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Linsanity Has Tripled The Price Of Knicks Tickets
The Knicks host the Hornets tonight, and it's the second of the five games on their current homestand. Want tickets? Good luck. Hell, even for Knicks road games scheduled more than a month from now, there's already little from which to choose. There are always tickets to be had on the online resale ...
Boxing Conflicts With His Newfound Religious Beliefs, So Manny Pacquiao Is Reportedly Considering Retirement
Before Manny Pacquiao defeated Juan Manuel Marquez in November, his hobbies included womanizing, drinking, and gambling. He even owned roosters he used for fighting. But sometime after the Marquez bout, according to the Filipino newspaper Minda News, Pacquiao began attending Bible study classes—and ...
ESPN Reporter Doing Linsanity Story In Chinatown Runs Into ESPN Reporter Doing Linsanity Story In Chinatown, Interviews Her
Here is ESPN's Robin Lundberg speaking with ESPN's Rachel Nichols somewhere in Manhattan's Chinatown. This is a moment, people. This is an Escher drawing of an Escher drawing of a guy who's standing between two mirrors and dividing by zero. [ESPN; H/T Mike N.]...
The L.A. Kings' Explanation For Last Night's Clock Discrepancy Is Bullshit. Here's Why.
The Los Angeles Kings' explanation (via GM Dean Lombardi) for last night's clock disaster that gave them a win over Columbus is ludicrous for two reasons. The first, and again quoting Lombardi in the Los Angeles Times:...
Science! Explains Why The Clock Stopped In The Kings Game
Everyone agrees that the Staples Center clock stopped in the dwindling seconds, giving the Kings just enough time to score the game-winner over the poor Blue Jackets, who never win anything. What's still a matter of debate is whether the clock was right to do so, possibly adjusting itself to make up...
Larry Bird Has Only Cried Three Times In His Life, And Each Time Was Because Of Magic
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Bird did get beat by Magic a few times, I guess....
The Best Way To Handle A Reporter's Dumb Question Is To Ask Him About His Wife's Infidelity
North Carolina dominated NC State last night, which has become something of a theme. The Wolfpack haven't beaten their I-40 rivals since 2007, so for fan favorite Scott Wood, that's tantamount to never....
NC State's Lorenzo Brown Just Hit An 80-Foot Buzzer-Beater
It didn't help his squad (still down 37-23 to eighth-ranked North Carolina) but North Carolina State guard Lorenzo Brown hit a nifty long-range buzzer-beater to draw the Wolfpack a bit closer at intermission. [ESPN]...
Pau Gasol Passes Like Ricky Rubio
There must be something in the water, since all shaggy-haired Spaniards seem to have a preternatural ability to find an open teammate without having to actually see them. A cutting Gasol drew both his man and Andrew Bynum's, and a nifty little over-the-shoulder dump to Bynum was pretty and pretty ...
Indiana Pacers Mascot Shatters Backboard At High School Basketball Game
It's hard to top the New Palestine-Triton Central rivalry in Indiana high school hoops but Boomer, the Indiana Pacers mascot, just upped the ante. While the Pacers were on the road against the Warriors last night, Boomer paid a visit and put on a show those in attendance would not soon forget. Boo...
"The Fans Would Throw Little Tinfoils Of Hash At Me": A 1980 Interview With Bill "Spaceman" Lee, Baseball's Stoner Evangelist
The folks at The Golden Sombrero alerted us to this wonderful piece of baseball history: a 1980 High Times interview with pitcher Bill "Spaceman" Lee in which Lee holds forth on drugs, Bowie Kuhn, race, reincarnation, drugs, drug use, drug abuse, which drugs Expos fans threw to him in tribute, eatin...
Exclusive: Molly Ringwald Refuses To Confirm Or Deny Rob Lowe's Report That Peyton Manning Is Retiring
As you would have expected, I've been working the phones all afternoon trying to confirm Rob Lowe's bombshell report that Colts quarterback Peyton Manning will retire today. But Lowe's scoop blindsided the NFL media, so we decided against mining traditional sources for news. We went to the people wh...
It's Been Almost A Year Since His Last Sentence, So Pacman Jones Naturally Got Another Year Of Probation For Something Unrelated
It's not like Pacman Jones is a real symbol of oppression in America. He's made several million dollars in his career to play cornerback in the NFL, and not all that well. (To wit.)...
Sad Packers Fan Is Less Sad, More Sober Today
Casey Lewis is the 24-year-old Wauwatosa, Wis., resident who found internet fame with a tearstained, semi-comprehensible meltdown on the way home from a bar after the Packers' loss to the Giants. She's cleaned herself up and is doing the media circuit, going on Milwaukee radio and doing an intervi...
Stop Whatever You're Doing, And Watch This Sad Drunk Lady Cry About The Packers Loss
I can't. I can't even do this. Thank you Giants, and thank you Internet, and thank you Megan for being a better cameraperson than friend....
ShortCenter: Merril Hoge Explains Aaron Rodgers's Very Bad Day
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....
Why, Oh Why, Did The Packers Have To Lose?
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Your NFL Playoffs Divisional Round Open Thread: New York Giants At Green Bay Packers
And so marks the beginning of the end of a great weekend of football. Gather below....
Hundreds Of Packers Fans/Day Laborers Line Up To Shovel Lambeau Field
Because the team of the people hates unions, the Packers put out the call for folks to come help get the stadium ready, for $10 an hour. Four hundred and fifty were lucky enough to be handed shovels, with another 800 turned away. [Green Bay Press-Gazette]...
Freddie Roach Says Mayweather Doesn't Really Want To Fight Pacquiao, He Just Needs The Money
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: it does sound like this fight is actually going to happen....