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TV Chef Fucks Up Grilled-Cheese Sandwich
Listen. Alton Brown is a goddamn hero. He's funny and smart and silly and endlessly curious, and he knows five trillion times as much about food as I ever will. He's turned bazillions of people onto cooking, and onto trying ingredients and techniques they otherwise wouldn't, and his commendable w...
The Scientific Case Against Vibram's FiveFinger Running Shoe
Last week's class-action settlement by Vibram, an Italian footwear manufacturer known for making silly-looking lightweight running shoes, recalls the recent case against Sketchers, a company that agreed to pay out $40 million after falsely claiming that walking in its product would give you Kim Kard...
Roger Mason's Comments About LeBron Boycotting Next Year Were Bullshit
So yesterday, we wrote about National Basketball Players Association VP Roger Mason, Jr., who last night appeared on Jim Rome on Showtime and declared quite emphatically that LeBron James was taking The Hard Stance. If Clippers owner Donald Sterling still had the team next year, the face of the leag...
Aaron Hernandez Indicted For 2012 Double Murder
From here out, when you talk about Aaron Hernandez being accused of committing murder, you're going to have to specify which one. Hernandez has been indicted by a grand jury on two counts of first-degree murder, stemming from a drive-by shooting outside a Boston club in 2012—a year before the allege...
Just Give Us The Habs And Bruins Every Year, Please
Consider me officially on-board with the NHL's new playoff format. Formerly, the second round was re-seeded based on regular season record, which may have been fairer, but paid no mind to familiarity or its cousin contempt. The new bracket format is designed to match up divisional rivals, and after ...
Milan Lucic Gets Heated In The Handshake Line After Game 7 Loss
We're not sure what Milan Lucic said to Dale Weise and Alexei Emelin in the handshake line after Boston's Game 7 loss to Montreal, but the conversation didn't look pleasant....
The Heat Didn't Care That Joe Johnson Had A 34-Point Game
Joe Johnson hadn't scored more than 19 points in the first four games of the Nets-Heat series. Tonight, he was seemingly sinking everything with Brooklyn down 3-1. Miami wasn't fazed, though....
Lacrosse Gets The "Bad British Commentary" Treatment
There may come a day when these videos are no longer funny, but this is not that day. ...
No Flops: A Treasury Of Pro Athletes' Vanity Record Labels
Listen, love is love, clap the gat at y'all hatersThe CEO of your label is a basketball player That mean your shit is never coming outSean Price, I'm forever dumbing out, pyrex—Sean Price, "Pyrex"...
Here's What The Braves' New Ballpark Could Look Like
Forget for a second how much money taxpayers will pay for the Braves' new Cobb County stadium, and how those taxpayers had no say in funding the ballpark, and how the Braves are abandoning a perfectly good 20-year-old stadium to the wrecking ball, and how parking will be a nightmare, and how the tea...
Union: LeBron Won't Play If Sterling Still Owns The Clippers Next Year
After the Donald Sterling tape was leaked last month, NBA commissioner Adam Silver took swift action, fining the Los Angeles Clippers owner a $2.5 million fine and laying a lifetime ban on him, and other franchise owners lined up to vote him out. But as of right now, today, Sterling is still the own...
Kevin Durant Couldn't Bear To Watch Russell Westbrook's Free Throws
[With six second left to play and the Thunder down by two, Russell Westbrook stepped to the line to shoot three free throws. Kevin Durant just couldn't watch. Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty.]...
The Wild End To Clips-Thunder, Thanks To A Controversial Review
The Clippers and Thunder don't feel like closing out games cleanly as of late, but we all benefit from it. Comebacks for everyone! Tonight's OKC rally couldn't have happened without a questionable decision by the officials on an out-of-bounds call, though....
Austin Jackson Can't Comprehend The Greatness Of Miguel Cabrera
This is Miguel Cabrera celebrating his three-run go-ahead homer in the top of the ninth to put the Tigers up 3-1 on the Orioles. Austin Jackson can't fathom what Miggy just did to that baseball....
Homeless Football Player Can't Receive Fans' Aid Due To NCAA Rules
A local Idaho news station aired a segment on Boise State football player Antoine Turner, and his rough journey from New Orleans to the team. Turner's currently homeless, and Broncos fans who learned about his story want to help, but the university is discouraging that generosity, because it could f...
LeBron Is The Human Analytic, And He's Unstoppable
Last night's Game 4 between the Heat and Nets came down to a three-play sequence that was laced with a fun bit of irony. With just under two minutes to go, game tied at 94, the Heat—the team paced throughout the night by its star cannon-balling his way to 49 points—rode out the game's crisis point w...
God Help Martin Freeman, The Pathetic Soul Of <em>Fargo</em>
Forgo Fargo at your own peril. Is the 10-part miniseries, which reaches its halfway point tonight on FX, worthy of the masterful 1996 Coen brothers film from whence it was adapted? You betcha. Oh yah, real good. ...
Matt Brown Got Violent This Weekend, And It Was Awesome
On Saturday night in Cincinnati, Ohio, Matt Brown and Erick Silva beat the hell out of each other for a while, and then things turned. In the end, it was Brown delivering and Silva absorbing a frightening thrashing, to the delight of nearly all, both his local fans in the arena and all those watchin...
Paul Pierce Got What He Asked For, And LeBron Went Off
Before last night's Game 4 between the Nets and Heat, Paul Pierce announced that he would be guarding LeBron James. It was an inspired bit of gamesmanship from the wily veteran. The likely idea was to get LeBron thinking about all those Celtics teams that stifled him in the playoffs—I'm an old dog, ...