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Meet Tim Tebow And Tony Dungy's Christian Sensei
Tomorrow's New York Times has a short story on Nathan Whitaker, who is presumably among the most successful people in the football-media nexus, and presumably unbeknownst to you....
"I Ain't No Damned Monkey On A String": The Sadness Of Sweetness After Super Bowl XX
Today the 1985 Chicago Bears were finally honored at the White House—25 years after their 46-10 romp over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX. (The original trip was canceled because of the Challenger explosion.) That Super Bowl was memorable for many reasons—the headbands of Jim McMahon, the ...
Read This Ode To Baltimore's Valiant Last Stand And Boston's Unexpected Collapse
Our friends at Et tu, Mr. Destructo have composed the best reaction to the chaos of the final week of the MLB regular season. You should go read it. A snippet, from the prelude: "The only time a Bill James almanac should come out over seven games is if you find your chair leg wobbling as you lean ba...
Homemade Infographic: Where Are ESPN's Naked Jocks Hiding And Tucking Their Bits?
The conceptual problem with ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue leads directly into the practical problem with it. Conceptually, as soon as you strip off the athletes' clothing to call more attention to their forms, you diminish the function that's supposed be integral to those forms, and you call attent...
Here's Chad McGhee With Your Weekly Knox City Greyhounds Update And Tony "Horny Little Bitch" Romo Evisceration
The mighty Knox City Greyhounds got back on the right side of the scoreboard by defeating the Woodson Cowboys 46-0. A marvelous victory. A redemptive victory....
The Hank Williams Jr. Apology Reads Like An Internet Comment In Which Someone Would Compare Obama To Hitler
Hank Williams Jr. posted this apology (for a bizarre Fox News appearance in which he invoked Hitler's name in an Obama analogy) on his Facebook page yesterday, but we hadn't been aware of it until today. Man, oh man, is it a treat. ...
Here's A Better Angle Of That TBS Cameraman Eating Shit Yesterday
My god, this is glorious. I think that someone should build a sculpture of this, call it "High School Everlasting," and put it in a modern art museum. But don't forget, Adrian Beltre: the nerd's always supposed to get the last laugh....
Now They're Burning Carlos Tevez In Effigy
"An effigy of Carlos Tevez has been set alight near Manchester City's stadium - as the backlash against the want-away footballer continues. The dummy, hanging by a noose from a bridge over a canal near the Etihad Stadium, was torched to chants of "Tevez out". The doll went up in flames before burni...
Your Rangers-Rays And Phillies-Cardinals Open Thread
A full slate of the MLB playoffs is just about to get underway, with four games going all afternoon and well into the evening. Up first is Texas-Tampa Bay in Game 4 of the ALDS, with Matt Harrison going against Jeremy Hellickson. At 5 (EDT), Philly's Cole Hamels takes on St. Louis' Jaime Garcia at ...
What Curtis Painter And <em>North Dallas Forty</em> Tell Us About The Real NFL
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....
Torrey Smith Wants You To Know He Wasn't Tim Tebow When He Was In College
Cris Collinsworth mentioned Sunday night that Ravens rookie wide receiver Torrey Smith did not drink or smoke during his time at the University of Maryland. This struck some people as odd, since one wonders what else there is to do in College Park if both booze and cigarettes are removed from the u...
A.J. Pierzynski Will Be Irritating You On World Series Broadcasts This Year
Fox Sports announced today, per USA Today, that once-blond nuisance (and current White Sox starting catcher) AJ Pierzynski would join Eric Karros' pompadour and the formerly frosted, still gelled tips of Chris Rose on Fox's World Series pregame and postgame coverage. Yuck. (We presume Jeanne Zelasko...
Mark Sanchez, Joe Flacco, And The Franchise Quarterback Con
There was a moment during last night's Jets-Ravens game—a wacky, interminable affair that had so many turnovers, penalties, and replay reviews that one would have been better off watching baseball for crisp play—when it became clear that Joe Flacco and Mark Sanchez are running the NFL's most success...
In Praise Of Football Stupidity
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....
Todd Haley Storms The Cassel: Your Sunday NFL Roundup
Tempers flared in Kansas City as Todd Haley continues to prove that he is who we thought he was. The legend of Megatron grows and the end of the undefeated era in the AFC. All these stories and more, below. ...
"We Were Packed In Like Sardines": Two Former Customers Review Detroit's Booty Bus
Soon after we learned about the Booty Lounge, the mobile strip club that's been idling near Detroit's Ford Field during every Lions tailgate for the past decade or so, we heard from a few former patrons. And after finding the priceless Yelp review from a former scorned freelancer for the club that y...
Roy Halladay Came Here To Bury, Not Praise The Cardinals
Crossing Broad brings us this tale of how Roy Halladay gives a menacing, literate answer to a reporter's silly softball:...
A Sampling From One Artist's Effort To Draw All 295 Members Of The Baseball Hall Of Fame
Summer Anne Burton is drawing every member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in chronological order. She began the project in January, 2011, and she would be thrilled to draw your favorite baseball player for you. Here are some of her drawings. Click the images to expand....
Here's Chad McGhee With Your Weekly Knox City Greyhounds Update And T-Shirt Sales Pitch
Last Friday was not a good day for the Knox City Greyhounds. In fact, per superfan Chad McGhee, "it went bad." Like 54-8 bad. "Nightmare on Elm Street" bad. "I pray to the Lord that this team regroups and gets their heads out of their asses hopefully" bad....
In News Pretty Much Everyone Saw Coming, The Chargers Have Placed Bob Sanders On IR
The truth is, the Bob Sanders reclamation project in San Diego never had much of a chance. He was an All-Pro in 2005, in just his second season with the Colts. But over the next five years, he played in just 52 out of a possible 80 regular-season games. That span did include another All-Pro season ...