Reporter thinks Roberto Mancini is Mario Balotelli, awkwardness ensues
To be fair to BBC Match of the Day reporter Damian Johnson, Mancini and Balotelli do look incredibly similar. In other Balotelli news, the endlessly entertaining striker has been fined two week's...
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Jamie Moyer and Chris Cooper: Separated at birth?
Before any of you angrily say that these two look nothing alike, let it be noted that a simple Internet search shows I'm far from the first person to make this connection. Jamie Moyer and actor Chris...
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GolfTube: ‘Bear Trap’ gets prime slot on Golf Channel’s weekend coverage
Sizing up the TV coverage from the Honda Classic ... and away we go. It wasn't exactly March Madness coverage with shots of every tournament game on one screen, but Saturday and Sunday's coverage of...
View ArticleVideo: Ex-NBA’er Sonny Weems with the best dunk contest performance in years
Sonny Weems enjoyed a brief NBA career after the former high school high-jumper was passed over in the 2008 NBA draft. As a member of the Denver Nuggets and Toronto Raptors, he earned the rare...
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Georgia star helps team reach state Final Four but is banned for his efforts
One of the top basketball players in the state of Georgia helped his team advance to the state semifinals while also seeing his own season come to a premature end on Saturday. While that might seem...
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AC Milan’s Maxi Lopez allegedly caught naked on webcam
The life of a professional footballer can't be easy: They have to deal with pressure on the pitch, constant media scrutiny, and the fear that their webcam masturbation videos could be made public at...
View ArticleThe 10-man rotation, starring LeBron James stepping on some poor woman’s foot
A look around the league and the web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to...
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‘Paterno Way’? Petition to rename street near Penn State gains steam
There is a local push in State college to name Park Ave, Paterno Way to honor late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno. Park Ave is notable because Paterno used to walk the street to and from work...
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Puck Headlines: Yzerman to lead Team Canada; Ovechkin’s struggles; Connor...
Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. Panthers fans were horrified...
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Video: Kevin McHale isn’t too interested in sports analytics, until he...
If for some reason you weren't scouring BDL and Twitter for NBA news over the weekend, you might have missed that I was in Boston checking out the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. I made...
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Roy Nelson will try drop to 205 lb. if he gets 100K Facebook likes
Roy Nelson, the UFC heavyweight who is known as much for his rotund figure as his 16-7 record, is thinking about making a change, but with a caveat. He made a bet with a friend, and Nelson will try to...
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Steve Yzerman agrees to lead Team Canada into Sochi for 2014 Winter Olympics
Wayne Gretzky put it best: Steve Yzerman was "under the microscope" in 2010, attempting to win a gold medial in Olympic hockey on Canadian soil.; knowing that anything short of that achievement would...
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Tyrann Mathieu anticipates going pro in 2013
The 2012 season hasn't even started yet and LSU star defensive back Tyrann Mathieu is already thinking about his future. Mathieu told Philadelphia's 97.5 "The Fanatic" that his plan is to play well...
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Marlins home run display already drawing criticism
The Miami Marlins' ostentatious home run display has received so much attention before even being plugged in that it could probably be cast as a big character on the team's upcoming Showtime reality...
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Playing for the Clippers made Baron Davis dislike basketball
New York Knicks point guard Baron Davis is one of the most naturally talented point guards in athletic history, an athletic dynamo with a terrific sense of court space. Unfortunately, he's had trouble...
View ArticleThe Ilya Brzygalov rap anthem: He’s a hockey philosopher (VIDEO)
Lately, Ilya Bryzgalov has been stopping pucks rather than pontificating about the size of the universe — which must be a relief for the Philadelphia Flyers — to the point where he's refusing to even...
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Orthodox Jewish school’s run comes up one game short, but still inspires
It wasn't supposed to end this way for the Houston (Texas) Beren Academy boys basketball team. After winning a last ditch legal appeal to have their berth in the Texas Association of Private and...
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Aaron Rodgers, Victor Cruz among best-selling NFL jerseys
Fans wearing new NFL jerseys spent the 2011 season popping their fake championship belts, taking a knee and practicing their salsa moves. Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers had the...
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Big East tournament preview: Can anyone upend Syracuse?
The Dagger will be previewing eight of this week's conference tournaments. Here's our look at the Big East tournament: Big East Tournament Dates: March 6-10 Site: Madison Square Garden (New York,...
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Captioning the press conference for Tennis Night in America
Remember when "30 Rock" made a theme song for NBC's fake "Tennis Night in America?" The folks running Monday night's exhibition at Madison Square Garden certainly don't, since that's the exact name...
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