Even Yale Lies

The Ivy League was founded on a bunch of hoity-toity ideals that include not giving out athletic scholarships and not allowing its football champion to play in the Division I-AA (aka FCS) playoffs.

Turns out the Ivies are just as morally challenged as the rest of college football, though that probably shouldn’t come as a surprise in the same year Joe Paterno went from Last Pure Man in Sport to pariah.

Yale quarterback Patrick Witt made news this November when he was faced with a tough decision: head over to England to interview for the Rhodes Scholarship, or play against Harvard in “The Game,” a rivalry that dates back to 1875. In a move certain to win over Yale alums everywhere, he chose The Game.

As it turns out, it’s no coincidence Witt rhymes with shit, because he’s full of it.

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Texas Gives Mack Brown Extension Through 2020

The University of Texas hasn’t done so well in football over the past two seasons. The Longhorns have gone 13-12 in that span including a 6-11 record in the Big 12. After back-to-back disappointing seasons some believed long-time head coach Mack Brown’s job could be in trouble.

Clearly that’s not the case.

On Thursday the University’s Board of Regents agreed to extend Brown’s contract by four years, which ensures he will be leading the program through 2020. Brown, who makes $5.2 million a year, won’t get any more money out of the extension, but will continue to see annual raises of $100,000 per the stipulations of his current deal.

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Wayne Rooney Is Drumming With The Enemy

With plenty of extra cash to throw around, Wayne Rooney has spent plenty on cars, homes and a new hairline. Now, it looks like the Manchester United forward is setting his sights on music memorabilia.

You’d think a Scouser like Rooney would stay true to his Liverpudlian roots and go for John Lennon’s notebook or Ringo Starr’s mustache.

Nope.

Tony McCarroll, Oasis’ drummer up until 1995, is auctioning off the drum set used in the recording of the band’s multi-platinum “Definitely Maybe.” And apparently, Rooney wants it.

It’s ironic that Rooney would buy Oasis collectibles considering the hatred Liam and Noel Gallagher have for all things United. The volatile brothers are staunch Manchester City supporters, so perhaps McCarroll has an axe to grind for managing just under $1 million in a lawsuit over royalties.

“I’m not in it for the money.”

Sure you’re not, Tony.

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Boston Red Sox Make Offers To Jackson, Oswalt

The Boston Red Sox have been looking for starting rotation help all offseason and now they’ve started to make moves to add some guys there.

The Red Sox have now made offers to both Edwin Jackson and Roy Oswalt, the two best starters left on the free agent market. After moving an anchor of a contract in Marco Scutaro to Colorado, the Red Sox have now moved quickly in an attempt to strengthen their rotation.

The first move Boston made was to make an offer to Oswalt, who has yet to give any indication where he actually wants to play next season. The fact the veteran righty didn’t accept the offer right away, may be why the Red Sox moved immediately to offer a contract to Jackson.

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Nothing Like A Good Catfight Down Under

Maria Sharapova grunts. It happens.

It’s sad that such an unattractive sound comes from such an attractive creature. But it could be worse. She could be Monica Seles. So take the bad with the good.

Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanksa, who lost to another grunter Victoria Azarenka in Tuesday’s quarterfinals of the Australian Open, called Sharapova’s grunting “annoying” and said the WTA Tour should do something about it.

“About Maria, what can I say? For sure that is pretty annoying and and it’s just too loud…I don’t think it’s necessary to scream that loud. So if (the WTA Tour) want to do something, then why not?”

After Sharapova’s quarterfinal triumph over Ekaterina Makarova, she was asked about Radwanska’s comments about her grunting. Sharapova’s response: “Isn’t she back in Poland already?”

Catfight. C-C-C-C-C-Catfight.

Kitty’s got claws.

Hubby-to-be Sasha Vujacic sits in the corner thinking: “You think that’s bad, see what happens when you leave the toilet seat up.”

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Giants, Tim Lincecum Agree to Big New Deal

The San Francisco Giants have avoided arbitration with ace righty Tim Lincecum by agreeing to a contract with him. The 27-year-old two-time National League Cy Young Award winner’s new deal is worth $40.5 million over two years.

The Giants gave Lincecum a $500,000 signing bonus, and the contract includes a salary of $18 million for 2012 and $22 million for 2013. The Washington product still has to pass a physical, but the deal should be officially announced next week.

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Former Professional Wrestler Gets 32 Years For “HIV Assault”

A former professional wrestler has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for having sex with women without telling them he had tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

The 29-year-old Andre Davis – who wrestled under the names Gangsta of Love and Sweet Sexy Sensation – was sentenced on 14 counts of felonious assault on Monday in Cincinnati, after being convicted in November. Prosecutors had claimed that Davis violated state law by not telling a dozen sex partners about his HIV-positive status or lying to them about it.

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Boners Burn Harbaugh Brothers

On Sept. 23, 1908 Fred Merkle became the first athlete to achieve national infamy for a gaffe that ultimately cost his team a shot at a championship.

Merkle’s Boner, as they called it back then, has been joined by dozens of choke-jobs in the century following — two of which came on Sunday at the expense of the Harbaugh brothers as they coached on opposite coasts. While neither John nor Jim was responsible for the “boners” that cost their teams a shot at the Super Bowl, they’ll undoubtedly be feeling the pain from them all offseason. Er, so to speak.

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Ryan Braun’s Appeal Of Positive Drug Test Begins

Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun won the National League MVP in 2011 after a phenomenal season. Then, in early December it was reported that he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs following a drug test administered during the playoffs.

Since news of his positive test was made public, Braun has professed his innocence through his spokespeople. Well, now the 28-year-old’s appeal of his 50-game suspension for that positive test is underway and he finally has a chance to present his side of the story.

Braun’s test originally raised red flags because of the presence of elevated levels of testosterone. Upon further examination that testosterone turned out to be synthetic. That’s a really bad sign for Braun, considering how difficult it is to appeal a Major League Baseball suspension. In fact, a baseball arbitrator has never ordered a suspension overturned as the result of a grievance hearing.

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Bend It Like Shunsuke

OK, I think we can all agree that Japanese game shows can provide us with hours upon hours of entertainment. And while former Celtic midfield maestro Shunsuke Nakamura didn’t get hit in the junk, he probably wouldn’t have a problem kicking a ball into your trunk. OK, OK, that was forced.

Here’s a clip all the way from Japan showing Nakamura kicking a soccer ball into a window of a moving bus. And unlike David Beckham’s Pepsi commercial, we’ve got no CGI here.

His family was hooked up to a generator so if he missed, their privates would have been electrocuted. OK, maybe not, but would you be surprised if they had been?

#ThanksForWipeout

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