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This Guy Died This Year: Nate Dogg, The King Of G-Funk
Nathaniel "Nate Dogg" Hale always sounded smooth. His voice gave him a niche within G-funk's very stylized confines for the most quintessential G-funk crooner of them all—not that there were many, because who else did we really need?—and he held that title for as long as it even existed....

Bryce Harper Named His New Puppy "Swag"
Did you know Nationals wundertool Bryce Harper protects his Tweets? Luckily, Nats Enquirer is here to relay to us that Harper received an adorable chocolate Lab for Christmas, and promptly named it Swag. They're totally off to the park to pick up chicks. [Nats Enquirer]...

Because Bringing Your Dog To An English Premier League Match Makes Complete Sense
I suppose it's possible this Sunderland fan celebrating Nicklas Bendtner's opening goal over QPR at Loftus Road has a service animal of some sort, but I'm pretty sure seeing-eye dogs aren't meant to be tossed around like this poor pup. Sunderland won in a 3-2 heartbreaker. [BBC]...

Yale Doesn't Want Vince Lombardi Coaching Its Football Team
Or his analogue Tom Williams, who was canned by Eli today for padding his résumé, just like Lombardi had. Lombardi didn't correct claims that he had gone to law school. Williams had said he was a Rhodes scholar finalist—he was not—and he had said he played on the 49ers practice squad—he had not....

Butler Does It Again
The Butler Bulldogs—a program that against all odds stormed past major-conference teams on its way to making two consecutive NCAA tournament finals—struck down another BCS conference team today, overcoming a late 11-point deficit to beat Purdue on this near-buzzer-beater reminiscent of the one Mat...

Former Security Director Sues NBA, Claims League Fired Him After Blowing The Whistle On Sexual Harassment
In June, NBA security official Warren Glover received a gold watch and a letter from David Stern celebrating his 10 years with the league. A month later, he was fired, the highest-level NBA employee to be let go during the lockout. Glover says it was retribution for speaking up against repeated inst...

Molesty Sixers Mascot Needs Somebody Inside Him
We're just going to assume that B. Franklin Dogg is going to win the fan vote to become the next 76ers mascot, because his bedroom eyes and S&M collar make us laugh every time. He's McGruff, the Sex Crime Dog. "Hey kids! B. Franklin Dogg's van is full of candy!"...

NFL Owners Exist To Be Hated
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

The Honey Badger Returned Another Punt For A Touchdown, This Time In The SEC Championship Game
However, minutes later, CBS replays showed Tyrann Mathieu flipping the ball to the referee before breaking the endzone plane. How careless. Nevertheless the play stands and LSU cut the deficit to three going into the half....

Soon-To-Be-Fired Newspaper Editor Puts A Big Old "Fuck" On Page 3C
You may want to avert your delicate sensibilities from today's Greenville (S.C.) News, because they accidentally printed a naughty not-for-old-people-who-still-subscribe-to-newspapers word in today's story about the SEC Title Game. It's easy to miss, subtly placed in the flow of the text, but look v...

A Day At Harvard-Yale And Its Tragic Tailgate
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—I could tell you about dropping by the Yale crew alumni tailgate on Saturday, and taking a shot of Jim Beam with a slice of prosciutto, but that's not the reason the Game's 2011 tailgate will forever be the Tailgate. We'll now call it the Tailgate because three women there got run o...

Former ESPN VP's "I Didn't Masturbate In Front Of Erin Andrews" Lawsuit Causes Panic In Bristol And L.A.
LOS ANGELES—On Nov. 5, ESPN Senior VP Joan Lynch woke up in her home to find a front tire of her vehicle slashed. This is notable for two reasons. The first is that Lynch lives in the Pacific Palisades, which is not the sort of neighborhood where one gets one's tires slashed. The Palisades is west o...

Your Late Afternoon College Games Open Thread
Now that that is over, how about we talk about some regular football games?...

Happy Veterans Day! Here Are Some Really Happy Dogs Welcoming Soldiers Home
Originally published Nov. 11, 2010....

Why A Former ESPN VP Filed A Pre-Emptive Lawsuit Denying He Masturbated In Front Of Erin Andrews
Last month, ESPN announced it was eliminating its bi-coastal, 25-person Content Development department, which was responsible for the network's 30 for 30 series, among other things. The head of the group, Keith Clinkscales, ESPN's senior vice president for content, development, and enterprise, left ...

This Evening: On <em>Around The Horny</em>, Tony Reali Wonders Which "College Undies Will Go Down This Weekend"
Your p.m. roundup for Oct. 28, the day we figured out how to just vanish. H/T to TylerRio for the Reali video. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

Happy Dog Leads Adorable Pitch Invasion
At a Copa Sudamericana (think the Europa League for CONMEBOL), a round of 16 match was interrupted by—OH MAN LOOKIT THAT DOG GO! With Santa Fe up 4-0 on Botafogo, play drew to a halt when—HAHA HE IS SO HAPPY TO RUN IN THE GRASS! Players and officials tried their best to grab him, but—OMG HE IS IN ...

Hustler Produces ESPN Sex Parody Featuring Erin Andrews, Skip Bayless, Jim Rome, And More (NSFW)
Hustler's "This Ain't ESPN XXX" DVD is scheduled to be released the end of October and it is full of absurd Bristol-boinking fantasies that would make most ESPN fan fiction writers blush: "Her anchor partner John Buccigross has the hots for this blonde headed piece of ass and he fucks her right on t...

Man Who Threw Hot Dog At Tiger Woods Was "Inspired By The Movie <i>Drive</i>" To Do Something "Epic"
The man who attempted (and failed) to throw a hot dog at Tiger Woods at the Frys.com Open last weekend has been identified. He is Brandon Kelly, a 31-year-old from Petaluma, Calif., and he is really into the movie Drive....

The Tiger Woods Hot Dog Assault Was Caught On Tape
Tiger Woods was assaulted by a hot dog that landed approximately 20 feet from him during the final round of the Frys.com Open on Sunday, and walked away unscathed....