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• After All the Shame, Pitino Should Resign
• By Jay Mariotti 7/28/2010 10:53 PM ET
• • 40 Comments
• For a moment there, you had to laugh out loud. Rick Pitino sat in a crowded courtroom Wednesday and testified that this Karen Cunagin Sypher woman whispered to him, unsnapped his pants in a booth at ... More »
• T.O. and Ochocinco: Match Made in Hell
• By Jay Mariotti 7/28/2010 1:44 AM ET
• • 96 Comments
• Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten come to mind. Ren and Stimpy, too. Otherwise, I can't think of a more nonsensical and dangerous convergence of megalomania than the pairing of Terrell Owens and Chad ... More »
• Lane Kiffin Won't Last Long at Scrubbed-Up USC
• By Jay Mariotti 7/27/2010 12:43 AM ET
• • 29 Comments
• LOS ANGELES -- The Bart Simpson analogy works. Or if you're older than 50, try Eddie Haskell, the smart ass from "Leave it to Beaver." As the most loathed person in football, Lane Kiffin is the sort ... More »
• Lance Armstrong Rides Into the Darkness at the Tour de France
• By Jay Mariotti 7/25/2010 9:02 PM ET
• • 152 Comments
• PARIS -- To the end, the bitter and cryptic end, there was fuss and controversy, a cause celebre. Maybe it wasn't the time and place for a tribute to cancer patients worldwide, but as a survivor ... More »
• No Etiquette Breach for New King of Tour
• By Jay Mariotti 7/24/2010 4:04 PM ET
• • 13 Comments
• PARIS -- One day, his billowing resume is being celebrated by the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy. The next, he is taking pictures on the podium with Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise, who are using the ... More »
• If World Cup Is Epic, Why Does It Have So Many Issues?
• By Jay Mariotti 7/23/2010 3:23 PM ET
• • 3 Comments
• PARIS -- Here in the epicenter of soccer dysfunction, we have yet another ghastly headline involving those chaotic French footballers. Franck Ribery didn't manage a goal during the World Cup, but ... More »
• Armstrong Would Be Biggest Fraud of All
• By Jay Mariotti 7/22/2010 1:10 AM ET
• • 588 Comments
• PARIS -- In the ultimate drubbing of an embattled man, they are ridiculing him as a wimpy has-been, a ceremonial rider, a hapless greeter who shakes hands and kisses babies, just another spectator ... More »
• St. Andrews: Chilling in Many Ways
• By Jay Mariotti 7/20/2010 9:50 AM ET
• • 0 Comments
• ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- On the morning after the Open Championship, which is the only Open they acknowledge in the land of gorse and grouse, you almost can imagine the game of golf centuries ago, ... More »
• As Big Names Stumble, Louie Louie Keeps Cool
• By Jay Mariotti 7/18/2010 8:30 PM ET
• • 40 Comments
• ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- This was as free and easy as the bagpiper playing behind the 18th green, more peaceful than the farm animals grazing on the nearby hills. Not to psychoanalyze what makes a ... More »
• Time to Ignore Tiger, Focus on Real Golfers
• By Jay Mariotti 7/17/2010 8:54 PM ET
• • 260 Comments
• ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- Out along the ropes on the 14th hole, grown adults still were running and jostling for viewing space Saturday, even as Tiger Woods continued to shrink in relevance and golfing ... More »
• As Winds Bury Woods, Vuvuzela Fever Returns
• By Jay Mariotti 7/16/2010 7:15 PM ET
• • 55 Comments
• ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- My great concern this weekend, beyond a possible Lochness Monster sighting in the North Sea, is that a new swarm of vuvuzelas will descend upon the Old Course. Seems a ... More »
• Old Course Soothes Woes of Tiger, Daly
• By Jay Mariotti 7/16/2010 6:15 AM ET
• • 20 Comments
• ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- A man can escape his personal hell, if only briefly, when he's whisked through the Kingdom of Fife on the left-hand side of a two-lane road, past sheep and ancient pubs that ... More »
• Like Baseball Itself, All-Star Game Fading
• By Jay Mariotti 7/15/2010 11:04 AM ET
• • 5 Comments
• ANAHEIM, Calif. -- My faith in the American attention span has been restored, thank you. To the shock of perhaps only the raging, kind-of-creepy Rally Monkey, the All-Star Game at Angel Stadium was ... More »
• Big, Blustery Boss Was Best of Owners
• By Jay Mariotti 7/14/2010 12:40 AM ET
• • 13 Comments
• if(typeof ... More »
• FanHouse TV: Jay Mariotti Remembers George Steinbrenner
• By FanHouse TV 7/13/2010 6:40 PM ET
• • 0 Comments
• Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died Tuesday morning from a heart attack. FanHouse TV's Jay Mariotti looks back at what made Steinbrenner one of the most colorful characters in sports history. ... More »
• Miami Scheme Machine? NBA Should Probe Heat
• By Jay Mariotti 7/12/2010 10:56 PM ET
• • 33 Comments
• Not to interrupt the Dance Dance Revolution on South Beach, of course. Or further aggravate the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has the laugh-out-loud gall to say LeBron James -- still on track to be ... More »
• How Will LeBron, Miami Handle the Heat?
• By Jay Mariotti 7/11/2010 1:00 PM ET
• • 179 Comments
• If you haven't noticed, America needs villains and jerks in daily life, pariahs to despise and pummel in the comments sections of social media. It apparently makes people feel better to vent, and now, ... More »
• Be Grateful Cliff Lee Is Anywhere but NY
• By Jay Mariotti 7/10/2010 10:54 AM ET
• • 19 Comments
• For now, we'll just forget that the Texas Rangers, a team mired in bankruptcy court and currently controlled by Major League Baseball, have no business absorbing $1.5 million of Cliff Lee's salary. ... More »
• LeBron Better Win Titles as Jilted Cleveland Weeps
• By Jay Mariotti 7/09/2010 12:20 AM ET
• • 175 Comments
• And so ends the most exhilarating -- and, at the same time, disgusting -- development in the annals of sports free agency. LeBron James had the showmanship and business audacity to commandeer a ... More »
• Heat Is on LeBron, No Matter What Choice He Makes
• By Jay Mariotti 7/07/2010 7:35 PM ET
• • 189 Comments
• So now we look to LeBron James, currently in makeup before his narcissistic one-hour reality show, for the finishing blow on NBA Star Wars. Are we watching the basketball equivalent of a revolution, ... More »
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