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How An Implausible Runner And A Tiny Track Club Conquered The 800 Meters
On June 13, 2014, 21-year-old Boris Berian got up early, put on a red and yellow uniform with a name tag and started his shift at the McDonald’s inside a Walmart in Colorado Springs. He’d dropped out of college, and was staying with a friend. Berian was an 800-meter runner; his best for the two-lap ...
Minor League Baseball Team Attempts To Conquer Solar Menace With Blimp
The Boise Hawks, a Colorado Rockies farm team, are fed up with the sun. For too long, the threat in the sky has shined in the eyes of fans at Memorial Stadium. (Earlier this week, it bossed around Blue Jays and Red Sox players.) The Hawks have a strategy now, however: a blimp....
Whiskey Smackdown: Fireball Vs. Jack Daniel's Tennessee Fire
How do you know when you’ve really made it in life? It depends on who you are and what racket you’re in. For charming chumps like us, success could mean dental insurance, a bed that doesn’t fold in half, or an honorably discharged student loan. For those of loftier falutions, arrival in the big leag...
Pablo Sandoval Fesses Up To Using Instagram In Bathroom During Game
Red Sox third baseman Pablo Sandoval will be benched after copping to liking photos of a woman on Instagram during Wednesday night’s game. Sandoval said he was in the bathroom when he checked the app....
Ken Shamrock Is The World's Most Dangerous Can
Six months ago, Ken Shamrock bought an RV. Two months ago, he parked it nine hours south of his family home in Reno, Nev., right by a mixed martial arts gym, where the 51-year-old is training for his heavyweight fight tomorrow night against Kimbo Slice....
Leandro Barbosa Is A Happy, Drunk Champion
From Bay Area Sports Guy comes this fun clip of Warriors backup guard Leandro Barbosa holding court in the postgame locker room. Is he drunk and happy? Hell yeah he’s drunk and happy....
The Blackhawks' Run Is More Impressive Than A Dynasty
The surest sign there are no true dynasties in the NHL’s salary-cap era is that the second a contender for the title emerges, it has to be broken up. The Chicago Blackhawks’ third championship in six seasons is an unbelievable accomplishment, not just for the seven players who have been here for all...
All The Deaths On Last Night's <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Finale, In Slow Motion
While HBO’s Game of Thrones may be leaving viewers wishing for death, several characters on last night’s season finale actually received such glorious release from the corporeal realm. Probably. So here’s everybody who died, we think, last night; since we love ruining things, we present all the Game...
Sun Wreaks Havoc On Blue Jays-Red Sox Game
The last-place Red Sox don’t need outside forces to help them lose, because they can handle it all on their own, but the sun ruined their composure anyway in Sunday’s game against the Blue Jays. Dustin Pedroia lost a pop fly in the fourth, and four Red Sox combined for another botched out in the fif...
<i>Game Of Thrones </i>Needs To Put Us Out Of Its Misery
Let’s begin by revisiting the best Game of Thrones scene to date. Notes:...
Ben Bishop Boner Gives Blackhawks 1-0 Lead
That’s suboptimal goaltending....
Bunny Surfs Avalanche
Via animal-video repository The Awl, here’s video of a snowboard guy and an avalanche and then a dumb, dumb hare dashes directly into the snowfall’s path. Be sure to watch the slow-motion beginning at 0:14—that little motherfucker runs on top of the churning snow before making one flailing leap for ...
Poll: Would You Have Sex With This Talking Sex Robot?
Sex is better when both people are having a good time, even when one of those people is a robot. So the next logical step there is that someone is building a sentient sex robot. Okay! It’s the future, and you’re now faced with a question: Would you do it with this hot bot? There are many possible an...
Watch "Nature Boy" Ric Flair Attempt To Pump Up The Cleveland Crowd
On a day when we mourn the death of one of Ric Flair’s biggest rivals, the “Nature Boy” himself took the court during a first-half time out to try and pump up the crowd at Cleveland’s arena. He still has it... some of it. “WOOO!” ...
Ty Cobb Was No One's Antihero
For no obvious reason, 2015 has become the summer of Ty Cobb. Two new books about the famously belligerent outfielder are in print this year, one from SI editor Charles Leerhsen and another, more ambitiously-subtitled one—War on the Basepaths: The Definitive Biography of Ty Cobb—by independent histo...
AMERICA BEAT GERMANY, WE ARE GIANT KILLERS, WHO WANTS NEXT, HUH?!
Last week wasn’t a fluke! Earlier today wasn’t a fluke! We still got the magic, baby!...
Bob Costas Is Wringing His Hands Off Over Caitlyn Jenner's ESPY Award
Recently, it was revealed that this year’s Arthur Ashe Courage Award—an award concocted by ESPN and given out every year at the ESPY Awards—will be given to Caitlyn Jenner. No one should really be upset by this; nodding to the ideal of equality is a fine use of ESPYs airtime....
How Augusta National Became Golf's North Korea
The following is excerpted from Slaying the Tiger: A Year Inside the Ropes on the New PGA Tour....
Bobby Murcer Was a Skoal-Dippin' Man
Found in the $1.00 bin at a record store in New Jersey. A 45 by, yes, that Bobby Murcer. He’s no Denny McClain but hey, everybody’s got their thing, right?...
The Time I Went To Havana And Hooked Up With Castro's Granddaughter
The following is excerpted from The Domino Diaries: My Decade with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway’s Ghost in the Last Days of Castro’s Cuba, by Brin-Jonathan Butler....