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Fowler Falls For Fake Website, Makes Crazy Claims About Tennis Star Tonight's Australian Open coverage on ESPN2 featured announcer Chris Fowler explaining to the audience that Japanese pro Kei Nishikori is, among other things, the highest-paid tennis player in the world and the owner of a restaurant chain, a soccer team, and clothing and perfume lines. None of tho...

Charlie Hebdo Is France's Answer To South Park, Or Vice Versa Most Americans woke up last Wednesday, scrolled through social media, learned of the Paris terrorist attack that left 12 dead, and, within minutes, had formed an opinion about a French satirical newspaper they'd never heard of. A consensus emerged: Charlie Hebdo (typical print run: 60,000) was an ...

Tiger Woods, In His Own WordsSo Tiger Woods is all bent out of shape about a satirical piece Dan Jenkins wrote in Golf Digest. We think Woods is a hollowed-out dummy who long ago ceased to be a human being, but we do agree with part of his criticism of Jenkins. The "fake interview" conceit is just fine, but Jenkins shouldn't ha...

Tiger Woods Melts Down Over Gentle Satire

The Players' Tribune justified its existence this afternoon when guest contributor Tiger Woods published a screeching rebuttal to a disposable piece of satire in this month's Golf Digest. Why rely on Twitter as the middleman for athletes' unhinged rants when you can get them directly from the sour...

Original LeBron Hater Sick Of All The Bandwagon Haters

This right here is a brilliant piece of satire. Comedian Matt Lieb adopts the character of someone who has been hating LeBron James way before you were hating LeBron James, and in the process captures everything that is annoying about scolding fans who never shut up about bandwagoners. There's also...

Sports Illustrated Releases Surprisingly NSFW Swimsuit Issue Cover

We can't say we saw this coming—and neither will you, if your wife gets to it first. Click the jump for the very NSFW, and surprising, SI swimsuit cover....

Satirical Soccer Story Suckers Stupids

This weekend, CBC radio program This Is That broadcast a report on a Canadian youth soccer association that removed the ball from games to promote better sportsmanship. It was filled with delightful quotes like this one:...

NESN Reports SportsPickle Satire About Brian Urlacher As News

Yesterday satirical sports website SportsPickle published an amusing story on Brian Urlacher's retirement, claiming the Bears linebacker was retiring but signing a one-day contract with the Packers so he could "go out a winner." Today, while broadcasting coverage of the ACC baseball tournament, NES...

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This Onion video is two years old, but more relevant than ever: "College Basketball Star Heroically Overcomes Tragic Rape He Committed."...

by Emma Carmichael|the onion

|Mon Mar 18 2013

Rick Reilly Got Fooled By A Satirical Blog Post (Again)

Remember when Rick Reilly wrote a column that included a line about LeBron James punching Juwan Howard’s cane, and it turned out that he got that anecdote from a satirical post on The Basketball Jones? Boy, that was a silly mistake, and one that you wouldn’t expect Rick Reilly to make again.[jump]...

by Tom Ley|journalismism

|Tue Jul 05 2016

Largest Sports Site Posts Messi Satire, Second-Largest Sports Site Parrots It As News

On Tuesday, Yahoo's soccer blog posted a seemingly innocuous article on Lionel Messi's loyalty to Barca. "When I eventually pass on, I will only play ghost football at Barcelona. I am happy there. No amount of spirit money will tempt me," he supposedly said....

by Barry Petchesky|Media Meltdowns

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Bush Thanks Gonzalez On Behalf Of Chokers Everywhere

Ever since Tony Gonzalez saved a choking man with the Heimlich maneuver earlier this month he's received praise fom all over, but hearing from President George W. Bush was probably an unexpected turn of events. The Chiefs tight end not only received a letter from the Commander In Chief, but also a ...

by Retired|Satire

|Tue Jun 18 2013

The LA Times on the newfound restraint within the sports blogosphere. Just wait until my next post about the rumored love-triangle between Bill Plaschke, Juan Pierre, and an adolescent sea otter from the aquarium in Long Beach. [LA Times]...

by Retired|it's

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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