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Marcus And Markieff Morris Found Not Guilty In Assault Trial

Marcus and Markieff Morris were acquitted of aggravated assault today, more than two years after they were first charged with helping to beat up a former acquaintance outside a high school basketball game. ...

The Cubs Were Never More Themselves Than In 1979

The following is excerpted from The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse, by Rich Cohen....

Here Are The Most Interesting Guys Of The AL Playoffs

You may have checked out of baseball once your team’s season turned into a trash heap, but that’s okay! You’ve come back just in time for the best month of the year, as all the highest-stakes games with top-quality talent begin. Here’s a guide to the AL players you need to pay attention to as the po...

What, Exactly, Does "All Of Australia" Look Like

Report: Seahawks Lineman Rees Odhiambo Suffered A Bruised Heart

One day after Seattle Seahawks left tackle Rees Odhiambo was stretchered out of the locker room following a hit to the chest, Odhiambo remains in the hospital. A report from Adam Schefter says that doctors believe the lineman has a cardiac contusion, or a bruised heart. From ESPN:...

Vols Brawl

Georgia beat Tennessee 41-0 in Knoxville today, an ass-whupping that paled only to those apparently being dispersed among spectators....

Yeah, But That's Because He's Fancy

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Goalkeeper Gifts Arsenal A Goal With Atrocious Boner

Playing out from the back can be good. It’s great to have a goalkeeper who is good with his feet and comfortable passing the ball around with opponents zipping at him. But this kind of dicking around on the ball and giving it straight to an opponent in literally the worst area of the pitch is unforg...

I've Had Enough Of Charles Barkley<em></em>

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. Buy his book here....

Chargers Superfan Boltman On Security Asking Him To Remove Mask: "They Treated Me Like A Criminal," Makes Rodney King Comp

Chargers superfan Dan Jauregui—better known as Boltman, the persona he’s adopted at games for decades—is, uh, extremely frustrated after briefly being told that he would be ejected if he did not remove his mask during his first game at the recently relocated team’s new home stadium in Los Angeles on...

Extremely Dedicated Shark Bites Man, Refuses To Let Go

Ervin Maccarty suffered through a rather unique shark attack earlier this month—one in which the shark just would not let the hell go of him. With the small nurse shark attached to his stomach, he climbed back on his boat off the coast of Florida, where his friends tried to help him. Some choice quo...

Four College Basketball Coaches Charged With Bribery And Fraud [Updated]

Four college basketball coaches have been arrested after being charged by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney with various counts of bribery and fraud. The arrests resulted from a nearly two-year investigation that examined the shady links between college basketball coaches and outside businesses, including...

Dez Bryant's Superhero Touchdown Delighted The ESPN Deportes Announcing Team

Dez Bryant’s 15-yard touchdown catch that saw him singlehandedly beating half the Cardinals defense gave the Cowboys a seven-point lead and gave ESPN Deportes announcers Álvaro Martín and Raúl Allegre the ride of their lives....

Cowboys Try To Please Everyone By Kneeling Before Anthem, Accomplish Nothing<em></em>

The Dallas Cowboys, including the team’s coaching staff and owner Jerry Jones, decided to collectively kneel before tonight’s Monday Night Football game—but before tonight’s national anthem performance, while nothing was happening, in a flimsy attempt to please everyone by taking the imagery of prot...

The Vanderbilt Rape Convictions Bucked The Status Quo

The following is excerpted from Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus, which is available now....

Luke Farrell Pitched A Scoreless Inning Against His Dad's Team, Like A Real Ingrate

Last night, John Farrell’s playoff-bound Boston Red Sox used a strong outing from Eduardo Rodriguez and some timely hitting to take a 5-0 lead into the ninth inning against the Cincinnati Reds, who are playing out the string on a lost season. Almost nothing was at stake in this game, but it still fo...

Fuck Sports Bottles<em></em>

I thought I was done. My kids were no longer babies, which meant no more formula, which meant no more time laboring at the sink, hand-washing 90 separate Dr. Brown’s bottle parts and leaving them soaking on a dishtowel to dry. That part of my life, as far as I was concerned, was over....

Nebraska Promptly Fires AD After Huskers Lose To Northern Illinois

This afternoon, Nebraska announced the abrupt firing of athletic director Shawn Eichorst, five days after the Cornhuskers lost a home game against Northern Illinois. When Chancellor Ronnie Green announced the news, he cited a lack of results, the timing of which sure makes it seem like it’s directly...

Kickboxing Superstar Gökhan Saki Is Ready To Shake Up The UFC

There’s not a ton of top-line UFC talent fighting this fall. Mighty Mouse and Tony Ferguson are both fighting for titles (sort of) in October, but David Branch just co-headlined a card, and there’s not really that many fights that grab your attention until November’s bonkers Madison Square Garden ca...

The NFL Should Legalize Holding

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. Buy his book here. ...