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TBS Baseball Crew Recreates "Boom Goes The Dynamite" Highlight Reel
To help ring in the playoffs, TBS had the crew from its studio baseball show do a new version of the famous "Boom Goes The Dynamite" highlight disaster. It's a pretty well-struck parody....

Korean Baseball Fanbots Execute Kickass Slow Wave
The slow wave starts at 1:25, but it's best to watch this whole thing through. For more information on these fan robots, check out these BBC and SportsTechie stories. Cleveland is surely taking note....

So Did Rajon Rondo Break His Hand At A Trampoline Park Or Not?
The controversy over just how Rajon Rondo broke his hand, which should be nicknamed "TrampGate" but probably won't be, has entered its fourth day. And on Day 4, as these things usually go, the trampoline park manager has spoken....

Kosmic Mother Funk Grand Cru: A Sour Beer Worth Road-Tripping For
The Boston Beer Company confounds me. I do like their most famous and best-selling beer, Samuel Adams Boston Lager: It's a seminal brew in many a Masshole's drunken coming of age, mine included, and a large, unbalanced load of the Internet holds this fact against us. I can't swing a dead Yuengling a...

Palmer Vs. Palmer
Over at the Daily Beast, I reprinted Tom Boswell's fine 1983 portrait of Jim Palmer:...

Here's Mike Smith Digging Deep In His Nose And Plucking A Fat Booger
It couldn't have felt very good, watching his Falcons get pummeled by the Vikings yesterday, but head coach Mike Smith had to feel some satisfaction from his nose-picking performance. Watch him dig all the way up in there:...

Derek Jeter Hits RBI Infield Single In Final At-Bat Of Career
Derek Jeter took his final at-bat in the third inning at Fenway Park today. He hit an RBI infield single before being subbed out for Brian McCann. Never again will Jeter have to play one of those 10-hour Yankees-Red Sox games....

Red Sox Hire Fake Aretha Franklin To Serenade Jeter With "Respect"
What better gift to give a departing Derek Jeter than a cheap Aretha knockoff? Observers are unimpressed:...

UMass Video Board Falls Over During Third Quarter
UMass took on Bowling Green in its first game on-campus in three years today, and it would appear they haven't worked out all the kinks yet. Early in the third quarter, the video board fell over. Unfortunately, there's no video of the actual fall, but we can see the board hanging limp in the afterma...

Arkansas Player Hit In Face By Errant Pass While Watching Jumbotron
The gigantic video board at Jerry World has claimed another victim: this Arkansas player, who while sitting on the bench was staring up at it while an errant (or, maybe, thrown away) pass headed directly toward his face....

Rajon Rondo Has A Mysterious Broken Hand
This has not been a great week for Rajon Rondo. On Tuesday, Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck called the point guard "stubborn" and said he wasn't sure how "coachable [Rondo] really is."...

Thom Yorke Did Not Bypass The Gatekeepers. He Is One.
As of this morning there is a new Thom Yorke solo album in the world, titled Tomorrow's Modern Boxes and available for $6 via BitTorrent. This is cool and good; I heartily recommend you stop using BitTorrent to illegally download pornography long enough to legally check it out, flush as it is wi...

Hey, Come Over And Look At This Soccer Player's Floppy Dong Real Quick
This is FC Girondins de Bordeaux striker Thomas Touré, who was in action yesterday against AS Saint-Étienne. And this is Thomas Touré's dong....

The Oral History Of The 2003 World Series Of Poker Main Event, Day One
The 2014 WSOP Main Event begins airing this weekend. Here's an account of the tournament that started the poker boom, from the people who were there. Excerpted from the full oral history, The Moneymaker Effect: The Inside Story Of The Tournament That Forever Changed Poker....

Oingo Boingo Did A Budweiser Commercial In 1984
I had no idea....

The Most Accurate Depiction Of Red Sox Fans
"Mets do suck, Baltimore does blow, but Boston? That's a team and a half."...

Why Football Players Crave Contact
Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. Illustration by Sam Woolley....

So Normal It Hurts: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Phil Hartman
There were few thrills in preadolescent life as dependable as the voice of Troy McClure. That first resoundingly confident "Hi!" triggered a Pavlovian response like no other single syllable: Here, without a doubt, comes a belly laugh....

Two People With Nothing To Say About Sean Taylor
Sean Taylor: A Football Life will air tomorrow night on the NFL Network, and will chronicle the life and death of Taylor, who was fatally shot by burglars during a home invasion on Nov. 26, 2007. There is no better time—though there is no bad time—to remind you of the sneering and altogether shithea...

Watch Manchester United Fans Brawl With Guys Dressed Like Waldo
In one corner, a bunch of drunken oafs fresh off leaving a United match. In the other corner, a bunch of drunken oafs celebrating a bachelor party and wearing matching Where's Waldo? shirts and hats. It's the most England video there is. ...