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Stanislas Wawrinka Dominates An Injured Nadal, Wins Australian Open
Rafael Nadal hadn't dropped a set to Stanislas Wawrinka before today's Australian Open final. Wawrinka promptly changed that by winning the first set, eventually taking the match in four sets, 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. But Wawrinka didn't come out on top only because of Nadal's injury. The Swiss was in ch...
Morons Complain About Female Announcers On ESPN
Beth Mowins and Kara Lawson handled announcing duties for last night's BYU-Gonzaga game from Spokane. Mowins is one of ESPN's best on the play-by-play mic, and Lawson is an established star as an analyst. Turns out a lot of brain-damaged misogynists had a problem with basketball knowledge being spat...
Vin Scully Narrated The Intro To Tonight's NHL Game At Dodger Stadium
NBC Sports Net is the U.S. home of professional hockey, and they continue to do it right. Tonight's Stadium Series matchup at Dodger Stadium called upon the one voice every sports fan can associate with that venue: Vin Scully....
Texts With Blair Walsh May Corroborate Kluwe's Claims Against Priefer
Clayton Halunen, an attorney for Chris Kluwe, claims that text messages between his client and Vikings kicker Blair Walsh support Kluwe's allegations that Vikings special teams coordinator Mike Priefer created a hostile and homophobic work environment in response to his increased support for same-se...
Thomas Vanek Claims League Bias On Game-Winning Goal Reversal
The Islanders and Blues were tied 3-3 in overtime when Thomas Vanek scored what appeared to be the game-winner. It looked like it hit his skate but the red lamp lit, the referee pointed at the net and Blues goalie Jaroslav Halak skated off the ice without incident. Replay eventually reversed the ca...
Markel Brown Makes Steal, Unleashes 360 Dunk On West Virginia
We featured Oklahoma State's Markel Brown in these parts a week ago, but here's a more positive highlight. Here's the senior Cowboys wing man executing the turnover on West Virginia today in Stillwater and then bringing a Gallagher-Iba Arena crowd to its feet with a 360 dunk to top it off....
Erin Andrews Didn't Screw Up The Richard Sherman Interview
Kevin Harlan spent nearly five minutes sandbagging her, but it took him four minutes and 12 seconds to say "Erin Andrews." We're all a little Richard Sherman'd out at this point to be sure, but there's been an equally disturbing conversation happening alongside the "thug" discussion. Apparently Rich...
How To Make Risotto, The Foodstuff Of Love
Albert Burneko is off. Your guest Foodspinner this week is longtime friend of the program Miserable Shitehawk....
Here's Every Shot Carmelo Anthony Made In His 62-Point Night
Carmelo Anthony had the highest scoring game ever at Madison Square Garden last night and surpassed Bernard King's 60 for the franchise record of points scored in a game. Once Melo passed King (and Kobe Bryant's MSG record of 61 points) he was removed with over seven minutes remaining because the K...
I Can't Stop Watching Justin Bieber Play Basketball Poorly
I don’t care if you think this is stupid, I’ve been laughing at it since last night, so I’m making you look at it....
Hawk Harrelson Is Baseball's Drunk Grandaddy
White Sox beat writer Daryl Van Schouwen captured everyone's favorite insufferable homer enjoying himself at this year's Sox Fest. ...
These Seahawks Fans Tried To Watch Last Week's Game In Silence, For $5k
What Fox Sports did to this group of Seahawks fans is just plain cruel. Hilarious, but cruel....
Colorado Viewers Miss Six Minutes Of AFC Title Game, Learn About Santa
Somehow this flew under the radar all week, but it turns out Broncos fans in Colorado Springs missed much of the first quarter during Sunday's AFC Championship game due to technical difficulties on KKTV—during which Tom Brady was frozen on their screens for nearly six minutes. Even stranger, the CBS...
The Joys Of Being A Sportswriter: Pass The Mustard
Six years ago, I had dinner with the late Vic Ziegel at Liebmann's Deli in the Bronx. We'd been introduced through a mutual friend and I wanted to chat with him about his career and the history of sports writing. He was funny in a skeptical, weathered, manner you'd expect from a career newspaperman....
How Greg Jackson Is Changing The Parameters Of Coaching
Last year, we spent a week with Greg Jackson, a top fight trainer, as he and his team prepared four athletes to compete in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. We were granted unusual behind-the-scenes access so that we could answer a fairly straightforward question: Just what does a great coach do, ...
The Single Dumbest Foul So Far This NBA Season
Of course, no sooner do we find out who committed the two dumbest fouls of the season than JJ Hickson, at the end of the half last night against the Blazers, commits this travesty on Wes Matthews, behind halfcourt. Here now, the worst foul of the NBA season so far. ...
Kevin Harlan Got Really Excited About Saying "Ass" On TV
In the waning moments of last night's Nuggets-Blazers game, play-by-play man Kevin Harlan had to read a promo for a new cooking show called Cook Your Ass Off. Sounds like a neat show! Like a true professional, Harlan made the most of his opportunity to say "ass."...
Before Pierre The Pelican, There Was Terrifying King Cake Baby
Earlier this week, the Pelicans announced that they'd be redesigning the head of Pierre to make him "less scary". This is disappointing, not only because pelicans should look scary, but also because it spits in the face of New Orleans's proud tradition of nightmarish mascots....