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Major League Baseball's War On Drugs Is An Immoral Shitshow
Major league ballplayers should never have agreed to drug testing. They should have told any handwringing writer who had anything to say about it to fuck right off, and they should have said the same to any handwringing politician who wanted to do something about it. They should have made clear that...
Scott Boras Says MLB's War On PEDs Is All Backwards
Baseball came down hard on Alex Rodriguez, seeking—and achieving--stacked suspensions for each violation of the joint drug agreement. But what if MLB is going about things all wrong? Scott Boras believes that to truly quash its drug problem, baseball needs to go after the dealers, not the users....
Here's Some Audio From Boomer Esiason's Stoned <em>MNF</em> Broadcast
Last week, we learned about the time Boomer Esiason and Matt Millen got contact high while doing a radio broadcast for a Monday Night Football game in December 2000. Yesterday, Boomer shared some of his marijuana-infused commentary from that game on his daily radio show....
You Know Who Also Untied His Opponent's Shoes? Larry Bird
So it turns out that J.R. Smith isn't the only basketball player to have untied an opponent's shoes during free throws. A couple decades ago, another trash-talking, non-urban volume shooter pulled the same stunt, and somehow managed not to get written up by a professional sportswriter as a cross bet...
Robert Griffin III Has Had It With Fans Complaining About Dumb Things
The Skins QB has stayed largely silent since the end of the season—he's been around long enough to know that after a 3-13 season, you can't win no matter what you say. But on Friday he made a lengthy post on Facebook. On the face of it, it's a response to one stupid person complaining about the arm ...
The Last Of The Old Way: Larry Bird's Celtics Enter The Modern Era
Excerpted from Unfinished Business, a chronicle of the 1990-91 Boston Celtics season, now available as an e-book. The author's annotations appear throughout the story. ...
Dwyane Wade Celebrated His Birthday On A Three-Story Yacht
OK, Dwyane, that yacht is pretty cool, but "Way of Wade" is still a terrible catchphrase....
Tyson, Truth & Toback
Over at her great movie blog, Sunset Gun, Kim Morgan interviews James Toback about his Mike Tyson documentary....
Watch Angry Chargers Fans Beat The Shit Out Of A Broncos Fan
A couple different videos have popped up on YouTube of a Broncos fan outside San Diego getting punched, kicked, and stomped after the Chargers' playoff loss today in Denver....
"Alex Is Scared Of Needles": Bosch Explains Why He Injected A-Rod
Anthony Bosch spoke with the former news magazine 60 Minutes and the interview will air tomorrow night. During halftime of Colts-Patriots they previewed the interview and the biggest takeaway is that Alex Rodriguez is afraid of needles....
A-Rod Suspension: Where Does 162-Game Ban Come From?
With the news that Alex Rodriguez's 211-game suspension was reduced to 162 games by Fredric Horowitz, the independent arbitrator on MLB's three-person review panel, we are forced to once again ask where these numbers come from. Given the protocol outlined in the Joint Drug Agreement's PED section—50...
Who Is America Rooting For This Weekend?
Below are four maps showing which team in each of this weekend's games has more Facebook fans in every county in America....
Boomer Esiason Says He And Matt Millen Got Stoned During <i>MNF</i> Broadcast
Remember the first time you went to a party and had, like, a sip of alcohol and couldn't stop talking about how wasted you were? This is a lot like that. Boomer Esiason does Monday Night Football color commentary on the radio and recently revealed that in his first year on the broadcast he and Mil...
Shaun White: All Moussed Up
From Elizabeth Weil's New York Times Magazine profile:...
The Month Without Booze Is A Week Old. I'm Great! How Are You?
Hi ho campers, and welcome to Week Two of Drynuary. We think of Drynuary as being a lot like summer camp: you're out of your element, perhaps meeting new people. You're probably also discovering new activities to pass the time, or rediscovering old ones. There might be tears involved. If you're wri...
Let's Make A Really Good Bloody Mary, For Once
When I was a dirty young man working at a low-end marketing outfit, I scoffed at the tagline for the office-approved Dockers-rock station that played all day in any cube pod where the clip artisans outnumbered the conference callers. In between Lilith Fair dirges, furniture store ads, and the softer...
Remembering Hal Needham And The Birth Of Redneck Cinema
This here's a good one. From Stephen Rebello writing for Playboy:...
Our 20 Most Anticipated Movies of 2014
Now that all the year-end best-of lists are finally over, it's time for some lists that look forward rather than backward. 2014 has a lot to live up to; 2013 was one of the best movie years in recent memory....
Budweiser To Terrorize Hell's Kitchen With Super Bowl Hell Boat
Tailgating will not be allowed at this year's Super Bowl, but fans will still have ample opportunity to turn the weekend into a boozy shitshow thanks to the Bud Light Hotel New York. ...
Costas: No HOF Vote For Fans Because "They Vote For Their Favorites"
NBC's Bob Costas argued against fans having a say in the Hall of Fame election process today on Dan Le Batard's radio show, claiming were they to be provided enfranchisement they'd "vote for their favorites," something actual BBWAA members have never, ever done. After all, you can't have famous peop...