Roundup: Rick Pitino Wants to Save Horse Racing, Fisherman Reel in 220-Pound Catfish & the Pittsburgh Pirates Might Be For Real
By Jason McIntyre
Cam Newton, good people. [Charlotte Observer]
Rick Pitino’s plan to save horse racing. [Business Review]
The Pittsburgh Pirates are going to enter August in 1st place for the first time since 1992. Is the postseason drought going to end? [Tribune]
The Cleveland Browns reboot, again. It’ll be more of the same, probably. [The MMQB]
The White Sox traded Jake Peavy to the Red Sox. [Herald]
Turner and ESPN didn’t even make a play to keep NASCAR. NBC overpaid, big-time. [Sports Business Journal]
Dabo Swinney’s reasons for not compensating athletes beyond a scholarship are, in a word, stupid. [Post & Courier]
Howard Stern, nice job: ““He could have 12 girls talking to him, beating off 15 times a day, and that wouldn’t be enough.” [Post]
“A North Carolina judge is ordering a state agency to pay nearly $75,000 in legal fees to an animal rights group trying to stop a community from using a live possum in its New Year’s Eve celebration.” [Citizen Times]
Bucky Brooks loves to take wacky angles like this – is Marqise Lee the best player in college football? [NFL.com]
So EJ Manuel might be the starter this year in Buffalo. [Yahoo Sports]
If your husband sent pictures of his penis to women, would you stand by his side?
Cool video of Denzel Washington saying “I guarantee” in movies. [via Hot Clicks]
Watch an elephant run away from some rabid dogs. [via Adam]
When former USC basketball player Davon Jefferson is thundering down the lane …