One of the major criticisms leveled at the world’s most prominent athletes over the years has been that they are too unwilling to take a stand on issues or criticize anyone or anything, for fear of upsetting sponsors and consumers. Two people often targeted in this criticism are Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan, the world’s […]

American sports has a good many polarizing figures that sports fans love to hate. Praising names like George Steinbrenner, Mike Krzyzewski, Bud Selig, or Bill Wirtz at a sports bar is a good way to start a fight in many cities, for many different reasons. You’ve got contempt for fans (Wirtz), dunderheaded management (Selig), annoying […]

Obviously, the details will end up shaking themselves out in the coming days and weeks, but the past 24 hours have seen a confusing mess of conflicting details regarding the murder of Steve McNair and the as-yet-unclassified death of Sahel Kazemi.

Many high profile murder-suicides (if that’s what this is) tend to feature troubled, unhappy relationships […]

Here’s a couple more new photos of Sahel Kazemi, the 20-year-old mistress of Steve McNair.

Both were found dead in McNair’s downtown Nashville condo on Saturday.
Another photo of Kazemi with McNair’s Escalade after the jump.

With another 4th of July in the books, it’s important that we as Americans take a look back and appreciate the things that best embody this great nation of ours. I’m talking, of course, about the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. As you no doubt already know (in part because we mentioned it earlier today), […]

Happy Fourth of July weekend, even though it’s almost over. I hope you’re out barbecuing instead of reading blogs, and I hope your barbecue is something like this.

Read: cute girls in short shorts, freely flowing beer, and ill-advised horseplay. But sometimes those factors combine in a magical way, like in this video that represents everything […]

Remember Rinku and Dinesh? Those Indian reality TV show contestants who can throw kind of hard, but not really, but that’s still good enough to get you a contract with the Pirates? They finally got some game action yesterday.

Rinku Singh got knocked around a little in his inning of work; Dinesh Patel was better. And […]

I was forwarded a couple more photos this morning of Sahel Kazemi, the 20-year-old mistress of Steve McNair. Both were found dead yesterday at a Nashville condo rented by the former NFL quarterback. Here is a photo of Kazemi on top of the Escalade McNair purchased for her.

(Escalade McNair Bought For Mistress Kazemi) 
Three days […]

The good thing about restricted free agency is that it allows teams to hang on to their young talent, to give them time to become fan favorites and maybe even franchise players some day. It really would have been nice if the Blackhawks would have taken advantage of that.

In a move that seems like […]

We all had a good laugh when that pigeon was accidentally killed by a cricket ball. Maybe it should have been a warning. An umpire was killed yesterday after being struck by a thrown cricket ball in Wales.

Alcwyn Jenkins, 72, was hit in the side of the head in “one of the most freak […]