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Steve Smith To Aqib Talib: "Ice Up, Son!"
Steve Smith and Aqib Talib spent a good portion of the evening locking arms and dancing the dance of people who hate each other. Twice in one drive the two had to be separated, the first coming on a first down conversion where Talib wouldn't let go of Smith's leg. The two tumbled to the ground and ...
How The <em>New York Post</em> Manufactured A Stupid Jets Controversy
Earlier today, we told you about the New York Post's stupid attempt to turn a completely non-controversial event—a Jets team trip to Dave & Buster's the day before their game against the Bills—into a controversy. That story, by columnist Mark Cannizzaro, was based in part on a quote from Buffalo def...
An Interview With Richie Incognito, Italian Teenager
Because we don't work out with Richie Incognito, we weren't able to land him for an interview. So we did the next best thing: We spoke with 17-year-old Richie Incognito, a student from Varese, Italy, and asked him his feelings on the Dolphins imbroglio....
Your Latest Dumb Jets Scandal: A Trip To Dave & Buster's
The Jets lost to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, and they lost badly. This was not a surprising turn of events, as the Jets are a not-very-good football team that often loses badly to other football teams that are good and sometimes also not very good. But these are the Jets, so obviously their latest ...
What It's Like To Coach The Worst Softball Team In History
Originally published in the Tampa Bay Times....
Baseball's Clown Prince
That'd be Max Patkin, who was profiled by Steve Wulf for SI back in 1988:...
Free Diver From Brooklyn Dies Trying To Set American Record
Nicholas Mevoli, a 32-year-old free diver from Brooklyn, N.Y., died over the weekend while trying to complete a 72-meter dive in the Bahamas....
Dunk Contests Featuring Coach Sheed Are The Best Dunk Contests
That's it, cancel the dunk contest. Because in terms of entertainment value, nobody is topping Coach Sheed's performance in this post-practice dunk contest with Tony Mitchell....
Christopher Guest And Bill Murray Make Funny
In addition to our regular mix of sports and pop culture posts this week we're going to highlight comedians and other funny people. This is something I want to do periodically because there are a bunch of wonderful magazine profiles on comics that are worth sharing. ...
This Is The Best Dodgeball Story You'll Hear Today
Drew McWeeny from HitFix may have the greatest—and saddest—dodgeball story today. It involves some proficient ball-throwing teens and an easily flustered man as their victim. We won't step on the punchline....
CBS Broadcast Shows Fan Falling From Upper Deck At Ralph Wilson Stadium
Two people were hurt when a man fell from the third deck of Ralph Wilson Stadium during today's Jets-Bills game, and CBS's camera caught the incident while most viewers were away at commercial....
Andre Johnson And Matt Schaub Yell At Each Other While Losing
It's been a horrendous season for the Texans already. Losing to the Raiders and falling to 2-8 just adds more frustration....
The End Of Georges St-Pierre
A few thoughts, in no particular order, on the Georges St-Pierre vs. Johny Hendricks welterweight title bout from Saturday:...
Sign Of Man Having Sex With Cow Features In CBS Chicago Storm Coverage
Chicago CBS affiliate WBBM's coverage of the storms in Chicago that led to a delay of the Ravens-Bears game and Soldier Field being emptied included solicited viewer pictures of the storm, one of which has a sign warning drivers of impending man-cow copulation....
Steelers Sabotage Lions' Obnoxious Pregame Dance Session
Before today's Lions-Steelers game, Pittsburgh let some of its opponents know that their pregame music hype session was goddamn annoying....
Florida State Defensive Backs Play Hangman On The Sideline
Florida State creamed Syracuse 59-3 yesterday, and at some point, when the game was apparently out of hand, defensive backs P.J. Williams and Terrence Brooks used the whiteboard to play Hangman....
Eric Ward's One-Handed TD Catch Sparked Your Most Recent Gusgasm
We don't cover Gusgasms much these days, and we've sort of come around to editor emeritus's viewpoint about Fox's top college announcer. But when Gus Johnson goes overboard, we have an obligation to highlight it....
The Illinois Student Section Is The Saddest
So much sadness for the Illini faithful these days. The latest insult came today as Illinois hosted Ohio State and it...it did not go well. The Buckeyes rolled 60-35 and the student section was so barren it couldn't even spell shit out with signs. ...
Michigan State Students Force Two Consecutive Shot-Clock Violations
In the final minutes of Friday night's win over Columbia, the Michigan State student section provided a new counter to the ball-controlling, time-eating Princeton offense: chant a phony countdown that forces a shot-clock violation....