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Darryl Dawkins Is A Stevie Wonder Truther
Darryl Dawkins was on Highly Questionable yesterday, where he told the story of how Stevie Wonder gave him one of the greatest nicknames in sports, Chocolate Thunder. But Stevie-Wonder-Is-Not-Blind Truther-in-Chief Bomani Jones wanted to know how Wonder knew Dawkins was black. Dawkins gives an expla...
NPR: Ebola Might Make Chocolate Expensive (While Killing Lots Of People)
Yeesh. Lotta scary Ebola news these days. Between the situation in Africa seemingly spiraling beyond anyone's control, a botched containment job at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, and exposed people breaking quarantine to go strolling around New Jersey, presumably barfing Ebola blood on school...
38-Year-Old White Chocolate Still Has Some Game In Him
Jason Williams hasn't played in an NBA game since 2011, but from the looks of this highlight reel from the Orlando Pro Am, he's still got a lot of the skills that earned him the nickname "White Chocolate" in the first place....
How To Ditch The Pillsbury Dough-Log And Make Your Own Cookies
Ah, the chocolate-chip cookie. Many a confectionery addiction kicked off the moment an impressionable youngster watched a vulgar blue puppet shovel platefuls of these things into his gaping, vacant mouth-hole. This obsession probably also explains why the Sexy Cookie Monster costume exists. (Relate...
How To Make Chocolate Pudding, Grown-Up Food For Grownups
Albert Burneko is off. Your guest Foodspinner this week is longtime friend of the program Miserable Shitehawk....
Fuck You, "You Sexy Thing"
There were a lot of shitty Super Bowl ads last night. Spending $4 million on an ad means that most companies and ad agencies are too scared to allow one person to have a single vision of what the ad should be, and thus you get a 30 second gangbang of styles of tones and terrible jokes and unwanted ...
Fat-Guy Quarterback Scores Fat-Guy Two-Point Conversion
Ordinarily we only get to see a fat guy score because of a mistake—an interception at the line of scrimmage, a fumble into the hands of the nearest lineman who rumbles for the endzone—but Notre Dame has provided a game-changer: 340-pound nose tackle Louis Nix. That's him, intentionally lining up as ...
Will Eating Decades-Old Athlete Candy Bars Kill You? A Taste Test
"You're not going to eat it, are you?" the eBay seller asked, after we had completed our purchase. "People have been asking me if they can eat it, and that's probably not a good idea."...
Taste Test: Three Weird Santa Candies That Want To Murder You
Our cultural affinity for eating crumbly effigies of supernatural holiday icons (the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Jesus Christ) only seems weird and slightly unsavory until you consider that we're trying to absorb their mystical powers into ourselves, and then it makes perfect sense. Who wouldn't want...
Of Course Darryl Dawkins Wore An Alligator Skin Suit And Smooth-Talked A Sixers Sideline Reporter Last Night
Some athletes never outgrow their outsized personas, even long after retirement. So it is with Darryl Dawkins (aka "Chocolate Thunder"), the one and only backboard-busting native of the planet Lovetron. Here he is at Kings-Sixers in Philly, looking sharp as he sprinkles in some of that old charm ...
Steven Jackson Gives Colonics A Big 'Thumbs Up '
The St. Louis Rams' Steven Jackson was a colossal bust last season for many fantasy football owners, but he will apparently try anything to not be such a stiff this year. This includes agreeing, per his girlfriend's recommendation, to have a colonic in order to "clean his system out." Not only was...