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Anthony Pettis wins the UFC lightweight title. There is a prevailing theory that winning MMA is necessarily kind of dry; Pettis—a preposterously flashy striker who won the title in his home town with a brilliant armbar probably even he didn't see coming—is its refutation, and his win makes us happy....

Ray Lewis Still Not Making Any Sense
Ray Lewis thinks it was a conspiracy that turned the lights off at the Superdome during the Super Bowl last year. Lewis revealed his theory during filming for America's Game, an NFL Films series that discusses the previous Super Bowl with a few members of the winning team. This year, they spoke wit...

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. ...

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....

Moron Columnist Completely Misunderstands NFL Concussion Lawsuit
CBS Sports football columnist Pete Prisco has some thoughts about the NFL's concussion settlement. He compiled those thoughts, which are incredibly stupid, into an incredibly stupid column. This is how it begins:...

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....

Deep Cover
That's what J.R. Moehringer went when he wrote this story for the L.A. Times magazine on Pete Carroll, who was still coaching college football at the time. It's a self-aware piece but still intriguing: ...

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....

Michigan Recruit Breaks Tackles Like A Video Game Character
Paramus (N.J.) Catholic senior Jabrill Peppers, who's already verbally committed to Michigan, is one of the nation's top recruits for the Class of 2014. He's going to play defensive back in college. This is Peppers running for a touchdown during a scrimmage Tuesday against Red Bank (N.J.) Catholic. ...

Tweet Your Whitest Thought About The Anniversary Of MLK's Speech
Leave it in the discussion below. Go nuts. It still won't measure up to this morning's (since deleted) offering from the Golf Channel....

The Only Qualified Drug Testing Lab In Brazil Just Lost Accreditation
Boy, this would really be a problem if Brazil were going to host any major international sporting events in the next, say, three years....

Watch Hunter Pence Hit The Longest Home Run Of 2013 (So Far)
Hunter Pence demolished a ball in the first inning of tonight's Giants-Rockies game. Even though the feat happened at Coors Field, where balls regularly get knocked out of the park, it's still damn impressive....


Blowout Loss Sends Serena Williams's Opponent Into Arms Of Ball Boy
Francesca Schiavone might have said she didn't need a hug, but as her first-round U.S. Open match against Serena Williams got completely out of hand Monday night, Francesca Schiavone totally needed a hug....

Young Gun: Dempsey Pounds Willard
Slide on over to Deadline Artists for this look into the past—Grantland Rice's 1919 column on the Jack Dempsey Jess Willard fight:...

Rafael Nadal Is Filthy And Should Be Regulated
This entire point, from early on in Nadal's clinical straight-sets administration of American Ryan Harrison, is lovely. But do watch the slow-motion spin of Rafa's overhead finisher, from somewhere out in College Point. Physics is fun....

Borough to Borough: A Choice Hip Hop Mix CD
Around this time 13 years ago I got together with my friend Alan to make a mix cd of the rap records that has been released that year. A rash of good hip hop records came out in 2000, from major label and underground artists alike. There were joints from name brands like Jay Z, Snoop, Dre, Eminem, G...



Report: Lamar Odom Is Not Missing, Does Have A Drug Problem
This weekend brought a strange whirlwind of reports about Lamar Odom's alleged drug addiction, infidelity, and his family's inability to locate him. Today, Odom's agent, Jeff Schwartz, and an unnamed source cleared a few things up through ESPN....