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Consult The Crystal Ball To See If Black Grantland Is Ever Coming
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I Watched A Journeyman Fighter Get His Ass Beat In A Cage In St. Louis
From Thrown, Kerry Howley's new, great book on mixed martial arts, available now....
<em>The Hockey Saint</em>: A Graphic-Novel Excerpt
Excerpted from The Hockey Saint, a teen graphic novel available now in paperback and ebook. Written by Howard Shapiro, and illustrated by Marica Inoue and Andres Mossa....
Nebraska Football Player Punches Missouri Fan
And to think, the guy was just a place-kick holder. Who apparently become a mild-mannered surgeon....
How I Let Go Of My NFL Career
Excerpted from the new epilogue to Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile, now available in paperback. We published an adaptation from the book last year....
What Playing Football Does To Your Body
The paperback version of Nate Jackson's Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile is now on sale. It's got new material, and we'll have some of that on the site next week. Below is an adapted excerpt from the book we ran last year. It's still painfully timely....
Tommie Frazier Got 5 On It
Tommie Frazier and Terrell Farley prepped for their blowout win over Florida in the 1995 Fiesta Bowl (which is still the most points a Steve Spurrier team has ever allowed) by rapping with Tabasco-looking bottles. His name is T-Fra, not Kurtis Blow...
Christian Peter Is Gonna Shut That Motherfucking Crowd Up
This entire video is pretty entertaining. But it really gets good in between the three and four minute marks. ...
Police: Donte Greene Apologized After Getting Tased In The Butt
Former NBA player Donte Greene was very apologetic after Miami Beach police arrested him on charges of disorderly conduct and battery over the weekend on South Beach. Maybe it's because he says he was defending his little brother, Dmetrique, from St. Louis Rams linebacker Jo-Lonn Dunbar. Or it co...
Police: NFLer, Former NBAer Arrested For Fighting Each Other At Club
July can be an easy time for professional athletes to find themselves in bad situations, with little happening in three of the major sports leagues and a summer to let loose. ...
Brazilians Are Using Social Media In The Fight To Save Their Favelas
From Dave Zirin's newest book, Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup the Olympics and the Fight for Democracy, available now....
Lacrosse Equipment Manufacturer Dishes Out Strong Anti-Title IX Takes
Sure, sure, we're as done with #brand fails as you are, but this is still pretty weak. There was a lacrosse event going on tonight, and whoever's running the Twitter account for Warrior—"one of the sporting goods industry's premier manufacturer of innovative, high performance, cutting-edge equip...
How Zlatan Bought His Dream House
The World Cup has been pretty damn entertaining so far but let's face it: It would be even better were Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic there. This is an excerpt from his hilarious (and surprisingly well-written) memoir, I Am Zlatan....
Donte Whitner Trolls Bills Fans, Pisses Off Darryl Talley
Browns safety Donte Whitner cracked a joke about the Bills leaving Buffalo last night and ended up chirping back and forth on Twitter with former Bills linebacker Darryl Talley and his wife....
That One Time Zlatan Ibrahimović Threw Shade At Dutch Boss Van Gaal
The World Cup has been pretty damn entertaining so far but let's face it: It would be even better were Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic there. This is an excerpt from his hilarious (and surprisingly well-written) memoir, I Am Zlatan. ...
How Brazilian Protests Evolved To Fight Back Against The World Cup
From Dave Zirin's newest book, Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup the Olympics and the Fight for Democracy, available now. We'll be running excerpts throughout the World Cup....
How Zlatan Ibrahimović Finally Made The Special One Smile
The World Cup has been pretty damn entertaining so far but let's face it: It would be even better were Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic there. This is an excerpt from his hilarious (and surprisingly well-written) memoir, I Am Zlatan. ...
What It's Like To Live Inside A Rio De Janeiro Favela
From Dave Zirin's newest book, Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup the Olympics and the Fight for Democracy,available now. We'll be running excerpts throughout the World Cup....
American Hero Clint Dempsey Is Releasing A Rap Album, Y'all
USMNT striker Clint Dempsey is a fan favorite, a hero, and by all accounts an amazing man for reasons that have little to nothing to do with his ability to dribble and kick a soccer ball. We can now include "secretly recording a rap album" as one of those reasons....
Ruud Gullit: The Netherlands' Response To White Supremacy
From Eduardo Galeano's classic, now available as an ebook. We'll have excerpts throughout the week....