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Stevie Wonder Is Not Blind: The Truthers' Case
Earlier today, my esteemed colleague Drew Magary dropped "A Field Guide To American Truthers," in which the Big Daddy flamboyantly summarized some of the most common conspiracies in American culture. Within minutes, of course, readers took to Kinja and Twitter to add conspiracies we left out. One ...
<em>The Man From Nowhere</em> Is The Fucked-Up South Korean Blockbuster For You
The villains of the 2010 South Korean movie The Man From Nowhere are bad, bad people. How bad? They kidnap unwanted kids for use as drug-lab slave labor. When one passes out in the smack sweatshop, a heavy rolls his eyes and says, "Kids are so dramatic." Then he barks at the rest of 'em to get back ...
A Field Guide To American Truthers
There were no truthers back in the 20th century. I grew up in the Golden Age of Kennedy Assassination Conspiracies, but the word "truther" was never used to describe Oliver Stone or any of the other folks who decried the Magic Bullet theory. (DISCLOSURE: I saw JFK when I was in high school and took...
Want Melissa Joan Hart To Follow You on Twitter? Commit To Alabama
Melissa Joan Hart, forever beloved to angsty '90s teens for Clarissa Explains It All, spent her weekend on Twitter following high school players who've committed to the Crimson Tide, AL.com reported today....
Baseball Will Test Out Six New Rules To Speed Up The Game
If every baseball game were as exciting as last night's, no one would mind if they lasted forever. But most definitely aren't and even the most loyal fan ought to agree that there's a lot of downtime that could be eliminated. To that end, MLB's pace-of-game committee has come up with six experimenta...
Top Female Soccer Players Sue FIFA Over Bullshit Artificial Turf
After weeks of pleading with FIFA to change its mind about playing the 2015 women’s World Cup on field turf instead of grass and being met with nothing but stubbornness, a handful of women’s soccer’s biggest stars have filed a lawsuit against FIFA to try and force the organization to put the upcomin...
How To Stop Your Thirsty-Ass Jeans From Fading
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here periodically to answer your filthiest questions....
Finnish Soccer Announcer Blows Gasket When Team Scores, Wins Promotion
There is no sweeter song extolling the virtues of a promotion fight than this Finnish announcer's guttural screams of pure delight after FC Santa Claus scored the deciding goal, guaranteeing them a spot in the third tier next season. Quick, someone give Fox Soccer this guy's number....
The Guys Who Helped Make The Marathon World Record Happen
Kenyan farmer-turned-world-record-holder Dennis Kimetto crossed the Berlin Marathon finish line alone, in an astounding 2 hours 2 minutes and 57 seconds. But in this instance, as in others that press hard against the limits of endurance, it was a team effort, with a cadre of sherpas doing the heavy ...
Lawsuit: George O'Leary Called NFL "One Big 'Ru-Ru' Tribe" (What?)
In March, University of Central Florida defensive coordinator Paul Ferraro left the team after barely two months on the job due to "personal reasons," whatever that means. According to a breach of contract lawsuit Ferraro filed this past Friday, that translates to head coach George O'Leary firing Fe...
NFL Owners As <em>Dick Tracy</em> Villains
Dan O'Sullivan, who wrote as "General Gandhi" at Mr. Destructo and writes under his real name at Jacobin (among other places), spent yesterday doing the lord's work: pairing off a dozen or so NFL owners with their Dick Tracy villain counterparts. Most Twitter is bad Twitter. This was very good Twitt...
Man Dropped With Single Punch In Brawl At Notre Dame-Syracuse Game
A brawl broke out in the stands at Saturday's Notre Dame-Syracuse football game. Why? Who knows. Anyway, at about the :40 mark, one man took a few punches, then popped up and knocked another guy over with one swing....
The Cardinals Took Care Not To Celebrate In The Diamondbacks' Pool
The Cardinals found themselves in much the same position as the Dodgers did a year ago: at Chase Field, about to clinch the division. Would they celebrate the same way, by diving into the right-field pool and peeing all over the unwritten rules? They would not, because the Cardinals are class person...
Former UFC Champ Dominick Cruz Returns From Oblivion, Waxes Opponent
Before last night, Dominick Cruz, the UFC's one-time 135-lb. champion, hadn't fought in nearly three years due to an awful run of injuries. Then he turned up against Tayeka Mizugaki, the UFC's no. 5-ranked bantamweight, somehow looking at least as good as he ever has. Fighting is a strange sport....
Arkansas Player Hit In Face By Errant Pass While Watching Jumbotron
The gigantic video board at Jerry World has claimed another victim: this Arkansas player, who while sitting on the bench was staring up at it while an errant (or, maybe, thrown away) pass headed directly toward his face....
Jacoby Brissett Refuses To Be Tackled; Puts FSU On Upset Alert
Would you look at that? Some quarterbacks can be dynamic and productive while not shouting profane reproductive advice in public settings....
Diamondbacks Fire Grit Lord Kirk Gibson
The Arizona Diamondbacks have done away with manager Kirk Gibson and bench coach Alan Trammel, just a few weeks after canning general manager Kevin Towers. And so ends the Era Of Grit in Arizona....
The Sports Guy Vs. ESPN: How Bill Simmons Lost Bristol
It was, he would later tell a confidant, like something out of The Godfather. Bill Simmons was meeting with two of the most powerful executives at ESPN, John Skipper and John Walsh, in a conference room in ESPN’s then-unfinished Los Angeles office hard by the Staples Center. Within three years, thi...