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Man Wins £125,000 On Bet His Infant Grandson Would Play For Wales
On Tuesday, 16-year-old Harry Wilson made his international debut for Wales in a World Cup qualifying match against Belgium. It was a big day for Wilson, but perhaps an even bigger day for his grandfather, who cashed in big time on a 15-year-old bet as soon as his grandson stepped onto the pitch....
David Wilson Scores TD, Does Double Backflip
Not sure if it's a touchdown celebration or a didn't-fumble celebration. Maybe both....
Brian Wilson Yells At Giants President About His World Series Ring
As the Giants lined up for handshakes following last night's win over Los Angeles, former SF-closer-turned-Dodger Brian Wilson angrily confronted Giants president and CEO Larry Baer along the third-base line. Wilson was apparently pissed that the Giants hadn't get given him his 2012 World Series rin...
Russell Wilson Is Surprised By The Snap: "Oh Shit!"
Actually, everyone was surprised. The best part is center Max Unger looking for someone to block....
Eagles Nearly Traded For Colin Kaepernick, Drafted Russell Wilson
In the annals of NFL what-ifs, here are two gigantic, NFC-altering ones....
David Wilson Ticked Off The Wrong Hardass Coach
Take a good look at this photo. It might be the last time you see David Wilson carrying the ball for a while. It damn well will be the last time you see Wilson carrying the ball with one hand, or Tom Coughlin will eat his heart....
The Raiders Have Already Cut Their 2013 Fourth-Round Pick
As the deadline for 53-man rosters came to a close, the Oakland Raiders made unique decisions while cutting players. In this case, "unique" doesn't necessarily mean "good."...
Google Dearth: <i>The Internship</i>, Reviewed
Most movies sell some sort of fantasy: True love is real; good always triumphs over evil; all dogs go to heaven. But few peddle so many as The Internship, which reunites Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson for the first time since their 2005 hit Wedding Crashers. Like Larry Crowne, The Internship is a com...
Seconds Out
Matt Wilson's "Second Out" series. Found via Museumuseum. ...
Tom Wilson Loses His Skate Blade, Awkwardly Flops Back To The Bench
Watch Capitals rookie Tom Wilson run into Ryan McDonagh along the boards—or better yet, listen to it. You can hear the metallic ting of Wilson's skate blade coming off. What followed was Wilson's best impression of a beached porpoise. ...
Pete Carroll Says The NFL Is Becoming A Mobile Quarterback's League
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Wilson, Kaepernick, and Griffin are just the start....
"Dangerously Excessive": How Washington State Football Confronted, And Didn't Confront, The First Bad News Of The Mike Leach Era
"There are no signs of abuse," Washington State University athletic director Bill Moos told reporters last month, after the school had concluded an internal investigation into claims that football coach Mike Leach and his staff had mistreated players in his debut season there. Based on interviews wi...
The Bengals Really Could Break Their 8,400-Day Playoff Winless Streak Today
For a summer in college I interned for the sports department of the Columbus Dispatch, which sent me for a few days to cover Cincinnati Bengals training camp. The 1990s had just come to a close—a dismal era even by the Bengals' standards—and the beat writers killed time during practice by stumping o...
Venezuelan MLB Players Spend More Time Worrying About Being Kidnapped Than Most Professional Athletes
Becoming a professional baseball player should mean you're pretty much set, right? Forget the odds that a fringe (or star) professional athlete will go broke before he's a certain age—if you spend much of your twenties and thirties making millions or near millions of dollars for playing a game, you'...
The Bills Blackmailed New York Taxpayers Into Covering 84 Percent Of Stadium Renovations
You might have missed this in the pre-holiday news dump, which it was specifically timed for—it's a good idea to downplay the implications of a story like this. An agreement was announced in a "hastily called news conference" to keep the Bills in Buffalo (actually Orchard Park) through at least 2020...
Russell Wilson Is The Quarterback Darrell Bevell Always Wanted
Nineteen years ago, Darrell Bevell, a redshirt freshman transfer fresh off his Mormon mission, led Wisconsin to its first Rose Bowl win—an ugly 21-16 victory over UCLA that featured seven fumbles. Bevell's clinching touchdown came on a particularly un-balletic play. The video isn't online, but here'...
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"It Is Totally Out Of Control": Here's The Letter That Started Washington State's Investigation Of Mike Leach [UPDATED]
Washington State University announced today that an internal review had cleared football coach Mike Leach and his staff of any misconduct. Last month, star wide receiver Marquess Wilson was suspended for violating team rules, after which he quit the team and released a public letter alleging that co...
Man Gets Kicked Out Of Bills Game, Dies
A man who'd been ejected from Ralph Wilson Stadium last night was found dead early this morning, the Buffalo News is reporting....
Marquess Wilson Exits Washington State With A Letter Alleging Mental And Physical Abuse From Mike Leach's Coaching Staff
Marquess Wilson, suspended indefinitely from an underperforming Washington State team by head coach Mike Leach this past week, is leaving the team. He was second-team All-American last year and tops the Cougars' all-time receiving yards list. Here's the letter he gave to the Visalia Times-Delta, in ...