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Bristolmetrics: <i>SportsCenter</i> Thinks You Can't Get Enough Of Roger Clemens
This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week....
PNC Park Rings With Ric Flair "WOOO"s As Pirates Fans Liven Up Game With Impromptu Nature Boy Calls
If you were watching last night's rain-delayed Astros-Pirates game from Pittsburgh, you may have noticed an odd series of noises coming from the crowd during the middle innings. Pirates broadcaster Root Sports certainly did, and it took them awhile to actually identify what was going on. Reader A...
Great Effort Was Put Into This Alabama High School Football Sign Accusing The Opponents Of Being Gay
ESPN covered a handful of high school football games Sunday in one last "get some ratings now before the NFL starts" grab, one being a matchup of Alabama teams as Spanish Fort used a late score to secure a 20-14 victory over Daphne High School....
Rex Ryan Won't Make Any More Guarantees, But Declares These Jets The Best Team He's Ever Coached
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: So the Jets either make the Super Bowl, or they underperform....
How Do You Make Oregon's Offense Even More Colorful? Broadcast Them In Spanish
While American football still has plenty of inroads to make south of the border, its growing popularity can't be denied; there's a strong Mexican college football league featuring the best-named football team anywhere, ever, and Roger Goodell keeps nudging owners toward hosting a regular season NF...
Will Brett Favre Have To Discuss His Penis Under Oath?
Brett Favre's (alleged!) penis is back in the news and now it's because he doesn't want it shown off. We told you last week about the two former Jets masseuses who, as part of their ongoing lawsuit against Favre alleging sexual harassment and retaliation, tried to get him to admit that photographs p...
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Texas A&M Erects Billboard In Gainesville Declaring Itself "Cleanest Program In The SEC" Prior To Aggies-Gators Matchup [UPDATE]
Texas A & M gets its first taste of SEC football this Saturday as they host the Florida Gators in College Station, and the university apparently felt it necessary to welcome themselves to the conference with this billboard at a busy intersection in the northeast corner of Gainesville....
It's Still Preseason For ESPN's Promo Department, Too
Monday Night Football starts in a week, and the Worldwide Leader started promoting its first week doubleheader this weekend during college football programming. (You know, the doubleheader that will star Chris Berman in the announcing booth.) That's not the only blunder ESPN's made with the opening...
A.J. Ellis Hits Walk-Off Single For Dodgers, Teammates Take Turns Punching Him In The Nuts
If Ellis wants to blame anyone, it should really be Andre Ethier. If not for his game-tying home run in the bottom of the ninth, Ellis never would have had a chance to hit a single in the bottom of the 11th, driving in the winning run as he capped off a 4-3 Dodgers comeback against the Padres....
Buffalo NBC Station Uses Photos Of Singer Seal To Report On Actor Michael Clarke Duncan's Death
Actor Michael Clarke Duncan died Monday from complications of a heart attack, and his death was reported in the A block of most East Coast 11pm newscasts....
Mike Tyson: Evander Holyfield's Barbecue Sauce Is Ear-Licking Good
A while back, Holyfield and Tyson began using twitter to spread the word about Holyfield's "Real Deal" BBQ sauce. It was all good-natured, Holyfield even said "Love ya, bro!" after mentioning how his BBQ sauce would make you want to chew on an ear. Oh yeah, Tyson, to refresh your memory, once bit E...
CEO Of MLB Advanced Media Is Worried About The Napster Effect
Bob Bowman sat down with Mike Ozanian from Forbes and YES Network's Forbes SportsMoney to discuss major league baseball's streaming product and the depths of its awesomeness. If you feel like ending it all, feel free to watch that video up there....
Bernie, Of <i>Weekend At Bernie's</i> Fame, Threw Out The First Pitch In Oakland This Weekend
The Oakland A's have adopted the "Moves Like Bernie" dance. This is a "dance" popularized by some rapper featuring a plot point from Weekend At Bernie's II (Bernie's back...and still dead!): Bernie, a corpse, gets hit with some crazy voodoo in the beginning of the film and everytime he hears music ...
In Defense Of The Blundering Red Sox
Well. What else is there to say about the Red Sox that has not already been said? They started the year banning beer from the clubhouse to put an end to those chicken and beer stories. Bobby Valentine then began the season publicly questioning one of the team's better players. They were compared to ...
Brent Musburger Said Piss, And Kirk Herbstreit Couldn't Keep His Shit Together
On Saturday night, we all speculated about what Brent Musburger could have said that was bad enough that ABC felt the need to cut off the audio while he and Kirk Herbstreit pulled themselves together. Today, we have the unedited version: piss. He said "piss," instead of "pick." ...
Charl Schwartzel Four-Putting From Three Feet Away Is Brutal
This is the kind of mess that makes you so uncomfortable you almost can't watch it all. But of course, you do watch it all. Three times. Three times he missed this seemingly unmissable putt. Maybe we shouldn't count the last miss because it was likely the result of equal parts anger and shame, but...
Andy Roddick Is Still Alive, Getting Emotional At U.S. Open
This was bound to happen once he announced he would retire following the tournament, but it's still a nice moment to watch for the suckers in Arthur Ashe stadium. The crowd was juiced on match point and had to be told twice, in vain, to quiet down, but it didn't matter. Roddick's serve was returne...
Texans Fans Brawl In Rafters Of Reliant Stadium
This is a pretty solid fight video as far as fight videos go. It's even filmed properly so mad genius video guy Burke won't have a seizure watching it. A Local Houston news outlet did some sniffing around and found the YouTube uploader and he claims it all started when someone threw a beer on some...
Undercover Cops Fucking Love Wearing Old NFL Jerseys
We've received two dispatches from reader Al G. concerning the undercover police presence at Electric Zoo. Electric Zoo, by the way is a festival for music made by computers or something....
Alfredo Aceves Had A Weird Day
Not really sure what was going on with Alfredo Aceves yesterday, but he was acting like a bigger basket case than usual. He and Dustin Pedroia got into an argument in the dugout—probably because Aceves threw over to second, like, 17 times and Pedroia seemed ill-prepared for each successive toss—an...