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WFAN Just Obliterated Mike Francesa's Most Effective Marketer
WFAN Audio, the internet's largest repository of Mike Francesa clips, was decimated today, as WFAN/CBS issued takedown notices on hundreds of YouTube videos. This is only notable to that small subset of the population who cares what Francesa's up to, but that's kind of the point—even fewer people ar...
We Have No Idea What <em>Hip Show</em> Is, But It's The Best Thing On TV
What you are watching is a clip from a Russian MMA-based show called Hip Show: Arena Combat, which is broadcast in America on AXS TV. It's really weird....
Rich Asshole Mark Emmert Says He'd Be Happy To Be An Unpaid Athlete
NCAA president Mark Emmert was a guest on Dan Patrick's show this morning, and he said all the stupid things we've heard him say many times before while trying to defend the scam that is the NCAA. The entire interview is worth a listen, because Patrick isn't afraid to challenge Emmert, but I partic...
R.I.P. Rubin Carter
Rubin Carter died yesterday. Here's Bill Nack's 1992 SI profile:...
"I Haven't Had Any Affairs Yet," Said The All-Star's Wife, "But ..."
When Pat Jordan went to do a story on Dodgers first baseman Steve Garvey and his wife, Cyndy, for Inside Sports in 1980, he never expected trouble. After the story appeared, the Garveys sued Jordan and the magazine, and though the suit was eventually settled—and though the Garveys would soon be divo...
Tell Us Your Awesome/Humiliating Childhood Sports Stories
Readers! We want your childhood sports stories. Heroic ones, and embarrassing ones. The time you closed your eyes, swung from your heels, and turned the dimpled Golden Boy's best fastball into a screeching rocket for a double. The time you heaved a half-court buzzer-beater, missed the basket by ...
Mike Francesa Could Not Give Less Of A Shit About The Ultimate Warrior
You think the Sports Pope wants to sit here and spend his day talking about professional wrestling? Get a clue. Francesa could cah less about that gahbage....
The Masters Par 3 Contest Gave Us Our New Favorite Sports Baby
We like sports babies, so we are quite enamored with pro golfer Scott Stallings's son, Finn, who played in the Par 3 contest with his father at Augusta today. Just lookit how damn cute this sports baby is....
Alabama Athletics Earn More Than All 30 NHL Teams
The Alabama Crimson Tide athletics department earns revenues of $143 million dollars. According to Marc Edelman, a professor of sports and antitrust law at CUNY, that is more than all 30 NHL teams and 25 NBA teams. While not the craziest thing you've ever heard, it does crystallize something you've ...
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s Car Engulfed In Flames At Texas Motor Speedway
Today's weather-delayed running of the [Corporate Sponsor] 500 in Texas got bad for Dale Earnhardt, Jr. very quickly as his car lost a tire then caught on fire after hitting the wall....
Don't Watch Sports At Sports Bars
With the NCAA tournament winding down and football season still a long ways off, we're finally transitioning out of peak sports-bar season. Kentucky and Connecticut are going to win Saturday, and then Kentucky and the rest of us are going to win Monday, because every sporting drinker's life is impro...
Dumb Question About Derek Jeter Drives Radio Host To Breaking Point
This is Bruce Drennan, a Cleveland sportscaster who hosts a call-in radio show called All Bets Are Off. During yesterday's show, a guy—a plant? an actual yokel?—called in and asked Drennan if he thought there was any chance that Derek Jeter might end up on the Indians. Much exasperation ensued, as ...
His Own Path
Pat Jordan's latest for Sports on Earth is a profile of Rays' pitcher, Chris Archer:...
The Freshman
Harold Lloyd's 1925 comedy The Freshman is now part of the distinguished Criterion Collection. ...
Georgia Men's Basketball Has Policies Against Orgies And Gangbangs
Thanks to a few University of Maryland journalism students' public records requests, we know what one collegiate athletic program expects from its players' fucking habits, among other activities....
Ohio State AD Gets $18,000 Because A Wrestler Won A Title
OSU athletic director Gene Smith will receive a bonus of one week's salary—more than $18,000—because Buckeye wrestler Logan Steiber won his weight class at this weekend's NCAA championships. ...