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A $7,500 Charitable Donation Could Get You A Pitching Lesson With R.A. Dickey
Want to learn how to throw a knuckleball from presumptive Cy Young Award-winner R.A. Dickey? Of course you do! And now you have a once-in-a-lifetime chance. All it will cost you is several thousand dollars to charity. Here's what you get:...

Who Is Being Told To Stick To Sports Today? (Hurricane Sandy Edition!)
As Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, notable people with jobs in sports posted bits of news through their Twitter accounts to spread the word about flooding or other hurricane-related repercussions. Why the heck would they do that? Just keep talking about sports, idiots!...

Sad Arsenal Fans Are Sad
Being down 4-0 to Reading in the first half of a Capital One Cup match has Arsenal supporters feeling a bit down-though the Gunners did score a goal in first half stoppage time to narrow the gap a little....

The Giants Sure Use A Lot Of Sabermetrics For An Anti-Sabermetric Team
The Giants' World Series title is the latest point of retreat for the desperate sportswriter still looking to slam the use of statistics in baseball. In today's San Francisco Chronicle, Bruce Jenkins insists that this championship team got there through hard work, gristle, faces, eyes, shoulders, k...

Jeremy Lin Apparently Still Doesn't Know Who His New Teammates Are
As an undrafted rookie out of Iona, Scott Machado knew he faced an uphill battle in trying to make the Houston Rockets. Machado wound up making the roster because the Rockets released veteran Shaun Livingston instead. But sometime before Monday's final cuts, Machado got a scare from Jeremy Lin, who ...

Large MMA Fighter Goes From Bad Ass To Moron In A Matter Of Seconds
Here's a thing that makes an MMA fighter look super tough: Taking a flurry of punches and kicks right on the chin and responding by acting like an indestructible maniac....

Here Is A Picture Of Zach Galifianakis Stoned At A Knicks Game
Yes, that is Clyde Frazier sitting next to him. Zach tells the story behind this photo on Pete Holmes's podcast (go to the 26:00 mark)....

Eighth-Youngest Player On Knicks Out For Six Weeks
The Knicks have a remarkable seven players who are 30 or older on their roster. Amar'e Stoudemire is not one of them....

Youth Football Coaches Arrested For Running Gambling Ring
"Who the hell would ever bet large sums of money on little league football?" is a question that has only two answers: absolutely no one ever, and people in Florida. South Florida, specifically, where nine little league coaches have been arrested on charges of bookmaking for running a gambling ring t...

In 1938, The Dumbass Hurricane Bros Were Badass Senior Golfers
Hurricane Sandy is the biggest storm to hit the Northeast since the 1938 New England Hurricane ripped through the region, killing hundreds and causing millions in property damage....

Doc Rivers Says Ray Allen Refused To Return The Celtics' Calls During Free Agency
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: Now it's time for the Celtics' side of the story....

Washington D.C. Fox Affiliate Interviews "Zombie Pirate" For Insight On Hurricane Sandy
Here is the actual broadcast transcript of an interview that aired this morning on D.C. Fox affiliate WTTG:...

Here's Bartolo Colon Taking A Line Drive Off His Face
Bartolo Colon is pitching in the Dominican Republic and took a shot off the face Sunday that left him laying prostrate on the mound. He was able to walk off under is own power, but he was taken to the hospital for further testing. We are still consulting the Colon-o-meter and will update according...

Randy McMichael Is The NFL's Most Impatient Player
Early in the fourth quarter of San Diego's eventual loss to the Browns, the Chargers offense (ineffectual for most of the day) managed to scrape together the ten yards necessary for a first down and keep a possible game-winning drive alive. The tension of the moment was too much for tight end Randy...

CSN Interviewed Matt Cain While A Urinating Ryan Theriot Looked On
Truly this year's San Francisco Giants are champions of the highest degree. This year's World Series champs, you might say, even piss excellence. [CSN Bay Area]...

The Giants Sweep The Tigers To Win The World Series
This postseason began with plenty of dramatic games and wild finishes. The World Series had not followed suit, not until tonight, anyway. At least there was finally some back and forth in this game....

A UC Santa Barbara Soccer Player Was Handcuffed On The Field And Removed From A Game For Punching A Referee
Either during overtime or directly after a loss to UC Davis today, UC Santa Barbara defender (and one-time Second Team All-Big West selection) Peter McGlynn punched a referee that had just tossed him from the game. One early account said McGlynn punched the head official after a 2-1 overtime loss, a...

A Very Important Prince Fielder GIF
If Fox didn't intend us to use its super slo-mo camera for juvenile purposes, well, they should just shut the whole thing down....

Maryland Will Start A Converted Linebacker At Quarterback Because Every Other Quarterback Is Out For The Year
Things are not going well for the signal callers at Maryland. In June, presumptive starter C.J. Brown went down with a torn ACL. Last week against N.C. State, backup Perry Hills also tore his ACL. Devin Burns then entered the game for the injured Hills and promptly suffered a Lisfranc injury. He is ...
