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Looking For Love On Valentine's Day At Westminster
I have a girlfriend and a cat, and at Westminster I feel like I'm cheating on both. When's the last time you fell in love at first sight? When your heart and soul was completely handed over within seconds of meeting someone? When you and a complete stranger fell into a slobbery make-out session, wit...
Handjobs, Butt-To-Butt Action, And Other Sex Secrets Of The Champion Show Dog
For his new book, Show Dog: the Charmed Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred, Josh Dean spent more than a year following a champion show dog named Jack, a young Australian Shepherd. In the following excerpt, Jack—who is owned by a single mother from Pennsylvania named Kimberly Smith—trie...
Lapdogs And Luxury Boxes: A New-Look MSG Welcomes The Westminster Dog Show
James Dolan hates this dog....
A Fair-And-Balanced Look At What Fox Called “The Greatest Live Premier League Match In US Television History”
From now until the end of the season, we'll be posting a number of clips from the previous weekend's English Premier League games. If there's a goal, save, dive, lip-read profanity, or hocked sputum we should know about, drop us a line at [email protected]. (You might also enjoy our better-late-than...
There Is A Cat On The Pitch At Anfield For The Liverpool-Tottenham Match
A kitty delayed action in today's Liverpool-Tottenham Hotspur match, inevitably doing a cat's duty of ridding the establishment of rats after having heard Liverpool striker Luis Suarez was back in action after his suspension for racism. [ESPN2]...
Here's All The Cute Animals You'll See In Tonight's Super Bowl Commercials
Animals (anthropomorphized or otherwise) are a mainstay trope of TV advertising, and you'll see plenty of them during tonight's Super Bowl. Here's all the cute ones (and a few not-so-cute) you'll be seeing tonight....
A Treasure Trove Of Bat-Killing Stories For Your Super Bowl Bye Week
Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Buy Drew's book, The Postmortal, through here. Find more of his stuff at his Twitter feed....
Today In Straightforward Headlines: "Man Busted For Kicking Kitten Then Signaling Field Goal"
Police charged a South Side (Chicago) man with animal cruelty after officers say they watched him take a running start and kick his kitten 15 feet to 18 feet into the air before raising his arms to signal a successful field goal....
What If Tim Tebow Had A Baby With The Panda On Yao Ming's Lap?
The answer to the question you didn't know you were asking....
Yao, Panda. Panda, Yao.
Yo, panda, real talk for a second: I cannot get enough of you posing with basketball players wearing the Official China Panda Blue Smock. It's like, they're so big and goofy and you're so little and fuzzy and greyscale, and they've always got that wonderful little smock to avoid rubbing their sweaty...
Precocious And Horrifying Four-Year-Old Kills Two Deer With Shotgun
Ohio or Florida? Trick question; it's Virginia, one of the few states that doesn't have a minimum age for hunting. Little James Futrell, returns after winter break having grown up faster than his pre-kindergarten classmates. He has stalked the beast, and bathed in its blood....
The Year In Animals Running Onto The Field, Adorably: A Video
Humans weren't the only creatures invading our sporting events this year. There was the squirrel that interrupted an NLDS game, the fluffy owl who is sadly no longer with us, and a strangely high quantity of dogs running around soccer pitches. Here are some of our favorite animal trespassers from ...
This Guy Died This Year: Shrek, The Unshearable Sheep
There is only meaning in life if there is revelation in death. Billions of generations have come and gone, and most are meaningless for the purposes of the living if we can't take some sort of lesson from their brief time on earth. It's why we scour the obituaries and mourn the famous and infamous a...
Bryce Harper Named His New Puppy "Swag"
Did you know Nationals wundertool Bryce Harper protects his Tweets? Luckily, Nats Enquirer is here to relay to us that Harper received an adorable chocolate Lab for Christmas, and promptly named it Swag. They're totally off to the park to pick up chicks. [Nats Enquirer]...
A Perfectly Designed Killing Machine, The Phillie Phanatic Silently Stalks Its Prey
If you take nothing else from this insane week in sports, let it be the fact that the Phillie Phanatic was born in the Galapagos Islands. MLB has photos of the Philadelphia mascot furbirdthing "returning to his homeland" to terrify wildlife and hawk his book to local children. [MLB.com via The700Lev...
Jose Reyes Seinfeld The Puppy Begs Jose Reyes The Human To Stay With The Mets
Jerry Seinfeld is a Mets fan, for some masochistic reason. Being a Mets fan means always having to say they’re sorry. But one silver lining is the very real chance of re-signing Jose Reyes, so that they can pay him $15 million when he’s 36 years old, which is the soonest possible time the team will ...
Bam! Pig Humping A Cow!
I have no idea if this will actually work, but if it does make babies, I want to eat them....
Happy Veterans Day! Here Are Some Really Happy Dogs Welcoming Soldiers Home
Originally published Nov. 11, 2010....
If You're From That Ohio Town Overrun By Wild Animals, College Hoops Fans Will Never Let You Forget It
Zanesville, Ohio, was put on the map by the release of 56 exotic animals, but the fun never stops as the Ohio University-Zanesville Tracers kicked off their not-even-NAIA basketball season on Friday night. Upon arrival at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, they were greeted by the Student Section of ...