Video: Blake Griffin makes a half-court shot sitting down
Over the past year and change, we've seen Blake Griffin do many amazing things, from winning the dunk contest to becoming Rookie of the Year to making jokes in national TV ads. He's nearing the point...
View ArticleThe history of the Zuffa-owned UFC, as told by ‘The Brady Bunch’
Earlier this week, Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta were named to the Sports Business Journal's list of the top 50 most powerful people in sports. In case you ever wanted to know how they took over the...
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The NHL All-Concussion Team would win a lot of games
You're probably well aware that concussions have become something of an epidemic in the NHL over the past few years. It's not like nobody's talking about it. But just recently, the epidemic has taken...
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Puck Previews: Minnesota hosts Chicago; another concussion
Here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished....
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Canucks respond to lazy Bolland insults with equally lazy insults
On the very day that 24/7 Flyers Rangers is set to debut, it's been the feud between the Vancouver Canucks and Chicago Blackhawks that has dominated the news cycle (much to the dismay of HBO, one...
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Your 2012 Budweiser Shootout field
The criteria to qualify for the 2012 Budweiser Shootout was released on Wednesday and once again it's different than it was the previous year. The 2012 field for the Daytona exhibition race will...
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Lames: Don’t expect Lynch to ‘Taste the Rainbow’ in Chicago
Each week the Noise highlights 10 bold names who he believes are destined to torpedo your team. For those playing the Lames home edition, each player must be started in at least 50 percent of Yahoo!...
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More Fan Violence Dots Week 14
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — It's becoming an epidemic of sorts around the NFL as fan violence becomes a growing concern. This past weekend in both Miami and East Rutherford, N.J., fans were beaten up at NFL...
View ArticleVideo: Young Pittsburgh fan freaks out at Detroit fan parents
It's tough being a preadolescent sports fan. You can find a team and you can love them, but it's hard to understand that others are allowed to like different teams, and you often find yourself at odds...
View ArticleWeek 15 playoff special: Live fantasy chat, Thursday morning
As mentioned previously via tweet, this week's podcast fell victim to unforeseeable studio/scheduling issues. Catastrophic failure. Disaster. Mayhem. Sure, maybe I could have attempted to produce the...
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Changing numbers could be costly decision for players
Not many baseball players change their uniform numbers during the season. In fact, the only player I can remember recently changing his number during the season is Gerald Laird, who went from No. 8 to...
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Hansa Rostock fans banned from match, buy tickets anyway
Many clubs are operating on an extremely tight budget these days and simply cannot afford any unexpected setbacks in revenue. Like, say, fans who get themselves banned for throwing bananas on the...
View ArticleVideo: Patrick Kane’s ridiculous, deke-tastic shootout winner
Like me, Patrick Kane was born in the 1980s, meaning he no doubt grew up on the hockey wisdom of The Mighty Ducks. The great philosopher Gordon Bombay taught that three is the appropriate number of...
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Freshman explodes for 55 points in just sixth varsity game
In California, a new star has emerged on the basketball court. In only his sixth varsity high school basketball game, Marcus LoVett Jr. scored an astounding 55 points (or 57 points, depending on which...
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The Toronto Raptors’ strange, 3D-styled baseline logo
It is true that, due to a pair of stupid at-home accidents, we have recently been under the sleepy influence of over-the-counter pain remedies. This meant that just about all of our preseason NBA...
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Making sense of Randy Cunneyworth’s French kiss-off
Randy Cunneyworth has been called a lot of things in his NHL career, but we imagine "unilingual Anglophone" was a new one. He was promoted by the Montreal Canadiens to replace Jacques Martin on an...
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Matt McGloin accepts ‘full responsibility’ for locker room fight that left...
University police still haven't weighed in on the locker room scuffle that sent starting quarterback Matt McGloin to the hospital Saturday at the hands of receiver Curtis Drake, but today McGloin...
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Fantasy Hockey: Parise, Malkin rule; Corey Crawford overthrown
Dobber checks in every Monday to force-feed you the latest fantasy hockey trends. The founder of DobberHockey.com and a columnist for The Hockey News website, he long ago immersed himself into this...
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Jimmie Johnson: Nobody to blame but myself for not winning
For awhile this year, it seemed that Cup No. 6 was an inevitability for Jimmie Johnson. After all, this guy was the Golden Boy of the Chase, the driver who could win in reverse at any of the Chase...
View ArticleVideo: This time, Tim Tebow won the first quarter
Tim Tebow is usually all about the fourth quarter. On Sunday, his heroics began and ended in the game's opening frame. As Doug Farrar noted on Sunday night, the New England Patriots put Tebow in an...
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