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Your Best Pool Basketball Dunks: Trampoline Edition
Yesterday we brought you what we dubbed the Greatest Pool Basketball Dunk of All Time. Then we were sent one that might've been even better. Now? The field is wide open....
Bidding Is Now Open On RGIII's Supposed Sext Life
On Sunday, Busted Coverage posted screencaps of text messages supposedly between a professional athlete and a college student/Hooters waitress. The story would not have been all that newsworthy had it not been for two factors: The athlete is Robert Griffin III, and the texts were sent on Griffin's w...
Errant Thomas Bjorn Shot Smashes ESPN Camera Lens At British Open
Via Guyism, Mike Tirico said that was an $80,000 camera lens Thomas Bjorn destroyed as he tried to hack his way out of the rough at Muirfield's No. 1:...
Kobayashi Chugs A Gallon Of Milk In 20 Seconds
Takeru Kobayashi is still exiled from the Nathan's hot dog eating contest, but that just means he has more time to do things like scarf some pizzas with some bros, or, in this case, chug an entire gallon of milk for the sake of entertaining the kind folks at Uncle Bob's Self Storage....
Unicorn Mask-Wearing Porn Star Kicked Out Of PNC Park For Sexy Dancing
When our pal Dave mentioned last week on Twitter that "a stripper wearing a unicorn mask was just kicked out of PNC Park," we felt obligated to seek out a photo and some more information. Little did we know we'd be discovering an odd cult of unicorn mask-wearing porn stars....
"I Don't Like Excess"
From Isaac Chotiner’s 2008 Atlantic interview with Jhumpa Lahiri:...
Bringing It All Back Home
Grantland's Director's Cut series began with this gem from Tony Kornheiser: a 1980 Inside Sports cover story on Nolan Ryan:...
A Challenger Appears: Is <em>This</em> An Even Better Pool Basketball Dunk?
We're still binge-watching, and incredibly jealous of, this seven-man alley-oop pool basketball dunk. What could be better? How about a 10-man dunk?...
Paul Finebaum Stupids Up ESPN On Johnny Manziel
Ultra-troll Paul Finebaum, who has mastered the art of spinning his own opinion as the most important of the day on any subject, turned his cannons on Johnny Manziel on Wednesday. Well, Manziel and his phone....
The Predators Now Have Yellow Ice
Do not adjust your white balance: the ice at Bridgestone Arena has been dyed Pee Yellow. (Sorry, "gold.")...
Jonas Valanciunas Says Summer League Is “Fucked" On Raptors' Website
SportsGrid found this clip on the Toronto Raptors' website before it was taken down. It's DeMar DeRozan "interviewing" teammate Jonas Valanciunas. None of it is serious, except for maybe that answer at the 10-second mark. ...
The Rare Alley-Alley-Alley-Alley-Alley-Alley-Oop
The problem with doing something this awesome is knowing that your life has peaked and it's all downhill from here....
Stephen A. Smith Gossip: James Dolan Wanted To Trade Iman Shumpert
You're looking at a very unique piece of video, dug up by Azaz of the Knicks FanBlog. It's from the taping of Stephen A. Smith's ESPN interview with Dwight Howard this weekend, but for whatever reason, one Youtube user was able to tune in to the satellite feed and record the taping. It's basically S...
Diamond Nuggets
From Roy Blount, writing for the Atlantic back in 1997:...
Ralph Nader Is Just Mailing It In These Days
Here's an email that just popped into our inbox: ...
Newspaper Typo: Senior Basketballer Wins “Hot Shit Contest”
From today's Daily Times in Maryville, Tenn. An easy typo to make, but not inaccurate: I have no doubt that Peggy "Baller" Ballard is indeed hot shit....
Driver Slams Car Into Motorcyclist, Because Russia
Just another dashboard-cam reminder that Russia and driving don't mix. Good thing this guy stops to check the damage to his vehicle first....