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Jason Collins And The Golf Cart Of Doom
At least Timberwolves fans have great memories from the 2007-2008 season when their all-time greatest player won an NBA Championship in his first season with another team. Now their center can't avoid injury while driving around a golf course. Per the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: "Collins was injured ...
Erin Andrews Is an Objective Journalist When it Comes To Her Gator Love
Erin Andrews, who now seems to live at the nexus of hotness and controversy in the world of sports (previous resident Anna Kournikova), is angered by suggestions that she shows favoritism for the Gators. The latest flareup arose when internet rumors spread that Andrews flipped off several Miami fans...
South Carolina Prepares for Georgia With a Lunch-Time Brawl At the Student Union
Oh, those wacky, dedicated football players. The fight took place at Russell House, which despite it's quaint evocation of an antebellum bed and breakfast, is evidently a main dining hall on campus. Five football players scrapped with five "non-students," who were evidently impressed by the Zagat Gu...
Mariotti To Tribune Apparently Just A Matter Of When, Not If
Get ready Chicagoland, your Jay is back. Jay Mariotti to the Chicago Tribune! Let those words luxuriate on your tongue for a moment. At least that's the word according to two of our sources, one of whom is quite close to the situation. Tribune higher-ups — and by that I mean higher than the editoria...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after discovering that Oxford University has proven that beer goggles are real ... • College football: North Carolina at Rutgers (7:30 p.m., ET). Greg Schiano faces former mentor Butch Davis. The Punchout in Piscataway! [ESPN] • High School Football: Rider (Texas) at Sulphur Springs (T...
Vince Young Is Back, But Shhhh, Please Don't Boo Him
Talking publicly for the first time since Jeff Fisher sent guys with white coats after him with butterfly nets, Vince Young says that he's fine, he wants to play, and that he was never depressed. The problem was that he had never been booed before, and didn't know how to handle it. Um, good thing he...
Mets 3 1/2 Up With 17 To Play. I See No Way This Ends Badly
So things seem to be lining up nicely for the Mets in the stretch run, as evidenced on Wednesday with a 13-10 win over the Nationals. David Wright had himself a nice little 4-for-4 outing, New York took a 3 1/2-game lead over the Phillies, and the schedule looks promising, with 10 of their remaining...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while keeping an eye out for the fugitive German kangaroo ... • MLB: Tampa Bay at Boston (7 p.m., ET). Last gasp for Sox? [ESPN] • Men's soccer: World Cup qualifier, USA vs. Trinidad and Tobago, at Bridgeview, Ill. (8 p.m., ET). Two against one evens the odds. [ESPN2] • Men's soccer: C...
Vince Young's Mom Says He Doesn't Want to Play Football Anymore
The Vince Young saga has taken another turn toward the bizarre — as if you expected anything else — with the quarterback reportedly telling people close to him that he's not prepared to continue his NFL career. Young, who went AWOL late Monday after meeting in turn with his mom, a psychologist and T...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while trying to parallel park your Viagra rocket ... • MLB: Chicago Cubs at St. Louis (8:05 p.m., ET). Should be Dempsteriffic [WGN] • WNBA: Phoenix at Detroit (7 p.m., ET). Please inform me via Twitter when the brawling and dunking starts. [ESPN2] • Movie: The Magnificent Seven (8 p.m...
Those Pesky Mariotti-To-Tribune Rumors Will Not Dissipate
Rumors continue to flutter over Chicago this afternoon concerning sensitive Around the Horn talking head Jay Mariotti and his possible move to the Chicago Tribune. A couple of sources close to the situation have emailed me and said that the Trib's editorial staff are taking the rumors seriously, and...
Vince Young's Got A Gun: Searching For Answers To The Quarterback's Bizarre Unraveling
Plainly this won't be the last bit of news to trickle out about Vince Young's meltdown, but it's probably the last bit of news to explain the post-midnight visit with Coach Fisher. In addition to abruptly leaving his home without his cell phone, Young had a gun in the car. According to The Tennesse...
Titans Linebacker Keith Bulluck Serves Notice He's Coming for "Oucho Cinco"
Football players are so witty. You see the comedic work Bulluck is doing there? He added a vowel! The Titans linebacker is still stewing over Chad Johnson scoring a touchdown and celebrating with a television camera as a prop last season. So now Bulluck is letting Chad Ocho Cinco (nee Johnson) know...
This Vince Young Melt Down Is Getting Uglier...and Scary
It's beginning to look like Young is on the verge of a full-scale collapse. All day long Nashville airwaves exploded with talk of Young's alleged refusal to return to the field after his second interception. Now, things off the field are looking worse. Last night at 12:30 a.m., according to WKRN Ne...
To Watch Tonight
Forget about it, Jake. It's Fresno ... • NFL: Minnesota at Green Bay (7 p.m., ET); Denver at Oakland (10:15 p.m., ET). Gonna by a donnybrook. You betcha. [ESPN] • Tennis: U.S. Open, men's singles final, at New York (5 p.m., ET). Federer vs. Davis ... you're getting worked up over this? Is this Europ...
Your Live Strong Bracelets Are Back In Style Again
I guess he got bored bouncing along from one Hollywood starlet to another. Either that or Matthew McConaughey just isn't that impressed by him anymore. Armstrong, who will be 37 this month, is set to race for Astana for the 2009 season. His racing schedule would include — drumbeat — the Tour de Fra...
The College Football Rundown: There Is Never Enough Tebow To Go Around
Chris Fowler summed up the second week of college football when he said on ESPN Gameday: "The fans deserve a better slate of games than these." He was right. Several of the games turned out to be exciting but there was nothing particularly gripping about a roster that only featured seven games, sev...
Rearranging the World Order
Michael Bertin writes about soccer for Deadspin World Cup qualifying in Europe is too easy. I know that sounds ridiculous given some of the results over the weekend—France losing to Austria, Italy needing stoppage time to nip Cyrpus, and England being rescued against Andorra (again) by five inspire...
Did Vince Young Quit on the Titans?
With all the furor over Tom Brady, Vince Young's fourth quarter histrionics have slid under the radar so far. Which is odd because it was as baffling, unexpected, and weird as anything that will happen on an NFL sideline this season. Briefly, the scene: On the previous drive Vince Young threw his s...
Ocho Cinco's Name Change Papers Reveal His Creative Kids' Names
Tired of hearing about Chad Ocho Cinco yet? Me neither. The Smoking Gun has his name change documents and while they are mostly unexciting, we've learned a few things about the man. Apparently he claims to have no ulterior reasons for changing his name. I guess "Sticking it to Roger Goodell" wasn't ...