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It's A Bad Time For A "Pressure Cooker Redeems Itself" Story

Just chalk this one up to unfortunate timing....

Bomb Suspects' Aunt Suggests Nephews Were Set Up In Wild Presser

Maret Tsarnaev, whose nephews are implicated in Monday's Boston bombing, appeared before press in Toronto today and expressed in often bombastic language her belief that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were not responsible for the act of terror....

In Fiery Press Conference, Bomb Suspects' Uncle Calls Them "Losers"

Ruslan Tsarni, the uncle of marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, gave an impromptu press conference outside his Maryland home today. He was pissed....

“Well, no. Most of the time, it’s just bad teams and they can’t do it. This is a good team that just for whatever reason can’t collectively, mentally, get stimulated to do it every time. And I told them in (the locker room), we put our hands in (the huddle), and you’ve guys have probably seen it, we...

ESPN News And NBA TV Both Aired Shows Two Weeks Ago That Had Zero Nielsen Viewers

Kate Aurthur took a look around the TV world to find shows that earned Nielsen's dreaded 0.0 rating—that's the fancy Nielsen metric that means nobody watched—from a random week in late February and early March. ...

This Is What Happens When Newspaper Design Tries To Get Creative

Via Reddit and Bryan Armen Graham, the front of the C section of today's Mankato (Minn.) Free Press. That doesn't even look like a "G."...

Rick DiPietro Says He Battled Depression. Does This Mean We Should Feel Like Assholes For All The Jokes?

Islanders goalie has had a week to come to terms with being waived, and possibly the end of his star-crossed NHL career. Yesterday he sounded upbeat about his AHL assignment, telling Newsday, "The last couple of years, with all the injuries, if it's taught me anything, it's that I need to enjoy what...

Doug Collins Has Hit A Wall In Philadelphia, Like We All Knew He Would

It's getting harder and harder to remember that the Philadelphia 76ers, who just polished off a six-game losing streak and sit in the dregs of the Eastern Conference at 22-33, were full of hope coming into this season. It was less than a year ago that a plucky Sixers team scrapped its way into the ...

The Associated Press Has Finally Gone About Correcting Its Lennay Kekua Reporting

Whoever said print media wasn't nimble? It's been three weeks and two days since we published our initial story, "Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax." The Te'o story has made its rounds through the national media be...

Retired NFL Players Are Depressed And Don't Even Know It: Study

The most striking aspects of the new head-trauma study of former NFL players published in JAMA Neurology are not the formal findings per se. In many ways, those merely quantify and validate suspicions that even casual fans likely hold. The rub is that 40 percent of the retired players that researche...

AP: Upstart Regional School Has The Honor Of Playing Notre Dame For A National Title

Yes, there is no higher merriment in college football than making fun of Notre Dame. But let's not overlook the joys of taunting the other side of the BCS championship matchup. If only there had been a giant sphygmomanometer hooked up to the deep Confederacy last night, to record the mass blood-pres...

You Can See The Outline Of Some Dude's Dick On The Under Armour Wikipedia Page [UPDATE]

We could elaborate on the headline, but tipster Pat explained it well in his email. In his quest to find some legitimate information on Wikipedia, he ended up being sidetracked after discovering a picture of a guy in compression shorts, the outline of his dick clearly visible....

"There Is No Such Thing As Flop!": Watch Les Miles Angrily, Then Happily, Then Jokingly, Praise His Team After A Narrow Victory

Les Miles goes through an emotional spectrum here that surpasses even the most skilled practioners of the dramatic arts—it's forceful, angry, instructive, happy, endearing, eloquent, then a little angry again, then back to happy—some of these feelings are just plain unidentifiable. They are feelin...

We Are Impressed With These Expressions By McKayla Maroney And Barack Obama

There are some things I would be as an Olympic medalist, you tell yourself. You'd chaperone your medal to kids in hospitals, and perform random feats of strength and speed for strangers who recognized you, smiling for flip-phone camera shots in terrible lighting. You'd make sure to have a funny Loch...

The Best Stories So Far About Gross, Obnoxious People In The Press Box, Starring Reilly, Lupica, And An "Undiscovered American Sportswriter Douche Bag"

We asked for your stories about gross reporters being gross or obnoxious reporters being obnoxious, and here are snippets of the best entries we got so far. By all means, keep 'em coming....

Sportswriters: Who's The Grossest Or Most Obnoxious Person You've Encountered In The Press Box? Share Your Stories.

Professional sportswriters love to tell you the rule about how there's no cheering in the press box. What they don't tell you is how many other forms of normal human behavior are also missing from the press box. Anyone who's ever picked up a sports media credential has discovered that it is a ticket...

A Delightfully Catty Press Release, As The NHL Lockout Sets Canadian Networks Sparring Over Who Owns The Words "In Canada"

Without the NHL, Canada's broadcasters are scrambling. The CBC, which airs Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday evenings, has a massive programming block to fill. As the lockout drags on, their solution is apparently: old hockey. The CBC is having fans vote on classic games, with those games to air in...

Ben Roethlisberger Is Not Impressed

Tennessee upset Pittsburgh last night in a Thursday Night Football game full of exciting field goals and the sort of play that led most viewers to seek out more compelling sports TV on TBS or TNT. A last-second field goal by Rob Bironas—his fourth of the game—locked things up for the Titans, and a ...

Here's An Unverified Story About Keith Olbermann Being Obnoxious At A Mets Game [Update]

A tipster wrote in last Tuesday:...

Michigan State Coaches Say Ohio State Gave Them Selectively Edited Game Tape

After Ohio State beat Michigan State today 17-16, the Spartans coaches' bellies ached loudly enough that reporters heard them and wrote that Michigan State's coaches were upset with Ohio State's coaches. Apparently the game film that Ohio State provided in advance of their game was not up to Big Ten...