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City Folks Are Wimps, And Other Things We Can Learn From America's Reaction To Matt Holliday's Slide

Lance Armstrong's Lawyer Says His Client Would Pass A Lie Detector Test, But Everyone's Mind Is Made Up, So What's The Point

Most experts doubt the validity of polygraph tests as a means of determining whether or not someone is actually telling the truth. Polygraphs are useful in attempting to get someone to tell the truth—hook up a criminal suspect to enough electronic diodes and tell them a beeping machine can read the...

Pathetic MLB Playoffs Coverage On TBS Continues As They Misspell The Name Of Willie Mays

First there was this. TBS followed it up with this. That's not to mention the rotten and biased coverage from the Turner network's announcers. As a whole, TBS has shit the bed with their postseason baseball broadcasts, but tonight's blunder really takes things to a new level. Good job, good effort,...

Georgia Fan's Obituary Mourns "The Tragedy" Of Bulldogs' Loss To South Carolina Last Week

We all die. It may be peacefully as you sleep, a popped vessel that fades your dreams to black. It may be gradually over weeks, a diagnosed dénouement, a slow degenerative smolder that allows fear to give way to acceptance to give way to peace. It may be YouTubeably sudden, as the locomotive sheers ...

Fox Officiating Expert Mike Pereira Once Tried To Get Help From The Replay Booth

On Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011, the Philadelphia Eagles hosted the Green Bay Packers in an NFC wild card playoff game at Lincoln Financial Field. It was Fox's first postseason broadcast that season, which meant that it was the first opportunity for the network's new officiating expert, Mike Pereira, to sha...

TBS's Slogan Is "Very Funny," Which Is Fitting Because Its Baseball Analysis Is A Joke

The MLB playoff coverage on TBS has suffered the arrows of critics for years, and it hasn't really shown any signs of improvement. How the same company that can produce the brilliant Inside the NBA drops the ball so terribly with MLB coverage is a mystery, but there's no questioning the wide range ...

TBS Would Like To Introduce You To "Carl" Ripken, Jr.

Tonight's MLB wild card coverage on TBS has trumpeted Turner's new acquisition Bleacher Report, and the influence is already showing. First, they didn't know what the AL playoff structure looked like, and now we get to meet "Carl" Ripken, Jr. We get TBS all the way through the ALCS, so here's looki...

This Rap Song About Seattle Sports Might Make Your Ears Bleed

Any rap song about Seattle, or so I'm told, has to include shoutouts to all the great Emerald City sports stars, and Riff Raff provides all of them: Ken Griffey Sr. and Jr., Shawn Kemp, Gary Payton, and Brian Bosworth, with a Craig Sager reference thrown in because why not? Alas, Steve Largent, Ed...

Mike Schmidt Wrote An AP Column, And The Headline Was "Autographs Getting Way Too Hard To Read"

That's it. Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt wrote 1,055 words for the Associated Press about how autographs are too hard to read....

Americans' Favorite Soccer Clubs, As Determined By <i>FIFA 12</i> Plays

ESPN FC had a neat piece this week on the ties between soccer video games and soccer fandom, and the idea that even in the days of satellite television, nothing's done more to grow the sport in the United States than gaming. Here's the money quote, from social scientist Rich Luker:...

This Is Not Golden Tate, ESPN

We get that things were a bit hectic after the final decision in last night's joke of a professional sports contest. But really, ESPN? Identifying Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson as receiver Golden Tate? That's almost as bad as misidentifying an interception for a touchdown catch....

Fun With Graphs: How UFC Fights End, Sorted By Weight Class

Reed Kuhn, of the excellent Fightnomics, has run the numbers, and they've been graphed. Are there more knockouts and stoppages the higher you go in weight? A resounding yes. Don't you love it when the conventional wisdom is backed up by a colorful chart? [CagePotato]...

Yunel Escobar Used The "I Know Gay People And They Weren't Offended" Defense During Today's Ill-Advised Presser

The Blue Jays suspended Yunel Escobar three games for his "Tu ere maricón" stunt Saturday, then marched him out in front of the New York press at Yankee Stadium today to face the music about why he did such a thing....

Apparently Derrick Rose Is An NHL Owner Now, And You Can Blame Him For The Lockout [UPDATE: He Plays For The Bears, Too]

Tonight on SportsCenter ESPN reluctantly reported on the NHL, keeping viewers up to date on the latest lockout news (which isn't good)....

Joey Dorsey Is Breaking Backboards Over In Greece

Joey Dorsey? You mean, he isn't still with the Raptors? Nope. He's with Olympiacos Pireaus, the defending Euroleague champs. And the former University of Memphis star is breaking the glass, if not quite shattering it. I recommend clicking through to the actual YouTube link for the video above, whe...

What If Baseball's Foul Lines Ran On Forever?

In W.P. Kinsella's novel, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, the narrator's father muses upon a loophole in the rulebook. There's nothing that specifically states the foul lines end at the fence....

Georgia The Country Is Not Georgia The State

This error was up on the screen during halftime of last night's U.S. national team 1-0 World Cup qualifier win over Jamaica for all of three seconds, yet nearly a dozen of you sent in emails about it. Say whatever you want to about soccer fans, they're attentive. Though, really, I'd have been more ...

This Photo Captures The Moment A Pissed-Off Steelers Fan Threw Her Beer On The Photographer After Tracy Porter's Game-Ending INT

Everyone, leave Syria, leave Afghanistan, the Pulitzer for breaking news photography is now a one-shot race. A 26-year-old Broncos fan named Greg Wilson took this photo of an angry Steelers fan at Mile High moments after Tracy Porter picked off Ben Roethlisberger to seal Denver's 31-19 victory. The ...

Let's Count How Many Metaphors We Can Make Out Of Brandon Weeden Being Trapped Under A Giant American Flag

1. Perfect illustration of the NFL's tendency to smother you to do death with its American-ness....

<i>Game Of Thrones</i> House Sigils, As Re-Imagined By A Nike Designer

Darrin Crescenzi is a Portland-based graphic designer, and something of a go-to guy for Nike. He's responsible for, among other things, the Team USA Olympic jerseys, Nike's Livestrong campaign, and various logos and brandmarks going back half a decade. These are all corporate things that are hard fo...