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What Do Usain Bolt And Juan Manuel Marquez Have In Common? They Train With The Same Admitted Steroids Dealer
On Saturday, Juan Manuel Marquez will step into the ring for a third time against Manny Pacquiao. This time around, Marquez—who's moving up in weight for the fight—has a new physique. He has retained the services of Angel Hernandez, the strength and conditioning coach who has been working with Jamai...

<em>New York Times</em> Reports Penn State Ready To Oust Paterno
The Times's Happy Valley duo just dropped this report: "Joe Paterno's tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among t...

Bart Scott Says Ravens-Redskins Was A Rivalry Because Players Used To Fight Over Strippers
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: Feels great; can't wait....

The Thrill Of Old-Fashioned Sports Brutality
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

Taps For Joe Frazier
Your morning roundup for Nov. 8, the day we learned the value of a scoop. Photo by John Shearer for Life Magazine. For more Ali-Frazier photos, click here. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

Twins GM Fired And Replaced By Former Twins GM, And Other Exciting Hot Stove News Not Involving The Twins
Your roundup of all the hottest hot-stove items of the day (and whatever shit Ken Rosenthal is throwing against the wall). This is ... HOT FUCKING STOVE!!!!...

"I Want To Believe It's Not True": An Interview With The Co-Author Of Jerry Sandusky's Book, <em>Touched</em>
In 1991, Jerry Sandusky approached Kip Richeal, a former equipment manager with the Nittany Lions, and asked him to co-write a biographical book about the coach's life. Richeal, who'd known Sandusky since he was an 18-year-old freshman and who'd studied journalism at Penn State, agreed to the job. F...

Ravens-Steelers: The NFL's Annual Holiday From Namby-Pambyism
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

You Must Watch This Long, Bizarre Video Résumé For Free Agent Cuban Defector Yoenis Cespedes
Maybe you remember Aleksey Vayner, the man whose video résumé took the snarking corners of the internet by storm in 2006. Or perhaps you're familiar with the glossy books that MLB superagent Scott Boras prints up to pitch his clients to MLB teams. And, you know, if you're familiar with both of the...

Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, And Why "Good" People Fail To Do The Right Thing
At some point in the coming weeks, Joe Paterno is gonna step down as the head coach at Penn State, and the reason why is because there's no possible way to reconcile the statement he issued yesterday with the details from the grand jury report that say, specifically, that Peterno was told that Jerry...

Andrei Arlovski Hasn't Knocked Out A Top Fighter In Years, But Good Lord Did He Knock Out This Guy
There was a time when Andrei Arlovski stirred fear in the hearts of other heavyweight fighters. That time was in 2005, before the world discovered that Arlovski's jaw had the consistency of a tortilla chip. A few years later, Arlovski suffered several hideous knockouts, the kind where you'd litera...

John Beck Ate It Hard
If we're going to declare the John Beck era a failure, we can't just look at the fourth-worst passer rating in the league (ahead of Rex!), or the twice as many INTs and TDs, or the zero passes for 40+ yards. We've got to ask: does he have the look of a quarterback: standing tall under pressure, prou...

ShortCenter: Hannah Storm And Jeremy Schaap Use Their Serious Voices To Talk About Jerry Sandusky
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....

The Jets-Bills Game, In One Flinching Sanchez And One Steamrolled Bison
Mark Sanchez is not a wide receiver. He is a quarterback, a celebrity, a franchise, a patron of the arts, a deviant, and a pitchman, but he's not a wide receiver. So when he lined up wide in the wildcat (and as for why the Jets were running the wildcat up 16 with three minutes left, your guess is ...

Mike Shanahan Has A Poopy Face
Your morning roundup for Nov. 7, the day we learned why Europe is just better than America sometimes. Photo via D.C. Sports Bog. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

Eli Manning Beats Tom Brady, Will Still Not Be Considered Elite: Your Sunday NFL Roundup
For whatever reason, Eli will always be considered just an "OK" quarterback. Maybe it's because he is a contemporary of some very, very good quarterbacks—one of whom is his big brother—or maybe it's because he is kind of a doofus. Either way, here's your Sunday roundup. Enjoy....

As Recently As 2009, Jerry Sandusky Was Running An Overnight Football Camp For Kids On Penn State Campuses
Of the child sexual assault charges against former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, the fact that stands out most is that Joe Paterno, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz were aware of incidents as early as 2002. Curley testified to the grand jury that he "advised Sandusky that he was prohibited from bringi...

Ron Washington Told The Rangers To "Motherfuck Golf" In An Expletive Laced Pre-Game Speech Before Game 7 Against The Cardinals
Hours after losing game 6 in dramatic fashion and moments before sending his team out on the field for a decisive game 7, Ron Washington delivered this expletive and NSFW laden pre-game speech. Audio via Joe Sports Fan. ...

Brady-Manning Redux, No, The Other Manning: Your NFL Late Games Open Thread
Tom Brady > Eli Manning. Just look at their shirts. Come on, let's talk football down in the comments....

Julio Jones Makes Incredible Catch, Is Having His Own Game Of The Century Against The Colts
Julio Jones checks in early with today's first wild plays. ...