• Erin Andrews spends the NFL Draft surrounded by Cosbys (Quan & Dr. Bill, respectively), and hilarity ensues.
(Can’t you just feel the excitement?)
• Jacoby Ellsbury steals home, Red Sox steal three straight from Yankees.
• It seems that NASCAR won’t be happy until somebody gets killed.
• Beer pong? Budweiser wants in on the upcoming table […]
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There are times when technology leads us to a breakthrough, a new way of learning and understanding the world. Sometimes, the Internet raises the level of knowledge and raises the level of humanity just one small, incremental, yet wondrous bit. This is not one of those times.
(Wheeeeee!)
According to KOTAKU, who we can’t thank enough, some […]
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Urban Meyer doesn’t like it when people find fault with his Florida Gators. Two BCS championships in three years might prove that Urban is doing something right, but there’s always room for improvement.
(Meyer mad at Matthews?)
However, Coach Meyer prefers not to hear such things. And he really gets angry when he hears it from […]
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Just when you thought that Girl Power died when the Spice Girls broke up, there comes word from BASEBALL DIGEST that suggests otherwise: the International Baseball Federation has including both men’s and women’s baseball in their bid to regain Olympic sports status in time for the 2016 Games. Somewhere in Baseball Fad Heaven, the Colorado […]
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There was a time not terribly long ago that Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade was considered one of the NBA’s most sought-after endorsers. He was a young superstar with a championship ring and a fairy-tale marriage to high school sweetheart Siohvaughn. He was seen as humble, pious, and telegenic; ESPN couldn’t get enough of the […]
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In the best of economic times, I often wondered how a league like the NBA, which gets crappy TV ratings, has teams in tiny markets like New Orleans, Sacto, Memphis and OKC, and has a product that many regard as lacking could continue to support the mammoth salaries of its players.
(Found: How to convert Kitty […]
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Dave Gilmore was a pretty successful salesman. The Arizona native had risen through the ranks to become a regional director of sales for a national hotel chain, a position high enough in the chain of command that he could safely feed his wife and three daughters, and still afford a relatively comfortable life in the […]
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One of the knocks on modern professional athletes is that they’re too removed from the fans, that they live their lives in ivory towers unconcerned with the devotion and concerns of the common man. Recently, however, that’s begun to change. While mainstream journalists still love to pretend that social media is the exclusive domain of […]
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Remember Jayson Williams, the former New Jersey Nets forward who shot and killed a limo driver back in 2002? Well, it turns out he was never convicted for it (thanks to a hung jury), and has been living his life quietly while waiting for a retrial on second-degree manslaughter charges. Who knew?
As it turns out, […]
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When you get rinkside seats, you get to see all the exciting hockey action up close & personal - every hit, every slapshot, every broken finger. And being so close must have been a bit too much for these two female fans when they got a glance of a damaged digit belonging to Chicago Blackhawk […]
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