The NFL Draft has just come to a close, and one of the great traditions of the draft is the crowning of “Mr. Irrelevant,” otherwise known as the last pick of the entire draft. The “winner” of this honor gets to spend a week in Newport Beach and is awarded something called the Lowsman Trophy […]

I missed this when the news first came out on Friday, but it appears that the Yankees have finally invented a reason to put struggling starter Chien-Ming Wang on the disabled list to prevent further embarrassment (and the possibility of losing him to a waiver claim if they tried to send himd own). Wang, as […]

On lap seven of the Aaron’s 499 Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway, a third of the field rubbed against each other roughly in a 13-car smashup that took nine cars into the garage and left six there for the remainder of the race. With only around seven laps left, another huge pileup took out […]

Even notwithstanding the Game 3 blowout from Thursday, the Celtics-Bulls series was the odds-on favorite to be the best first round playoff matchup of the 2009 NBA Playoffs. Let’s go ahead and push that to “mortal lock” status, because Game 4, taken by the Bulls, 121-118 in double overtime, was yet another absolute masterpiece.

In terms […]

One of the storylines in the leadup to the NFL draft was that Michael Crabtree had an inflated sense of self-worth, which prompted an infinitely stupid quote from a scout that compared the thought of drafting him to eating an animal’s fecal matter. Yes, that actually happened.

(”You want someone who acts like a baby? Here. […]

NHL legend Patrick Roy has proven less than popular as coach of his Québec junior hockey team, as we’ve chronicled here before. But now he’s graduating to outright supervillainy; he’s terrifying little girls.

Roy’s Québec Remparts traveled to face the Shawinigan Cataractes, and coach Roy got into it with a fan behind the bench. Their […]

Now that Matthew Stafford has received the most guaranteed money of any NFL player in history — slightly more than Albert Haynesworth’s $40 million, sacks of cash more than anyone else, ever — it might be worth looking at one time the whole signing bonus culture didn’t work out for the prospect.

Matt Harrington was […]

Well, you don’t see this every day. Some 24 hours after he was caught on camera throwing a water bottle at an innocent Washington fan, New York Rangers coach John Tortorella was suspended for Game 6 of the teams’ first round series by the NHL. In case you lost track, the Rangers lead that series […]

As if we needed proof that the three months of journalistic masturbation that leads up to the NFL Draft is pointless, the first two rounds proved yet again that all the mock drafts and preparatory analysis does little — if anything — to make the draft day picture clearer for fans. In fact, if you […]