• The Northwestern Wildcats women’s lacrosse team has won five straight national titles - thanks in part to the inspiration of honorary teammate & young cancer survivor Jaclyn Murphy.

• Ladies & gentlemen of the jury, Plaxico Burress would like to have a little chat with you.
• A high school cheerleader is suing after her coach […]

Somewhere, in a secret library not accessible to non-famous types (Scientology Celebrity Centre, maybe?), there is a book titled The Celebrity Guide To Handling Embarrassing Legal Trouble. We’ve never seen this book but we’re pretty sure it has to exist. How else do you explain every single celebrity working from the same script after getting […]

If you’re like me, you find Ustream a little annoying; I don’t want to read how Gianz4Evah thinks that “Philly SUXXXX” on the right side while trying to watch a video on the left. But Chad Ochocinco’s initial offering today was somewhat amusing, if only for the comments generated during and after his “Chad Ochocinco […]

After Affliction’s sudden, immediate, largely hilarious demise in the world of fight promotion (no worries, meatheads, you can still wear those silly shirts with the skulls and stuff on them), all eyes were immediately trained on human/wolverine hybrid Fedor Emelianenko.

(FEDOR FACT: punching people in the face is awesome.)
With his stature and the seeming dearth of […]

There comes a time for every parent when he has to explain the birds and the bees to his children. But when your child is a women’s basketball fan, your job is even more awkward. Just ask poor Mike Wise of the WASHINGTON POST.

Recently he had to explain to a child (presumably his own) why […]

Kevin Provencher is a sportswriter for the NEW HAMPSHIRE UNION LEADER. More importantly, he’s 50 years old. Perhaps we can’t fault him for having a mid-life crisis, one in which he needs to feel a thrill, just so he knows he can still feel.

(Provencher, who we are obligated to mention is innocent until proven […]

It was only five short years ago that baseball fans nearly formed a full-scale mutiny against Major League Baseball for the league’s plan to advertise the movie Spider-Man 2 on the bases at the 2004 All-Star Game. It was a simpler, purer time in sports - except for all those ‘roids, of course. Oh, […]

So look, I’m sorry for the bait-and-switch. But the real reason I wanted to post this has less to do with the national champion Northwestern women’s lacrosse team and their raucous partying below (although that’s pretty awesome) than it has to do with the story of Jaclyn Murphy, a high school lacrosse player from New […]

Bill Plaschke of the LOS ANGELES TIMES breathlessly reports today that Vin Scully will likely retire after the 2011 season.

(Little low on the Omega-3s?)
Here’s the quote Plaschke beat out of received from the greatest baseball announcer of all time:
“God willing, I will probably come back for one more year,” Scully said in a phone […]

When it comes to athletics, there is one dreaded word that can start fights between the best of friends, one single accusation that calls into question everything that makes an athlete what he is. Remember “The Sandlot”’s pivotal “You play baseball like a girl!” insult? Take that to its logical, profane, adult conclusion and you […]