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Slopestyle Matryoshka Doll Lets 'Boarders 50/25/12.5/6.25/3.125 Grind
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Barcelona Benefit From Maybe The Worst Own Goal Of All Time
How...? So he... but then... huh? Jesus Christ, that was terrible....
The Legacy Of <em>The Decision</em>: Everyone Is Taking His Talents Somewhere
Aside from the alleged traitorousness, arrogance, callousness, short-sightedness, and all the other negative adjectives that have been largely forgotten or forgiven with LeBron James's recent success, the lasting aspect of The Decision will be a particularly clunky bit of phraseology that has noneth...
A George Zimmerman-DMX Boxing Match Would Almost Certainly Be Fixed
The internet is all abuzz about the fact that child killer George Zimmerman has agreed to fight 43-year-old rapper DMX in a three-round boxing match on March 1. But before we enter into weeks of discussing how horrifying the idea of these people profiting off of Trayvon Martin's dead body is, one th...
You Can Trade Losing Lotto Tickets For Florida Panthers Seats
Florida seems the appropriate place for an intersection of broken dreams and poorly attended hockey, but the Panthers are getting a bit literal: A new promotion allows fans to trade in $10 worth of losing scratch-off lotto tickets for seats with a face value of $20. You'd have to be a fool not to pl...
Is Time For Olympic Leopard Attack
Vladimir Putin visited the Sochi National Park today because he wanted to pet a leopard. The BBC reports that while Putin was petting the leopard, it attacked two journalists. Play the video above to see what a pissed-off leopard trying to kill a poor schmo with a camera looks like....
Redskins Lied About Not Paying Horrible People To Defend Team Name
This became news a few days ago—the Friday evening before the Super Bowl, to be exact. Because of that timing, we can only assume the Redskins didn't want anyone to notice. Don't let them get away with it....
The Olympic Hockey Teams' Bedrooms Are Very, Um, Cozy
Canadian journalist Stephen Whyno has arrived at the Olympic village in Sochi, and he got to take a peek at one of the bedrooms that members of the Canadian hockey team will be staying in. It's going to be like being at summer camp!...
Like Most Sabres Fans, This Guy Showed Up Incognito
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Lookin' Good, Gunslinger
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Jerry Seinfeld Leaves Adam Schefter Hanging
Jerry hates the shake. Hates it!...
Jason Whitlock on David Stern's legacy: "Stern was a bully. He convinced everyone, employees and reporters who covered his league, that he was the smartest, most dangerous man in the room. His profanity-laced tantrums were legendary and effective. His ability to make his enemies uncomfortable was re...
A Lot Of Sleepy Bears Like To Hibernate Underneath Lake Tahoe Homes
Hey, everyone, we all need to move to Lake Tahoe immediately. The reason we are all moving to Lake Tahoe is because every year, more than 100 sleepy bears hibernate under the houses of the people who live there. Adorable, sleepy bears! 100 of 'em! ...
Batman On Steroids: How The <em>NFL On Fox</em> Theme Song Was Born
It was March 1994, and Fox Sports president David Hill was on the phone with a new employee. Hill himself was something of a new employee. The network was only a few months old at that point, being built on the fly after Rupert Murdoch had unexpectedly outbid CBS for NFC broadcast rights. Hill was k...
Vernon Davis Asks Roger Goodell Why Former NFLers Don't Get Healthcare
At the commissioner's press conference today, he appeared caught off guard by a question from 49ers tight end Vernon Davis: Why doesn't the league take care of its former players?...
National Congress Of American Indians Releases Anti-Redskins Ad
Just in time for the Super Bowl, the National Congress of American Indians has released a simple, yet powerful, commercial directed right at Dan "you can use caps" Snyder. For nearly two minutes we see video and images of American Indians living their everyday lives while the narrator lists the var...
Former NFLer: "Getting Banged In The Head Was Just Part Of It"
This is an interview series in which we ask the plaintiffs of the NFL concussion lawsuit one question (and maybe a few more): Knowing what you know now, if you could do it over again, would you still play football?...
Down With Big Birthday
I have two kids with birthdays coming up and as much as I would like to sidestep the Birthday-Industrial Complex, it's no easy task. There are two levels of peer pressure in the birthday universe: the peer pressure exerted on your children (not that I really care about that) and the social pressure...