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Deion Sanders Fired From Own Prep School After Weird Assault Allegation
Deion Sanders has been fired from Prime Prep Academy, the charter school he co-founded last year in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. A faculty member is alleging Deion assaulted him, but Sanders has not been charged with any crime. Sanders says there was a confrontation, but no assault occurred. ...
Zinsser Remembers The New York Herald Tribune
Dig this most excellent essay on the old New York Herald Tribune by William Zinsser (who wrote a helpful book about writing):...
Young Red Wings Fan Flips Perfect Double Bird To Other Team After Goal
They learn so young, don't they? ...
This Umpire's Strike-Three Call Is "Whoomp There It Is!"
Via former MLB pitcher Mark Mulder, who told Busted Coverage that Bobby Crosby, his former A's teammate, sent it to him. Crosby's brother, a scout in Northern California, took the video. There it is....
Jeff Pearlman Interviews Tyler Kepner
Tyler Kepner, the talented lead baseball columnist at the New York Times is interviewed by Jeff Pearlman....
Daniel Snyder Hires The One Man In Washington Worse Than Daniel Snyder
A man so badly fucked that he'll hire Lanny Davis is a man who's finished, and so everyone who detests Daniel Snyder, the imperious prick who owns the Washington Redskins and claims he'll never change their name, can rejoice. When the client who can't be defended brings on the fixer who will defend ...
What Makes A Stanley Cup Champion? More Hockey Interactives To Explore
Continuing our industry-leading coverage of interactive hockey infographics, the charts above are a selection from an excellent piece of data viz by Dark Horse Analytics, which explore the relationship between payroll/attendance/offense/penalties and team performance....
Cool Chart: A's Skipper Bob Melvin Is The King Of Platoons
Over at Sports on Earth, Jack Moore created this great graphic to demonstrate just how crazy A's manager Bob Melvin is about platoons. The green rectangles represent consecutive games in which the same hitter held the same spot in the batting order, with blanks showing a change from the previous gam...
David Ortiz's Nephew Hit Him In The Dick With A Baseball
This happened before last night's series-clinching win over the Rays and it is mesmerizing. ...
Mike Ditka's "Biggest Mistake" Was Letting Obama Become President
In 2004, Mike Ditka mulled a run for Illinois's vacant senate seat. The prohibitive favorite was state senator Barack Obama, and the Republicans couldn't find someone to go against him. Committee chair George Allen, son of the hall of fame coach, met with Ditka (who described himself as "ultra-ultra...
Son Surprises His Dad With Bengals Tickets; Dad Gets All Weepy
Until today, I never thought that the Cincinnati Bengals were capable of bringing their fans to tears of joy instead of sorrow. But that's exactly what happened when one Giants fan surprised his father, a lifelong Bengals fan, with airfare and tickets to an upcoming Jets-Bengals game at Paul Brown ...
Koji Uehara And David Ortiz Dry Hump After Beating The Rays
Does this count as dry humping or wet humping, factoring in the champagne? Either way, David Ortiz was clearly elated after the Red Sox beat the Rays in four games in the ALDS, and Koji Uehara looks happy too. Everybody's having a good time! [@CJZero]...
Hockey Player Banned 47 Games, Then Cut, For Fighting, Eye-Gouging
Derek Campbell of the Hull Stingrays was nailed with a 47-game ban and subsequently released from his team for reacting violently after being hit against the boards by a Dundee Stars player....
The NFL Has A New Shutdown Corner
Cool name? Check. Surprisingly competitive team? Check. The league's top cornerback this year? Might be. So why isn't Alterraun Verner a household name yet?...
Reporter Alan Schwarz Changed The NFL; He's Here To Talk Concussions
We're joined now by New York Times enterprise reporter Alan Schwarz. Best known for his groundbreaking work on football's concussion crisis, he also wrote a terrific history of the role of statistics in baseball, and is a regular recipient of warm holiday greetings from Roger Goodell. Have questions...