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ShortCenter: Hosannas For Tebow
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....
Laundry Basket: The Orioles Present Their New-Old Cartoon Bird, With Old-New Typo
Deadspin presents Laundry Basket, an occasional look at the aesthetics and meaning of sports uniforms. Not affiliated with the venerable and comprehensive Uni Watch franchise. Logos via sportslogos.net....
Syracuse Assistant Basketball Coach Bernie Fine Under Investigation For Molesting A Ball Boy
Good grief. ESPN had this story in 2003, but couldn't corroborate one alleged victim's account until Sandusky coverage prompted another man to come forward. And now ESPN again has the story:...
<em>South Park</em> Is Already Doing Penn State Jokes
Too soon? [WWTDD]...
500 Pounds Of Cocaine Discovered In Former Boxing Champ's Puerto Rico Home
U.S. federal agents seized 500 pounds of cocaine worth $4 million in a home owned by former WBO champ Ivan Calderon in Humacao, Puerto Rico earlier this week. Calderon, who recently said he would return to fight in minimumweight at 105 pounds, has denied having any knowledge of the drugs. [AP]...
<i>NCAA Football 12</i> On Penn State-Ohio State Match-Up: "HIDE THE CHILDREN"
From Joseph, a tipster: "Did NCAA 12 know something about Penn State we didn't?"...
Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: Ducks Unlimited
It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be. ...
Penn State's New Inquiry Into The Sandusky Allegations Has Even Less Credibility Than Initially Imagined
Luke mentioned Kenneth Frazier's own gift for whitewashing institutional malfeasance on Tuesday. Frazier, of course, is the chairman and CEO of Merck and the man in charge of Penn State's in-house inquiry into what happened in the Jerry Sandusky affair. But check out this little nugget from a lengt...
A Collection Of Literary Gems From The UFC's Lawsuit Against New York
Zuffa, the UFC's parent company, has sued New York officials in an attempt to overturn the state's idiotic ban on MMA, a prohibition that drives the sport underground and exists chiefly because of the efforts of one misguided moralist. Several prominent fighters, including light heavyweight champ Jo...
For The 2013 Season, The Astros Will Go To The AL West And Basically Everyone Will Go To The Playoffs
MLB's owners unanimously approved the sale of the Houston Astros from Drayton McLane to Jim Crane today, and included a $65 million price cut in the deal. The Astros will leave the NL Central and join the AL West for the 2013 season, and, to the relief of symmetricists everywhere, each league will h...
When You Get Cocky In An MMA Gym, You Get Beat Down
Matthew Polly has never been a man for half-measures. When he wanted to learn kung fu, he left college for two years to live and train in the famous Shaolin Temple in China. Polly wrote an excellent book about the experience. His new book, Tapped Out, follows Polly on another two-year journey as the...
Missouri Football Coach, Once "Kind Of Embarrassed" By Team's DWIs, Is Picked Up For DWI
This is from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:...
Jack The Ripper Spoiled The Unveiling Of Canada's Newest Baseball Team, The London Rippers
The group behind London, Ontario's newest pro baseball team, the Rippers, claims not to have had one of the most infamous serial killers in mind when they chose the name and designed the logo seen here. London, Ontario's "Ripper" is a man hiding behind a cape, wearing a top hat, and wielding a baseb...
New Reality Star Anna Benson Says The Mets Were "Scared Of My Big Fun Bags"
Anna Benson, the buxom brunette who has long had the distinction of being more famous than her husband, a former journeyman Major League pitcher named Kris, is going to star in VH1's new reality series, "Baseball Wives," according to the New York Post....
New PSU Revelations: Message Board Rumors Led To McQueary; Victims Were Reluctant To Come Forward; Documents Are Missing From Second Mile
Today's New York Times has a long story about how the investigation into sex-abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky developed. Four key plot points jump out: ...
ShortCenter: Shaq Torments Stephen A. Smith
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"Much Ado About Nuttin'" And "Brie 'Em To Their Knees" Buttons Pulled For Remaining PSU Football Games
Citizens Bank will not distribute its free game-day buttons for the remainder of the Penn State football season, according to the Patriot-News, for fear that the printed slogans "could be misconstrued in light of the sex abuse scandal on campus."...
LeBron Misses Two Jumpers, Feels Bad, Dunks On A Helpless Child Instead
Your morning roundup for Nov. 17, the day we learned there are children in China who love school, a lot. Video courtesy Hoops Fix, via Cosby Sweaters. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Franco Harris Arrives In State College, Enjoys A Pastry, Never Gets To Meet With Penn State's President
Franco Harris's tireless quest to win Joe Paterno his job back pretty much went the way everyone not named Franco Harris knew it would. As reported earlier today, Harris's dedication to Penn State's morally complicit former coach is so great he made a show of sacrificing his own noble calling as a ...
Today In Mike McQueary's Snow Globe: Police Have No Records He Talked To Them In 2002
Both the university police and the State College PD deny having any record that Mike McQueary filed a report with them after stumbling upon Jerry Sandusky allegedly raping an as-yet-unidentified boy in a Penn State campus shower in 2002. With that in mind, let's review what we know about McQueary's ...