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"Crap On Me Sam Ponder": Your NDSU-Delaware State <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
We don't know much about our friends up in Fargo, North Dakota, but we are learning every day. For example, today on ESPN's College GameDay from North Dakota State, we learned that they enjoy scat play. Which is nice. For that and so much more, join us in our GameDay sign roundup from The Great Nort...
Franco Harris Has His Tiananmen Square Moment
About 150 people gathered for what was called a March for Truth today outside the Penn State board of trustees' meeting in State College, Pa. Speeches were given. A life-sized cardboard cutout of Joe Paterno showed up. Franco Harris stood near a van carrying several of the trustees....
What's So Special About Chicago Sportswriting?
Over on The Stacks, we've been running excerpts all week from a fun new anthology of Chicago sportswriting, edited by Ron Rapoport, whose interview with Alex Belth is below. The book is worth a look. There's Lardner and Lincicome and Royko, and if dyspeptic smartasses aren't your thing, there's you...
Was The DA Who Didn't Prosecute Sandusky Killed By A Hells Angel?
Among the alluring storylines just after Jerry Sandusky's November 2011 arrest was the mystery surrounding Ray Gricar, the former Centre County (Pa.) district attorney who went missing in 2005. The case had long gone cold, and Gricar was declared legally dead six years later. But get this: the Altoo...
Arian Foster Says He Took Money At Tennessee
Texans running back Arian Foster admits (maybe "admits" isn't the right word, because public opinion is swinging away from shaming the athletes, toward shaming the system that facilitates and encourages it) that he took money while he was a student at UT. ...
Wacky Chiefs Fans In Philly Deserve High-Def, Super-Slow-Mo Treatment
We opened last night's GIF roundup with this pre-game NFL Network moment of Chiefs fans at a Philadelphia bar, but the whole episode really deserves close analysis. There's just so much going on here, so we we slowed it down a bunch & uploaded it at the full HD resolution....
Summer's End Recalls Memory Of A Faded Dream
Excerpted from From Black Sox to Three-Peats: A Century of Chicago's Best Sports Writing (University of Chicago Press), edited by Ron Rapoport and featuring stories from the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, among other papers. It's an excellen...
Has Any Trade Worked Out Better Than The Dodgers/Red Sox Megadeal?
After dancing amidst champagne showers in Arizona's visiting clubhouse, the Dodgers jogged out to right field and Chase Field's pool. Adrian Gonzalez led the charge, and Nick Punto plunged into the water with a cannonball. "We're a veteran ballclub," Gonzalez said, on the occasion of Los Angeles ret...
The Peter Sellers Story
Cinephilia and Beyond's got a gem for us, this remarkable post on Peter Sellers....
The Wit And Wisdom Of The White Rat
Pat Jordan's 1992 L.A. Times story on Whitey Herzog:...
ACC Officials Decide N.C. State Didn't Score TD They Totally Scored
The latest conference to make its officials, rather than players and coaches, the story is the ACC, as tonight's Clemson-North Carolina State game was marred by a botched call that reversed a Wolfpack touchdown and led to one for the Tigers. ...
Former WMU Hoopster Looks To Set Record For Longest Freestyle Rap
Old Mountain Man Remus here is actually former Western Michigan basketball player Pat Cleland, who now goes by the stage name Rick Chyme. On Saturday, September 21, Rick Chyme will try to set a record for longest freestyle rap....
Here's Don Mattingly Pretending To Be A Wrestler
Don Mattingly and the Dodgers just clinched the NL West. As we offer our congratulations on a job well done, please enjoy this video of Donnie Baseball pretending Al Trautwig's gonna run wild on Tony Kubek. ...
Martellus Bennett Said His Coach Reminds Him Of Willy Wonka
Martellus Bennett seems like a lot of fun. On Tuesday, Jay Cutler's new favorite target went on the radio and compared his head coach to Willy Wonka. Specifically, he said Marc Trestman reminded him of Gene Wilder's Wonka, not version 17 of the Depp-Burton-face-powder collabo. ...
Melissa Stark With A Couple Of Andy Reids? Sure.
I'm seeing double here; four Andy Reids!...
Only Veterans May Play Ping Pong In The Steelers Locker Room
The Steelers are sort of a wreck—"total panic mode," as one player says. In response, a reported players-only meeting that produced a new rule: no one with less than four years of NFL experience is allowed to play table tennis and billiards at the team's training facility. This will solve everything...
Why The Young Harry Caray Was The Best Broadcaster In Baseball
Excerpted from From Black Sox to Three-Peats: A Century of Chicago's Best Sports Writing (University of Chicago Press), edited by Ron Rapoport and featuring stories from the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, among other papers. It's an excellen...
Da Stadium
More Chi-town. Rick Telander's 1992 Sports Illustrated story on Chicago Stadium:...
Michigan Paid To Have "Go Blue" Skywritten Over East Lansing
This was not some Wolverines fan with disposable income tweaking their in-state rivals by putting "Go Blue" in skywriting above Spartan Stadium before last weekend's MSU game. This was Michigan's athletics office, paying "thousands" to put the message in the skies. And it sort of backfired. ...