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Bananas Fake Extra Point Features Holder Hopping Around Like A Monkey
This is from Sherwood (Ore.) High School, and it's ridiculous....
A Christmas Carol And The Yankee Stadium Ticket Stub
Today gives a choice find over at Forgotten Bookmarks. ...
How Would Mike Francesa Have Discussed The Civil War?
After his successful Revolutionary War commentary, time-traveling Mike Francesa is back, this time in the run-up to the Battle of Antietam. The best moment comes around the 2:32 mark, when a caller—Dred, from Scottsville (groan)—asks for Mike's take on Harriet Tubman. Mike responds as if she's Al ...
Let's Talk About What Should Constitute Male Rights
Did you know that there is a such a thing as mens' rights activism? It's true! According to this article, there is a small (three inches?) group of HARDCORE BROS who have had it up to here with the ongoing vaginization of America, and they're not gonna take it lying down (unless they got a chick o...
Illinois QB's Father Banned From Campus After Arrest
Nathan Creer, the father of Illinois starting quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase has been banned from campus for a year after being involved in a drunken fight at Saturday's game. ...
The New Browns Facility's Walls Are Full Of Fake Quotes
This past August, the Cleveland Browns unveiled their newly renovated training facility to the local press. The four-month, $5 million project to transform the Browns' home into a mid-grade, mid-2000s, middle-management expo featured, among other things, a series of inspirational quotations on the w...
Unspinning The Mythical Gyroball, The Demon Miracle Pitch That Wasn't
Once feared, now largely forgotten, the gyroball retains a stubborn hold on the baseball imagination. Perhaps Red Sox closer Koji Uehara can put the pitch to rest:...
San Diego State Baseball Team Plays Game In Halloween Costumes
This is a yearly tradition at San Diego State, and it's evidence that baseball games would get much higher ratings if they were always played by people in costume. I mean, what game wouldn't be improved by the inclusion of a shortstop wearing a giant cardboard box?...
Random Football Rap Lyric Of The Day
In honor of Ghostface's first record, released on this date in 1996....
Your Chinese Street-Food Was Probably Cooked In Poop Oil
Well, this is horrifying. Street vendors in China have taken to using something called "gutter oil"—quite literally the oil gathered from gutter runoff, dumpster sludge, garbage juice, and untreated fucking sewage fuck fuck fuck—to cook food for human consumption. And then unwitting humans are con...
Do Fat People Make Better Restaurant Recommendations?
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Brandon Saad Set Up Patrick Kane With A Sweet Spin-O-Rama
So Brandon Saad is stealing Patrick Kane's moves now—and by that we do not mean Saad went on a weekend bender at the Tau Kap house, though one can always hope. Rather, Saad busted out the Spin-O-Rama—which Kaner had learned from Denis Savard—during last night's win over the Wild....
Chris Bosh Is Getting Ornery For Some Reason
The NBA season starts tonight, so journalistic outlets the world over are publishing stories on the Miami Heat, because last year they repeated as champions, and this year they could three-peat as champions, and LeBron James and Michael Jordan and legacy and narrative. ...
NBA Stat Guru Kevin Pelton On Greg Oden, The Fraudulent Knicks, And More
Kevin Pelton is one of the smartest guys covering the NBA, and his SCHOENE projection system is one of the best predictive tools in NBA analytics. He was nice enough to answer a few questions about the upcoming NBA season....
Matt Stafford Was Mic'd Up During The Lions' Comeback Drive
Thanks to this video, we can now hear what Matt Stafford was saying while he led his team on a thrilling, game-winning drive against the Cowboys on Sunday. ...
Californians Fail To Appreciate Inescapable, Burning Sriracha Odor
Officials of the city of Irwindale—a California town presumably situated in the ominous shadow of a Huy Fong Foods factory that looms all flecked with lightning and emitting constant spooky organ music atop the local hill—have filed suit against the makers of the delicious sriracha chili sauce, for ...
This Is Just The Worst Rugby League Failed Try
In American football, you merely have to carry the ball into the end zone. But in rugby league, a player has to put the ball on the ground in the in-goal area for the try to count. Yesterday at the Rugby League World Cup, New Zealand's Sonny Bill Williams had an easy four points, but inexplicably s...
Donald Sterling Is Still Doing What He Can To Sink The Clippers
Clipper fans, here is a sobering reminder that despite the fact that your team is better than it has ever been and is poised to supplant the Lakers as the toast of L.A., you are still rooting for a franchise that is owned by a racist shitbag who will always be this close to ruining everything....