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Youth Hockey Coach Makes Sick Yo Momma Burn
A minor hockey coach in Timmons, Ontario, was suspended after making some inappropriate comments about a 12-year-old player's mother during a pregame locker room speech. Now, this is definitely not okay, and it was surely mortifying for a young child to be bullied by an authority figure. That said, ...
Gifts For The Self-Loathing Mets Fan: Bidding On Jose Reyes's Shorn Locks Is Up To $10,200
Apparently most-riveting-New-York-Met-ever Jose Reyes will spend this year toiling for something called the Miami Marlins, the Talk Magazine of baseball teams, while Ruben Tejada will start at short for the Mets. Cool....
The Pittsburgh Pirates Are Pretty Much Willing To Give Anyone A Tryout
Per Jim Bowden, they've invited Dmitri Young to their spring training complex for a workout next week. Dmitri Young. He's 38 and hasn't played a big-league game in four years. I half-expect the Pirates' next move to be ... oh, never mind. [WHYGAVS]...
Seeing Jeremy Lin At The Garden Was The Best 11 Bucks I Ever Spent On Pro Sports
Casey Chan turned to me yesterday and asked, "Are you going to the game tonight?" What? "The Knicks game. Lin's starting." What? "Yeah, StubHub's at like 11 bucks." We're going....
Asian Harvard Grad Somehow Succeeding In New York; Or, Why I Love Jeremy Lin
A remarkable thing has been happening in New York's Madison Square Garden the past few days: Jeremy Lin, a charming 23-year-old with an economics degree from Harvard College, has somehow become the city's ultimate underdog and talisman....
The Giants Parade, Through The Lens Of A Guy Who Got Kicked Out Of It
I am a Giants fan, but I'm also fascinated by the human condition, and I happen to think nothing is more fascinating than a million people brought together by nothing more than a football team and the rare socially acceptable opportunity to get drunk before breakfast. It was with this in mind that I...
Hey, Michigan: Illinois Will Show You Their Athletic Director's Contract If You Show Them Yours
We like to request records from public universities from time to time. We also like to request the requests made to these universities, which lets us know who's snooping around where. Mainly, it's reporters. Occasionally, though, one of our meta-requests reveals some high-level intercollegiate inani...
Math Says If Wes Welker Catches That Ball, The Patriots Win
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Excited Woman At Super Bowl Parade Tells Reporter She Can't Wait To See Mark Sanchez
This young lady appears to be a Giants fan, but she unwittingly speaks for Jets fans everywhere. [Flopping Out]...
A Rob Gronkowski Onstage Dance Video Has Been Unearthed
After seeing this video, I'm convinced that Rob Gronkowski's ankle is hurt much worse than anyone realized. It's the only explanation for why he'd be dancing like this....
"Was That A Sasquatch?” The Misery Of Watching Canadian Super Bowl Ads
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Rob Gronkowski Post-Super Bowl Dance Videos Begin To Surface
Yesterday we published photos of Rob Gronkowski and Matt Light mourning their Super Bowl loss by dancing shirtless onstage to LMFAO at the Patriots post-game party. Today brings video, supposedly, of Gronkowski warming up his gimpy ankle before taking the stage with LMFAO. It comes to us from Bars...
Eli Manning: Stop Wearing T-Shirts Over Your Shoulder Pads
I'm really happy for Eli Manning and all, especially since he just beat America's Most Dominant Sports City for the second time and sent Shank into his usual round of rectal self-examination. But someone needs to explain to this man that he'll never stop being treated like a 12-year-old from a Sunny...
Rob Gronkowski, Shirtless Matt Light Danced Away Their Sorrows After The Super Bowl
Ever wonder what the losers do after the big game? Well, some sulk in hotel rooms. Others cry in their beer. And some dance. They dance like no one's watching, even when someone is watching, which is what many people were doing last night as Matt Light took off his shirt and started to boogie, accor...
New Jersey Football Team Makes Triumphant Return To New Jersey
We are currently watching, with attention as rapt as rapt can be, the silent helicopter-cam of Newark Liberty International Airport, where the Giants are due to land any moment. The team, which proudly plays out of East Rutherford, N.J., will hold a ticker-tape parade tomorrow across state lines in ...
Did The Giants Put 12 Men On The Field On Purpose For Brady's First Hail Mary?
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Here Are The New York Giants Celebrating On Their Plane Ride Home
Catchy tune. [via]...
Amar'e Stoudemire's Brother Was Killed This Morning In A Car Crash
Hazell Stoudemire was reportedly driving at "a high rate of speed" when his car rear-ended a tractor trailer in Lake Wales, Fla. The Knicks have confirmed his death. He was 35. [TMZ]...
Eli Manning Has Been In The NFL Since 1970, According To ESPN
Your morning roundup for Feb. 6, the day we learned homelessness is for sale. Photo via Justin P. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
The Ballsiest Call In Super Bowl History
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....