When the Dream Team arrived in Barcelona in 1992, they were stars. Not just to the fans, but to their opponents themselves, who would use their opportunity to play and lose against the greatest basketball players in the world to score an autograph from the competitors, who were really more like demigods. Well… some things never change.

Things are bleak in Unhappy Valley (get it?) and getting bleaker. Running back Silas Redd, (former) crown jewel of the Nittany Lions’ offense, has announced his transfer to the USC Trojans. More after the jump.

Remember that fan at the Cubs game who tried proposing to his girlfriend via scoreboard declaration, only for her not to be there when the question was popped for everyone at Wrigley to see? Well we now know that fan to be Greg Altringer from Montana. More from Greg after the jump.

NBC’s come under a lot of criticism during these Olympics. It’s gotten criticism from us, criticism on Twitter, and criticism from influential late-night comedians. And today, NBC made entirely plain what their attitude toward all that criticism is.

The web roundup for Tuesday, July 31st. Be sure to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. See anything that should be on SportsGrid? Send it to tips@sportsgrid.com. Now, our starting five.

Yes, that’s Antonio Cromartie, the New York Jets’ second-best cornerback that thinks he’s also the Jets’ second-best wide receiver. (And no, America, Tim Tebow’s not the one ahead of him.) The skinny, after the jump.

Second-round men’s singles tennis between Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Milos Raonic probably wasn’t high on your list of must-wach Olympic events today. But that’s the nice thing about the Olympics – and sports in general – you never know.

Matt Barnes was arrested for having a $26,000 traffic ticket, or something (first reported by TMZ). But we don’t care about that. We care that Barnes, habitual creepy-picture-taker, delivered again with his mugshot.

So in some weird moment where Maria Sharapova told Novak Djokovic she could knock a can off of his head by hitting a tennis ball, to what should be to no one’s surprise, she subsequently hit him straight in the crotch. Video after the jump.

There’s been a pretty heated debate over rape jokes in the comedy/internet sphere lately, thanks to the actions of one Daniel Tosh. One school of thought in this debate was that there’s a right and wrong way to do rape jokes, and what you’ll see after the jump was the wrong way.