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Morning Joe's Willie Geist on Isiah Thomas, Patrick Ewing, and the Necessity of End Zone Dancing

Remember this guy?​Anyone who watches Willie Geist on MSNBC's Morning Joe, or somehow manages to rise in the dark at 5:30 a.m. to watch Willie's own show, Way Too Early, knows that he's a pretty significant sports fan. So we thought we'd check in with Willie to get his take on the current stat ... More >>

Jockbeat: Does Golf, With Its Rotten History, Have Any Business Investigating Tiger Woods?

Since when did golfers need to be nice guys?​We can sum up all the nuttiness and overreaction to the Tiger Woods scandal with Hank Gola's column in Friday's New York Daily News. "We've heard condemnations from [Swedish golfer] Jesper Parnevik and Herm Edwards, support from Charles Barkley ... More >>

Our 5-Point Plan to Save Tiger Woods from Ambulances, Porn Stars, Etc.

​Inc. magazine has a few PR pros advise (in absentia) Tiger Woods on how to "fix his image." Their advice is either too general ("Go through the short-term trauma and be done with it") or, given the world in which we live, out of the question ("I would recommend that he be real and authentic b ... More >>

Crime Beat: NBA's Crooked Ref Won't Stop Blowing Whistle, Cites Iverson Fix

Just days before yet another replay of its major betting scandal, NBA officials — the league's executives, not the refs — must be running like mad up and down the hallways of their Fifth Avenue headquarters. Crooked ref Tim Donaghy has revealed what he says was a concerted effort to g ... More >>

Jockbeat: Is Drew Brees Having the Best QB Year Ever?

​With five games to go in the season, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has already locked the league's MVP award. But how good is he doing compared to other great passers over the last 20 years? Well, two seasons ago the New England Patriots had the most prolific offense in NFL histo ... More >>

Our Front Pages: Granny Mugger, Tiger Woods Slammed; War on Christmas Update

The guy who mugged a 101-year-old and other elderly victims has been sentenced to 75 years in prison. As he is 47, on even the most forgiving terms of parole, he can only get out when he is of an age to be thus victimized himself. The humiliation of Tiger Woods proceeds with withering scorn from ... More >>

Jockbeat: Will Tiger Woods Bounce Back After This Car Crash and Affair Nonsense? Are You Kidding?

​Surfing the web for the best post-Tiger Woods car crash humor, we have to go with Craig Ferguson in his Monday monologue: "Economists are saying that so far holiday sales are down, but that doesn't figure in the diamond ring that Tiger Woods is going to have to buy his wife. "Anyway, it do ... More >>

Rachel Uchitel Story Loses Sex, Gains 9/11, Outrage

​Our esteemed colleague Ward Harkavy is correct that there are no authoritative accounts of sex between Rachel Uchitel and Tiger Woods at this writing, under the Post headline or anywhere else. Happily for journalists, there is a 9/11 angle. Uchitel lost her fiance, banker Andy O'Grady, in the ... More >>

Tiger Woods Will Receive Traffic Ticket, Thousands of Stories About New Alleged Affair

​The Florida Highway Patrol has announced its intention to cite Tiger Woods for reckless driving in the incident last week that damaged a tree, a fire hydrant, Wood's car, and Woods. The fine is expected to be $164. FHP will not press criminal charges. One Jaimee Grubbs has found this an opp ... More >>

Non-Tiger-Woods Sports Offense News: Serena Fined, BYU QB Clarifies Abuse Targets

​Tiger Woods is not the only athlete whose unfortunate behavior is in the news today. Serena Williams has received her penalty from the Grand Slam administration for threatening to shove her balls down a line judge's throat at her September U.S. Open debacle: an $82,000 fine, and probation t ... More >>

Oh, All Right, We Give: Tiger Woods Affair Mistress Celebrity Nude Scandal

​"Tiger Woods having an alleged affair?" asks the Examiner. OK, we'll be the first to say it. Tiger Woods is having an alleged affair! But is he having an actual affair? Questions remain. The Orange County Register has "Tiger Woods Mistress Pictures & Joe Namath's Dog," presumably not in the s ... More >>

