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Hey, Another Guy Got Kicked In The Head Yesterday
It's getting real out here, man. Yesterday, we saw NFL player Antonio Brown jump kick a punter, and it was fucking gorgeous. Let's keep this going....
Hawks Scandal Was Sparked By "Racist" Remark About Luol Deng
The email that led Atlanta Hawks co-owner Bruce Levenson to announce his intention to sell his controlling stake in the team emerged from a months-long investigation by an outside firm, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. And that probe was ordered after a separate "offensive and racist" ...
World's Angriest Browns Fan Goes On World's Angriest Browns Rant
Jimmy Haslam—did you buy a fuckin' team to watch Brian fuckin' Hoyer go THREE AND FUCKIN' OUT EVERY FUCKIN' SERIES? That's a functional recap of today's first half in Pittsburgh, but our very loud and very bald hero goes on for another two and a half minutes for good measure. ...
Antonio Brown Kicks A Punter In The Face, In Extreme Slow Motion
We already brought you some video and a GIF of this, but the sheer beauty of the moment really demanded we bring our special approach to sports highlights. So here's the Steelers' Antonio Brown kicking Browns punter Spencer Lanning in the face—in extreme slow motion....
Lagunitas Sucks Is America's Finest Quart Of Beer
One of these days I'm going to write about 40s—it would be irresponsible to forever ignore one of the most iconic corners of American beer culture—but I keep putting it off, because I can't find a worthwhile angle beyond nostalgia. Most of your better brewers opt not to package their wares in 40-oun...
Antonio Brown Introduces The Front Heel Kick To The NFL
Want to make everyone in a sports bar happy? Kick a punter in the face. I've never experienced such collective joy and wonder....
Yo, Brady, Careful With The Gronk!
That's assault, brother....
Here's The Email That Forced Hawks Owner Bruce Levenson Out Of The NBA
Hawks owner Bruce Levenson is selling his team. Here's the email that led to the decision to sell, as released by the team....
Emmanuel Taylor's Evening Did Not End Well
Adrien Broner defeated Emmanuel Taylor tonight by unanimous decision, and this punch is a good example why the judges saw fit to award "The Problem" the victory. ...
Ha, That Pass At 1:55
It's a slick enough pass by Van Exel, nothing extraordinary, but Brent Barry's reaction is pretty funny: He gets faked left by the behind-the-back move, then instantaneously recognizes he's been deked and transitions into doot-de-doot-de-doo, I was just strolling over here for my own purposes mode....
Nebraska Gets Crazy Last Minute TD, Bums Everyone Out
McNeese State vs. Nebraska was super fun for three hours, but it only takes a few seconds to remind everyone anew that there are Nebraska athletes and there are McNeese State athletes, and that's kind of not fair....
This Is What Happens When Punters Try To Tackle
(CMU is still, at the moment, beating Purdue.)...
You Will Never Be As Cool As Brock Hekking
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Adam Schefter Was Once Pranked Into "Reporting" John Elway's Nipple Ring
In a SportsJournalists.com message board thread on this week's excellent Adam Schefter profile in the Washington Post, one long-memoried poster recalled a wonderful story from Schefter's days on the Broncos beat, one of the better and meaner sports media pranks of all time....
Anchor California Lager: Because Ale Makes You Fat
You're getting chubby, and that's mostly because you spend all day looking at slideshows of the "27 Fried-est Foods at the Iowa Tractor Guild's Annual Corn Jousting Festival," which makes you shake your damn head at all those crazy, fat maize warriors and their deep-fried mutton cupcakes as you sm...
Arsenal Players Speak Out Against Homophobia, With Sexy Results
As a matter of policy, we don't usually participate in advertising campaigns. We're making an exception here, though, because a) the advertisement above, featuring several Arsenal players, is for an anti-homophobia campaign, which is fine by us and b) we need a pretext to run the following, which is...
Man Does Money Sign In Background Of CNN's Joan Rivers Death Report
It's what Joan would have wanted....
Johnny Manziel Files For "Johnny Cleveland" Trademark
Now that Johnny Manziel knows he'll be starting the season on the sideline, he's able to focus more of his energy on brand protection. To that end, ESPN reports Manziel recently filed the paperwork to trademark "Johnny Cleveland," apparently the next nickname he's trying to make happen—or make sure ...
Tröegs Perpetual IPA: Always Good, Sometimes Better
Informed citizens tend to blame Budweiser for most of society's ills, and justifiably so. Between the doltish marketing, crummy beer, and thousands of lives lost every year in catastrophic avalanches of Clydesdale shit, it's tempting to call for the company's immediate disbandment, or at least exi...