KIFFIN DOUSED WITH PETROS, SET AFIRE: In case you’re really wondering how USC football players, coaches and adminstration are feeling about Lane Kiffin’s departure from USC, look no further than former USC football captain Petros Papadakis.

The gregarious Greek is now a celebrated media figure in SoCal, partly because of his (sometimes caustic) candor about the […]

The reason why Philadelphia’s four pro sports teams are 0-for-23 years? Apparently, this…

This box supposedly contains the curse that’s been haunting the Phillies, Eagles, 76ers and Flyers since the Sixers won the city’s last championship in 1983. And now it’s on eBay, where you can buy the Philadelphia sports curse and purge it at your […]

Happy birthday to Mary Lou Retton, who despite taking the country by storm in 1984 — when Nolan Ryan still had 10 major league seasons left in his arm — turns just 39 today.
Retton won five medals at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics, but the all-around women’s gold — secured with a perfect 10 in […]

Ex-pro wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow was found dead last Friday. He was 45.

Unfortunately, discovering wrestlers dead at such a relatively young age isn’t even close to being a shock anymore. It’s more of a surprise, say, when a guy like 53-year-old Hulk Hogan appears in a reality TV series with apparent good physical and mental […]

Here’s an innovative, dealer-free, chip-free poker table that “improves” the game on so many levels that it might actually make it worse.

The PokerPro shuffles, deals, splits pots and generates side pots instantly and accurately (which is good for the players), deals 50% more hands than a manual table and can keep a more detailed customer […]

If you ever wondered what effect eBay has had on the sports card industry, look no further than this 1953 Bowman #17 Gerry Staley.

It’s a 54-year-old, common card from a popular set. Nothing special. Yet, if you needed to acquire one to complete a set today, you’d have 28 buying options on eBay alone. And […]

If you’re a mad soccer fan, crazy enough to order your favorite team’s badge tattooed to your body, best go to an artist who supports the same side.
Else, you might discover that the tattooist, in an effort to prank a rival’s fan, left you not with a soccer logo but a penis on your back.

I haven’t seen a lights-out youth karate kick to the face like this since The Karate Kid.
The videographers encouraging the winner (whose name is Daniel, coincidentally) must be disciples of the Cobra Kai. They show no mercy for sure. Certainly not as much as the medic on scene, who rushes to make sure the kid’s […]

Among the multitude of Las Vegas prop bets for Super Bowl XLI is the over/under on Rex Grossman’s rushing yards, set at — get this — one!
If you take the +105 money line on Grossman rushing for more than one yard, Vegas will actually pay you slightly more than your bet for those two (or […]

As a baseball stats junkie, I can spend hours poking through baseball-reference.com’s player profiles. Among the most interesting — because of how much it illuminates 25 years of significant change — is that of Mike Schmidt, often regarded as the greatest third baseman of all time.
A couple of items of note:
• In 1988, the three-time […]