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Hey Kids! Jay Mohr Is Back!
Unsilent mentioned this briefly over the weekend, but in case you missed it; Jay Mohr is back with his weekly column, and just in time for football season! You may remember Mohr from his cable series with ESPN (canceled) and column with SI.com (dropped), and for such films as Community Service. Well...

Today's Story: Coco Crisp And The Very Careless Moose
It's always a sad thing when a moose goes bad. One minute he's delighting children with his playful antics, and the next ... vehicular assault. The victim: Boston's Coco Crisp, who was minding his own business, warming up for Sunday's game in Seattle against the Mariners. The assailant: Mariner Moos...

Vazquez Punishes Marquez While Diaz Retires Morales
Nobody thought that Israel Vazquez could be ready for his rematch against Rafael Marquez just five months after he took that battering. Freddie Roach, Vazquez's highly regarded trainer in that fight, declined to train him for the rematch if he was going to fight just four months after major surgery...

• As usual the Wizznutzz have spent the bulk of the summer in the Mothering Hut and their output has been truly inspired. It's the kind of inspiration you can only get from eating week-old Sabrett's hot dogs with Chico DeBarge and Rod Strickland's pet lemur. Plus the lemur bit Jaarko (who responded ...

Does This Mean No More Live Look-Ins?
The nation's long wait has finally come to an end, A-Rod hit 500! Alright, it's not exactly 756 but at least it's one less thing we'll have to hear about every single day. He got things out of the way in a hurry this afternoon with a first inning blast off of Kyle Davies. Call me crazy, but I think ...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while cleaning up your dishes • Boxing: Jean Pascal's ridiculous hair-art proves too much for Kingsley Ikeke in a unanimous decision. • Extreme Sports: Something totally fucking crazy probably happened at the X Games last night, I just don't care. • MLB: The Cubs can't deal with all ...

X Games Skater Somehow Doesn't Die
We don't cover much X Games around here — we probably don't need to explain why — but last night, some guy named Jake Brown pulled off one of the most amazing moves in X Games history ... and then took a fall that amazingly didn't kill him. We're still not sure it's sports, but man, it's tough no...

Somebody Just Give This Guy A Grill Endorsement Already
You knew, somehow, if Evander Holyfield just hung around long enough, waiting for someone to need a big name to highlight some sort of grueling pay-per-view spectacle, someone would give the 44-year-old former heart patient the opportunity to fight for another championship. (Or die trying. Seriously...

The Dog Wars Begin
At last, we are seeing the expected fallout from the Michael Vick dogfighting imbroglio: The dogs have had enough of our spot at the top of the food chain and are taking their revenge....

Would Vick Have Been "Better Off" Raping?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Paul Zeise has apologized profusely (and been "suspended" from television) for comments he made about the Michael Vick case. Let's take a look at what he said....

Kevin Garnett Brings The Heat
The Celtics landing Kevin Garnett was great and all, but I know that ever since the deal was announced, many of you have secretly longed to see Garnett in a Red Sox uniform. And so you shall. Don't get too exited, greater Boston area ... Garnett was at hand at Fenway on Wednesday just to throw out t...

Ron Mexico Speaks! (Kind Of)
It's not exactly the time you'd expect Michael Vick to start giving a lot of interviews, but yesterday, for the first time, he spoke publicly about the whole dog fighting business. He didn't say much....

A Big Trading Day, And In Baseball Too
It is perhaps baseball's misfortune to, on the one day a year everyone looks for baseball trades, have its thunder stolen by an NBA trade, but then again, no one's been waiting six years to see where Joel Pineiro would finally be traded....

Sports' Other Famous Dogfighter
In case you're one of the people who would love to see Michael Vick tossed into jail for a decade while he deals with his own rape stand, it might be instructive to look at the case of former Portland Trail Blazer Qyntel Woods....

The NFL Network Tells Deion To Shush
Remember Deion Sanders' compeletely batshit bonkers "defense" of Michael Vick for dogfighting? Well, amazingly, the NFL didn't take too kindly to it....

If Vick Can't Trust His Dogfighting Buddies, Who Can He Trust?
The ball is officially rolling in the Michael Vick case: Tony Taylor, or "T" in the now-famous indictment, has plead guilty in exchange for testifying against Mr. Mexico....


Vick Co-Defendant Set To Make Plea Agreement
One of Michael Vick's co-defendants is about to throw him to the dogs. (Zing!) A plea agreement hearing has been scheduled for Tony Taylor — no, not the Pride of Philadelphia — at 9 a.m. Monday in the federal dogfighting conspiracy case....

Who's The Next Professional Athlete To Be Proven Pure Evil?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....

Don't Burn Your Vick Jersey Just Yet
We hope you already own a Michael Vick jersey and haven't burned it, because it's about to become a rarity....