Jockbeat: The Bad Call of the Night in the Game of the Year

​"A lot of folks who went to bed early tonight are going to wake up awfully surprised tomorrow morning when they see this score," said NBC color man Chris Collinsworth at the finish of last night's astonishing 35-34 victory by the Indianapolis Colts over the New England Patriots. According to ... More >>

Jockbeat: Why This Year with the Knicks Will Be Worse Than the Isiah Era

​ In a way, for Knicks fans this is worse than the Isiah era. You know, in the way watching a train wreck is a lot more interesting than watching paint dry. At least in the bad old days, there was drama, larger-than life personalities and some good basketball players, albeit gone horribly w ... More >>

Bill Simmons, Court Jester

The ESPN.com columnist loves Jordan and Bird, not so fond of  'fake cans'

Crazy Yankee Chick: Wait, so how is this anything like the 2004 ALCS?

​The 2009 ALCS and 2004 ALCS are practically mirror images of each other. Indistinguishable. Talk about carbon copies! I haven't seen this level of uncanny similarity since watching Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes in White Men Can't Jump. Yeah, that's about how alike these two series ar ... More >>

Jockbeat: A-Rod Edging Past Mr. October

​"You want a comparison?" writes Mike Lupica in today's Daily News about Alex Rodriguez's 2009 postseason. "All of a sudden he is the Yankee version of Ryan Howard." Wrong comparison, Mike. What Alex Rodriguez has been in the postseason, from the very beginning, is Reggie Jackson. Here are th ... More >>

Jockbeat: Yankees' MVP? Allen Barra Ranks Jeter Fifth

With all the talk of Derek Jeter as the possible MVP winner for 2009, an important question has been overlooked: who is the Yankees MVP? Bill Madden inadvertently weighed in on the issue last Sunday with a piece headlined "Ring In The Old -- Yanks rediscover formula for success: more Jeter, less A ... More >>

Giants, Jets Marketing Season Begins This Week

​The NFL season kicks off, as they say, on Thursday, ushering in a new wave of sports marketing. Local teams are on top of it! The Jets today announce a partnership with High Point Auto Insurance, through which season-ticket holders can get discounts on car insurance. "As a season ticket hol ... More >>

Jockbeat: Judge says Feds Improperly Obtained Steroid Data, Just As We've Been Saying All Along

​   Though it was related to page 70 in this morning's Daily News, Wednesday's decision by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is going to have a huge impact on future reporting of performance enhancing drugs.   Essentially the 9-2 vote means that the federal agents who sei ... More >>

Jockbeat: Maybe Favre's New Gig is Really About the Merch

Don't know if you've heard the story, but they're saying that if you're traveling down Nicaragua way, you can see bunches of kids wearing "21-0" shirts - those were the ones printed up for New England fans before the 2008 Super Bowl - and Brett Favre Jets jerseys. That, apparently, is one of the pla ... More >>

Jockbeat: How About Teixeira for MVP?

Everybody knows that Albert Pujols is the favorite to win the 2009 National League Most Valuable Player award, but who in the American League? We took an informal poll this week of newspaper and online writers, and so far a consensus seems to be building that Minnesota catcher Joe Mauer is the most ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Mildly Zinged by Andy Samberg in I Love You, Man DVD

​Professional cycling goes on even after the Tour de France, but you'd never know if if all you did was follow Lance Armstrong. Even before his comeback, he rarely took part in late-season events after the Tour was finished. So there's little news to report about what Armstrong is up to these days ... More >>

This is the Kind of Morning It's Been: Tiger Woods Farts

A video of Tiger Woods allegedly farting on the 18th hole of the Buick Open -- or, as breaking news site Uploaded Channel puts it, "Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods farts, Tiger Woods fart video, Tiger fart, Tiger Farts, Buick open fart, Buick open" -- has been burning up the internet. But now the video ... More >>

Jockbeat: Lupica's Precious Sox Juicing? He Blames the Union, Naturally

​Since Selena Roberts's February 7 Sports Illustrated story broke the news that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003, we've maintained that there's no mystery as to how and why these names are being revealed:  the federal agents who seized the 2003 test samples and the results ... More >>

Jockbeat: What Is It with the New York Times and the Yankees?

