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Goodbye, Old Friend: The Last Oddibe McDowell Water Bill We'll Ever See Is $80.55
The Broward County department of Waste and Wastewater Services is instituting password protection for viewing and paying customers' utility bills. This could be the last Oddibe McDowell water bill we ever see. It's $80.55, including a semi-annual stormwater fee....
Hey, A Jets Quarterback Controversy! Who Would've Thought?
There is no quarterback controversy, Mike Tannenbaum insisted yesterday. But here's one anyway!...
The NCAA Tournament, As Narrated By Weird Tweets That Got Past Its Filters And Appeared On The Bottom Of The Screen
Tweets stream below March Madness Live online in something called the Coke Zero Social Arena. Apparently, all you need to get into the Coke Zero Social Arena is a hashtag. You can't be profane, but that's about the only rule. So Josh Levin, on this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen po...
Pat Robertson: Because The Broncos Disrespected Tebow, They Deserve A Peyton Injury
Robertson, appearing on some talky-talky show today, decided that "it would serve the Broncos right" if Peyton Manning was incapacitated by that neck injury. What did they (and he) ever do to deserve that? They treated Tim Tebow "shabbily." In that justification, there's no mention of Jesus, but: Je...
Stephon Marbury Refuses To Do Interviews Unless He Gets The Cover Of <i>Sports Illustrated</i>
There are tons of lovable little nuggets in this SI.com piece on Marbury and how the mercurial outcast has somehow become the most beloved foreign player in Chinese basketball history. But our absolute favorite—that he turned down multiple interview requests unless he would be SI's cover boy—is vint...
Rob Gronkowski's Offseason Is Becoming One Giant Swig From A Beer Bong
Having already made the party rounds in Aruba—where he may or may not have hooked up with a 16-year-old girl—Rob Gronkowski has apparently moved on to South Padre Island, Texas. At least, that's where we think he was when this photo of a funneling Gronk was tweeted at Adam Schefter sometime last nig...
The Tim Tebow Trade Might Be Held Up Because The Jets Never Read Tebow's Contract
Hold off on throwing away your Chrebet jerseys, Jets fans. The Tebow trade might not be happening because of a five-million-dollar snag....
Obituary For Dead Broncos Fan Says He Hated Peyton Manning And "Wanted Out Before A Deal Was Done"
Jim Driver died on Monday, the same day Peyton Manning agreed to terms with Denver. Driver, 1933-2012, led an interesting life. He was a Navy photographer in the Korean War, transferred from Santa Clara Community College because "the curriculum was too liberal," and spent his later years teaching ch...
The Jets And Broncos Agree: Tim Tebow Was Not Worth A First-Round Draft Pick
After picking Tim Tebow in first round of the 2010 NFL draft, the Denver Broncos have shipped him and a seventh-round pick in the upcoming draft to the Jets for their fourth- and sixth-round picks. So now it's possible to put a value on Tebowmania. Using the famous draft-value matrix that assigns a ...
Baylor's Brittney Griner Is The Second Woman To Ever Dunk In An NCAA Tournament Game
Brittney Griner's dunk early in the second half against Florida gave top-ranked Baylor a 13-point cushion, but it was only the second time a woman had dunked in a NCAA tournament game, after Tennessee's Candace Parker did it twice against Army back in the 2006 tourney. The throwdown was Griner's s...
Peyton Manning Will Throw For 4,400 Yards, 32 Touchdowns Next Season, Says Science
Fantasy whiz Nik Bonaddio, proprietor of sports analytics firm numberFire, has weighed in with the first realistic prognostication of what fantasy players might expect from Manning, provided his surgically fused neck can hold up to the rigors of a full 16-game NFL season....
The Broncos Should Trade Tim Tebow To Every Other Team In The NFL (Unless They Keep Him), According To Internet
Peyton Manning is a Bronco now, meaning Tim Tebow is trade bait. Which NFL team should part with their 30 pieces of silver (and maybe a fifth-round draft pick) to bring Tebowmania to town? The Internet has given this question careful consideration and furnished us with an answer: every team. ...
Report: Huffington Post Co-Founder Kenneth Lerer Now A Minority Owner Of The Mets
Ken Lerer and media executive Bob Pittman combined to put up $20 million for what is said to amount to 4 percent of the team, one of 12 minority stakes the Mets sold last week for a total of $240 million. The Mets may struggle on the field this summer, but the move makes them instant contenders in s...
John Elway Has Brass Balls
Whether or not you agree with an NFL team handing a potential $60 million in guarantees to a guy who has neck leprosy, I think that we can come to a consensus on one thing: John Elway has really big balls. HUGE balls. Balls the size of light bulbs. His balls are so big, you could harvest stem cells ...
Arizona Newscaster Hears Manning Signed With Denver, Lets Out A Big Old "Fuck!" [Update]
Sometimes you can't hide your emotions. Kaley O'Kelley of Good Morning Arizona certainly couldn't, when she found out that Peyton Manning had eschewed the Cardinals for the Denver Broncos. (Unspoken subtext: "Fuck! Kevin Kolb.") [via Jimmy Traina]...
Here Are Some Angry Letters People Sent To The FCC After M.I.A. Flipped Off The Super Bowl
Maybe this doesn't need to be said, but normal people don't complain to the FCC. It's not that they don't get offended: it's just that it takes a hell of a lot more to offend them than the sort of thing that actually makes it on television. Like M.I.A. slipping a middle finger past NBC censors. Not ...
Report: Peyton Manning To Sign With The Broncos
Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen were first with the news. OMG LET'S BRACE OURSELVES FOR TIM TEBOW TRADE RUMORS. At a time like this, it's important to remember the words of Matthew 26:34: "'I tell you the truth,' Jesus answered, 'this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three ...
Peyton Manning Watch: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Lost in all the madness of the tournament this weekend (it was lost to me, anyway) is that Peyton Manning is whittling his options down and my sources tell me he has it down to three teams: the Tennessee Titans, the Denver Broncos and the San Francisco 49ers....
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Reports: Jamar Samuels Ineligible Because His Former AAU Coach Gave Him Money Before NCAA Tournament [UPDATE]
The usually angry Frank Martin was reduced to tears this afternoon following his team's loss without Jamar Samuels. According to Topeka-based writer Austin Meek, Martin was without Samuels because his former AAU coach and DC Assault founder, Curtis Malone, sent him money before the NCAA tournament....
What Impoverished High-School Football Players Teach Us About The Virtues Of Capitalism: Nothing, Unless You Are A Lunatic Who Writes For <em>Forbes</em>
So I attended a Preview Screening, for free, of the Academy Oscar® Award-winning Documentary-movie Undefeated, in my capacity as a "Film Critic." Later, and not in the theater, because that's rude, while I was Internetting for fact-checking information in re the 2009 Manassas Tigers High School foot...