On Tuesday night, a few hundred people gathered in New York City for the annual Sports Illustrated Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year ceremony, which is like the Golden Globes to With Leather’s Top Sports Moments of the Year. University of Tennessee Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt was honored as the Sportswoman of the Year, while Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski was presented as the Sportsman of the Year. Smart ass college basketball fans everywhere suggested that the titles should be swapped.

Also honored was Noah Flegel, SI’s Sports Kid of the Year, and he was the biggest winner of the night. Why? Because he got to hug swimsuit model Chrissy Teigen, who was at the event as part of her mandatory deal with SI to always be awesome. Between her Twitter and, well, her, Teigen is our favorite girl on the planet not named Kate Upton. And now I’m sad that Upton wasn’t there, too.

And there were some other people at the event, but I only care about Teigen. She’s that special.

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We mentioned on Monday that Pat Summitt’s Tennessee Vols lost to Ball State in first-round action of the NCAA women’s tournament over the weekend. But when you’re a living legend in Knoxville, your season doesn’t end until you’re damned good and ready. And so, with no game to play for another six months, Coach Summitt ran her team back onto the practice floor. And the hilarious thing is that Summitt’s still gonna get more press than the other teams that are actually still playing for the title. Oh, Pat. Don’t you ever change.

Tennessee coach Pat Summitt — the winningest coach in women’s basketball history — underwent surgery because she done tussled with one a them thar raccoons.

Summitt had offseason shoulder surgery, not for a sports injury but because of a tussle with a raccoon.

The winningest basketball coach in NCAA history had problems with her right shoulder after dislocating it while chasing a raccoon poised to attack her Labrador.

Let’s not give the raccoon too much credit here.  Chasing a raccoon away is about as strenuous a task as looking for the remote control.  But don’t ask her to do that, either.  You’re just going to find her sprawled out on the floor with a broken hip, with the remote somehow jammed into her chest like a wooden stake.  Again.

[Sports by Brooks and Deadspin]

Pat Summitt finally evened the score with Tennessee men's coach Bruce Pearl for his shirtless body-painting episode in January by donning a cheerleader uniform and firing up the crowd during last night's mudhole-stomping of Florida.

This video is everything awesome and lame about college sports. It's great because it's infused with an honest kind of rah-rah spirit that you don't see often in pro sports. On the other hand, it's a completely unnecessary besmirching of the most holy of sports institutions, the cheerleading uniform. This video, with its Dick Vitale soundtrack of "Ohhhhhs," is sure to haunt my purest cheerleader fantasies for the next fortnight. Damn Tennessee. 

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