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Bob Costas, Charles Barkley and John McEnroe Discuss Gun Control on “Costas Tonight” (Video)
On Sunday night, venerable NBC sportscaster Bob Costas touched off a firestorm of criticism when he used his weekly one-minute commentary during halftime of Sunday Night Football to bring up the hot-button issue of gun control. Obviously, this was a response to the horrible murder-suicide by Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher on Saturday. At [...]
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11 Popular Pop Songs That Name-Check Athletes
Sports and music go together like chocolate and peanut butter. Both professions garner notoriety, breed a culture of financial indiscretion, and both are just kind of awesome. So it’s no wonder that the two bleed together, like when LeBron James refused to acknowledge a beef with DeShawn Stevenson, saying that would be like “Jay-Z getting [...]
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9 Biggest Sports Meltdowns, Temper Tantrums, and Blowups
Emotions run sky-high in sports, so it’s not hard to scroll through hundreds of instances of mouthing off and water cooler-tossing. Sometimes these tirades are scathing beratings, hilarious acts of violence against inanimate objects, and, at their worst, episodes of “When Animals Attack.” I chose a smattering of all three types because variety is the [...]
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9 Biggest Crybabies in Sports
Allow me to clarify this title. It’s not about actually who actually cry (as we covered last week), but rather about men who simply won’t stop whining. People that won’t stop complaining about calls, bitch to the media about clubhouse affairs, etc. They are among the most destructive and obnoxious types of personalities, so we’ve [...]
