Last week we brought you the smh-worthy tale of the cosmic nut-punt that went down at a New Mexico State football…
Recently New Mexico State University President Garrey Carruthers made a generous offer: Students who attended the…
The Connally Cougars bludgeoned the Cedar Creek Eagles 91-15 under last Friday night's lights, pulling up just 12…
Natalie Elliott doesn't want to slap the vodka-and-crans out of party girls' hands. But she cautions against becoming the woman who blew a .341 BAC at the NIU-Iowa game. "All of my creepy, latent hero-worship for 'Vodka Samm' was ... eclipsed by the dense shadow that inevitably falls late at night over a day of… Read more
Right up there with Chicago Cubs 1908 World Series Champions among great historical-minded sports T-shirts is the…
The Marlins tonight won their 59th game of the season, over the Phillies, no thanks to this call at first by umpire…
In the 1,140 previous home games the 17-year veteran played for the Rockies, his only Major League club, Todd…
This is what it looks like when your hobbit-proportioned island nation — which on its best days is still little more…
Robert Andrew Powell lived in Ciudad Juárez and wrote a book about its soccer team when Juárez had the highest murder rate in the world. Now he's got a piece on Grantland, ripping into the FX crime drama set there: "The Bridge is to The Wire as Sharknado is to Jaws." [Grantland] Read more
Jamie Pollard, head left, who directs the athletics programs at Iowa State University, apparently decided today he'd …
Vin Scully, the figuratively and literally immortal Dodgers announcer, came out Tuesday night as an amiable hug…
In America, we call this sort of thing "trickeration." You see it chiefly when discombobulated baserunners get…
Jayson Stark's stat-intense (of course) sendoff for Mariano Rivera is chockablock with preposterous numbers: 652 saves, postseason .174/.212/.227, lots of zeros. Ogle responsibly. [ESPN.com] Read more
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Another day, another record for Mariano Rivera. He's the MLB career leader in saves, so naturally every one breaks…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune recalls nine fading baseball traditions. You might've guessed call card collecting and keeping score, sure. But do you remember pepper or the Baseball Bible? [Star-Tribune] Read more
A man whose doctor calls him his "jackass patient" continues a string of unlikely survival after lightning strikes him at a baseball game. Only the video does this character justice. [CBC.ca] Read more
Sometimes Internet scribes write some perfunctory story when all they want to do is post a fun picture, such this…
Patrick Hruby breaks down the "sports cable bubble" and approaches a unified theory of sports and media: "the unseen economic engine that increasingly powers the sports and television industries alike." [Sports on Earth] Read more