​Every few weeks, in this age of big-money, drug-riddled sports, comes a piece that is so mind-numbing irresponsible that it takes a while to know how to properly respond to it. Such a review ran in the July 26 New York Times Book Review section. The piece was a review of three books: A- ... More >>

No, Yanks, This Doesn't Mean You Get a Do-Over

​Lawyers have leaked that Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, stars of the Red Sox teams that won the World Series in 2004 and 2007, tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, the first year Major League Baseball tested for steroids. Other previously-revealed members of that class of ... More >>

Jockbeat: Another Roger Clemens Bait-and-Switch in the Daily News

Last Thursday the Daily News' back cover told us in huge letters that the "Heat Is On" Roger Clemens and "Pressure on Rocket grows as grand jury subpoenas Houston gym owner, others." This was the latest "Daily News I-Team Exclusive" from Michael O'Keeffe, Christian Red, Teri Thompson, and Natha ... More >>

Jockbeat: Why is Jerry Crowe Such an Asshole?

First off, anything written about St. Louis Cardinals' first baseman Albert Pujols should begin with a sentence along the lines of "He's the greatest player in the game today, and the best player so far in the 20th century. And, probably, one of the 20 greatest players of all time." He didn't do ... More >>

From the Voice Archives: Scott Poulson-Bryant Reviews the Michael Jackson/Michael Jordon Collision That is "Jam"

In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Below, Scott Poulson-Bryant's review of the Michael Jackson/Michael Jordan convergence that was the video for "Jam," first published in August, 1992. Be Like Mike By Scott Poulson-Bryant August 4, 1992 You've been ruminating on Black Beaut ... More >>

Vecsey Gives Lance Armstrong a Nice Trim

UPDATE: Armstrong responds to the controversy. See end of post.George Vecsey has an interesting column today about something that apparently has the French press in a tizzy: when Lance Armstrong was surprised last month by a French cycling official who showed up and asked for samples for a drug test ... More >>

Tech Dreck: iPhone Does Homework, AT&T Plays Big Brother, Twitter Celebs Fake It

"Parents have lost the war over buying cellphones for their children," says Saul Hansell in the Times. He must be talking about those parents, overrepresented in the Times' demographic, whose children can battle for the right to own expensive electronic geegaws without getting smacked. Hansell says ... More >>

Jockbeat: The NFL's Invisible Steroid Problem

It isn't so much that the use of steroids and performance enhancing drugs in the NFL gets less attention than it does in baseball -- it's more like it's invisible.  On Wednesday, the Jets announced they had signed Larry Izzo, three-time Pro Bowl linebacker and special teams player for the New E ... More >>

The Absurdly Low Price of Lance's Recovered Bike

The New York Post this morning -- and others, including the Associated Press -- are reporting that Lance Armstrong's time trial bike, which was stolen after the Tour of California prologue in Sacramento, was recovered when a man, not the thief, turned it in to Sacto cops.The bike, the story says, wa ... More >>

Jockbeat: The Answer to Favre and Manning? Kurt Warner.

Jockbeat: Giants Choke? Don't Fall For That Football Fantasy

Angelina Jolie Suffers For Us All in Changeling; Zinedine Zidane Watches a Good Game in A 21st Century Portrait

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Animated-Gif Flyer of the Year, So Far: The Eskalators' Subway Show

Shaq to Kobe: "Tell Me How My Ass Tastes"

The Legend of Tiger Woods Grows

Tiger Woods' Big Victory at the U.S. Open and Willie Randolph's Sudden Exit

The Super Bowl Champion New York Giants Visit the White House

The Pedro Martinez Cockfighting Video

TABLOIDED: Super Tuesday Hangover

John Sayles Talks Baseball, the Deep South, and Honeydripper

Kanye West and Lil Wayne: Together At Last

Chowhound on Underrated Restaurants

The Talented Mr. Reyes

Knicks Fight: Half-Truths and Consequences

French Basketball Players Pretend To Be Rappers