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Boy, <i>Thursday Night Football</i> Is The Best, Isn't It?
We are blessed by the NFL’s benevolence in its grace to provide us the finest professional football every Thursday night. We aren’t worthy of witnessing the incredible talents of the Jacksonville Jaguars weekly—let alone in such a showcase as Thursday Night Football....
Race, Explained By Urban Babies
Savvy urbanites know that the best place to find wisdom online is UrbanBaby.com, message board of choice for rich New York parents and those who wish they were. Today: real talk about race—and your kids. ...
Bob Diaco Fails To Keep His Cool As He Defends UConn's Manufactured Football Rivalry
The Central Florida Knights beat the Connecticut Huskies Saturday in the college football rivalry game known as the Civil ConFLiCT, and earned the right to take home the trophy. UCF passed, instead leaving the prize on a bench. On Tuesday, UConn head coach Bob Diaco, who established the artificial e...
This Is The Worst Indians Fan
When cutting to commercial after the end of the top of the seventh inning, Fox cameras found this Indians fan rocking a headdress and combo blackface and redface and lingered on him for a full ten seconds. Perhaps focusing on this sad-looking man in racist cosplay is their version of a silent protes...
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Shameless Indians Fan Goes Full Butt [NSFW]
A tipster at the World Series sent us the following photo of a man operating in the men’s room with maximum mobility and minimum shame. As you can see, his fellow fans appreciated the entertainment and distraction from their team’s gloomy performance....
The Mavericks And Pacers Set Basketball Back A Few Decades On This Sequence
The NBA is back, which means it’s time for cool highlights, like dunks, blocks, and Charles Barkley’s bad takes. But none of those live up to the majesty and splendor of, uh, whatever this is....
Trump Ally Alex Jones: I'm Not Anti-Semitic, It's Just That The Jews Control Everything
You see, it’s not that Alex Jones—whom Donald Trump has previously called a “nice guy” with an “amazing” reputation—hates the Jews. It’s just that he knows how how devious and money-hungry they really are. And also that they control the Ubers....
Steven Adams Was Too Busy Watching Dope Anime To See The Warriors Get Crushed
Given the ass-kicking that former Thunder star Kevin Durant suffered in his first game with the Warriors, it’s not unreasonable for reporters to be curious about what Durant’s former teammates thought of the game. Unfortunately for them, Steven Adams was too busy watching anime to cook up any juicy ...
Goddammit, Indians Fans
The Cleveland Indians had to know their racist-ass logo would inspire some of their numbnuts fans to show up to the first Indians World Series game since 1997 in headdresses and redface. ...
Faster Is Better For The Suddenly Excellent Matt Stafford
Matthew Stafford is in his eighth season in the NFL. He’s lost Calvin Johnson to retirement, and thanks to injuries he’s currently without his top three running backs and his top two tight ends. Yet Stafford is having the best season of his career, a potentially MVP-caliber year, and it’s being trea...
Working At A University Is No Picnic
The Harvard dining hall worker strike is over. About time! In honor of this historic confluence of gilded academia and low-wage workers, let’s hear some true stories of what it’s like working a normal job at a nice college....
Can Donald Trump Grow A Beard? An Investigation
Donald Trump’s sense of self-worth seems to be based entirely on his status as an alpha male. He’s obscenely competitive, feels entitled to women, and is apparently fixated on the size of his dick. One hyper-masculine symbol, however, appears to have eluded Trump his entire life, for Donald Trump ha...
Brock Osweiler Was Historically Bad Tonight<em></em>
Here is a neat, one-play summary of how Brock Osweiler’s return to Denver went....
Jalen Ramsey Won't Hesitate To Get Ejected Again
If there’s one thing you need to know about Jaguars rookie cornerback Jalen Ramsey, it’s that he hates being disrespected on the football field. If there’s another thing you need to know about him, it’s that he is a great source for juicy postgame quotes....
We're Simulating Texans-Broncos In <i>Tecmo Super Bowl III</i>
TEXANS. BRONCOS. TECMO SUPER BOWL III ON SUPER NINTENDO. We’re taking our simulation to the next level, LIVE: ...
Somebody Save Kevin Ollie
The American Athletic Conference held its men’s basketball media day this morning; Cincinnati was picked by the beat writers as the favorites to win the conference, edging out UConn by a single first-place vote. Also, Kevin Ollie—former NBA player, current Huskies head coach, 2014 NCAA champion—had ...
Bruce Arians Can't Wait For NFL's "All Bullshit" Explanation Of Controversial Blocked FG
Please do not drink the Flavor Aid and let anyone tell you last night’s game—at 6-6, the lowest-scoring tie since the NFL introduced overtime in 1974—was “good” or “watchable” or “a better use of your time than going to sleep early and starting the week rested.” Special-teams incompetence, an Arizon...
We Are All Living In Hell [Update]
There is no ever-loving deity. There is only Satan himself, handling the levers and pulleys that guide our lives, our limbs, our souls. Update: ...
Mavericks Surf Contest Begrudgingly Allows Women To Compete
For the first time in its history, one of the most prestigious surf contests in the country will include a women’s heat in its 2016-17 competition. But the addition to the Titans of Mavericks competition wasn’t done solely because Mavericks organizers felt like it. It was required by the California...
The Jacksonville Jaguars, Everybody
The Jags had pinned Oakland back for fourth-and-24, and the Raiders made things even harder on themselves by botching the punt’s long snap. The result of the play? First down, Oakland....