Email Author Sean Pendergast

2013 Stories by Sean Pendergast

• Chad Johnson's Good Day (Freedom!) Turns into a Bad Day (TMZ!)

  published Jun 19, 2013

  There was a time when Chad Johnson actually co-hosted a reality show. In 2010, the then-Bengal wide receiver collaborated with teammate Terrell Owens on a six-episode train wreck called The T. Ocho Sh... More >>

• NBA Finals: One More Chance to Sop Gambling Gravy Off the Heat's Crazy Streak

  published Jun 18, 2013

  From February 3 through March 25, the Miami Heat didn't lose a single NBA basketball game. During that streak, they recorded 27 wins in a row, the second best run at the Lakers' 33-game winning streak... More >>

• Summer of Johnny: Looks Like the Haters Got to Manziel

  published Jun 17, 2013

  Every hero has his setbacks. Nothing is forever, and no story is just a perpetual arrow pointing upward, with puppy dogs and gumdrops (or, in this case, bikini-clad coeds and Jell-O shots) 24 by 7. R... More >>

• Guns and Hoses: How You Can Help the Families of the Four Fallen Houston Firefighters

  published Jun 14, 2013

  If you're looking for the definition of courage, a good place to start would be along Houston's Southwest Freeway back on May 31, where a burning hotel and restaurant took the lives of four Houston ar... More >>

• NBA Finals: Game 4, Tony Parker Is Gonna Play!

  published Jun 13, 2013

  For a series that's featured two blowout wins in three games, including a Game 3 that was pretty much over midway through the third quarter, there have been some pretty compelling storylines in these ... More >>

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  Texans Tackle David Quessenberry's Pickup Truck Recovered From Evil Smugglers

  published Jun 13, 2013

  For Texans rookie offensive tackle David Quessenberry, OTA's and mini camp have been the best of times and the worst of times. On the one hand, with injuries to incumbent starter Derek Newton and fel... More >>

• NBA Finals: Give Houston What It Wants, Rashard Lewis Vs T-Mac

  published Jun 12, 2013

  We interrupt this widespread panic over LeBron James's possibly being human (and this widespread panic....and this widespread panic....) for a request. Oh, wait a second...Gary Neal just hit another ... More >>

• The Tim Tebow Caveat: We Can Discuss Him If It Relates to Gambling (Tebow Odds!)

  published Jun 12, 2013

  Did I spend a couple thousand words lamenting the Tebow Circus Conundrum yesterday in this spacer I believe I did. Did I laud Bill Belichick's terse responses to any question Tebow-related and his un... More >>

• Bill Belichick on Tim Tebow: "We've Already Talked Enough About Him."

  published Jun 11, 2013

  "We've already talked enough about him, I think I've covered it. Anything elser" -- Bill Belichick on Tim Tebow, three minutes into his press conference Tuesday morning Hear, hear! As Tim Tebow sat ... More >>

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  Zapruder Analysis of Chad Johnson's Courtroom Ass Slap (w/ VIDEO)

  published Jun 11, 2013

  I don't care how funny you think you are, there are just certain times and places you don't joke around. At or near the top of the list of places that you should back-burner any playfulness or boyish... More >>

• NBA Finals: Turning Point, LeBron Returns Tiago Splitter To Sender (w/ VIDEO)

  published Jun 10, 2013

  I may or may not have disclosed this before in this space, and if I have, my apologies, but I am rooting for LeBron in these NBA Finals. I'm over the animosity of Decision 2010 (Really, why did I get... More >>

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  Summer of Johnny: Zapruder Analysis Of Johnny Manziel's Music Video Debut

  published Jun 10, 2013

  Here are two immutable truths: 1. Athletes all want to be actors and/or singers, and actors/singers all wish they could be athletes. It is well known that, despite many of them making millions in the... More >>

• NBA Finals: Chris Bosh's Jump Shot Is Margot Kidder

  published Jun 07, 2013

  I'm not normally a superhero movie guy, but I will admit that the recent wave of superhero films the last five or six years has sucked me in. The Iron Man trilogy, the new Batman trilogy, the Avengers... More >>

• Gambling! Lines on First 10 Big Games of College Football Season Released

  published Jun 06, 2013

  It's early June, which means over the next two months, we are about to have a barrage of Navin Johnson "The new phonebooks are here!!" moments. For non-movie watchers and those under the age of 35, t... More >>

• Adventures In Vine: Notre Dame Recruit Flushes Nick Saban Down The Toilet

  published Jun 05, 2013

  For the second time in 24 hours, college football recruiting, Notre Dame football, and social media have met at an unique nexus that shines as much of a light on the virtual lack of barriers in commun... More >>

• Adventures in Twitter: Notre Dame Keyboard Thugs vs Recruit Eddie Vanderdoes

  published Jun 05, 2013

  So the Eddie Vanderdoes saga finally came to an end on Tuesday. If you're asking yourself, "Who is Eddie Vanderdoesr" give yourself a gold star, because if you have no idea who Vanderdoes is, it mean... More >>

• Touchdown Club of Houston Names 2013 Spring Scholar-Athletes

  published Jun 04, 2013

  On the heels of a week where I put together a Dwyane Wade dirty play video anthology on Tuesday, skewered a Georgia safety for smoking weed in his dorm room on Thursday and updated the 2013 Crimesman ... More >>

• Watch Grown Men (Red Sox and Yankees) Scurry Like Children During a Clap of Thunder (w/ VIDEO)

  published Jun 03, 2013

  I am putting up this brief post and (in my opinion, hilarious) embedded video a bit cautiously this morning as, believe it or not, I've already been deemed "weather insensitive" by a few people on Twi... More >>

• Former Texans WR David Anderson Officially Retires and Then Commits to USC

  published Jun 03, 2013

  Going back to August 2007, when 1560 AM was started, in our early days as 1560 The Game (long before our radio plastic surgery that transformed the station into 1560 Yahoo! Sports Radio), we used to d... More >>

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  Tales of NFL Quarterbacks: Tebow Is Done, Vince Young Loves Shots

  published Jun 03, 2013

  Another day, another crippling blow to my NFL quarterback wager with my cohost John Granato. Actually, to be fully accurate, two crippling blows to my side of the wager. To refresh your memory, the b... More >>

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  2013 NFL Crimesman Trophy: The New Orleans Saints Are on the Board!

  published May 31, 2013

  The calendar flips over to June this weekend, which means that perennial criminals are going to need their game up if they're going to make a dent in this offseason's Crimesman Trophy standings for ou... More >>

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  JaMarcus Russell Is Reportedly (Relatively) Svelte, and the NFL May Be Interested

  published May 30, 2013

  As the trail of the NFL offseason winds through Organized Team Activities and training camp draws closer and closer, I am getting more and more nervous about my NFL quarterback-related bet that I have... More >>

• Georgia Safety Suspended Because He "Smoked a Blunt" (His Words to Police)

  published May 30, 2013

  As the college football calendar goes, we are smack dab in the middle of that late spring "soft spot" in the schedule where spring practice is a solid month in the rear-view mirror, the school year is... More >>

• Arian Foster Injures Calf and Rides a Cart Back to Reliant

  published May 29, 2013

  The Texans started up their second week of Organized Team Activities Tuesday morning, and aside from Kubiak's effusive praise for second-year guard Brandon Brooks and the defense's intercepting four p... More >>

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  Dwyane Wade: Man of 1,000 Holds and the Dirtiest Player in the Game

  published May 28, 2013

  Back in its heyday, World Championship Wrestling (also known as WCW, also known as the company that Vince McMahon ended up purchasing for pennies on the dollar so he could get his hands on their tape ... More >>