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Audubon Society Calls New Vikings Stadium "A Death Trap" For Birds
One of the more distinguishing features of the new Vikings stadium, set to open in 2016, is the huge glass exterior. But birds, who are stupid, would not call that a selling point. They would call it a dying point....
The Lebowskis Who Might Have Been: Behind The Scenes With The Coens
When I was 25 I got a job with the Coen brothers. I'd worked on three movies as an apprentice film editor and got a gig with them as a personal assistant when they made The Big Lebowski. I was with them for a year, from before pre-production through post-production (when they edited the movie, I tra...
Idiot's Apology To Erin Andrews: "15 Lbs. Heavier, She'd Be A Waitress"
WEEI/NESN personality Kirk Minihane apologized on-air today for calling Erin Andrews a "gutless bitch," only to immediately follow it up with the assertion that "if she weighed 15 pounds more, she'd be a waitress at Perkins."...
Broncos Owner, Beset By Alzheimer's, Gives Up Control
Broncos majority owner Pat Bowlen will stand aside from running the team, the Broncos announced today, publicly acknowledging what most have known for a while: he is deep into the serious stages of Alzheimer's disease....
Drowsy Baby Too Tired To Watch Blue Jays Get Blown Out
It's OK, little Blue Jays baby. We understand if you're tuckered out. You had an exhausting day that presumably included eating, keeping your head upright, and screaming. Besides, the Blue Jays aren't going to pull off a 13-run comeback. It's the eighth inning. Go to sleep....
What's Karl Marx Doing In These Arguments Against College Athlete Pay?
Bob Bowlsby is a man with a very influential job. He is the commissioner of the Big 12 conference, one of the so-called power conferences that helps set policy for major college football. He also harbors a belief that is most commonly associated with pre-20th-century economics, and has really on...
Smokin' Joe Frazier
From Philly.com, check out this article about Stephen Layne's dope Joe Frazier sculpture. ...
Daughter-In-Law Of Nike Founder Arrested On Student Sex Charges
Melissa Bowerman, high school track coach and daughter-in-law of Nike founder Bill Bowerman, is again facing allegations of improper relations with a student. But this time the charges are serious and Bowerman is behind bars. ...
Man Who Helped Kill Women's Pro Soccer Dies While Playing Soccer
Early this morning rumors began to swirl that Dan Borislow, the millionaire entrepreneur whose legal war with Women's Professional Soccer was instrumental in bringing about the league's demise, had died at the age of 52. Bloomberg has since confirmed that Borislow died last night of a heart attack a...
Marshawn Lynch Apparently Ropes Off His Lamborghini When He Parks
If this Twitter user is to be believed, Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch uses velvet ropes to cordon off his Lamborghini Aventador Roadster when he parks. Are there always velvet ropes in his car, or does someone else bring them for him?...
Boston Celtics Sign Evan Turner, Because Not Enough People Hated Them
After a season in which their bottomed-out squad of plucky nobodies occasionally showed admirable spunk under first-year coach Brad Stevens, the Boston Celtics evidently decided they'd had enough of this not-being-hated-by-literally-everyone crap, and went out and signed ball-pounding avatar of hope...
Matt Bonner Brings Larry O'Brien Trophy To New Hampshire For A Day
San Antonio Spurs bench player Matt Bonner is one of the few active athletes New Hampshire can boast about. (Sam Fuld's the other big name on that list, which should tell you something.) The Red Mamba grew up in Concord and played for the high school's basketball team, and look at him now, a two-tim...
Is Jamaica In A Sprinting Recession?
Even before the advent of Usain Bolt, Jamaican men owned the sprinting world. Since 2006, in the 100 meters, they've had no less than six of the top 10 times of the year, peaking at nine of the top 10 when Bolt set his first world record in 2008. But in 2014, Jamaica's best athletes are missing, an...
The Phillies Spent Their Rain Delay Playing Bullpen Bocce
The Phillies waited out a one-hour, 39-minute rain delay in Atlanta yesterday, and some bored souls out in the visitors' bullpen managed to pass the time with a few games of baseball bocce. God bless whoever invented the sphere....
Big 12 Commish Is Full Of Shit About Pay-For-Play Killing The Olympics
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby spoke to reporters during a press conference this morning, and spent a good deal of time painting a bleak picture of the future of college sports. What does Bowlsby see on the horizon, in a post-O'Bannon world? Athletes unionizing! Massive program cuts! The death of...
Bon Jovi Reportedly Wants To Keep Bills In Buffalo
We'll leave the Jon Bon Jovi-inspired puns to the comments section, but the New Jersey rocker could be a key figure in keeping the Bills in Western New York and out of Toronto. ...
Red Sox Ball Girl Fields Fair Ball, Immediately Regrets It
In the top of the fourth inning last night in Boston, Eric Hosmer hit one on the screws down the first base line and an overeager ball girl scooped up the obviously fair ball. Her reaction is so great. ...
Ole Miss QB Says Players Go To Bed Hungry
In late March, UConn's Shabazz Napier caused a stir when he said there were some nights he went to bed hungry. People scoffed at the idea of a star player not being able to find an open dining hall or afford food on his own, but a couple weeks later–total coincidence on the timing–the NCAA changed i...
Down Goes Terror: How A Frightened George Foreman Shocked Joe Frazier
Excerpted from Bouts of Mania: Ali, Frazier, and Foreman—and an America on the Ropes. ...
No One Likes Jim Boeheim As Much As This Guy With A Jim Boeheim Tattoo
Oh, you're a Syracuse men's basketball fan? You like Jim Boeheim? WRONG. What the hell do you know about liking Jim Boeheim? Do you have a 10-inch tattoo of Jim Boeheim's face on your leg? No? Some Jim Boeheim fan you are....