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Bob Costas Slams CBS And Jim Nantz Over Gutless Masters Coverage
Bob Costas went on The Dan Patrick Show and really quite beautifully torched CBS's Masters coverage for not acknowledging "Augusta's history of racism and sexism." Here's Costas:...

<i>The Daily Show</i> Takes On NCAA, Leaves Smoking Crater
The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi ventured into our familiar waters last night with a lengthy piece that delved not just into Minnesota wrestler Joel Bauman's NCAA-verboten singing career but Ed O'Bannon's megaton lawsuit....

Your Primer On 14-Year-Old Tianlang Guan's Prodigious 1-Over Day At Augusta National
Winning after the first round at Augusta National is the boy tied for 46th place: Tianlang Guan, the 14-year-old who as the youngest competitor in a major since 1865 sits just on the cut line at 1-over....

The Panthers Are Getting Some Of The Public Money They Wanted For Stadium Renovations
The North Carolina general assembly passed a bill this morning that will allow the city of Charlotte to allocate two tourism taxes toward funding for $300 million worth of renovations on the Panthers' stadium. ...

Five Places Jason Whitlock Won't Go Because The Food Is Too Good
Earlier today, Fox Sports's Jason Whitlock told Twitter that he wasn't covering this year's Masters. His reasoning was unexpected....

Tiger Woods Drops His First F-Bomb Of The Masters
Tiger Woods wasn't exactly angry at the result of his approach shot on the eleventh hole of his opening round at the Masters—I'd say he was more bemused—but that didn't stop him from dropping a big ol' f-bomb in range of NBC's CBS's microphones. Looks like he's having a good time out there, though!...

NHL, NHLPA Partner With Gay Rights Group
Mortal and philosophical enemies Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr will sit down together today and announce a pioneering partnership between the NHL, NHLPA, and the You Can Play Project (YCP), the latter a non-profit group formed last year to promote LGBT tolerance in sports....

Bird-Flipping Red Sox Fan Is Less Than Impressed By Chris Davis's Homer
The Red Sox are surprising fans and pundits with their quick start in the AL East, though the Orioles cut into that lead thanks in part to a ninth inning Chris Davis homer that sparked a five run rally. Davis's performance so far this season has been impressive—to everyone but Boston fans, at least....

The Masters Starts Tomorrow; Take A Look At All The Changes At Augusta National
Over the years, Augusta has gone through its share of changes and if you've ever been looking to see all those changes (most of them, anyway) in one place, here you go. ...

Benlands. Terrence Malick's <em>To The Wonder</em>, With A Silent Affleck, Reviewed.
1. You can make all the jokes you want about Terrence Malick's movies, particularly these last two later-era ones, whose interest in normal movie things like "plots" and "stories" and "coherent narratives" is minimal at best, but they knock my socks off. I know that both The Tree of Life and now To ...

What Being A Coach Should Mean In The 21st Century
Rutgers gave athletic director Tim Pernetti the boot on Friday after Mike "50 Hot Ones Comin' At Ya!" Rice was shitcanned for turning basketball practice into his own dodgeball refresher course. But because the only thing he did that was truly anathema to the big-time sports hivemind was to get caug...

Millionaire College Football Coach Thinks His Unpaid Players Get Paid Plenty
For some reason, Sporting News decided that it would be a good idea to ask University of Oklahoma head football coach Bob Stoops for his opinion on whether or not college football players should be paid. Stoops's sneering thoughts on the matter were exactly what you'd expect to hear from a member of...

The Zombie Invasion Has Begun, And They Are Targeting San Francisco
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Fans Protest At Marlins' Home Opener, Get Ejected For No Good Reason
When a franchise is as committed to shitting on its fan base as the Miami Marlins are, receiving a little animosity from those fans is to be expected. So it's not surprising that a group of Marlins fans staged a small protest at yesterday's home opener, nor is it surprising that the Marlins organiz...

Kornheiser's Eyes Grew Wide When He Saw Pernetti's Big Package
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Central Figure In Selena Roberts's Nothingburger Auburn Story Pleads Guilty
Mike McNeil, the central figure in Selena Roberts's much-bruited story about the University of Auburn football program, has pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery. He will serve at least three years in prison, nothing like the 21-years-to-life sentence he'd faced on the original charges. That brings...

Season's First Idiot On The Field Slid Into Second Base, Tried To Scale Outfield Wall
This comes from yesterday's Blue Jays game. Keep an eye on the fauxhawked dude in the white shirt bottom left of the video. He's about to take a magical tour of the Rogers Centre....

This Is The Perfect Miami Marlins Vanity License Plate
Mierda means "shit" in Spanish....
