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Q&A with Chris Ballard of Sports Illustrated

Posted November 24, 2009, 3:20 pm by Jason McIntyre (No Comments)

This week’s interview subject is Sports Illustrated NBA writer Chris Ballard, an acclaimed author, athlete, and reporter. For his latest book, The Art of a Beautiful Game: The Thinking Fan’s Tour of the NBA, a few basketball scribes got together to play pick-up hoops, which is where this photo is from. After the jump: Which [...]

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Alicia Sacramone and Brady Quinn Are Dating

Posted November 24, 2009, 9:30 am by Jason McIntyre (76 Comments)

Alicia Sacramone and Brady Quinn? The gymnast and the quarterback? The “Golden Girl” and the one-time “Golden Boy?” While Sacramone and Quinn seem like an unlikely coupling, she confirmed the relationship in an interview with a gymnastics website:

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Carrie Prejean and Kyle Boller Are Dating

Posted November 23, 2009, 8:45 am by Jason McIntyre (33 Comments)

Carrie Prejean and Kyle Boller? That’s what Radar claims. Prejean, if you’ve been in a coma all year, was Miss California, then the runner-up for Miss USA, and has been involved in all sorts of wacky, lame controversies (breast implants, same-sex marriage, sex tape, etc) that have dominated the headlines. Kyle Boller is a horrible [...]

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Is Bill Simmons Serving an ESPN-Imposed 2-Week Suspension From Twitter? [UPDATE]

Posted November 20, 2009, 10:37 am by Jason McIntyre (82 Comments)

Bill Simmons had a book signing in Beaverton, Oregon last night, and a reader who attended wrote in that he “overheard” ESPN’s Sports Guy telling a fan that he was “suspended from tweeting for two weeks” and that all he was allowed to tweet about was his book tour. We went to the usually-forthcoming Simmons [...]

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NFL Football Wives: Plenty of Jennifer Walcott and Not Enough October Gonzalez

Posted November 19, 2009, 4:40 pm by Jason McIntyre (48 Comments)

E! aired its second installment of athlete wives last night (sorry for the low picture quality; we don’t have E! in high-def). It featured plenty of playmate Jennifer Walcott, the fiancee of former safety Adam Archuleta. The first 15 minutes of the show were dedicated to Walcott, who took the show to a lingerie store [...]

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Derek Jeter and Minka Kelly Swimming in St. Barts

Posted November 19, 2009, 6:36 am by Jason McIntyre (36 Comments)

Derek Jeter and Minka Kelly are in St. Barts, frolicking in the transparent blue water and presumably sipping drinks with tiny umbrellas in them. It appears as if, in the photo on the right, Jeter is lobbying the Friday Night Lights star to get a dog. [NY Post; Previously here and here]

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Mark Mangino Crossed the Line … or Did He?

Posted November 18, 2009, 12:27 pm by Jason McIntyre (83 Comments)

Mark Mangino has done more for Kansas football in 7+ seasons than anyone else in the last 60 years. From 1947-2002, the program went to eight bowl games, going 3-5. Since 2002, Mangino has been to four bowl games, and has gone 3-1. He’s responsible for the program’s first Top 10 finish [Ed. Computers had [...]

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