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Donté Stallworth And His Girlfriend Are Reportedly OK After They Hit Some Power Lines While Operating A Hot Air Balloon

Beat this, weird spring training injuries: Donté Stallworth was reportedly hospitalized this morning for burns received after he and his girlfriend hit some power lines while operating a hot air balloon in Miami. The Patriots wide receiver is said to be in stable condition. ...

Northwestern Has Fired Bill Carmody After 13 Years Of Decent-By-Northwestern-Standards Basketball

In 13 seasons as the head coach at Northwestern University, an alleged Big Ten basketball program, Bill Carmody’s signature moment might’ve been getting hired in the first place. And that, presumably, is why the school fired him today. Cracker-box facilities, lack of tradition, and academic pressure...

Your College Basketball TV Schedule And Open Thread

So, so much potentially great basketball today. ...

Bus Carrying 23 Seton Hill University Lacrosse Players Crashes, Killing The Driver And A Coach [UPDATED]

UPDATE: See note at bottom....

Click on the annotations. Lots happened last night and we didn't see it all, so if you caught anything else worth mentioning, stick it on the map....

Competitive Fire Leads Kobe Bryant To Play Despite Ankle Injury, Ankle Injury Leads Him To Play Terribly

Fans and media often talk about Kobe Bryant's burning desire to win at all costs as a way of favorably comparing his reckless passion to others who might have a more holistic approach to the game, and just as often, to chide him for the willful tunnel-vision that causes him to lapse into hero-mode....

UCLA Freshman Jordan Adams Topped Off His Game-Saving Performance By Breaking His Foot On The Very Last Play

Last night, the UCLA Bruins advanced to the Pac-12 finals after winning a hard-fought game against Arizona, 66-64, in Las Vegas. The fortituous final play, in which Arizona missed a jumper and tip-in opportunity, may also have taken UCLA's season out behind the proverbial woodshed. ...

Rams Punter Snorts Green Jell-O

Just Johnny Hekker, snortin' green Jell-O because YEAH BRO....

Steve Carell Needs A New Trick: <i>The Incredible Burt Wonderstone</i>, Reviewed.

1. Steve Carell, leading man, is a lot funnier when he's not trying to be funny. He tends to work better in supporting straight comedy roles (most famously Anchorman, but also Bruce Almighty and even Bewitched) than as the lead (Dinner For Schmucks, Get Smart). His sweet spot as a leading man is ba...

Manchester United's Yank-Hating Fans Can Shove It

Originally published in Bloomberg View...

Ryan Glasspiegel runs through sportswriting's reaction to the sad death of the Boston Phoenix, where Charles P. Pierce and Bill Simmons both got their careers started (and where the infamous George Kimball served as a writer and editor for many years). The Phoenix folded yesterday after a 46-year ru...

Bullying Dickhead Gets Knocked Out At South By Southwest

Keep your eyes on the guy in the grey shirt on the left side of the frame. He's just hanging out, watching afro guy strut around and slap people like a prick. He does not like what he sees....

This Is Awful: Jay Mariotti Has A Really Long Story On ESPN.com, For Some Reason

So, Jay Mariotti's no-seriously-I-have-a-girlfriend-in-Canada-I-met-her-at-summer-camp freelance project? Turned out to be real. ESPN allowed Mariotti to write more than 5,000 unforgivable words on Kobe and the Lakers....

Look at that resumé! Get excited, Vikings fans....

The National Sport Of Afghanistan Is Called Bukkake, According To Clueless Pittsburgh Sports-Talk Hosts

Ron Cook and Vinnie Richichi hold down the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. slot on Pittsburgh's 93.7 The Fan. Four hours can be a lot of time to fill for five days a week, even in a town with a hockey team on a winning streak, an NCAA-bound college basketball team, the Steelers just being the Steelers, and someth...

Former World Series Of Poker Champion Busted In Bullshit Male Prostitution Sting [Update: It Wasn't Male Prostitution After All]

Back when the World Series of Poker was a thing, one of the game's biggest stars was Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer. You probably spent at least one lonely night in front of your television, watching Raymer tear his way through the 2004 WSOP main event while wearing his signature holographic sunglasses. T...

"She Was Like A Dead Body": Text Messages Read Aloud During Day 2 Of Steubenville Rape Trial

In Day 2 of the Steubenville rape trial, the prosecution revealed hundreds of text messages sent between the defendants and various witnesses in the hours and days following the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl. The messages, which were read aloud in the courtroom yesterday, are predictably stomac...

Finally, Someone Has Created Dynamic NBA Box Scores

This is for all the basketbloggers out there: you will never need another box score again....

Why Is One Of The NBA's All-Time Greatest Scorers Working As A Crossing Guard Now?

Day after day, Adrian Dantley hangs out on a street corner in his hometown, like some cliché of a pitiful ex-ballplayer years after his athletic prime. But Dantley's neither a cliché, nor is he pitiful. He's a crossing guard....

Notre Dame's Uniforms Make Us Wish HDTV Had Never Been Invented

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