rip Page 26 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Boom Or Bust: 48 Hours At Leadville's Treacherous Ultramarathon
After 99.75 miles and more than 16 hours of running, Thomas Lorblanchet comes striding slowly down 6th Street in Leadville, Colo. It's almost 9 on an August night, and as he crests a small hill, his way is lit only by his headlamp and the glowing light from the one-story houses that line the street....
Legendary College Basketball Coach Rick Majerus Passed Away Today
First, this, from Loyola University of Chicago's head basketball coach and onetime Rick Majerus assistant Porter Moser:...
Marvin Miller, The Man Who Beat Some Sense Into Baseball
He was in the phone book. That's the thing that always got me about Marvin Miller, the former head of the MLB players association and the man who pulled baseball out of its crude prehistory. You expect your heroes to be unlisted. You don't expect to find one of them in the white pages, right there b...
Remembering Hector 'Macho' Camacho, Boxing's Original Showman
There is a simple rule to predicting boxing stardom: knockouts equal success. A quick look at the biggest draws in boxing's recent years confirms this: Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Arturo Gatti, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., Ricky Hatton, and Felix Trinidad all won a pr...
Hector "Macho" Camacho Is Dead At 50
Despite doctors' initial belief that Hector "Macho" Camacho would make a full recovery from a shooting earlier this week in Puerto Rico, the boxer died early this morning after being taken off life support....
Democracy In The <em>Raw</em>: The WWE Comes To Post-Revolutionary Egypt
CAIRO—Outside the International Cairo Stadium complex, there were maybe a dozen policemen on horseback greeting the crowd for World Wrestling Entertainment's first visit to Egypt. Families had brought little kids, and vendors hawked national flags and SpongeBob SquarePants t-shirts....
"Just A Hunch": To Win What Might Have Been His Biggest Game, Darrell Royal Had Texas Do The Very Thing He Hated
Former University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal despised the forward pass. "Three things can happen," he famously said of throwing the football, "and two of them are bad." In 1968, Royal rolled out a scheme that allowed Texas's offense to be effective with minimal passing. The wishbone, as i...
Bryant McKinnie Sued For $375,000 In Unpaid Strip Club Bills
The Ravens tackle is being sued by, of all people, the father of rapper Trick Daddy. (He's also a bigtime South Florida strip club exec.) The suit claims McKinnie borrowed $375,000 in strip club expenses from Feb. 2009 to Sept. 2010, and has yet to pay back a dime....
Mizzou's Corporate Card Was Used For $7,600 At A Vegas Strip Club
Missouri, like many schools, handed out credit cards to athletics department employees and trusted them not to abuse the privilege. Anyone who's ever had a corporate card can guess how that worked out: strip clubs and steakhouses. After an external audit of the program's finances, they're cracking d...
Hey, Here's An Allegation That Lance Armstrong Bribed Opponents To Let Him Win Races
This is a pretty damning allegation against Armstrong, one that got lost earlier this week in all the hoopla over a damning USADA report and his being declared sponsora non grata. You might even be tempted to wonder if it's just piling on, at a time when it's cool to bash Armstrong. But the actual c...
ESPN's Beano Cook Is Dead At 81
Beano Cook, an eminence grise of college football—the closest thing ESPN had to Andy Rooney—died in his sleep last night at 81. Cook went to Pitt and worked there for a decade in sports publicity. While he was at CBS in 1981, he uttered his most celebrated bit of wisdom. Bowie Kuhn had just given ...
Former NFL, Television, And Movie Star Alex Karras Is Dead
Alex Karras, whose career with the Detroit Lions would come to be overshadowed by his starring roles in film and on TV's Webster, is dead today at the age of 77 after suffering kidney failure....
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...
Venezuelan Man Is Good At Baseball, BBC Is Shocked To Report
The BBC headline (above) describes Miguel Cabrera's triple crown in just about the most British way possible. Despite Venezuelans playing in Major League Baseball since 1939, and Venezuela's finishing ahead of the U.S. in the last World Baseball Classic, Cabrera still gets treated like a gold-medali...
![A Boise State Equipment Truck Hit A Cow, And Someone Took A Picture Of The Aftermath [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/18154sut3eattpng.png)
A Boise State Equipment Truck Hit A Cow, And Someone Took A Picture Of The Aftermath [UPDATE]
Brian Murphy of the Idaho Statesman tweeted this picture he found of what happens when the Boise State equipment truck hits a cow. There's manure and blood everywhere. Everywhere....
Let's Admire Miguel Cabrera's Triple Crown, Before We Put The Triple Crown In The Dustbin Of History
Last night, Miguel Cabrera became the first player since 1967 to win the triple crown: .330 batting average, 44 home runs, 139 RBIs. For a lot of baseball fans, however, the accomplishment didn't mean a whole lot. In those 45 years without a triple crown winner, baseball analysis has gotten much mo...
Torrey Smith's Brother Died In A Motorcycle Crash
Sal Paolantonio is reporting that Torrey Smith left the Ravens hotel in Baltimore at 2:00 a.m this morning to be with his family after learning that his younger brother Tevin was killed in a motorcycle crash....
Steve Sabol, President Of NFL Films, Is Dead
Steve Sabol, the president of NFL Films, died today following an 18-month battle with brain cancer. He was 69. Sabol took over NFL Films from his father, Ed, who founded the company in 1962, and he won over 40 Emmys. Sabol will likely be remembered for his company's many sports broadcasting innova...
Makeshift Stripper Pole At Chicago Bears Tailgate Defeats Woman
A stripper pole with a Bears logo that's unattached to anything in the middle of a tailgate party outside Soldier Field? This probably won't end well. It doesn't....