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NESN Reports <em>SportsPickle</em> 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...
Why You're Still A Fan, Despite All The Crap: A Look Inside Your Brain
Adapted from The Secret Lives of Sports Fans: The Science of Sports Obsession....
Idiot With Death Wish Runs Onto Track During Harness Race
It turns out last night's Idiot in Kansas City wasn't the only maniac to invade a playing field. Here's a gent who rushed onto a horse track during a harness race and ended up spooking one of the competitors....
Toronto Fan Hurls Full Can Of Beer At Nate McLouth, Nearly Hits Him
In what was a good night for bad fans, a spectacular play by Nate McLouth resulted in retribution from a Blue Jays fan who chucked what appears to be a full can of beer from the Rogers Centre upper deck at the Orioles outfielder....
Happy Bobday
Dylan turns 72. Illustration by Alex Fine, found via It's a Long Season. ...
How Many Mistakes Are In This Graphic From Last Night's Royals 'Cast?
Send stories, photos, and anything else you might have to [email protected]....
Idiot On The Field In Kansas City Steals Rosin Bag, Escapes Cop
We were blessed during tonight's Angels-Royals matchup to get an Idiot On The Field who not only earned live TV time, but pulled a decent stunt to boot....
ESPN Is Confused About Where On The Body The Achilles Tendon Is Located
Must have been a real bitch for Thetis to hold a baby by its knee to dip into the river Styx....
Norris Cole Gave David West A Mighty Forearm Shiver To The Balls
Last night's loss to the Heat hurt for a Pacers team that hit two late shots to tie in regulation and take what looked like a winner at the charity stripe in overtime, but it was especially painful for David West—mostly because of Norris Cole's blast to the 'nads....
LeBron's Layup As Seen From The Indiana Bench
Seems nice, but there's some big tall guy blocking the view....
Pacers Make A Mess Of Final Seconds, Still Force OT, Lose Anyway
The Pacers tried their damnedest to screw up the end of a closely-fought Game 1, but thanks to some uncharacteristic help from Ray Allen and an off-balance semi-prayer from Paul George, we went to overtime....
Man Catches Foul Ball While Holding Baby
It might be time to move on from the dad-holding-baby highlight. Maybe not right this moment with this specific clip, but sometime soon we have to up the stakes at least. We've been getting them more and more of late and dads with babies are getting too complacent. ...
Bills Fan Appropriately Honors Hall Of Fame RB
This is a pretty good tattoo of not-convicted-in-court murderer O.J. Simpson. ...
It Has Been One Week Since The Miami Heat Played Basketball
The Miami Heat have not played a game in however many hours are in a week (Rovell is not returning calls). What did people even do back in those primitive days of one week ago? Did they even have smartphones? To help give you a basic understanding of what it was like back when the Miami Heat actuall...
Ex-ESPNer: Did Network Cut 300-400 Jobs To Pay For <em>SportsCenter</em> Set?
A recently laid-off ESPN source gave us more details about the ESPN job cuts, the first significant staff reduction in four years. First off, it appears these layoffs will stretch over several weeks. There will be more technology and creative services layoffs today. Layoffs in production are coming ...
H-U-S-T-L-E-R, Huster
Dig this 1958 Jimmy Cannon column, "Broadway Sportsman":...
Top Billin
Few people, if any, have written better stories—funny and smart—about college football than Dan Jenkins. Last fall, Michael MacCambridge was good enough to make Jenkins' 1963 Sports Illustrated piece, "The Disciples of St. Darrell on a Wild Weekend" part of his excellent Director's Cut series for Gr...
Sorry, Wrong Number
I woke up this morning, turned on my phone and checked last night's scores. I do this most every day and am reminded of how I used to get in trouble as a kid for calling up 976-1313, the sports phone line in New York. I'd sneak it whenever I could because up-to-the-minute scores were hard to come by...