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Neil Reed, Former Indiana Basketball Player Once Choked By Bob Knight, Has Died
That's according to the Santa Maria (Calif.) Times, which cited faculty members at Pioneer Valley High School, where Reed coached basketball and golf:...
Osi Umenyiora Thinks RG3 Should Be Called Plain Old "Bob Griffin"
Osi Umenyiora is no stranger to antagonizing his NFC East foes. But yesterday on WFAN, he shifted his aim further down I-95, to a certain can't-miss superstar quarterback:...
How Football May Have Killed A 17-Year-Old Boy
Earlier this week, the Washingtonian published a haunting story about Austin Trenum, a high school football player who killed himself just days after suffering a concussion during one of his games. Here's a sampling:...
Of Course There's A Racehorse Named Usain Colt
Horses are really fast animals. People are fast, too, but not quite as fast. The fastest human is named Usain Bolt. Bolt kind of sounds like colt, which is a type of horse, which runs really fast. And once again, the Transitive Property of Cornball Naming Conventions has popped up, as the British ow...
L.A. Kings Donate $10,000 To Scholarship Fund In Memory Of Jessica Redfield, The Hockey Writer Killed In <i>Dark Knight</i> Shooting
Last week we told you about Jessica Ghawi (who wrote under the name Jessica Redfield), an aspiring journalist and one of the 12 people killed in the Colorado movie theater shooting. Peter Burns, a Denver radio host who worked with Ghawi, established a scholarship fund in her memory to help aspiring...
What's It Like To Sing The Anthem At A Baseball Game? The Story Of One Man's Perilous Fight
When I was a kid, I used to sing in the school choir. We had recitals for parents and teachers, and for the recitals we'd have to dress up in chinos and dress shirts, and the music teacher would arrange us along a set of risers, with all the tall boys in back and all the short girls in the front, ou...
The Million Dollar Man Has No Time For Your Hangover: More Wrestler Run-Ins
Inspired by the saga of "Wrestling Superstar Virgil," we continue with readers' encounters with the titans of the squared circle. If you've had your own run-in with wrestlers past or present, e-mail us, subject line "Virgilbag."...
Gilbert Arenas Is Selling His DC-Area Mansion, Complete With Million-Dollar Grotto
Way back in 2008, Gilbert Arenas began work on his million-dollar swimming pool at his Great Falls, Va., mansion. D.C. Sports Bog had some photos of the project under construction, and it looked like a millionaire athlete's fever dream: a full stone grotto complete with its own hot tub, bar, fish t...
We Already Have Our First Olympic Brand Violator, And It Is Pepsi
With the Olympic sponsorship protection Gestapo cracking down even on the family of royalty, we're amazed that it took just an hour for an unapproved sponsor's logo to appear onscreen. (The Olympics started this morning, if you didn't know.)...
Bristolmetrics: Herm Edwards Loses His Grip On Reality
When last we met, Joe Paterno rescued SportsCenter from the wasteland that is July sports, and the ESPYs were surprisingly not hyped to death. What would this week bring? ...
Female Russian Skydiving Team Sets World Record With 88-Member Jump
Apparently, there's a women's skydiving team based in Russia called "Pearls of Russia," and each of them seems to be incapable of processing normal human emotions, including fear, tension, or sound judgment. Even more astonishing is that this wasn't their first or second attempt, but rather a thir...
Last Night's <em>Raw</em> Featured An Entire Virgilbag's Worth Of Washed-Up Wrestlers
I don't watch wrestling any more, but I used to, so for me the best parts of last night's 1,000th Raw episode were when USA Network aired clips of those late '90s Attitude Era matches from my teenage years....
"I HOPE U ALL FUCKIN DIE" And Other Reasoned, Measured Responses To The NCAA's Penn State Punishment
The NCAA's announcement of penalties against Penn State football brought forth strong reactions—including our own—but none more, say, fervent than from those on social media. Here, then, are the most angry, sometimes regrettable, and generally depressing reactions from those on Twitter and Facebook...
<em>Appetite For Destruction</em> At 25: Memories From Matt Taibbi, Justine Bateman, And More
Last week, I celebrated the 25th anniversary of Appetite for Destruction by telling the story of the first time I listened to the album. Here's a collection of stories from other writers (and from readers, too) about their experiences with the album. ...
Who Exactly Is Running <em>Sports Illustrated</em>? <em>Sports Illustrated</em> Staffers Want To Know.
At Sports Illustrated's weekly editorial meeting on Thursday, top editor Terry McDonell had some news for the 30 or so staffers assembled. Job cuts were over, he said. (There were 16 departures and three layoffs in all.) And then he said something outwardly innocuous that people at the magazine have...
Joe Posnanski Won't Be Doing Very Many Interviews Or Readings For <em>Paterno</em>
Joe Posnanski is having a hard time coming by any good news these days. The latest? The book tour and media interviews for his woefully timed biography, Paterno, due out Aug. 21, will now be severely cut back....
Miguel Batista No Longer On Best Team In Baseball
To be fair, he never really was on the best team in baseball, but the Mets designated Miguel Batista for assignment on Sunday morning....
Will Foursquare Take Down Joe Paterno Statue Check-In?
As Rodney Erickson struggles with the most important decision ever in the history of Penn State, we're left to wonder when will foursquare tear down its Joe Paterno Statue check-in. As everyone knows, the foursquare page has become the symbol of this social media statuary controversy and emotions a...
Here Is The Most Insane Review Of <em>The Dark Knight Rises</em> You Will Ever Read
Do you remember those kids in your college literature course who were the absolute worst during discussions? The ones who would make completely off-the-wall statements about even the most straightforward pieces of literature. The ones who would say shit like, "Actually, I think Bartleby The Scriven...
Every Winner Of The Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, In Descending Order Of How Much They Look Like Ernest Hemingway
Every year, on the third Saturday in July, Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West hosts the Hemingway Look-Alike Society's Hemingway Look-Alike Contest. The 2012 champion will be named tomorrow. We went through 31 years of winners, and ranked them all on how much they look like Ernest Hemingway, starting with...