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ESPN's Jason Whitlock Craps On Author Of <em>SI's</em> Oklahoma State Story
Jason Whitlock went on the Oklahoma City Sports Animal radio show today to talk about the first part of Sports Illustrated's five-part investigation into Oklahoma State University. He spent a good chunk of time talking shit about Thayer Evans, a former colleague of Whitlock's and one half of the inv...

Vanity Fair Turns 100
Slide on over to Vanity Fair and dig their 100th Anniversary site. ...

America's Game
Baseball Card Vandals is killin' it for the start of the NFL season. ...

Disturbing Allegations Emerge In Vanderbilt Rape Case
Further details have come out concerning the June 23 rape of a 21-year-old woman that led to the dismissal of four Vanderbilt football players, including junior college transfer, Brandon Vandenburg. According to a report from BuzzFeed, the incident was worse than previously reported and at least one...

Jordan Matthews Hit His Head, Vomited, And Stayed In The Game
Ole Miss rallied twice late to take a 39-35 thriller, but the real story, and the breakout star of college football's opening night, was Vanderbilt receiver Jordan Matthews. Matthews put up ridiculous numbers, but his game will be more remembered for puking all over the field....

How An ESPNer Found Out The "Battle Of The Sexes" Was Probably Fixed
As usual, this one started with a tip. It came courtesy of Hal Shaw, a 79-year-old man who lived in Florida. ESPN investigative reporter Don Van Natta Jr. knew him. The two had met when Van Natta was researching his 2011 biography of Babe Didrikson Zaharia. Shaw once worked at the country club that...

Mike Tyson And Evander Holyfield Reminisce About The Biting Incident
On Tuesday, we got to watch Mike Tyson play Punch Out for (maybe) the first time ever, but here we have some far more interesting footage from Fox Sports 1's upcoming series about the former heavyweight boxer's life: Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield sitting around like a couple of old pals and fond...

Sports Twitter In Vancouver Is Cutthroat
The Vancouver Canucks Twitter account was just doing its usual Wednesday fan-interaction/brand-optimization-through-social-media thing earlier today when the Whitecaps (MLS) account came over and took a big piss all over the place. ...

Watch Giovanni Lorenzo's Face Get Rearranged In Extreme Slow Motion
Danny Jacobs claimed victory over Giovanni Lorenzo in last night's live Fox Sports 1 middleweight bout, but it's the manner in which he did it that really caught our eye: a brutal third-round knockout that left Lorenzo looking like the victim of botched cosmetic surgery....

Juan Uribe Fell For The Hidden-Ball Trick
The Tampa Bay Rays pulled off the hidden-ball trick Saturday, and Juan Uribe was the unfortunate victim....

Four Former Vanderbilt Football Players Charged With Rape
Some details of the sex crimes investigation that led to the dismissal of four Vanderbilt football players in June have been released, and the four players linked to the investigation have been charged. Brandon Vandenburg, Brandon Banks, JaBorian McKenzie, and Cory Batey have each been charged with ...

Report: NHL To Take Over The Devils
It was just Monday that the NHL finally sold the Coyotes after four years of trying. Now it seems the league is getting back into the ownership game—Forbes reports that the NHL is preparing to take over the debt-ridden Devils....

Hey Fatso!
Peter Richmond remembers Art Donovan, a master storyteller:...

Brek Shea Scores Winning Goal For USMNT In The Gold Cup Final
The US Men's National Team have been dominating Panama throughout the Gold Cup final match, and in the second half, it felt like US Soccer were going to break through. In the 69th minute, substitute winger Brek Shea tapped in a cross that beat the keeper over the goal line, just 42 seconds after com...

How J.J. Redick's Abortion Contract Was Conceived
Tuesday, we brought you a 2007 confidentiality agreement between then-rookie J.J. Redick and model ex-girlfriend Vanessa Lopez, a bizarre contract that stipulated Redick would have to fake his relationship with Lopez in exchange for her getting an abortion. Today we've obtained more emails and docu...

J.J. Redick Responds To Abortion-Contract Reports
J.J. Redick just fired off a few tweets in response to earlier reports that he and former acquaintance Vanessa Lopez entered into a contract concerning certain details regarding Ms. Lopez's impending abortion. Redick's response was emphatic and technical....

Donovan McNabb Is Still Asking Questions
Earlier: Someone Needs To Take Away The Keys To Donovan McNabb's Twitter...

J.J. Redick And His Ex-Girlfriend Had An Abortion Contract
The muckrakers at MediaTakeOut have done it again, this time uncovering a very odd legal document that was drawn up in 2007 by lawyers representing NBA player J.J. Redick and his then-pregnant ex-girlfriend, model Vanessa Lopez. The document is essentially a contract that seems to be the result of R...
