Get your tickets now for East Carolina’s fake bowl game, the ‘Virtual Bowl’
East Carolina isn't going to a bowl game this year, but that hasn't stopped the university's Pirate Club from selling tickets to one. According to an email sent out by the club to donors, the club is...
View ArticleWinnipeg fans make splash with urinal trough protest
The dream of the male hockey fan in the arena: Running to the men's room for a perfectly-timed visit, expelling his beverage of choice and hustling back to his seat without missing a single faceoff....
View ArticleWhy Chelsea should sell Fernando Torres to Chelsea
The Daily Mail is reporting that Chelsea will field offers for Fernando Torres in January, exactly one year after they bought him from Liverpool for £50 million, and that all they're asking for him is...
View ArticleBall Don’t Lie’s 2011-12 Season Previews: Oklahoma City Thunder
Usually NBA season previews are best read in October, back when football games hardly mattered, Midnight Madness was a few weeks away, and baseball was winding down. Perhaps with the last of the...
View ArticleZoltan Mesko lies to children everywhere, claims Santa isn’t real
New England players spent their day off by spreading a little holiday cheer, getting wrapped up with their teammates as a part of an annual tradition with the Kraft Foundation. Julian Edelman said that...
View ArticleIndiana’s win over Kentucky inspires awkward on-air slip-up
Anybody who has delivered a speech, interviewed for a job or gone on a first date has likely endured the following scenario at some point in their lives. You become a little tongue-tied, you...
View ArticleNeymar shares stereotypical reasons for avoiding Europe in soda ad
When Neymar signed a new deal to stay with Santos until 2014 after so many rumors of him going to Europe, many people wondered why the 19-year-old wouldn't capitalize on all the hype surrounding him...
View ArticlePuck Headlines: Skinner, Michalek concussed; outdoor hockey
• Tell me when you see it. [Reddit Hockey] • Are elbow and shoulder pads to blame for the uptick in NHL head injuries? [The Globe & Mail] • Two guys were issued citations for using water from a...
View ArticleKenny Anderson, now a coach, cited for fleeing scene of accident
Former NBA All-Star Kenny Anderson's bizarre tenure as head basketball coach of a tiny Jewish high school in Florida may come to an end before he even gets a chance to adapt to all of its unique...
View ArticleThe Miami Heat debut their new, darker, alternate jerseys
The Miami Heat have unveiled new, alternate, road jerseys for use in about a dozen games per season. As you can see from the picture above, the jerseys are decked out entirely in the color black, with...
View ArticleRated Rookie: Who else is hoping they can start Jake Locker?
The situation is this: It's the semis in the Fantasy Pros Invitational. I'm facing Team Funston, perhaps the league's pluckiest squad, a team that strung together late-season wins in order to qualify...
View ArticleMike Tomlin will be coaching against both Harbaughs on Monday
Fact: 66 percent of the Steelers losses this season have come against a gentleman with the last name Harbaugh. By Tuesday, if a Harbaugh brothers coaching collaboration goes as well as they want it to,...
View ArticleGoalposts continue to move in Colt McCoy concussion story
While Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison has been suspended for one game for his helmet-to-facemask hit on Cleveland Browns quarterback Colt McCoy last Sunday, the way the Browns handled...
View ArticleCloser or not a closer? Red Sox acquire Melancon from Astros
Ever since Jonathan Papelbon rode the free-agent money train (Choo-choo! $50 million!) down to Philadelphia, the Boston Red Sox have been looking for a new closer. They might have their man after...
View ArticleArizona State makes Todd Graham’s latest dream come true (for real this time)
Todd Graham has a lot of dreams. In 2006, Graham told Rice players, administrators and fans that he'd wanted the Rice job since he was a young man. "I've dreamed of this day since I was in the seventh...
View ArticleBall Don’t Lie’s 2011-12 Season Previews: Minnesota Timberwolves
Usually NBA season previews are best read in October, back when football games hardly mattered, Midnight Madness was a few weeks away, and baseball was winding down. Perhaps with the last of the...
View ArticleDeep Posts: Vince Wilfork has heard quite enough
• Vince Wilfork says he's constantly holding back the urge to tell Rodney Harrison to "Shut the 'f' up." • Recently fired Kansas City Chiefs head coach Todd Haley will appear on ESPN's "Audibles,"...
View ArticleSeven humble requests for ‘HBO 24/7 Flyers Rangers’
Much like those mad geniuses at "South Park" edit right down to the wire on their weekly programs, the folks at HBO can tweak their "24/7 Flyers Rangers: Road To the NHL Winter Classic" episodes until...
View ArticleHazing scandal leads to sexual assault charges in Montana
A small, idyllic mountain town in Montana finds itself mired in the aftermath of a disturbing scandal that has landed a high school football player charges of sexual assault after an unseemly hazing...
View ArticlePostmortem: Offensive growing pains still a thorn in Tennessee’s side
A season in review. • The Expectations. As intriguing as it must have been to watch a bunch of freshmen play a major role in pulling a 2-6 season from the brink of oblivion last November, the...
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