New details are beginning to emerge about Mark Becker, the accused shooter of beloved Iowa high school football coach Ed Thomas, including his arrest the previous weekend. After using a baseball bat and his car to terrorize a random couple, he lead Butler County deputies on a car chase before being taken into custody and […]

Our tremendous trip of tennis babes in bikinis continues this week. When we last left the court, Maria Kirilenko & Tatiana Golovin were strutting their stuff for SI’s swimsuit issue. Now comes word that another lobbing looker is ready to make her modeling mark in the printed pages during these wild ‘n’ woolly weeks of […]

It’s confirmed: Using a stun gun to zap a cheerleading coach in the neck is probably not the best way to get her to let your friend’s daughter onto the team. It happened in April of 2008 in Warr Acres, Okla., where LeShawn Fisher attacked cheerleading coach Bethany Lorenz in the parking lot of Putnam […]

If there’s one lesson to take from the last 30 years of sports merchandising, it’s that nothing - nothing - is more powerful than the brand. Nike understands this, of course, and their ability to profit from the Michael Jordan “Jumpman” logo has been not just a model, but the golden standard for other shoe […]

After the Celtics beat the Bulls in an epic first-round playoff battle in April, Boston PG Rajon Rondo was hailed as Boston’s point guard of the future. Multiple triple-doubles (and a series-saving flagrant foul on Brad Miller) in a playoff series will do that sort of thing for a young player.

(Rajon Rondo, seen here being […]

We’ll freely admit to having been skeptical of Rodney Harrison as a genuine media personality when word got out that he was retiring and joining the NFL on NBC staff. A dirty player who immediately gets into overaggressive bombast about the state of the sport that earned him eight figures? How do we say… no.

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Shaquille O’Neal is now a Cleveland Cavalier, and according to this, he found out about the trade via Twitter. So the franchise’s quest to acquire a suitable playmate for LeBron James, not to mention bring the city its first pro sports title in 45 years, seems to be serious this time. And all it cost […]

Dan Steinberg at DC SPORTS BOG has the latest on Tony Kornheiser’s seemingly cratered D.C. media career, transcribing comments from Commander Combover during a D.C. radio appearance this week.

(Took this on Venice Beach this week … vaguely applicable? OK, maybe not.)
Apparently Kornheiser, who was recently let go by the WaPo and nudged out of […]