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There Is Nowhere Else To Go But Up For The Washington Wizards
The Washington Wizards lost to the San Antonio Spurs tonight and are now 0-12 on the season. John Wall remains injured but it looks like he has a plan. Or he's falling asleep. Either way....
Jamaal Charles Waited Around for Peyton Manning's Autograph After Losing To Peyton Manning
According to Neal Jones of KCTV-5, Dwayne Bowe also got in on the action and posed for some pictures with Manning following Kansas City's 17-9 loss to the Broncos. And he actually made some sense. When cameras caught the two Chiefs stars milling around for Manning, it was a goofy bit of video—which...
Slick Rick Got Booed At Halftime Of Nets-Knicks, Reporter Gets Buried For Questioning His Hip Hop Legend Status
The New York Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets finally got around to playing that game at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn that was canceled in the wake of hurricane Sandy. For halftime entertainment the Nets brought in Slick Rick to delight the masses. It apparently did not go so well for Mr. Rick—Slic...
The Lakers Claim Phil Jackson Never Told Them He Wanted The Job
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: We'll never stop talking about the time a guy didn't get hired....
Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts For People Who Read
Books! Everyone loves them, and they can make for great Christmas gifts, so long as they are not written by Mike Lupica or Mitch Albom. With that in mind, we'd like to know what books you read this year that you think other people should read. They don't have to be sports-themed, but those are cert...
Why Don't We Let College Athletes Major In Sports?
David Pargman, a professor emeritus of educational psychology at Florida State University, makes a perfectly sensible argument in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why can't aspiring professional athletes just major in sports, the way that aspiring dancers major in dance and aspiring actors major i...
For Once, The Browns Really Were #1 Against The Steelers
Long-suffering Browns fans have faced a decade of hardship when it comes to games against the hated Pittsburgh Steelers. Clevelanders struggle mightily to respond to 'Burgher taunts with little to show for it, though yesterday's miracle win (thanks mostly to eight Steelers turnovers) might put a fe...
South Carolina Gamecocks Top Clemson, Violent Sexual Predators
Sometimes things happen and we don't realize they are happening. That's how you wind up with a "Sexual Predators: The Numbers Are Rising" headline immediately beneath a picture of the streaking and dominant University of South Carolina football program....
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Liquid Menace Stalks Official: Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [UPDATED]
We'll be putting all our GIFs for the day here, from official Buddy Of The West Horton narrowly escaping certain death to Indianapolis cheerleaders remaining Chuckstrong. We'll update the post as the later games conclude, so stay tuned. ...
Colin Kaepernick Is A Psychic: Your NFL Late Games Viewing Guide
Before we get Giants-Packers tonight, we have three more on the undercard, including the second step in the Colin Kaepernick era. ...
Browns Linebacker Tank Carder Follows Awful Comedy Accounts On Twitter, Tells One "Your A Faggot" When He Misses The Joke
You can tell a lot about a person by checking out who they follow on Twitter. In the case of the former TCU Horned Frog, Tank Carder fulfills many of the "jock" stereotypes you might have. He follows something called "Fill Werrell" and the straight forwardly-named "Pickup Lines!" He follows an acco...
Seahawks-Dolphins Delayed When Sun Life Stadium Sprinklers Go Off Mid-Game
Damn you, BW3. In a premature attempt to extend what's so far been a boring Seattle-Miami NFL game, a groundskeeping blunder led to a delay in the action when midway through the third quarter, Sun Life Stadium's sprinkler system went off, leading players and officials to scatter in an attempt to e...
If You've Ever Wanted To Hear Ed Hochuli Talk About Buttocks, Today Is Your Day
We're surprised this doesn't happen more often, and maybe it does—but hearing popular NFL referee Ed Hochuli do it has a special flair. Hochuli's description of the results of a video replay in today's Bills-Colts game required his use of the word "buttocks"—you know the workout-obsessed ref wante...
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...
Jay Cutler Returns: Your NFL Early Games Viewing Guide
Week 12 continues right now for those of you still holding on to the football season. For the rest of us, there are Christmas movies I guess. ...
Tom Jackson Bizarrely Attacks Jay Cutler For Not Saying Hello To People
Sitting alongside Chris Berman as he has for so long, Tom Jackson has escaped criticism because the easy target gets hit the most. But Tom Jackson is just as awful and this is but one example. Jay Cutler was concussed two weeks ago and was just named the starter for the Bears today. Rather than a ...
Man City Star Kolo Toure Carried On Affair For Two Years, Pretended He Was A Car Salesman Named Francois
This is just amazing. Stuck in our American-centric sports sphere, we often forget the mega-popularity of soccer and by extension the fame of those who play the game. Kolo Toure earns £90,000 a week. That is approximately $145,000 american dollars. A week. In other words, he's a big star. The kind ...
Washington State Fan Punches Washington Tight End Austin Seferian-Jenkins
The Cougars beat the visiting Washington Huskies by a field goal in overtime in front of 30,000 fans Friday night. As you can see at around the :13 mark on the 45 yard line in the video above, the overtime win was apparently not enough for one fan who was out for blood....
Bucket-Hat Clemson Bro Flipping The Double Bird Is Mesmerizing
Clemson lost to in-state rival South Carolina again tonight 27-17, making it four Palmetto Bowls in a row for the SEC's Gamecocks. While the Tigers had a rowdy Death Valley pushing them to what looked like a possible win, they were simply overpowered in the end—leaving coach Dabo Swinney searchin...
Did Penn State Coach Bill O'Brien Call His Team "A Bunch Of Fuckers" In His Post-Game Interview?
Penn State closed out a difficult season with a memorable overtime win against Wisconsin, and a choked-up Bill O'Brien spoke fondly of his team in the post-game interview on ESPN2. Unfortunately, it sounds a lot like he called them "a bunch of fuckers," though personally I think he says "fighters....