Deion Sanders comes out of hiding today to talk to Thayer Evans of the NEW YORK TIMES about his role in Oklahoma State’s Dez Bryant getting suspended by the school.

Sanders, contrary to what ESPN Radio host (and former Oklahoma State basketball player) Doug Gottlieb said today on-air, claimed to Evans that Okie State coaches asked […]

Arash Markazi, who penned an epic piece recently in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED about Ron Artest, gives us another photo of Natalin Avci from Artest’s frightfully prescient photoshoot:

And to think I was just about to leave the house, damn you Markazi!

Dez Bryant wrote a message on his Facebook page today that confirmed what some have suspected: Bryant’s suspension was the result of Oklahoma State trying to end his relationship with Deion Sanders, not an NCAA rules violation.

Bryant’s message on Facebook, via THE BIG LEAD:

What is this, Russia? Who else but a man named Jerry Johncock would be entwined in a controversy over using a catheter to help him pee during the Twin Cities Marathon? Race officials may strip him of his win in the men’s 80-84 age division after a “good samaratian” supplied him with a catheter so […]

Sports media is abuzz today about the botched contract of Michael Crabtree, who Mike Florio of PFT reports will get a full $2M per year less than Darius Heyward-Bey.

Almost immediately after Crabtree’s cave-in was announced, we got word that another prized Big 12 wide receiver, Dez Bryant of Oklahoma State, had been declared ineligible for […]

I love you, England. I love you because your women have English accents, and they can make literally anything sound far more interesting than if an American says it. Also, your jokes are usually funnier and there’s nothing produced by an American television company quite like the BBC’s Top Gear.

(Somehow, I don’t think you thought […]

A brawl broke out between two Colorado youth football coaches on Monday night when one team refused to take the field because the other had a girl in its starting lineup. The coaches of the Eaton, Colorado team of 10- and 11-year-olds had expressed concerns over their boys hitting and tackling a girl due to […]

Main Entry: dis·pa·rate
Pronunciation: \ˈdis-p(ə-)rət, di-ˈsper-ət, -ˈspa-rət\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English desparat, from Latin disparatus, past participle of disparare to separate, from dis- + parare to prepare
1 : containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements
2 : markedly distinct in quality or character

(Some of UFC’s many sponsors on display.)
An enterprising young cameraman representing ULTMMA.COM […]

With the media seemingly sated on the Michael Vick story, Vick’s girlfriend Kijafa Frink, slipped onto a Philadelphia hip-hop station this morning to talk about the couple’s current lifestyle.

(Kijafa Frink (future Vick doco star!) slips onto Philly radio to confront ‘haters’)
Interesting stuff. Transcript and audio after the jump.

Look, you may have your opinions about waterboarding, Gitmo, illegal wiretapping, the war in Iraq and offenses against human rights, the U.S. Constitution and international law. But damn it, if Condoleezza Rice is going to bring blue-chip athletes to Stanford University, then she is to be welcomed back with open arms.

In a rather remarkable paragraph […]