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CBS: Don't Be So Mean To Mike Carey, Internet
Former ref Mike Carey has been CBS’s in-game officiating expert for two seasons now, and it’s probably not a good sign for anyone involved that Mike Carey getting things wrong has become a running joke. But CBS thinks the internet needs to recognize that Carey gets most of his calls correct, and eve...
Police: MLS Player And Miss Washington USA Involved In Bizarre Stabbing Incident
A couple weeks ago, news came out about the mysterious stabbing of Marco Pappa, an MLS player, in his Seattle apartment where he was accompanied by Stormy Keffeler, the recently crowned Miss Washington USA. Details were scant at the time, but TMZ has learned more, and the specifics are wild....
Former USC Football Walk-On Charged With Running International Drug Smuggling Ring
Owen Hanson, who was a volleyball player and walk-on tight end at USC a decade ago, ran a massive international drug smuggling ring, federal authorities claimed in an indictment unsealed Thursday. Hanson was one of 22 people charged with a slew of offenses, including racketeering, drug trafficking, ...
Report: NFL Ticket Policies Subject Of Antitrust Investigation
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman just released a report detailing his three-year investigation into the corrupt world of secondary ticket markets. The NFL’s shady re-sale policies are a subject of the report, and according to Bloomberg Business, Schneiderman is now investigating the leagu...
Russell Wilson Googled "How To Describe A Beautiful Woman" To Find Something Nice To Say About Ciara
Yesterday was Woman Crush Wednesday on Twitter, so Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson decided to offer an encomium to the light and love of his life, Ciara:...
Sting? More Like Stink!
This morning the NBA announced that Sting will perform during halftime of next month’s All-Star Game. I guess I must have missed the part where it also announced that the game would be held in the cabin of Tina Brown’s Jaguar....
Sports Radio Host Loses His Mind When Nobody Can Answer His Dumb Trivia Question
Chris “Mad Dog” Russo was once the broadcast partner of Mike Francesa, our other favorite sports radio goober, but now he’s just a dude who yells a lot on his own radio show. “Yelling” can mean different things depending on who is doing it, and in Russo’s case it means, “Man who is clearly at the en...
Kevin Durant And Russell Westbrook Make It All So Simple
On Monday, a day after a disappointing loss to the Brooklyn Nets, Thunder forward Kevin Durant had something to say about his team’s offensive philosophy, which is routinely critiqued for being too stagnant and isolation-heavy....
Virginia Caps Unlikely Comeback Against Wake Forest With Buzzer-Beating Banked Three
Virginia might have pulled off the most unlikely win of the entire college basketball season Tuesday night. With just 22 seconds left in the game, Wake Forest had a seven point lead and possession of the ball. Just 22 seconds later they had lost, 72-71. Here is what the game’s win probability graph ...
Former NFL Player Tyler Sash Had CTE When He Died At Age 27
Former New York Giants safety Tyler Sash—who died in September of an accidental painkiller overdose at age 27—had stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy when he died, according to researchers at Boston University. The researchers told Sash’s family that it was rare to see as severe of CTE in such ...
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Ducks' Shawn Horcoff Suspended 20 Games For Using PEDs [Update]
The NHL announced today that Anaheim Ducks center Shawn Horcoff will be suspended for 20 games without pay for violating the league’s performance enhancing substances policy....
DeMarcus Cousins Went Supernova On The Hornets In One Of The Best Games Of The Season
While the entire NBA world was watching the Warriors bring a holy whooping down on the Tim Duncan-less Spurs last night, the Sacramento Kings and the Charlotte Hornets played one of the very best games of the season, a 129-128 Hornets win in double overtime. It sort of made perfect sense that they’d...
Asked To Score Goal So Girl Can Get Puppy, Cam Atkinson Scores Three
One day after a Senators fan asked Bobby Ryan to score a goal for puppy-related reasons, a Blue Jackets fan asked winger Cam Atkinson to score on her birthday so she could get a dog. She chose the right player....
Line Umpire Suffers Blast To The Nuts
Here’s an Australian Open line umpire taking a blow “down under” during today’s Federer-Berdych match. Ow ow ow ow ow....
ESPN Suspended Bob Ryan For Calling Mark Jackson A "Bible-Pounding Phony"
ESPN suspended regular TV presence Bob Ryan for calling colleague Mark Jackson a “Bible-pounding phony” and “con man,” among other insults, on the Dan Le Batard Show, as first reported by The Big Lead. Ryan appears regularly on Around the Horn and Sports Reporters, and sometimes guest hosts Pardon t...
SMU, The Last Undefeated Team In College Basketball, Goes Down
Temple took down Larry Brown’s previously undefeated Southern Methodist Mustangs 89-80 this afternoon in Philly. The game was originally scheduled to take place yesterday, but the blizzard forced it to today. Backup guard Devin Coleman was a perfect 7-for-7 from three and 8-for-8 from the field for ...
Novak Djokovic And A Heckler Reach An Amicable Consensus
Novak Djokovic was, by one metric, historically bad last night for a Grand Slam match winner. He held on to beat Frenchman Giles Simon 6-3, 6-7 (1), 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in the round of 16 at the Australian Open, but he committed 100 unforced errors. In a way, this is more indicative of Simon’s style (as y...
DeMarcus Cousins Cooked And Ate The Pacers Last Night
Oh hey, look at that, the Kings have won five in a row over pretty decent competition. Willie Cauley-Stein has been a perfect fit at center, and since he’s moved into the starting lineup, Sacramento is 9-3. But really, it all starts and ends with Boogie. He’s leading the NBA in scoring and reboundin...
Joe Hart's Tremendous Save Brings Russell Brand To His Feet In Anguish
Man City keeper Joe Hart kept his side even with West Ham United with a brilliant save of a Dimitry Payet free kick that brought anguish to the supporters at Upton Park—especially Russell Brand, in attendance with pal Noel Gallagher. Depending on whether you think Brand is an asshole or if you think...
Austrian TV Gives NFL Conference Title Games The Star Wars Treatment
We’ve previously covered in this space our appreciation for Austria’s approach to NFL coverage. Österreich is just wild about American football, and official broadcaster PULS4 has produced this Star Wars-themed promo for Sunday’s games. It’s... interesting....