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Former Maine Football Player Jailed In Connection With Double Stabbing
Zedric Joseph, a former UMaine football player, is reportedly being held in a Georgia jail on warrants out for two counts of aggravated assault and one count of murder....

Rich Peverley Will Not Return This Season
Rich Peverley, Lindy Ruff, and team-affiliated doctors appeared at a press conference this afternoon to answer questions about his Monday collapse, and to announce that Peverley's season is over....

The Masters Its Ownself
Dan Jenkins's His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir was published last week, which is as good an excuse as any to go spelunking through the back pages of one of our finest and funniest sportswriters. Here's a classic from the April 1985 issue of Golf Digest, anthologized in Jenkins's Fairways and Greens. Repri...

This Might Be Steve Francis Walking Into A Glass Door
Is this video of Steve Francis walking into a glass door? It just might be! ...

Every White Basketball Player Gets Compared To Larry Bird
This week's SI cover on the left; the Nov. 28, 1977, cover on the right. While we're doing throwbacks, here's Josh Levin in 2005, on the folly of white-on-white hoops comparisons. [Slate | SI.com]...

Mt. St. Mary's Wins NCAA Bid After Earlier Win With Six Men On The Court
Mount St. Mary's earned the NEC auto-bid last night by beating Robert Morris 88-71 last night in the conference championship game. The Mountaineers entered the tournament with a sub-.500 record, making their trip to the dance a bit of a shock. But here's the thing: they shouldn't have even been in t...

Oscar Pistorius's Bathroom Door Makes A Court Appearance
The eighth day of Oscar Pistorius's murder trial featured a reenactment of the moments following the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp, when Pistorius said he tried to break down the bathroom door to get to her. At issue was a key part of Pistorius's testimony—his claim that he strapped on his prosthetics...

The One With The Beer Is Doing It Right
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MLB Sees First Play Overturned On Review
The first 20 instances of umpires invoking baseball's new expanded review resulted in the call being upheld. But yesterday in Tempe, the replay system finally earned its keep....

Russell Westbrook And Patrick Beverley Still Don't Like Each Other
Russell Westbrook still despises Patrick Beverley, as was made clear early in tonight's Rockets-Thunder game....

Diego Costa Just Won't Stop Scoring
Spanish side Atlético Madrid are hosting AC Milan this evening in the second leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie. Madrid snuck an away 1-0 win at Milan in the first match after an 83rd-minute goal from Brazilian-born Spanish forward Diego Costa. Today, it only took him three minutes to add...


Would A World-Class Sprinter Be The Best Baserunner In MLB?
Originally published on Baseball Prospectus. ...

Map: The United States Of America, By Meat
This is fun. L.V. Anderson and Jess Fink of Slate started with a simple observation—Americans consume more meat per person than any other nation on earth (except Luxembourg, those gluttons), yet most of our official state foods are not meat—and have created a map that assigns a unique meat or meat-...

Justin Bieber's Latest Basketball Highlight Is A Sad Sham
Justin Bieber is back on the court, ballin' like only Justin Bieber can. Which is to say, he's forcing his poor manager, Scooter, to pretend like he just got juked out of his shoes by Justin Bieber's KraZy Dribbling Skillz. Seriously, look at this dive. You'd think he was some jobber selling for the...

Down The Drain With Roger Angell
Over at the Nieman Storyboard Elon Green talks to Roger Angell about Angell's 1975 profile of Steve Blass:...

How The Decision To Postpone Blue Jackets-Stars Was Made
When Rich Peverley collapsed, everyone—from the players who immediately summoned help, to the medical staff who treated him, to the officials who decided to postpone the game, to the league and in-arena personnel who kept fans informed—did their jobs perfectly and kept a scare from becoming a traged...

Rich Peverley Wanted To Get Back In Game After Regaining Consciousness
A brutally honest Lindy Ruff addressed the media following Rich Peverley's mid-game cardiac event and said the first thing Peverley asked him when he came to was how much time was left in the first period. Ruff was still visibly shaken and told reporters he had no interest in coaching a game right ...
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CBJ-Stars Game Postponed After Rich Peverley Collapses [UPDATE]
Dallas Stars forward Rich Peverley collapsed during tonight's Blue Jackets-Stars game in Dallas, leading the game to be suspended pending news of his condition....

Justin Bieber Does "Hook 'Em Horns" With Rick Barnes At Texas
The off-label purpose of SXSW is, apparently, to create awkward photographs that would otherwise never happen. Today we've got Justin Bieber and Texas men's basketball coach Rick Barnes. ...