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Less Awesome Map: The Provinces Of Canada, By Regional Sport
A reply to "Awesome Map: The United States Of America, By Regional Sport," by Carrie Hunt and the Spoonerisms....
The Meaning Of The First Sonny Liston-Muhammad Ali Fight
Over on The Stacks, we're republishing Murray Kempton's classic dispatch from the first Clay-Liston fight, in 1964; you can find the story below. Kempton was an elegant columnist and essayist with a great ear for the overtones and undertones of any public spectacle—mob trials, nominating conventio...
Chart: How Does Your NFL Team Stack Up On Offense and Defense?
Over at Advanced NFL Stats, Brian Burke has put together a great visualization plotting the offensive and defensive performance of the league's 32 teams. It's nothing too complicated—basically a NYMag Approval Matrix for football—but it reveals a lot about the state of the NFL through Week 5....
The Champ And The Chump: The Meaning Of Liston-Clay I
Originally published on March 7, 1964, in The New Republic. Reprinted here with the permission of the author's family....
Ex-Eagle Allegedly Received Nude Teen Photos, Created Fake Cop Station
Darrell Beavers was drafted by the Eagles in 1991 and also played in Kansas City and Canada. He eventually bounced out of football and become a cop in Cincinnati, a position he's had for the last 13 years. from June 2013 to September 2013 he allegedly received nude pictures from a 17-year-old and go...
Harry Potter's Fantasy Football Team Is Named "Barkevious Mingo's Mum"
The New York Times Magazine cover story this weekend was about Daniel Radcliffe, better known simply as the boy who played Harry Potter. It's an interesting read if you like learning about celebrities who seem pretty grounded and only just a little bit tortured by fame. You learn that Radcliffe is h...
Who The Hell's On The Ice? Cool Interactive Explores Hockey Line Changes
It's hard enough to follow the puck in televised hockey, so forget about tracking the many, many on-the-fly line changes. Luckily ShiftChart, a sample of which you see above, is here to do the work for you. ...
What's More Improbable: The Jaguars' +28 Line Or An 11-Inch Penis?
The murmurs began last week, before the Broncos put up 51 points against the Cowboys and the Jaguars lost second-overall pick Luke Joeckel to injury. And when the dust of Week 5 had settled, sure enough, the betting line for Jaguars at Broncos was set at 28 points, which is a lot....
A's, Tigers Trade "Fuck You"s Then Shoves As Fight Breaks Out In Ninth
Grant Balfour's no stranger to brawls in the ALDS sparked by profanity, and he was at the center of one again today in the ninth as he attempted to close out a win for the A's against the Tigers. Alas, Victor Martinez was going to make sure today's bottom of the ninth would be punctuated with pugil...
Sunset At JerryWorld
The Cowboys don't play a lot of late afternoon games. But when they do, AT&T Stadium is perfectly primed to capture the low rays of the sun in striking, often distracting ways....
High School Football Player Runs Over Entire Defense For 50-Yard TD
This is what happens when a defense made up entirely of kids who can't tackle try to take on a running back who has a little Bo Jackson in him. ...
Spectator Video Captures Frightening, Up-Close View Of IndyCar Crash
IndyCar driver Dario Franchitti sustained two fractured vertebrae, a broken ankle, and a concussion when he crashed his car on the final lap of yesterday's Grand Prix of Houston. The Big Lead found this terrifying video taken by a fan standing right along the catchfence at the moment and place of im...
Dan Snyder Sucks at PR, According To Dan Snyder's Former PR Company
Adweek magazine ran its version of the Redskins name story a few days ago. The main question under consideration was whether social media have "propelled" the controversy over the team's name. Yes, was the conclusion....
Middle-Aged A's Fan Fights All The Cops Before Getting Tasered
We've seen our share of rowdy and violent sports fans, but this guy right here is something else. ...
Tony Romo Was Tony Romo, Until He Was Tony Romo
Broncos-Cowboys was the most satisfying game of the season, and not just because it was the sort of record-breaking, no-defense, aerial shootout the NFL seems to be moving toward. No matter what your opinion of Tony Romo coming in, it was confirmed. A win for the Broncos, perhaps a moral victory for...
Watch Oakland's O.co Coliseum Change From A's To Raiders Mode
Maybe you've seen the Coliseum change over from baseball to football mode, maybe you haven't. But as the only remaining MLB/NFL stadium, it's not something you see every day. ...
Ninety-Nine Points: Your Week 5 Late Games Roundup
Broncos 51, Cowboys 48: It seems appropriate that there were only two late games this week, because this game had enough combined scoring, excellent QB play and drama to keep you hooked....
Peyton Manning Briskly Jogs For A Rushing Touchdown
All 11 Cowboys swarmed Knowshon Moreno and forgot about Peyton Manning, allowing him to shuffle his way into the end zone for his first rushing touchdown in five years. Look at his little fist pump! So happy....