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The Best Place To Sit At The Home Run Derby
I mean, if you're going to go to the damned Home Run Derby, you may as well catch a home run ball, right? Here's where to sit if you want to catch one—and where the most cost-effective seats per home run happen to be. ...
How America Voted In The All-Star Game Final Vote
Yesterday MLB announced that Chris Sale and Anthony Rizzo won the balloting for the final spots in the All-Star Game. Each was the best choice, but, yes, each was from Chicago....
Brewers Catcher Jonathan Lucroy's Anti-Cardinals All-Star Ad Is Perfect
Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy's making a push to get voted into this season's All-Star Game, and his anti-Yadier Molina, anti-Cardinals message features the kind of mudslinging one could only find in a local political ad....
Aloe Blacc Is Your Sports Music Overlord
This right here is MLB's official commercial for the 2014 All-Star Game. It features, somehow, Aloe Blacc's "The Man," a song that even the most casual of sports fans is already sick and goddamn tired of listening to....
NBA Players Are Pretty Good At Inventing Smoothies
If there's one thing we know about our friends at The Starters, it's that they know how to ask the important questions. Since this year's all-star game was played in the Smoothie King Center, they decided to ask a handful of NBA players to come up with their own signature smoothie....
Inflatable Mascots Bring Dance-Terror To NBA All-Star Game
The only thing these unsettling abominations are good for is suffering for our amusement....
Watch All The Best All-Star Game Highlights In Super Slo-Mo
You know what's cool about the NBA all-star game? All the dunks and crossovers and alley-oops and stuff. You know what makes all those dunks and crossovers and alley-oops even better? The Phantom cam! ...
Yao Ming Next To An Average Person Is Amazing, As Usual
It's not news that Yao Ming is a gigantic human being, but it's still astonishing when he's juxtaposed with a regular-sized person. Take this AP photo from the All-Star Game, and know that it wasn't edited at all....
Aloe Blacc Proves Beats Headphones Are Shit With Tone-Deaf Performance
Aloe Blacc sings that "The Man" song used in all the Beats Audio headphone commercials. Fans in attendance at tonight's NBA All-Star Game festivities in New Orleans probably wish they had some noise-canceling technology like Richard Sherman or Kevin Garnett, because Blacc's performance there was tru...
Secretary Of Education Arne Duncan Owned The All-Star Celebrity Game
United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had a double-double in last night's All-Star Celebrity Game. That's a real sentence. He can also feed teammates like Rajon Rondo....
Charles Barkley Does A Dreadful Rendition Of "Gin And Juice"
Charles Barkley is in New Orleans for NBA all-star weekend, and last night he made an appearance at The Cat's Meow, where he attempted to rap "Gin and Juice" on stage. It did not go well....
The Dunk Contest Format Is Completely Different This Year
If the NBA dunk contest has disappointed you in recent years, you might consider tuning into this year's edition. The NBA has instituted a new set of rules for the contest, and they have the potential to make this year's version much more watchable than the boring, craptastic contests we've seen in ...
The Dunk Contest Field Has Been Announced, And It's Not Terrible
ESPN's Marc Stein has the scoop on which six players will be competing in this year's dunk contest, and it's actually a pretty strong field. Paul George, John Wall, Damian Lillard, Harrison Barnes, Terrence Ross, and Ben McLemore will be this year's competitors. ...
Here Are The NBA All-Star Starting Lineups (Yep, Kobe Made It)
The NBA just announced the starters for the All Star Game. Looks like Kobe's in, and, uh, LeBron's playing center? ...
Lance Stephenson Lobbies For All-Star Votes With Crazy-Ass Video
Pacers shooting guard Lance Stephenson is currently enjoying a career year, and he would really appreciate it if NBA fans would recognize that accomplishment by sending him to the all-star game. ...
Drake And Rob Ford, Together At Last
There was a press conference in Toronto today to announce that the city will be hosting the 2016 NBA all-star game. Crack-smoking mayor Rob Ford was there. Toronto native Drake was also there, because Drake is now some kind of "global ambassador" for the Toronto Raptors, whatever that means. We're j...
I Can't Stop Watching This Incredibly Bad MLS All-Star Rap Video
Oh man, this is so bad....
How Fox Faked Crowd Enthusiasm For Neil Diamond Last Night
Last night's MLB All-Star Game in New York featured a few high moments, several low moments, and one weird moment. Neil Diamond's distorted, off-tempo rendition of "Sweet Caroline" just prior to Mariano Rivera's final appearance as an All-Star was one of the worst—but Fox did its best to cover that...
Infographic: Every Pitch Of The All-Star Game
The folks at Statlas have put together this visualization of each and every pitch thrown at last night's All-Star Game, broken down by type, speed, and result. You can probably guess who invariably threw the same pitch, at nearly the same velocity, every single time....