The U.S. Open tennis tournament always seems to suffer from a little bit of an inferiority complex. Die-hard tennis fans love the event to be sure, but the Open has a tendency to get lost sometimes amid the fervor of the football preseason hype machine and the baseball playoff push. Which is sad, for...

The woman pictured below is named Erika Prezerakou, and allegedly she’s a pole vaulter for the Greek National Team. We say “allegedly” because every time we try to read actual words about Ms. Prezerakou, our eyes drift back to the photos and we completely forget what we were reading...

Historians no doubt will determine the exact date that the WNBA officially died, but we’re laying even odds that Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 will be high on the list of possibilities. That’s because Friday was the day we learned that the WNBA Playoffs have been upstaged by Elmo, Big Bird and Oscar...

So here’s a simple question for new ESPN ombudsman Don Ohlmeyer that crossed my mind while subjecting myself to 30 seconds of a recent “Mike and Mike in the Morning” radio show: Why is it that, as a casual viewer of the Four-Letter Word’s pantheon of networks, I can name the favorite...

For the record, we here at the Poopdome didn’t tar and feather Louisville coach Rick Pitino a couple weeks ago when he came clean, so to speak, on his 5-year-old extramarital tryst the way many of our fellow bloggers did. Oh sure, we found that whole 9/11 name-dropping thing a little odd, but by...

Can you imagine the conversation that takes place when Serena Williams, who recently purchased a minority share of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, introduces herself to the players for the first time? “First of all, I just want all of you to know that, like you, I too am a world-class athlete....

As a recovering sports writer/editor who spent way, way, way too many years toiling in the ink-stained wretchedness of the newspaper industry, I now feel it’s my duty to let sports fans in on the dirty little secret of sports journalism. Ready? Here it is: Most sports journalists don’t give...

South African teen track sensation Caster Semenya manhandled the 800-meter women’s field to win the gold medal Wednesday at the world championships. The only problem? Well, no one seems quite sure what Semenya is. We know he/she’s fast. He/she burst on to the scene three weeks ago at the...

Amid the never-ending supply of hogwash reporting that’s surrounded the Brett Favre retirement saga this summer (and last), one could have hardly blamed Pat Kirwan if the longtime NFL analyst had faxed an “I told you so” statement to every newsroom in America on Tuesday. The Sirius...

Well, it’s official. The college football season hasn’t even kicked off yet, and we’re already sick of hearing about Florida, Texas and USC. Oh sure, those three teams likely will be outstanding. But hey, anything is possible. Tim Tebow could trip over a burning bush. Texas could get...

Louisville coach Rick Pitino stepped up to a row of microphones on Wednesday afternoon and tried his best to quell the storm that arose after the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal reported a day earlier that he had sex with Karen Cunagin Sypher in a local restaurant six years earlier, and later gave her...

We were thoroughly tickled recently when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced plans to bring their creamsicle uniforms out of mothballs for their home game against Green Bay on Nov. 8. It got us thinking about what other hideously bad uniforms we’d like to see recommissioned into active duty. Here’s...

There are five things we know about this weekend: 1) “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” is opening in theaters. 2) In all likelihood, it’s going to make a big ol’ pile of money. 3) In all likelihood, it’s going to be a big ol’ pile of crap. 4) We’ll probably end up...

We should’ve seen this one coming. If you caught Jim Rome’s radio interview with Sean Payton on Tuesday, you heard the Saints coach offer a quick thumbs-up to the status of Reggie Bush’s injured left knee before immediately emphasizing the team’s depth at the running back position....

So Tiger Woods apparently farted Sunday and Plaxico Burress got indicted Monday. Whoopity-freakin-doo. If you ask us, the big news in the sports blogosphere Monday was the explosion in coverage of Matthew Stafford’s smokin’ hot girlfriend/University of Georgia cheerleader Kelly Hall. The...

There was a time, not that long ago actually, when college football was dominated by men who looked like Hacksaw Jim Duggan, and never, ever needed a fake I.D. to get into a bar. It was the redshirt era – a time when fifth-year seniors ruled the gridiron and freshmen spent the majority of their...