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Minnesota Man Videotapes Girls High School Basketball Games, Masturbates And Perpetuates Creepy Stereotypes
Richard Querna "likes to film the ones with talent." But what does he mean by talent? "When [Mankato policeman Dale Stoltman] asked if Querna likes to film the ones that are good looking, the man "acknowledged that might be true." Ah....
Holy Moly Expectations Are Lowly In Washington
Your morning roundup for Feb. 25. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. ...
Memo: Weeks After Sandusky's Arrest, PSU President Was Really Pumped That Only Eight Prospective Students Had Withdrawn Their Applications
Less than a month after Jerry Sandusky had been arrested and the Penn State damage-control thresher had mowed down Joe Paterno, newly installed PSU president Rodney Erickson began sending out stupidly triumphant memoranda to the university's board of trustees. Here's a new one. It comes to us via pu...
There Is A Cricket-Themed Horror Movie Called <em>I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer</em>, And It's Awful
I Know What You Did Last Summer. Fine pulpy film, from 1997, with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jennifer Love Hewitt sharing the screen in their primes. I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer, the 2008 Australian film following up on the original, about a former cricket player bullied by his teamma...
Danica Patrick Hit The Wall Hard At Today's First Gatorade Duel Race
It didn't cost her a ticket to ride—she'd already earned one—but Danica Patrick will lose starting position in Sunday's Daytona 500 grid after a nasty-looking wreck just one lap from finishing her first NASCAR Sprint Cup race, today's first of two Gatorade Duels....
All The Racist Jokes You Shouldn't Make About Jeremy Lin, According To The Asian American Journalists Association
If you're part of a minority group, there's a journalism association for you. NABJ, AWSM, SAJA, NAAJA, NAHJ, AMEJA, EAJA, WAJA, the acronyms go on. But Linsanity, with all the casual racism associated with it, is AAJA's time to shine. The Asian American Journalists Association has been all over the ...
ESPN Inadvertently Mic'd Two Mavs Fans Last Night, So Here's The Highlights Of Their Commentary
The Lakers' 96-91 win over the Mavericks last night ended up being more interesting late than it should have been—mostly due to L.A.'s inability to hit free throws down the stretch. Yet there was another, more unique narrative taking place on one of ESPN's audio channels. ...
Meet The Most Lovable Team In The FA Cup
From now until the end of the season, we'll be posting a number of clips from the previous weekend's English Premier League/FA Cup games. If there's a goal, save, dive, lip-read profanity, or hocked sputum we should know about, drop us a line at [email protected]. (You might also enjoy our better-la...
Italian Copy Editor Won't Let A Day Go By Without Offering An Apology For "Chink In The Armor" Headline
Anthony Federico, the editor behind ESPN's notorious Jeremy Lin headline, took to long-form Twitter today to apologize:...
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Donald Trump Says Rick Reilly Is The Worst Reporter In All Of Sports And Gets Away With Murder [UPDATE]
@realDonaldTrump tweets:...
An Interview With The 160-Pound Test Proctor Who Is Challenging Musician Chris Brown To An MMA Fight
In 2009, entertainer Chris Brown was charged with felony assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna and sentenced to five years of probation and six months of community service. The man behind the Twitter handle @ChrsBrwnChllnge, who hasn't disclosed his name besides saying that his initials are D.G., doesn...
Bristolmetrics: <em>SportsCenter</em> Said "Lin" More Often Than "If" Or "But" Last Week
This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week. Graphic by Jim Cooke....
ESPN.com Passes Along Kessel-For-Nash Rumor, As Reported By Fake Pierre McGuire Twitter Account
ESPN's rumor section is a place to find some of the more out-there trade possibilities, so we don't go in expecting everything prophesied to come true. We just kind of hope that when a blockbuster trade possibility is floated, the source is a real person....
Lionel Messi Closed The Gap With Ronaldo For The Lead In La Liga Goals After This Four-Score Performance
Barcelona stands 10 points behind Real Madrid in the La Liga standings, and after allowing an early goal to Valencia today appeared to be playing the same uninspired soccer that's plagued Barça recently....
There Was A Streaker At Anfield [UPDATE]
Last week we had a cat on the pitch at Anfield. Today, in the closing moments of stoppage time in Liverpool's 6-1 thrashing of Brighton, we had an honest-to-goodness streaker—clad only in sneakers and captured in his full frontal glory. [Fox Soccer]...
Ricky Rubio Pulled Off An Insane Blind Pass
Rubio: just playing street ball out there. [via Zach Harper]...
Jeremy Who? The Best Days For Harvard Basketball Were Back In 1946
People say good things about this Harvard College. Notable folks graduate from there. Big minds. Henry Kissinger. Ted Kaczynski. And Jeremy Lin. The Linsanity sweeping New York and the nation right now would seem to suggest that Harvard is not much of a basketball school, and that's a fair read. But...
Quiet, Please, For Professor Don King's Lecture On History, Anatomy, Geography, And, Uh, "Wetbacks"
Wordsmith and bombast aficionado Don King made an appearance in Corpus Christi yesterday to promote a bout this weekend in Texas' City by the Sea, and delivered a rambling lecture that the Corpus Christi Caller-Times says drew gasps from the audience....
The Piggyback Bandit Has Now Been Banned From High School Sporting Events In Minnesota, Too
On Friday we brought you an update to the story of Sherwin Shayegan, the inveterate piggyback bandit, who's spread his terror throughout the northern United States over the past several years....
This Is Why Penn State Sets The Standard For Decency, Harmony, And Goodwill
The man in the green and white hat in the above video is Patrick Chambers, the first-year men's basketball coach at Penn State. This afternoon, Chambers handed out Big Macs to the first 200 Penn State students to come to a campus McDonald's with a ticket stub from Saturday's huge win over Nebraska....