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Chris Long Did Not Have Much Fun Playing Against His Brother Yesterday
Everyone loves football games that come with a built-in subplot, so it's no surprise that yesterday's Bears-Rams game received some extra hype due to the brother-on-brother matchup of defensive end Chris Long and offensive guard Kyle Long. Two brothers enter, but only one can win! It'll be just lik...
Dead Wrestler Of The Week: Chris Benoit
Excerpted and adapted from The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling (Gotham Books). For the Dead Wrestler of the Week archive, click here....
Finally, A "Keys To The Game" Segment That Makes Sense
I mean, he's not wrong....
Tony Allen Kicks Chris Paul In The Face, Gets Ejected
Tony Allen earned a Flagrant 2 foul and an ejection tonight after taking the maxim "play defense with your feet" a little too literally....
Christopher Guest And Bill Murray Make Funny
In addition to our regular mix of sports and pop culture posts this week we're going to highlight comedians and other funny people. This is something I want to do periodically because there are a bunch of wonderful magazine profiles on comics that are worth sharing. ...
J.R. Smith And Brandon Jennings Are In A Twitter Fight
The fact that J.R. Smith's little brother occupies a spot on the Knicks' roster is and always will be a sad joke. This truth is not lost on Pistons point guard Brandon Jennings, who last night sent a since-deleted tweet expressing incredulity at the existence of Chris Smith's NBA career....
The Knicks, In One Paragraph
Woj has a column up that's ostensibly about the Knicks' latest insane notion—that they can sign Kevin Love in 2015—but which actually serves as a fine excuse to catalog New York's pervasive, perpetual state of rot. It captures basically every ill of the franchise in one tidy paragraph:...
These Are The NBA Christmas Uniforms
The NBA uniforms for Christmas have leaked. The sleeves! Anything but the sleeves!...
Hammer Of The Gods: <em>Thor: The Dark World</em>, Reviewed.
1. It's funny how many of the Avengers are stiffs. Sure, Iron Man is all wry and meta, and The Hulk, particularly as played by Mark Ruffalo, has genuine pathos and pain, along with a dark sense of humor about his whole predicament. Then there are the rest of them. Captain America is a cheesy dope w...
Chris Mortensen Takes A Phone Call On Live TV
On this afternoon's NFL Insiders, Mort received a phone call he just had to take. I'm so disappointed that it was time for a commercial break, because his mic was still on. We were this close to TV viewers getting breaking news before Twitter users for the first time this decade....
Chris Paul to Blake Griffin: Back-To-Back-To-Back Alley Oops
The Clippers beat the Warriors last night, 126-115, and in the process, Chris Paul hit Blake Griffin for alley oops on three straight possessions in a 35-second span. ...
Chris Bosh Really Wants You To Learn To Code
Chris Bosh has written a thoughtful, (more or less) self-aware article about the importance of learning to code for Wired. His gist is that even though "Learn to code!" is the asinine mantra Silicon Valley dudebros, there's still value to it. Also, it contains this sentence:...
Samantha And Christian Ponder Dressed Up As <em>The Sandlot</em> Characters
Guess who loves the 90s and probably also BuzzFeeᴅ. ESPN's Samantha Ponder and her husband, backup Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder....
Chris Bosh Creeps On Not One, But Two Interviews
The Bosh has returned, and he's kicking off the season with a double Video-Bosh....
Chris Bosh Is Getting Ornery For Some Reason
The NBA season starts tonight, so journalistic outlets the world over are publishing stories on the Miami Heat, because last year they repeated as champions, and this year they could three-peat as champions, and LeBron James and Michael Jordan and legacy and narrative. ...
Chris Cooley Says Albert Haynesworth Was Trying To Get Released
Remember when Albert Haynesworth signed that massive contract with the Washington Redskins, and then spent a season playing so poorly that people actually wondered if he was trying to get released? As it turns out, he was!...
Bobby Bowden Asks ESPN Analyst If His Dead Dad Is Still Coaching
Bobby Bowden stopped by the booth during Saturday's Florida State game, and everything went well until Bowden asked ESPN analyst Chris Spielman if his father, Charles Spielman, was still coaching high school football. Charles Spielman died in 2008. Chris did his best to not make it as awkward as it...