your job. Still, I think you should know that this isn't how putting is supposed to work:...