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How Not To Tell Fans That Your Ninth-Place Team Is Raising Ticket Prices
"It certainly has been an interesting and challenging year from the outset, but I guess that's what makes sports such an exciting and unpredictable entertainment option." [Washington Times]...

Gary Carter Went Out With A Win
There's a great line in the New York Times obituary of Gary Carter that says he "may have led the 1986 Mets in hugging teammates."...

Steal, Fast Break, Pass Off The Glass, Dunk. All By The Same Player.
That's Darrion Pellum of Hampton University last night against Maryland Eastern Shore. There's really nothing else to say, is there? [via]...

Darren Rovell Appeared On WFAN To Explain His Indecent Proposal To Kate Upton
CNBC's Darren Rovell dropped by WFAN this morning and attempted to explain Tuesday's appearance on the network with Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton, during which the sports business reporter asked Upton to be his Valentine (and was rejected)....

Are New York’s Most Exclusive Restaurants More Eager To Seat Jeremy Lin Or Eli Manning? Deadspin Investigates
Who's the biggest thing in New York right now? Is it Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin, the unlikely guy leading his team on an improbable charge to .500, collecting terrible, punning tabloid headlines along the way? Or is it Giants quarterback Eli Manning, the unlikely guy who led his team on an improb...

St. John's Fires Administrator For Scalping Basketball Tickets
Brian Colleary, a senior associate AD and the former AD at Duquesne, allegedly scalped tickets to last year's game against Duke and to the Big East tournament. He will not face criminal charges. One source told the New York Post the amount of money involved was not significant, while another said it...

Children's Music Will Destroy Your Good Taste Forever; Or, How I Came To Like Kidz Bop
I have two kids, and so I have to listen to lots of kids' music. Horrible, awful, miserable kids' music. Almost all of it is complete dogshit. All of the songs from Dora are horrible. All of the songs from Thomas the Tank Engine are puke. And whoever wrote the Bond-style songs for Special Agent Oso ...

This Alabama Fan Holds A Giant, Bug-Eyed Cutout Of His Face At Games, And We're Scared
The SEC is a wild place. We don't understand what goes on there, and perhaps we never will. Here is one exhibit, which The Birmingham News captured at the Alabama-Florida basketball game last night. The 14th-ranked Gators won, 61-52. Rightly concerned reader Aaron emailed the photo to us. This young...
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Colin Cowherd's Awkward Interview With Kate Upton Ended Equally-Awkwardly [UPDATE]
ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd found himself talking to a dial tone today on The Herd With Colin Cowherd after Sports Illustrated cover model Kate Upton hung up on him following a series of invasive and creepy questions. Update: see below....

Won't Someone In Pittsburgh Give Antonio Brown A Ride From The Airport Tomorrow?
Taxis in Pittsburgh are notoriously fickle compared to other cities, and the airport flyer bus can be a bit of a pain if you've got bags. [via]...

Introducing Glory Days: Send Us <em>Your</em> Greatest Sports Moments
The scene: Kenney Gym in Urbana, Ill. A winter's evening in 1996. University High School trailing DeLand-Weldon 57-50 with 38 seconds to go. A skinny kid from Uni, No. 22, knocks down a three-pointer. Then, after a foul and a missed free throw the other way, he nails another one. DeLand-Weldon mak...

Ron Jaworski Gets Booted From The <em>Monday Night Football</em> Booth. THIS GUY IS HAPPY!
Have you ever dreamed of what the Monday Night Football Booth might sound like without Ron Jaworski and Jon Gruden egging each other on reach to new and disturbing levels of sycophantic guffawing? I have. Oh, how I've dreamed of a sensibly assembled two-man MNF booth featuring Mike Tirico bitching o...

Bob Ryan Announces On Bill Simmons' Grantland Podcast That He's Retiring From Sports Journalism Because Blogging And Tweeting Have Ruined It
Also ruining sports journalism? Irony. [ESPN Boston]...

Mark Sanchez Asked Santonio Holmes To Be His Valentine On Twitter Last Night
So noted greaseball Darren Rovell tried to steal Mark Sanchez's alleged valentine, Kate Upton, away. Presumably the Sanchize took this personally, offended that his belle would even loiter for minutes in the company of a charlatan like Rovell....

Stop The #SILINSANITY! Great Moments In <em>Sports Illustrated</em> Crapping All Over Its Cover With A Twitter Hashtag
If you can't be first, at least be the most inane. That's how Sports Illustrated is handling the challenge of being a weekly magazine chasing the fast-moving phenomenon that is Jeremy Lin. Instead of running a nice, straightforward dead-tree cover of the Knicks' new point guard attacking the Lakers...

Jeremy Lin Hits Game-Winning Three-Pointer With 0.5 Seconds Left
Linsanity lives, as Jeremy Lin (after tying the game with a hoop-and-the-harm three point play) won it for the Knicks with this three, giving him 12 points in the fourth quarter (27 for the game) and the Knicks their sixth straight win. [TSN]...

Looking For Love On Valentine's Day At Westminster
I have a girlfriend and a cat, and at Westminster I feel like I'm cheating on both. When's the last time you fell in love at first sight? When your heart and soul was completely handed over within seconds of meeting someone? When you and a complete stranger fell into a slobbery make-out session, wit...

It Looks Like Peyton Manning's Future With The Colts Rests With Peyton Manning
As they weigh what to do with Eli Manning's brother, there are no easy answers for the Indianapolis Colts. Come March 8, Peyton Manning is due a $28 million option bonus that will kickstart the final four years of the five-year, $90 million deal he signed last summer. That's a lot of money for a tea...

Ladies, Now You Know Why Jordan Crawford No Longer Takes Your Calls
"I'm the wrong person to talk to about Valentine's Day. I usually get rid of my shorties around now." [NBC Washington]...

Darren Rovell Gets On One Knee, Asks Kate Upton To Be His Valentine, Is Rejected
The very married CNBC sports business expert Darren Rovell (very married as in his wife is very pregnant) continued his ill-advised campaign of Kate Upton obsession (see: his Twitter avatar and this article) today when after a group conversation about Upton's appearance on the cover of this year'...