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Witness: The best spring training photo of the year so far
Feb 24, 2012, 4:33 PM EST
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The Orioles’ Buck Showalter signs autographs for three fans. It’s a long buggy ride from Pennsylvania to Florida and back, but now it’s worth it.
Sadly, however, they think this is Boog Powell.
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Ben & Jerry’s unleashes ‘Taste the Lin-Sanity’ ice cream (formerly with fortune cookie pieces)
Feb 24, 2012, 3:41 PM EST
Yep, you read that correctly. Vermont-based Ben & Jerry’s rolled out their new, limited-release flavor, “Taste the Lin-Sanity”, at its Harvard Square shop recently … and among its ingredients were fortune cookie pieces. After a bit of a “backlash” over this, the company replaced the fortune cookies with waffle cone cookies — although they say…
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Reason Pres. Obama skipped the Knicks-Heat game? $30,000-a-person fundraiser at Vince Carter’s house
Feb 24, 2012, 2:39 PM EST
As we recall from Thursday, a rumor quickly spread that President Obama would attend the Knicks-Heat game in Miami — a rumor that was quashed by White House press spokesman Jay Carney. Obama wouldn’t attend, said Carney, because he had “too much on his plate.” And we now know the cost of that plate: $30,000.…
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Among my favorite phrases ever is “shoe melee.” And there was a good, old-fashioned one on Thursday night in Orlando, as riot police, cops on horseback and at least one helicopter had to disperse a crowd that rushed a Foot Locker store prior to a scheduled Nike shoe release. The event featured the new Nike…
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Pat Knight’s epic post-game rant: calls own players ‘tin men with no heart … they’ll be homeless, without a job’
Feb 24, 2012, 12:37 PM EST
I suppose it’s only fitting that on the 27th anniversary of Bobby Knight’s infamous chair-throwing incident at Indiana, his son would launch a controversial missile of his own. In this case it was a verbal rant by Pat Knight against his own Lamar basketball team: or specifically, his seniors. This has the Knight name stamped…
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Taiwanese ‘Jeremy Lin, the Early Years’ animation has monkeys, electric Jesus and a Chinese junk (video)
Feb 24, 2012, 11:50 AM EST
Since Jeremy Lin’s family is from Taiwan, you had to know that Next Media Animation — which is based there — would roll out something special (and some would say borderline racist) for him. Here’s “Jeremy Lin: the Early Years”, which features not only living room monkeys and a lighting-wielding Jesus Christ, but also a…
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Youth baseball coach suspended for racist Facebook rant on Whitney Houston
Feb 24, 2012, 11:15 AM EST
Another day, another social media casualty. So what’s more odd: that a youth baseball president would find it necessary to post a racist slur about Whitney Houston on his personal Facebook page, or that said slur would be found by a parent, reposted on the league’s Facebook page, and become the center of controversy? It…
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Alternate headline: Nope, that’s not it — mine’s a Titleist. Forgive me if you’ve seen this already, but it’s just coming to my attention: In the third round of the Northern Trust Open on Saturday, Phil Mickelson’s tee shot on 15 ended up in someone’s shorts. The best part is that Phil had to…
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Craig James: Being gay ‘is a choice … they are going to have to answer to the Lord’
Feb 24, 2012, 9:48 AM EST
As you know, ESPN football analyst and former Patriots RB Craig James is running for the U.S. Senate out of Texas — which leads to my favorite political polling data paragraph of the month so far: James, who formally launched his campaign last week, draws 4 percent support. The former SMU Mustang and New England…
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Morning Mail: Man honors dead son by tossing a salmon onto the ice at Canucks game
Feb 24, 2012, 9:00 AM EST
Roger Paquette lost his son, Garrett, in a tragic ATV accident in November — so the Vancouver Island resident decided to honor him the way you or I would. By throwing a large salmon onto the ice at a Canucks game. According to the Nanaimo Daily News, Garrett had planned just such a stunt during…
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Sorry … that rumor about Pres. Obama attending the Knicks-Heat game tonight isn’t true
Feb 23, 2012, 6:58 PM EST
Tweet of the day so far: @pourmecoffee If Jeremy Lin torches Lebron tonight, Twitter will need to reallocate dedicated Justin Bieber servers to handle the load. Yep. They’d also have to rename the process for measuring earthquakes the Linchter Scale. Tipoff is in about 30 minutes, and I’d say that if you purchased a ticket…
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QB Angela Rypien to be featured in new Lingerie Football League reality show
Feb 23, 2012, 2:47 PM EST
I’ve always thought that the Lingerie Football League was fertile ground for a reality show — in fact, they should probably not broadcast games at all, and make the entire thing a reality show. But now they’ve got one, as we learn from Fox Sports that an LFL reality show is on the way. It’ll…
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Rick’s Cafe: TebowLinpocalypse? Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow have been ‘in contact,’ are apparently pals
Feb 23, 2012, 12:42 PM EST
Despite his best efforts and all the Tebowing that’s been going on, Tim Tebow has not been able to stop evil in the world (example: not one, but two Jersey Shore) spin-offs. Likewise, Jeremy Lin has been unable to really change the culture for the better, despite Linsanity. But what if the two were working…
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Until now I didn’t think it was possible to knock yourself out in a fight. It happened to Dan Lariviere during his bout with Jeremie Capony at Empire Fight League 4 in Montreal on Saturday, and my only question is, exactly how did he do this? He landed on his back after the failed kick,…
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Noticing that he’s been on two consecutive Sports Illustrated covers, Jeremy Lin apparently feels that two apartments are in order. So the New York Knicks’ wunderkind has rented a place in the W Hotel in Manhattan’s Financial District, which is right next to Ground Zero. According to the Associated Press, the apartment is listed at…
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Jimmer Fredette takes brother to woodshed over Twitter slam of coach
Feb 23, 2012, 10:10 AM EST
Another day, another social media casualty. This time it’s T.J. Fredette, brother of Sacramento Kings guard Jimmer, who was caght thinking with his thumbs instead of his brain. On Tuesday night following the Kings’ loss to the Heat, T.J. slammed Kings coach Keith Smart for not playing Jimmer enough … resulting in the predictable amount…
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Excuse me for veering away from sports for a moment, but you’ll have to admit, that’s one big freaking lobster. This baby is 27 pounds, to be exact … about three pounds shy of being a horror movie. It was hauled in by a fishing trawler in West Boothbay Harbor in Maine and brought to…
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Morning Mail: ESPN editor who was fired for Jeremy Lin headline speaks out on Twitter
Feb 23, 2012, 9:00 AM EST
Anthony Federico is the editor who was fired by ESPN for writing a racially insensitive headline in reference to Jeremy Lin last week. You recall of course the “a chink in the armor” headline that went out on ESPN mobile following New York’s loss to the Hornets. It caused quite the kerfuffle. After an initial…
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It’s not a real Broadway production, it’s not really Jeremy Lin … even his hometown of Palo Alto, Calif., is fake. But it is glorious. He shoots he scores, it’s Jeremy … Written and produced by a musician named Kevin Yee. From his Facebook page: An epic musical about the (fictional?) teenaged life of Jeremy…
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Dana White and Floyd Mayweather, not BFF’s. This we know. So it should come as no surprise that White pounced on Mayweather’s recent tweets about Jeremy Lin. In an interview with Fuel TV on Tuesday, White called Mayweather a racist. No, he didn’t say that Mayweather expressed opinions that may be racist … he out…
