Archive for February, 2008

Hunter Pence Has Trouble With Sliding Glass Doors

Posted February 19, 2008, 12:14 pm by Jason McIntyre (21 Comments)

Remember Clint Barmes tripping on deer meat and breaking his collarbone? Or John Smoltz scalding himself while ironing a shirt – that he was wearing? Or the time Sammy Sosa threw out his back while sneezing and missed a game? Not nearly as bad, but still embarrassing: Hunter Pence (a guy who carried our fantasy [...]

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Source: Indiana’s Kelvin Sampson to Be Fired Friday

Posted February 13, 2008, 8:35 pm by Jason McIntyre (41 Comments)

According to a media source, the buzz in college basketball circles is that Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson will be fired Friday for violating telephone restrictions and then lying to both the school and the NCAA. Our source says that the school is looking to act quickly with Sampson because if he were to guide the [...]

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Sprewell’s Yacht is Gone – Is His Home Next?

Posted February 12, 2008, 12:15 pm by Jason McIntyre (52 Comments)

Forget about feeding his family – where the hell is the dude gonna live? He hasn’t made mortgage payments on his house in Wisconsin since September (Spree, don’t wait for that bailout, dog – it ain’t coming), and the bank is closing in. Yikes. Is Latree Sprewell gonna have to choke a bitch? Sprewell yacht [...]

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Charlie Weis Finally Chimes in on Dana Jacobson

Posted February 11, 2008, 12:29 pm by Jason McIntyre (49 Comments)

Happened while we were gone, but we’re going to leap at any opportunity to post this photo. Buried in a Chicago Sun-Times notebook Saturday: ”I was personally and professionally offended by her comments,” Weis said. ”If the situation were reversed, I would have been the lead story on ‘SportsCenter,’ and I would have been fired. [...]

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April Fool’s (Signing) Day!

Posted February 6, 2008, 11:18 am by Stephen Douglas (CRM!) (46 Comments)

Kevin Hart, a lineman from Nevada, gathered his entire school in the gymnasium to announce which college football program he’d be joining in the fall. Once all eyes and ears were on him, he announced his intention to attend the University of California. Too bad nobody from Cal had ever heard of the kid: (Rivals.com [...]

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Sharks, the I-Phone and Nick Saban: An Interview with Jeff Darlington of the Miami Herald

Posted February 1, 2008, 1:03 pm by Jason McIntyre (No Comments)

It being Super Bowl week and all, we thought perhaps this would be a nice time for our first two-interview week. Monday was Chuck Klosterman, and today we have sportswriter Jeff Darlington of the Miami Herald. If his name sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because he was all over the news in South Florida last year [...]

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