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The SEC Network Yule Log Is Our Nation's Greatest Contribution To Avant-Garde Cinema
My family only has a few Christmas traditions, among them cinnamon rolls, trips to the dog park, bike rides, and yard work. But the most important tradition—one that gets us up early on Christmas morning—is the SEC Network Yule Log, which is just like other yule log broadcasts except that the orches...
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?
If it’s Christmas, it must be time to learn what America shoved inside itself. The only worthwhile holiday tradition pushes on....
Andy Reid Did A Press Conference Dressed As Santa
The Chiefs clinched the AFC West with a 29-13 win over the Miami Dolphins today. It’s the first time the Chiefs have won consecutive AFC West titles. To celebrate, Andy Reid entered the locker room dressed as Santa Claus....
Get The Hell Out Of Here, Cowboys
The Cowboys had more rushing and passing yards than the Seahawks. It didn’t matter....
Lonzo Ball Joins Markelle Fultz On The Rookie Point Guards With Hurt Shoulders List
Lonzo Ball played a healthy 36 minutes in the Lakers’ narrow loss to Portland Saturday night, but temporarily left the court in the second quarter after experiencing some weird and painful-sounding popping in his left shoulder:...
Marshon Lattimore Made An Assterception
Here’s your highlight of the day: After the ball went off of Marvin Hall’s fingertips, Marshon Lattimore caught an interception with his ass. An assterception!...
The Upstart Sixers Are Having A Bad Time
The Sixers were a trendy pick to make a run at the top half of the Eastern Conference playoff field this season, to such a degree that Sixers fans and Sam Hinkie loyalists were doing preseason touchdown dances about signs of arrival as abstract as the drafting of Markelle Fultz and the extension of ...
Myles Turner Is A Big Bad Man
The Pacers are a lot of fun. Six of their rotation guys average at least 11 points per game, and their offensive rating has climbed to sixth in the NBA. A big part of their success on that end is a pair of bigs, in Myles Turner and Domantas Sabonis, who can stretch the floor without taking much off ...
Kyrie Irving, On Christmas, The Holiday: Christmas Isn't Necessarily A Holiday
Kyrie Irving is a man of many strange and poorly constructed takes, and he has never been shy about launching these dizzying takes into the public consciousness. Christmas, you may have heard, is Monday. Here is Kyrie Irving, on Christmas, a holiday celebrated the world over:...
Mike James, Two-Way Contract Success Story, Summarily Waived By Suns
Mike James was waived by the Suns Saturday, as the team prepares to reactivate Devin Booker following his recovery from a groin injury. This is an excruciatingly tough break for a guy who just two weeks ago celebrated becoming the first player in NBA history to convert one of the association’s new t...
Eggnog's Better In A Cup Than On A Carpet
‘Tis the season to get messy....
Remaining UCLA Shoplifters Suspended For Season, Will Not Be Exiled To Friggin' Lithuania
The non-Ball-family participants in the infamous China shoplifting incident that eventually led to LiAngelo Ball leaving UCLA have been suspended for the remainder of this college basketball season, according to ESPN:...
Delightful Goof Austin Rivers Went Off Last Night, Baby!
The Clippers won in Houston Friday night. In just about any of the last 10 NBA regular seasons, that result would not register as anything especially noteworthy. In this one, with the Rockets coming into the game holding the NBA’s best record and the Clippers sagging towards a lottery appearance and...
Rob Manfred Whines To ESPN Brass After Getting Shredded By Dan Le Batard
Rob Manfred left his Wednesday appearance on the Dan Le Batard Show with a freshly torn new one, having received the full brunt of Le Batard’s wrath over the fire sale taking place in the Miami Marlins organization. Now The Big Lead is reporting that MLB officials “complained about the spot to the h...
Ravens President Blames Empty Seats On Anthem Protests
According to ESPN, Baltimore Ravens president Dick Cass sent a letter to season ticket holders this week, in which he blamed a dip in attendance at least in part on the fact that Ravens players knelt during the national anthem before a game in London....
Let's Remember Some Guys: 1992 Guys
When you come into some unopened packs of early ’90s baseball cards, there’s not a whole lot you can do with them. You’re basically just out a few quarters—unless one of your joys in life is sitting on some vaguely retro furniture and trying to turn faint sparks of memory into fully formed remembran...
The Actual Night Before Christmas<em></em>
‘Twas the night before ChristmasAnd all through the house…Not a damn thing was ready....
LeBron James Put On A Great Dad Performance
The Cleveland Cavaliers narrowly defeated the strangely and suddenly competent Chicago Bulls last night, and they were led, as usual, by LeBron James. He scored 34 points to go along with nine assists, and he also demonstrated elite dad abilities....
The Penguins Do <i>A Christmas Story</i>
Every year, the Pittsburgh Penguins put out their own version of a holiday classic. This year it’s A Christmas Story, and I hadn’t realized this until now but the holiday season can’t officially begin until you’ve seen Kris Letang admiring himself in a bunny suit while Phil Kessel moans, “He looks l...