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Lowsman Trophy Watch: Jadeveon Clowney Arises
Each week, Football Outsiders recognizes the most outstanding college linemen, defenders and other darkhorses from the previous weekend who are habitually overlooked in the hype for that other award (whatever it's called). These are the Lowsmen....
Vodka Samm: "I Didn't Come To College To Drink And Be Vodka Samm"
Vodka Samm has spoken....
Bill Murray Talks Vodka, Red Sox And Making Men Weep
...with Noah Charney over at Esquire.com....
This Cavaliers Fan Turned His Beard Into A Basketball Hoop
This is Gary from Cincinnati, whom we've met before. He was spotted at last night's Cavaliers game, sporting his latest beard modification and some cool wristbands. Looking good, Gary....
Woody On the Pleasures of Basketball
I was All-Schoolyard, tell her, Max....
Report: The Rams Asked Brett Favre To Unretire
For fuck's sake, St. Louis, even Tebow would have been a better idea....
Greg Oden Has Been Sighted Playing Professional Basketball
Tonight perpetual pine-rider Greg Oden, who was picked ahead of Kevin Durant in the 2007 NBA Draft, logged his first minutes in an NBA game since 2009. The Heat put him on the floor for almost four solid minutes. Oden, who was picked ahead of a guy who has scored more than 12,000 points in 460 caree...
NBA Finals Will Return To Boring Ol' 2-2-1-1-1 Format
After almost 30 years of using the 2-3-2 schedule in the Finals — giving the team with the worse record three straight home games — the NBA voted today to return to a schedule that would alternate venues for the final four games of a seven-game Finals. The 2-2-1-1-1 format is more "fair," according ...
Adam Wainwright's Moment Of Desperation, Captured For Eternity
Adam Wainwright struggles defensively....
William Harrison, Author Of Sports Dystopia <em>Rollerball</em>, Has Died
William Harrison, the author and screenwriter whose 1975 classic Rollerball semi-accurately foretold how the future of sport would suck, died Tuesday, just shy of his 80th birthday....
John Tavares Would Like To Show You His Disgusting Tooth Implants
We all kind of cringed/wretched a little bit when Islanders captain John Tavares yanked out one his front teeth right there on the bench a few weeks ago. So (ugh) let's re-live (gulp) it by checking out (covers eyes) what his mouth looks like now (runs away from computer)....
Remembering Pat Summerall's Wonderful <em>Murder, She Wrote</em> Read
Yesterday's episode of A Football Life profiled longtime broadcaster Pat Summerall, who passed away earlier this year. It was loving without being hagiographical, devoting an entire segment to Summerall's alcoholism. But the most fun bit was this, noted and pulled out by Kissing Suzy Kolber....
Zlatan Ibrahimovic Opens Wormhole With Ridiculous Strike
Please, Zlatan, we have accepted you as Soccer God, do not use your powers for evil!...
Cricketer's Girlfriend Caught Pantomiming Sex While Watching Match
Note to current and future cricket WAGs: the camera is always turned on, so be mindful of your, um, gesticulations....
Steve Smith Isn't Done With Janoris Jenkins Just Yet
Steve Smith had some fighting words for Rams cornerback Janoris Jenkins after the two faced off this Sunday, and it looks like he's not done being angry yet....
100 % Dundee
Here's a couple of stories about Angelo Dundee. From Grantland, a nice piece by Dave Kindred; at SI, dig Richard Hoffer:...
Steve Kerr's Story About Toni Kukoc's Pregame Ritual Is Wonderful
Here's Steve Kerr telling a story about his former Bulls teammate, Toni Kukoc, that makes Kukoc sound like the most European man to have ever existed. I think it's safe to say that the world needs more stories about Toni Kukoc....