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Random Baseball Rap Lyric Of The Day
Packin' more hits than Lou Piniella... ...
Charles Portis On Motel Life, Lower Reaches
Here's a beaut from Charles Portis, published in the Oxford American:...
Poll Results: What's A Sport And What's Not?
Here, visualized, the results of a poll that are as interesting as they are unscientific. Click expand and commence arguing over what makes something a sport as opposed to a game or an activity....
Texas Athletic Director Channels Donald Sterling
The millionaire administrators who prop up the NCAA often say deeply, deeply stupid things when defending their right to make millions of dollars off of the unpaid labor of athletes, but what University of Texas athletic director Steve Patterson said in this month's issue of Texas Monthly deserves...
Steve Ballmer Practiced Being Owner With His Son's High School Team
The Seattle Times has a piece out today detailing incoming Clippers owner Steve Ballmer's foray into the shady world of high school prep sports and the wealthy parents living vicariously through their kids. Ballmer's son's basketball team at Lakeside School in Seattle sucked, and he wanted to make i...
How Neil Leifer Shot His Most Famous Boxing Photos
You've seen Neil Leifer photos, obviously, and probably heard him talk about his work some too. But Sports Illustrated has a hell of a collection up, with hi-res images of Leifer's best boxing work, like the overhead of Ali-Williams that Leifer counts as his favorite, to go along with text and video...
Russian MMA Card Features Armored Knights Battling With Swords
We're ... not entirely sure what this is, but we watched, rapt, after learning it was happening via Twitter user @grabakahitman. This battle took place on the undercard of a show being held today by M1, a more or less reputable (?) Russian fight promotion, and features dudes in armor battling with s...
Whatever Happened To Sports On Earth?
Originally published at The Classical....
The Gay Games Show What The Future Of Sports Can Be
The more we learn about the differences between sex, sexuality, and gender, the more opportunity there is for sports to really muck it up. Therefor, it's illuminating to examine how the Gay Games, a quadrennial event currently underway in Akron and Cleveland, Ohio, handle the issue. ...
Lil Wayne Freestyles Over The <em>SportsCenter</em> Theme, For Some Reason
Today was Lil Wayne Day on SportsCenter, or something, which means the rapper was on set all day to do zany things and promote his upcoming album. It also meant that he had to freestyle over the SportsCenter theme, which, given how that song goes, was a pretty raw deal for Lil Wayne....
Fox Sports 1: Be A Cool Bro And Ignore Your Nagging Bitch Wife With Us
In case you had any doubt about the Fox Sports 1 worldview, they dropped this turd on us this week....
Bill Simmons Will Host A Grantland TV Show On ESPN
Starting this October, ESPN will air what it's calling The Grantland Basketball Show in prime time—"the first Grantland-branded television series." Who wants to see Bill Simmons do his best Harvey Levin impersonation? ...
The NCAA Is Spending More Money Than Ever On Lobbying
With a constant stream of bad press and lawsuits chopping away at its integrity, the NCAA has decided to do what every corrupt institution that has no real reason for existing does when times get tough: throw shitloads of money at lobbyists....
In The O'Bannon Decision, Truth Wins Out Over Rhetoric
Let me start by apologizing. Because of my own involvement in the Ed O'Bannon case, and because of past situations in which the NCAA has misquoted my own personal statements as if they represent the official opinions of the plaintiffs in the case, I can't be quite as analytical here as I might like,...
What Happened To The Art Of An Overhand Curveball?
That's the question Pat Jordan asks in his latest profile:...
Video: Tony Stewart Runs Over Driver During Confrontation, Killing Him
NASCAR driver Tony Stewart ran over a competitor, 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr., during a confrontation at a sprint car race on Saturday night at Canandaigua Motorsports Park in New York. Ward was killed. ...
O'Bannon Ruling: NCAA Loses
A federal judge has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in the Ed O'Bannon v. NCAA antitrust case, knocking down the restrictions against college athletes profiting off their name, image, and likeness. ...
Freelancing Sucks
You may have heard by now about Sports on Earth, the joint venture between MLB and USA Today that "laid off" a bunch of writers earlier in the week. Although the term "laid off" is a bit dicey: Technically speaking, the site only had a few full-time employees to begin with. Everyone else who wrote f...
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:...