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"That Moment Before It Starts When You're Scared": Tyson In His Prime
Before he became the main attraction at the freak show, and before he became a kitsch icon, Mike Tyson was the youngest heavyweight champion in history, and a fighter of seemingly limitless promise. There was no way to know it at the time, but when Pete Dexter wrote the story below, he was capturing...
"That Moment Before It Starts When You're Scared": Tyson In His Prime
Originally published in the February 1988 issue of Playboy. Reprinted here by the permission of the author. ...
Rickey, Mattingly, And Racism In The Eighties
Have You Seen Your Brother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows?...
Ravens Kicker Celebrates His Game-Winner With The "Ooh Kill 'Em" Dance
Yep, that's Justin Tucker doing his best Terrio impression. ...
What Is This Bizarre Vine That Seems To Feature A Nude Anthony Davis
This is just fucking weird. The Vine below was uploaded by a Louisville fan calling Davis gay, so take that for all it's worth, but it appears to involved a nude Anthony Davis getting his bare ass slapped. ...
Drunk Tarzan Goes To A Football Game
And sits right next to ABC's microphones, apparently. ...
Roll Teabag, Roll: Your LSU-'Bama <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
College GameDay is in Tuscaloosa this morning for tonight's game against LSU. There are signs and some of them are about toilet stores. Yay! Others are about teabagging people. Boo. Let's check 'em out....
Maryland Finally Remembers Wilmeth Sidat-Singh
Maryland will honor former Syracuse standout Wilmeth Sidat-Singh when the teams meet on Saturday, 76 years after they banned him from playing after discovering he was black instead of a West Indian Hindu....
Adventures In Stupid Advertising: "Fly Incognito"
"Don't be bullied by high fares. Fly incognito out of Florida..." Do you guys get it? Are you picking up on the subtlety at play here? ...
Jordan Weethee Follows Up Filthy Dunk With Unsettling Celebration
This is such a nasty, posterizing dunk—valiant effort on the charge attempt, bud—that it really needs no celebration. The story behind it is great, as well. VMI's Jordan Weethee missed all of last season with an ACL tear, the second such injury of his career. Dude is back, and running shit. Just le...
Florida Put The Players In A Dump Truck For Its Homecoming Parade
Florida hosts Vanderbilt today at noon for homecoming and 24 hours before kickoff, the Gators paraded through campus for the 90th year in a row. 90 years is a lot, and worth celebrating itself, so they got a corvette and put the players in a dump truck. ...
VMI Sophomore Pulls Off Flawless Dunk-Mean Mug Combination
Jordan Weethee of the Virginia Military Academy just did this during the All-Military Classic against the Citadel. The dunk is spectacular, but so is Weethee's I'm-feeling-myself-so-hard-right-now stare into the camera. ...
Martin Truex Jr. Sounds Like A Pretty OK Guy
We received this email from reader Philip, about a run-in last week with a certain NASCAR driver:...
This Polar Bear Cub Has A Lot To Teach Us About Relaxation
Man, it's been a rough week, hasn't it? You could use some calm and relaxation right about now, and I suggest you take your cues from this polar bear cub....
Someone Keeps Stealing Sean Lee's Underwear And Socks
Serious question: Who the fuck keeps taking Sean Lee's underwear and socks from the Cowboys' locker room, thereby forcing him to freeball his way home after games?...
The Truth According To Shoeless Joe
As told to Furman Bisher for Sport magazine back in 1949:...
Sports Radio Host Goes On Moronic, Misogynistic Rant
Damon Bruce is a sports radio host on KNBR 1050 is San Francisco. It appears that he is also a fucking nutjob. Yesterday, Bruce spent nearly nine minutes going on a misogynistic tirade about how sick and goddamn tired he is of women ruining sports with their stupid emotions and opinions. It was real...
Pavel Datsyuk Embarrasses Shawn Horcoff, Wrists Beautiful Goal
Pavel Datsyuk goals are usually gifts. Tonight's gift featured Datsyuk making the Stars' Shawn Horcoff look stupid before flicking a seemingly effortless wrister for a 3-2 Red Wings lead....
