• Florida Panthers exec Uri Man shows what kind of man he his by hitting on Fox News anchor Ainsley Earhardt during an on-air interview.
• Bud Selig softening on Pete Rose Hall of Fame ban? Don’t bet on it.
• Ladies & gentlemen, your 2009-10 Sacramento Kings Dance Team!
• And the Jeremy Mayfield meth mess goes […]
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In 2002, Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson sat at a press conference after his team lost in the NBA Playoffs and launched into a famous diatribe about practice. You know the one, we don’t need to explain. While coaches and old white people everywhere were horrified at the brash young man’s attitude, practice-hating kids everywhere […]
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Sad news out of Bethlehem, PA: Jim Johnson, one of the NFL’s greatest defensive coaches and by all accounts a classy, approachable gentleman in a sport that needs more of them, passed away today after a battle with cancer. Eagles Nation is justifiably bummed right now, as are we all.
Johnson, diagnosed with melanoma, had taken […]
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In the 134-season history of major league baseball in this country, there have been a total of 388,502 (and counting) attempts to pitch a perfect game; that is, there have been 194,251 games (and counting) and each game has presumably started with two opposing pitchers facing eah other. Of those 388,502 opportunities, only 18 of […]
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Listen you homos, if you don’t stop using those high-tech bodysuits to beat Our Shining Sir Lancelot of the Pool, Michael Phelps, he’s going pack his nose plugs and go home. Then watch what happens to swim meet attendance. (May look something like this).
The controversy occurred at the world championships in Rome today, as Germany’s […]
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Well kids, it’s been fun. Like MySpace and Facebook, you will soon see virtually all pro athletes pulling back from their contributions to Twitter.
(Lastings Milledge on Myspace - golden age of sports social networking)
High profile pros with a plethora of endorsements have, of course, never been inclined to genuinely participate in social networking. But […]
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Imagine that you’re out for a leisurely bike ride with the wife and kid. Oh, the kid’s only three years old, so he’s in one of those attachable seat things. That seems like a perfectly normal, innocuous scenario; only people with the most effed-up imaginations would conclude it with taking a bullet to the head […]
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It’s hard to believe that August is almost upon us; time flies when you’re having fun. The best part about this time of year is that college football season is ready to return. It’s only a few short weeks until two-a-day practices begin in earnest, and fans nationwide are already poring over the rankings and […]
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Well, ESPN is finally talking about the Ben Rothelisberger sexual assault allegations, but you have to have been quick to catch it. The most hilarious part of the brief “ESPN Sports Reporters” segment on the subject was not Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom’s contention that “a lot of women make false claims.” (Stay classy, […]
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Jim Zorn is a football coach, and football coaches don’t much care for these computers and these Internets. Seriously, they have so many things with which to occupy their time that what bloggers think is, to them, completely irrelevant. We’ve accepted it.
(The New Zornographer himself.)
But coaches are still men, and men have needs. Ball-draining needs, […]
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