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Lifelong Braves Fan Fell 85 Feet To His Death In Players' Parking Lot
More details have emerged in the death of a Braves fan who fell from the upper level of Turner Field last night, the third fatal fall at an Atlanta stadium in five years....
Tiger's Burdened Walk
Charlie Pierce once wrote a celebrated story about Tiger Woods. Now, he writes about Woods again. Slide on over to Grantland and read "The Burdened Walk":...
Fan Dies From Upper-Deck Fall At Turner Field
A man is in critical condition (update: police have since confirmed the man died) after he fell "at least 30 feet" from the upper deck at Turner Field tonight. Details are sparse, but according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the man was transported to the hospital around 9:00 p.m....
Here's A Soccer Player Pantsing An Opponent Right In Front Of Referee
Chesterfield F.C.'s Gary Roberts was all set to take a free kick when Russell Penn of Cheltenham quietly kicked the ball out of Roberts's desired position. That's when Roberts pantsed him....
Terry Southern on Stanley Kubrick
Everything You Always Wanted To Stop Worrying About The Bomb over at Cinephilia and Beyond including these two notable items by screenwriter Terry Southern:...
Adam Jones Says A Giants Fan Threw A Banana At Him
Orioles outfielder Adam Jones took to Twitter after yesterday's 10-2 win in San Francisco to complain about a fan tossing a banana onto the field. The Giants say they have no record of the incident....
Kobe Bryant And Amanda Bynes Were Once Ships Passing On <em>All That</em>
This is pre-everything Kobe Bryant, "the cutest basketball player in America," and pre-everything Amanda Bynes, in the recurring All That talk show What-Everrr!!, hosted by Bynes. Kobe spends the entire sketch in front of Matchbox 20 and Ben Folds Five posters, and takes off his shirt. 1998 was 15 ...
Tristan Thompson Attempting Possibly Unprecedented Crossover
This is very cool. Cavaliers forward Tristan Thompson is making over his shot, and going from shooting southpaw to shooting right-handed....
What Is Nate Silver's New ESPN Site Going To Look Like?
Nate Silver's ESPN-owned FiveThirtyEight site is not going to be The Nate Silver Show + a few contributors. Silver's plan is to make it a Grantland II, of sorts. ...
Kevin Durant Remorselessly Swats The Jump Shots Of Children
Children beware, if you attend Kevin Durant's basketball camp, you are likely to get your shit ruined. ...
Fan Interrupts Chelsea-Real Madrid Match To Embrace Cristiano Ronaldo
Another day, another Idiot On The Field. This one came from Miami, and we're frankly surprised that city doesn't produce more Idiots....
Trouble Is My Business
“Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.”...
Karl Malone And Enes Kanter Caught A Tiny Fish
Enes Kanter went fishing with Karl Malone. Karl's wife posted this photo, captioned "His first fish." Fishing with Karl Malone is better than hunting with Karl Malone....
Kobe Bryant Reduces Adult Fan To Tears
Kobe's on his annual China tour (these always get a little nuts), and his latest stop in Shenzhen brought one man to the brink of hysterics. And keep in mind—he only saw Kobe from a distance....
Punches Thrown At Packers Training Camp Fight
There’s no NFL tradition more dependable than the practice fight in the week before preseason play begins. The Packers did their part this morning with not one, not two, but three separate scuffles on the same drill—the last and biggest culminating with Jermichael Finley exchanging right crosses wit...
Bryce Harper Sparks Dumb Baseball Beef, Dumber Twitter Spat
Bryce Harper stared at a homer for a little too long for the Braves' liking tonight. This got him plunked, and allowed the people running the teams' Twitter accounts to further cheapen the meaning of beef....
Ex-Giants Lineman Allegedly Assaults Wife With Her Own Pocketbook
Luke Petitgout, a 1999 first-round draft pick who spent all but one of his nine NFL seasons with the Giants, turned himself in to New York City police today after his wife accused him of smacking her with her pocketbook and shoving her out of a car....
Kobe Bryant Says He's "Shattering" His Rehab Timetable
Kobe Bryant spoke to reporters during an appearance in China this past weekend, assuring them that his surgically repaired Achilles tendon is healing much faster than it was expected to. He did this in a very Kobe Bryant kind of way....
Shall We Dance?
Another gem from Grantland’s “Director’s Cut” series, this one by the late Paul Hemphill (may he not be soon forgotten)....
And Now, Bob Ley Saying "Hashtag: A-Hole" On Television
We owe this special moment to Antonio Bastardo's use of PEDs, and former relief pitcher Dan Meyer's pathetic bitterness. Thanks, fellas....