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Junior Hockey Coach Suspended and Fined For Letting Team Study For Finals
Stand-in for every middle-aged Canadian male ever, Brian Cranford, has been suspended for one year from coaching his junior hockey team. He was also fined $2,000.00. Cranford is a volunteer coach for the Mount Pearl Junior Blades and, during a recent tournament, he allowed his team to miss the open...
Jim Nantz Is Getting Married At Pebble Beach Today
"Hello friends and welcome to the 2012 Jim Nantz Wedding At Historic Pebble Beach Golf Links. Phil Simms will be with us in a few moments." This magnificent vista will host the marriage ceremony for Jim Nantz and Courtney Richards. It is the seventh hole at Pebble Beach and will make for some lovel...
Evgeni Malkin Is Best
Penguins center Evgeni Malkin might have been the best player in the NHL this year, playoffs aside. He knows what it's like to be the best. Best recognize best. So, keep in mind, when he exchanges messages with Phoenix Coyotes enforcer and Twitter superstar Paul "Biz Nasty" Bissonnette, Malkin is pr...
How Women Throw Themselves At Pro Athletes (And Vice Versa): A Publicist Explains
I'm a publicist, and I've worked with high-profile athletes for nearly 15 years. Olympic gold medalists, NFL All-Pros and Super Bowl champions, MLB All-Stars and World Series champions, even an NBA player on a championship team once. I'm not really a nightlife guy, but there are times when I need to...
Usain Bolt Gets Post-Race Perks Other Runners Usually Don't
Despite having more problems with blocks than a kid missing a piece to his Millennium Falcon Lego set, Usain Bolt cruised to a 100m victory in Oslo yesterday—then took out a flower girl who didn't quite realize that human legs don't have disc brakes....
I'm Worried About Quentin Tarantino's <em>Django Unchained</em>
It'd be difficult to find a bigger Quentin Tarantino fanboy than I am. It's a little embarrassing, actually; I was one of those nerds posting on alt.fans.tarantino dorkboards the year Justin Bieber was born. (The fact that Google archives Usenet forums from 20 years ago is just cruel.) I think Jacki...
Kurt Busch Compares A Rough Night On The Track To "Premature Ejaculation"
It wasn't a good night for resident NASCAR idiot Kurt Busch at the Prelude to the Dream, an annual dirt-track charity race that costs $25 on pay-per-view. Busch, who is already suspended from this weekend's race at Pocono Raceway for threatening to beat up a Sporting News reporter last Saturday, ran...
Should Brent Musburger Apologize For Calling John Carlos And Tommie Smith "Black-Skinned Storm Troopers" 44 Years Ago?
John Carlos and Tommie Smith, each raising a fist on the medal stand at the 1968 Olympics, have become an icon of that decade, and that climate, and of the changes that were a-coming. They're heroes now, but that the time they were seen by many as traitors, and agitators, and by at least one up-and-...
The Next Four Jerry Sandusky Jurors All Have Penn State Ties, Including Three University Employees
We remarked yesterday on the difficulty of finding jurors in Centre County, Pa., with no connection to Penn State, and so it has come to pass: Four of the nine picked yesterday have some tie to Penn State or to one of the witnesses likely to be involved. And three of the four chosen this morning (in...
Who Will Speak Up For The Victims Of Flopping? Jeff Van Gundy Will
Jeff Van Gundy was mad enough when Mickael Pietrus stuck Mario Chalmers with a bogus technical foul down the stretch of last night's Celtics-Heat Game 5. But then, as he fumes about the damage a single unjustly awarded free throw could do in a close game, he accidentally sends his partner Mike Bre...
Report: Jerry Sandusky Allegedly Wrote "Creepy" Love Letters To At Least One Of His Victims
We know the Jerry Sandusky trial is going to be filled with details that have a pretty high ick factor. So it begins: With much of the attention focused today on the first day of jury selection, ABC News is reporting that when the actual trial begins on Monday, the man known as Victim 4 is expected ...
A Masseuse Died In Chris Bosh's House Yesterday
The unnamed woman arrived at the Bosh home around 10:30 a.m. on Monday, "suddenly passed out" in the early afternoon, and died just shy of midnight....
It Feels Like The First Time—Almost. <i>Prometheus</i>, Reviewed.
Prequels may be Hollywood's latest gimmick to repackage old franchises as new movies, but they have one definite advantage over traditional sequels. Whereas parts two, three, four, etc., of a series usually find the filmmakers coming up with plots that move further and further away from the story (a...
Catching Up With Victim One Of The Sandusky Trial, Who Transferred Schools After Being Bullied
Esquire's Luke Dittrich went to State College and followed the dramatis personae of the Jerry Sandusky affair. He writes about Joe and Jay Paterno, and catches up with victim one, who's now at a new school but still running track. [Esquire]...
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The Jerry Sandusky Jury Pool: They Are Penn State, Too [UPDATE]
Jerry Sandusky's defense team lost most of its pre-trial motions, but it did score one rather significant victory: The jury is being drawn from Centre County, Pa., a jurisdiction that includes Penn State and former headquarters of The Second Mile, Sandusky's erstwhile charity....
"Athletic" Shawn Johnson Retires: How Gymnastics Talks About Bodies In Code
On Sunday, former world and Olympic champion gymnast Shawn Johnson, 20, retired from gymnastics. Citing a bum knee, she withdrew from this coming weekend's national championships, the first competitive step towards the 2012 Olympic team....
Early Results Are In: Gawker Media Census Proves You’re Probably Drunk Right Now
Last week we asked you to take the 2012 Gawker Media Census, and in return offered one lucky survey-taker the opportunity to win a new iPad. Well, early responses are in, and we learned some interesting info about you guys—like the fact that 77% of you are more likely to buy alcohol than any other p...
What On Earth Is Happening Here? Apparently, A Wild Finish To An Aussie Rules Football Game
I'm not entirely sure what's going here, but I'll be damned if it isn't exciting. It comes to us from down under, where the first-place West Coast Eagles met the lowly Brisbane Lions this weekend in Australian Football League action. With the Lions trailing by three points in the closing moments, ...
Twitter Banned From Jerry Sandusky Trial, Which Starts Next Week
Jury selection will begin tomorrow in Jerry Sandusky's trial, after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied Lawyerin' Joe Amendola's latest motion to postpone proceedings. That leaves opening arguments on track for next week. But John Cleland, the presiding judge, made a pair of rulings today will hav...
Dirk Nowitzki Is The Teutonic Tambourine Man
His season over, last night Dirk was in Grand Prairie, Texas, to catch indie-folk band the Avett Brothers. Naturally, he was invited on stage to join in on "I Killed Sally's Lover." Dirk was handed a tambourine, and proceeded to rock right the fuck out. (Fun starts at the two-minute mark. [Cosby S...