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Jason Whitlock on David Stern's legacy: "Stern was a bully. He convinced everyone, employees and reporters who covered his league, that he was the smartest, most dangerous man in the room. His profanity-laced tantrums were legendary and effective. His ability to make his enemies uncomfortable was re...
Sports TV Theme Songs, Ranked
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When Vince Ferragamo Almost Became Joe Namath
This is the first Super Bowl I remember watching. I was 9 year old. I've seen all of them since but this game stands out as one of the more exciting ones. ...
What Time Is The Super Bowl? No One Cares Anymore
In 2011, the Huffington Post cracked the code. It ran an SEO keyword-laden article headlined "What Time Does The Superbowl Start?", and cleaned up. By reaching the top of search engine results, it drew the clicks of millions of people searching for that phrase—style error and all. ...
Batman On Steroids: How The <em>NFL On Fox</em> Theme Song Was Born
It was March 1994, and Fox Sports president David Hill was on the phone with a new employee. Hill himself was something of a new employee. The network was only a few months old at that point, being built on the fly after Rupert Murdoch had unexpectedly outbid CBS for NFC broadcast rights. Hill was k...
A Blueprint For Unionizing College Sports
On Tuesday, we learned that the Northwestern football team had filed paperwork with the National Labor Relations Board in an attempt to unionize and officially become classified as university employees. Thomas Frampton, an attorney and co-author of A Union of Amateurs: A Legal Blueprint to Reshape B...
Rams Owner Buys Stadium-Sized Site In Los Angeles
There have been so many rumors and pie-in-the-sky dreams about a Los Angeles football stadium that we won't believe it's happening until they actually cut the ribbon. But so far, nothing has come to nothing because those dreams were held by rich men hoping to lure an NFL team to L.A. This one's diff...
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Rangers Fan Just Pees On Concourse In Front Of God And Everyone [NSFW]
At yesterday's Yankee Stadium game, the night was cold, the beer flowing, and the bathroom lines long. One fan simply could not wait....
Rod Streater Made A Beats By Dre Parody
Those Beats by Dre commercials are ubiquitous (and the headphones aren't worth the price). Raiders receiver Rod Streater brings a little sanity back into our lives....
The Aftermath Of The Worst Drop In Super Bowl History
Originally published as "Smith hates for it to end like this" in the Jan. 22, 1979, edition of the Miami News. Reprinted here with the author's permission....
Watch David Stern Do The Top 10 On <em>The Late Show</em>
It's David Stern's last season as commissioner of the NBA, so the Godfather dropped by The Late Show to make some jokes....
Restaurant Manager Is Very Unhappy About Getting Her Permit Revoked
This video starts slowly, but you won't regret sticking it out to the end....
An Outdoor NHL Game Through A Ref's Eyes
The NHL stuck a GoPro camera and microphone on ref Wes McCauley for Sunday's Rangers-Devils game at Yankee Stadium. And as Harrison Mooney at Puck Daddy notes, you can't get more Canadian than Wes McCauley. ...
The NCAA Should Pray That Players Are Able To Form A Union
Originally published in Bloomberg View....
Doug McDermott Hits Game-Winner From 25 Feet Out
Doug McDermott, Creighton's do-it-all forward, dropped 39 points on 15-26 shooting against St. John's last night, and none were sweeter than his last three. ...
Which Industry Spends The Most On Super Bowl Commercials?
DVRs are the scourge of TV advertisers, which makes live sports—especially the NFL, and especially the Super Bowl—worth an enormous amount of money....
Budweiser's Puppy-Filled Super Bowl Ad Will Melt Your Heart
Here is an emotionally manipulative Super Bowl ad featuring a puppy kissing a horse, which Belgian-Brazilian conglomerate Anheuser-Busch InBev has released in the hopes that sites like this one will cynically link to it, thus associating their Budweiser brand not only with cute puppies, but with a c...
Former FCC Chairman: I Wasn't <em>That</em> Outraged At Janet Jackson's Boob
Remember that boob? It's one of the most famous boobs ever. Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" was why the few subsequent Super Bowl halftime shows were safe, old, boobless acts like Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen. And it wasn't even on TV for a whole second!...