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Most Of ESPN SportsNation Thinks NFC QB Matthew Stafford Is The AFC's Biggest Pro Bowl Snub (UPDATED)
For more information, the ESPN SportsNation poll results are available via this link until someone — anyone — in Bristol, Conn. realizes that the Detroit Lions are, in fact, an NFC team....
Grab Your Pitchforks, Here Are The Pro Bowl Rosters
That one player's inclusion/exclusion is clearly a stain on the integrity of the Pro Bowl, and represents the league's obvious bias for/against that team. [NFL.com]...
Jeromy Burnitz Used To Fill Clubhouse Shampoo Bottles With His Own Urine
Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe, who posted his Hall of Fame votes and column earlier today, slipped in an interesting aside about the clubhouse shenanigans of former MLB outfielder and HOF candidate Jeromy Burnitz:...
30 Paragraphs About 30 Teams From The Basketball Prospectus Guide To The Truncated NBA Season
The following is an abridged preview of an abridged NBA season, culled from the team chapters of the ever-incisive Pro Basketball Prospectus. Buy the book as a PDF for $9.98. ...
ShortCenter: Drew Brees's Record Inspires A Lot Of Man Love
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TNT's "NBA Forever" Season-Opening Video Is Spectacular
Most attempts at the Forrest Gump-style "modern people placed into old video" are hokey or at the very least poorly-executed, but TNT splashed the rainbow with this video that preceded the opening-day Celtics-Knicks broadcast. ...
Case Dismissed Against Mike Milbury
A court magistrate found there was no probable cause to pursue charges against Mike Milbury for his role in an on-ice altercation in his son's hockey game two weeks ago. Milbury had been accused of assaulting a 12-year-old during a fight with Milbury's son during an outdoor game in Brookline, Mass. ...
ShortCenter: Examining The Colts' Options, With No Hyperbole Whatsoever
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ShortCenter: Kobe Bryant Hurts His Wrist, And ESPN Needs Two Doctors For One Diagnosis
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Because Bringing Your Dog To An English Premier League Match Makes Complete Sense
I suppose it's possible this Sunderland fan celebrating Nicklas Bendtner's opening goal over QPR at Loftus Road has a service animal of some sort, but I'm pretty sure seeing-eye dogs aren't meant to be tossed around like this poor pup. Sunderland won in a 3-2 heartbreaker. [BBC]...
Not This Shit Again: Now It's South Carolina Football Players Promoting A Nightclub Party
Two days after we brought you the story of UNC receiver Dwight Jones's now-cancelled birthday party at a North Carolina nightclub—a party that rendered Jones ineligible, briefly—here's another fiesta being promoted on Facebook using the likenesses of some college athletes—this time from South Carol...
Kobe Bryant Is A Predator, According To Nike, And His New Christmas Shoe Looks Like Grinch Vomit
This is a regular feature in which we take a look at recent sneaker releases....
Who's Racist In English Soccer This Week?
It can be difficult to keep up with racism in the English Premier League, so here's a brief, handy roundup from this week's news:...
ShortCenter: Rachel Nichols Does Shtick
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Wisconsin Lady Allegedly Got Angry Enough About The Packers Losing To Strangle Her Daughter
Well, this is awful:...
ShortCenter: Marcellus Wiley Advocates For The Needle
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Albert Pujols's Wife Is "Mad At God," The Cubs Are Looking For A First Baseman, And More From The Hot Fucking Stove
Your roundup of all the hottest hot-stove items of the day (and whatever shit Ken Rosenthal is throwing against the wall). This is ... HOT FUCKING STOVE!!...
Gifts For People Who Play With Balls
It can be hard to watch sports all the time and not feel that instinctive, itching urge to get off the couch and toss a ball around for a little while (or at least during the commercial breaks). But we want to make sure that you take heed of the special hierarchy of balls that are available for toss...
Notre Dame's Rudy Used Scrappy, Undersized Sports Drink Company To Scam $11 Million Out Of Investors
Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, the former Notre Dame walk-on whose life became the basis of one of the greatest sports films of all time, has been sued by the SEC for his involvement in a "pump-and-dump" stock scheme for his sports drink company, Rudy Nutrition....
ShortCenter: ESPN Covers The Penn State Scandal, Goes All Court TV On Us
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