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Ty Cobb Went To Mussolini's Italy And Did A Fascist Salute, And Other Warm Moments From The Cobb Family's Home Movies
Ty Cobb's reputation as baseball's biggest scoundrel is secure, but portions of it are undergoing something of a revision, with new research either casting doubt on or completely disproving some (though certainly not all) of the more notorious anecdotes about him. And now there's this, according to ...
The Nets Pulled Off A Perfect Double Alley-Oop
This one was executed so perfectly, it's almost as if the Nets drew up this double alley-oop in the first quarter of a win over the Mavericks. While it's not the first one we've seen this season, DeShawn Stevenson to MarShon Brooks to Kris Humphries certainly breaks the record for most capital let...
Linsanity Is Now New York City Street Art
Your morning roundup for Feb. 29. Photo via ANIMALNewYork. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. ...
Some People Take Their Karate Photo Shoots Way Too Seriously
World Wide Interweb went ahead and tipped us off that World Wide Interweb posted "The 25 Funniest Martial Arts Glamour Photos" last night....
The Ten People Who Followed Darren Rovell's Daughter On Twitter Before Darren Rovell Did: A Slideshow
Think of these people what you will, but you'll never be able to say they did not have the wherewithal to follow Twitter aficionado Darren Rovell's hours-old daughter Harper before he thought to follow her....
Ryan Braun's Urine Collector Gives His Side Of The Story
Everyone has a lawyer, and everyone has a statement. Today's comes from Dino Laurenzi, Jr., the employee of Comprehensive Drug Testing responsible for collecting Ryan Braun's sample, and he'd like to clear up just what happened on that fateful October evening....
Texas Tech Football Coach Tommy Tuberville Accused Of Fraud In $1.7 Million Federal Lawsuit
In July 2009, between his departure at Auburn and when he was hired at Texas Tech, Tommy Tuberville was featured in a Birmingham News story as an "amateur stock guru." At the time, the article said, Tuberville was brought in to help "drum up a little business for a big-time hedge fund." Now, he's b...
Lawsuit Over Bursting Testicle Alleges Professional Wrestling Is Fake
J-Millz's Coliseum Championship Wrestling match against Guido Andretti ended last June when Andretti kicked him in the nuts. Now J-Millz, whose real name is John Miller, is suing Andretti, whose real name is Clinton Woosley. Miller says his testicle burst as a result of the blow and that he doesn't...
FBI Docs: How George Steinbrenner Helped Kill Off Baseball's Last Real Commissioner
On July 30, 1990, MLB commissioner Fay Vincent "banned" George Steinbrenner from baseball and brought a close to one of the more sordid chapters in the sport's history. Steinbrenner had paid $40,000 to Howie Spira, a Bronx gambler with mafia ties, for dirt on Yankees outfielder Dave Winfield, with w...
Transcripts From The Steinbrenner-Vincent Hearing
On July 5-6, 1990, George Steinbrenner appeared before MLB commissioner Fay Vincent to discuss his association with Bronx gambler Howie Spira, who helped Steinbrenner dig up dirt on Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield. MLB later made a transcript of the hearing public. We've re-transcribed excerpts belo...
Woody Allen Was Watching The NBA All-Star Game Instead Of The Oscars
Woody Allen won the Academy Award for Midnight In Paris, but it's not clear if he knows yet. Allen wasn't in the house to accept his award, because something much more important was going on:...
Mark McGwire Thinks He Has The Numbers For The Hall Of Fame, But "Obviously Something Happened"
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: McGwire says it's all out of his hands now....
NASCAR Drivers Spent Yesterday's Daytona 500 Rain Delay Mentioning Their Sponsors As Much As Possible
This will surprise absolutely nobody familiar with the constant shilling for products and sponsors that takes place before, during, and after NASCAR races, but when slapped together back-to-back it's worth realizing that yesterday's eventual postponement of the Daytona 500 wasn't a lost cause for...
Some Dude Won The Fort Worth Marathon By Six Minutes, But Was DQed Because He Didn't Register
Oklahoman Scott Downard easily won the Cowtown Marathon, in Fort Worth, with a time of 2:31:40. He outran the rest of the field by more than six minutes, so there was plenty of time to disqualify him before the actual winner even finished....
Shaq Speaks: I'm At A Low-C Performance Level As An Analyst, And I Don't See How The Fuck Steve Nash Won Two MVPs
Shaq's been pretty bad on Inside the NBA. He's playing the Barkley role at a sub-Barkley level, and Barkley's right over there, anyway. Thankfully, Shaq knows it, he tells Vibe....
Bristolmetrics: Jeremy Lin's Knicks Got More <em>SportsCenter</em> Coverage Last Week Than All Of Men's College Basketball Did
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. Graphic by Jim Cooke....
Boston's Clubhouse Beer Ban Is A Victory For Stupid People Everywhere
Jon Lester said he's not proud of what happened. Josh Beckett called it a "lapse in judgment." Clay Buchholz said he'll learn from "bad decisions." David Ortiz says it won't happen again. We will merely point out that a Major League Baseball team drank beer, and it's been a story for four-and-a-half...
How The Doping Case Against Ryan Braun Fell Apart: One Theory
The conventional wisdom on Ryan Braun's overturned doping suspension is that it was a triumph of cautious proceduralism over substantive justice—a victory for protocol and a rare (and for my money not entirely unwelcome) defeat for the drug cops. Baseball's testing program caught a juicer, the think...
Photo Evidence That Andrew Luck Wants To Be A Panther
RAWR! I'm a panther!...
Report: Jerry Sandusky Still Had Access To A Penn State Internet Account Until Recently
We still don't know why it took the feds three months to initiate their own investigation of Jerry Sandusky, but now that they have, they've subpoenaed a laundry list of financial records, emails, correspondence, computer hard drives, and other documents from Penn State dating back to 1998. It's tem...