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Manny Ramirez Continues To Bring Us Wonderful Highlights From Taiwan

No prodigious homers or announcers and fans going apeshit in this one. Just a classic case of Manny being Manny....

A Special Mother's Day Message From "Get In The Hole!" Guy

The "get in the hole!" guy is pretty much the worst guy on any televised golf course, but even that guy has a mom, or a wife or a sister with kids. ...

MLB More Concerned With Pink Bat Sponsorships Than Umpires Fucking Up

For Mother's Day, MLB players sometimes use pink bats with the intent of bringing awareness to breast cancer. Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports found that this season, the MLB struck an exclusive deal with the parent company of Louisville Slugger to make those bats....

Here's How To Make A Delicious Mother's Day Brunch, You Lousy Ingrates

That Mother's Day is little more than a gussied-up mid-spring sales event—Sweeps Week for florists—needn't be argued at any great length. Still, buncha bullshit though it might be, the holiday nevertheless serves as an occasion to appreciate and celebrate one of the true and truly wonderful pillars...

MLB.com Gave Red Sox Owner A Byline To Respond To Dan Shaughnessy

Well, this is ... interesting. MLB.com published a column this afternoon that takes the Boston Globe's Dan Shaughnessy to task for filling precious newspaper space by creating accusations of PED usage for David Ortiz to deny. The author of that MLB.com column? None other than Tom Werner, the Red Sox...

Eddie Jordan Admits He Didn't Graduate From Rutgers [UPDATE]

Earlier today, we reported that Rutgers's new men's basketball coach, Eddie Jordan, never received a degree from Rutgers University, even though his official university bio says he graduated in 1977....

Eddie Jordan Didn't Graduate From Rutgers, Despite School's Claim [UPDATE]

On April 23, Rutgers introduced Eddie Jordan as the new men's basketball coach. Nearly three weeks earlier, ESPN had aired video of the previous coach, Mike Rice, calling his players "fucking faggots" and chucking basketballs at their heads. From the beginning, Jordan was presented a sort of institu...

Your Heart Will Be Warmed By This Canadian Drunkard's Obituary

Alvin Cote of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, died of pneumonia on April 19th at the age of 59. He is being fondly remembered by those who knew him best: the police officers who arrested him over 1,000 times for public drunkenness....

Peter Gammons: Angel Hernandez Blew That Call After Ignoring The Replay

Peter Gammons went on Dan Patrick's radio show to talk about umpire Angel Hernandez's egregious blown call from Wednesday night's A's-Indians game. Gammons offered an interesting explanation for how Hernandez could have failed to properly call what was a clear home run even after looking at a video...

Dan Shaughnessy Invents Some David Ortiz PED Rumors

David Ortiz is hitting well, and Dan Shaughnessy wrote a stupid, awful column. Stop me if you've heard these ones before....

Everton Boss David Moyes To Replace Alex Ferguson At Manchester United

Manchester United announced today that Everton manager David Moyes will be Sir Alex Ferguson's successor. Ferguson announced he would retire at the end of the season yesterday after 26 seasons at the club....

Lying-ass shitbag vulgarian Dan Snyder's latest thoughts on potentially changing his football team's racist name: "We'll never change the name. It's that simple. NEVER—you can use caps." [USA Today]...

MLB's Crappy Replay Tech: It's A Miracle Umps Ever Get A Call Right

Much has been made of umpire Angel Hernandez's botching of replay review in last night's Oakland-Cleveland game, a mistake that might have cost the A's the game. You've doubtless already seen the play numerous times on your home TV or computer screen, but you've probably never seen it the way Hernan...

Infographic: Is Your State's Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably)

You may have heard that the highest-paid employee in each state is usually the football coach at the largest state school. This is actually a gross mischaracterization: Sometimes it is the basketball coach....

Joe Girardi Batted His Pitcher Eighth And Had Vernon Wells Play Third

I don't know how much of this was Girardi and how much was The Binder, but somehow, for some reason, Joe Girardi managed a May game against the Rockies like it was an 18-inning World Series Game 7. And it...worked?...

Umps Review Blown Home Run Call In Cleveland, Still Blow Call

In some bizarre way, the terrible call Angel Hernandez made in Cleveland is a great argument for more video replay and also no replay whatsoever....

You know what? Maybe we should just keep coaches off Twitter. ...

Tim Duncan's Optical Illusion Photobomb Is The Best Photobomb

No, Tim Duncan does not want to sex the Spurs fan on the left. It just looks that way, because this is the most mind-bending photobomb we've ever seen. It belongs in the Internet Hall of Fame....

The Marlins Will Close Their Empty Upper Deck For Weeknight Games

Fuck it, it's Marlins Day....

A Relegated Team Reaching The FA Cup Final Is Facepalm-Worthy

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