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USC Fires Student Manager Who Supposedly Tampered With Game Balls

This was the entirety of the statement the school issued last night:...

With U.S. Cellular dumping the Midwest, new Comiskey may need a new name. What could the Cubs get to whore out Wrigley?...

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Poor Bob Stoops)?

Our weekly college football shame index. ...

Today's Fox Sports Ohio MLS Broadcast Featured Two Goals By The Crew, Two Bare Breasts Of A Crew Supporter [NSFW]

The final home game in many sports is considered Fan Appreciation Day, in which the players acknowledge supporters with giveaways and the like. It seems one member of the Columbus Crew Nordecke wanted to show her appreciation in a very special way—and gave the broadcasters a bit of a start. [FSO]...

"What A Man": Reactions To The University Of Arizona's Negligent Treatment Of Matt Scott's Concussion

There's little doubt that head trauma can result in vomiting: the Mayo Clinic lists "nausea or vomiting" as among the likely symptoms of a concussion, and 100 Questions & Answers About Head and Brain Injuries (available as an eBook through Google) spends a section speculating about the cause of po...

USC's Marqise Lee Has Shattered The PAC-12 Single-Game Receiving Record [UPDATE]

There have been some great quarterbacks, great receivers and great passing offenses in the history of the Pac-12. Until today, no one had racked up more single-game receiving yards than Oregon State's Mike Hass, who careened for 293 on 12 catches against Boise State in 2004....

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides West Virginia And Steve Spurrier)?

Our weekly college football shame index. ...

Florida Gators Coach Will Muschamp Can't Control The VOLUME OF HIS VOICE

The Florida Gators put a beating on South Carolina yesterday in what many expected to be the marquee match-up of the day. At halftime, the Gators were up 21-6, so local radio might reasonably have expected a positive and mellow interview from a pleasantly surprised Florida coach....

Your College Football Open Thread

Some pretty excellent options on the first weekend post-BCS rankings: noon brings LSU at Texas A&M in College Station, while the afternoon has a good-ish match-up between Texas Tech and TCU (the match-up there being, of course, between technology and Christianity), the battle of the University and t...

Last Night's Rain Delay Was Called One Out Before The Cardinals Had To Stop Selling Beer

When Shane Robinson grounded out to give the Cardinals a 3-1 lead, with two outs in the seventh, it was raining. Raining hard. Raining hard enough to call the game? Raining harder than in the previous at-bat? Raining not quite as hard as it would for the next batter, when crew chief Gary Darling cal...

Texas, A 63-21 Loser To Oklahoma, Still Has Mack Brown Signed Through 2020

The Texas-Oklahoma game today was as lopsided as a wink. The Sooners tripled up the Longhorns, 63-21, a score that almost looks like a mercy killing after a 36-2 halftime advantage....

How NHL Interference Forced One Of The Game's Best Reporters Out Of Hockey

Rich Hammond covered the Kings for the Los Angeles Daily News for nearly a decade, becoming known as one of the most respected writers in the sport—even in a town with Helene Elliott. But hockey being hockey, and dying newspapers being dying newspapers, the Daily News decided it was no longer cost-e...

Kurt Busch Goes Nuts, Gets Parked After Driving Away From Safety Crew Trying To Attend To Him

The always-exciting adventures of Kurt Busch continued today at Talladega as his involvement in the Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 came to an early end after getting parked by NASCAR for driving away from safety personnel then refusing to stop after being so ordered....

<em>Daily News</em> Report: Old-Ass Knicks Already Turning To Dust

It begins: The 2012-2013 Knicks are the oldest team in NBA history. They have a roster assembled by an addled tenth grader playing NBA Live 06. Bloggers across the land (ahem) lay in wait, knives sharpened, for the next symbolically awful report out of Knicks camp. Sadly, New York's newspapers are b...

Arizona's Three Losses Are The Worst Three Losses In College Football

Candidate for most crud-awful season in football this year: the Arizona Wildcats. Started 3-0, including handsome win over Oklahoma State team to get expectations buzzing. The Associated Press ranked the Cats for the first time since 2010. Next came a 56-0 paste job of South Carolina State. Oats wer...

USC's Robert Woods Couldn't Keep His Balance After A Helmet-To-Helmet Hit, Missed One Play

Above, the uncanny floundering of USC wide receiver and All-American Robert Woods after he got spun around on a helmet-to-helmet hit. The spin itself might have made him dizzy—Woods does a full 180 after the hit—but as Jesse Palmer noted during the aftermath, it was pretty obvious Woods had his "b...

If Only For A Moment, Lane Kiffin Was Panicked

While USC cruised to a 38-28 win over Utah in Salt Lake City last night—scoring 28 unanswered points along the way—things did not start out smoothly for the Trojans. Back-to-back turnovers on the first two drives set the Utes up for easy scores, and Utah jumped out to a 14-0 lead before a rowdy, if...

Michael Morse Ran The Bases Backwards, Swung With No Bat, And Re-Ran The Bases Forwards Tonight

I'll get you up to speed, so you can just skip all the official review in between: First inning, bases loaded in Busch Stadium for Michael Morse. He hits a long fly ball which bounces off the top of the outfield wall, hits the Energizer ad behind the wall, and comes back into the outfield. The ball ...

Learn About Grippers, The Affordable Way To Demonstrate Your Unnatural Forearm Strength

The man above is Manfred Hoeberl, a former fixture in the World's Strongest Man competitions they periodically rerun on ESPN2. He was—is?—very, very strong. But he doesn't use your silly, wasteful, boring means to test his strength. Nope. He uses grippers. They're affordable. And certified! Josh Lev...

Bristolmetrics: Everybody Hates Lane Kiffin

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week....