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We Were All, Once, The Saddest Fan
Crystal Palace dispatched Brighton & Hove Albion to end the latter's dreams of winning playoff promotion to the Premiership. We've all been there, lad....
Here's What O.J. Simpson Looks Like These Days
Holy cow, O.J. has been in prison since 2008. And the years haven't been kind....
The Mets Sign Rick Ankiel
This is not the end of one of the stranger careers in baseball history. Jon Heyman reports the Mets have signed Rick Ankiel to a major-league deal, and he'll immediately join the team in St. Louis....
LeSean McCoy Spent The Day Calling Matt Barkley "Mark"
Rookie quarterback Matt Barkley was probably really excited to meet all of his new Eagles teammates at practice today. They have so much wisdom to impart on him, so much encouragement to give, so much complete disregard for whoever the hell all these new guys are....
Searching For Anything But Bobby Fischer At School Scrabble Nationals
There are 45 tables set up down in Exhibit Hall C of the Woodley Park Marriott in Washington, D.C., a hotel roughly the size of the Pentagon. Each table has a black tablecloth, a Diamond Anniversary Edition Scrabble board, a crushed velvet tile bag, two racks, four all-purpose banquet chairs (able ...
Add This Balk To The 2013 Astros Lowlight Reel
What could possibly make this balk more perfectly Astros? The fact that it made the game 7-0, maybe....
The Spurs May Finally Be Too Old For This Shit
It's hard to imagine the Spurs getting old. Maybe it's because they've already spent so many years as the elder statesmen of the Western Conference that we just expect them to keep doing what they do forever—consistently outplaying and outsmarting younger teams while staring down the perils of age b...
Brother's Little Helper
Last November, Paul Solotaroff wrote a great piece on the NFL's secret drug problem for Men's Journal:...
Buddy Nix Steps Down As Bills GM
After three seasons as Bills GM, Buddy Nix is out. This move was expected, but maybe not so soon....
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....
Trespassing Snake Brutally Murdered With Pellet Gun By Patrick Willis
And we have the gory photos from the scene thanks to Patrick Willis, who posted them to Facebook. The 49ers linebacker looks pretty pleased with with himself for successfully protecting his home from the scourge of that nonvenomous gopher snake....
Marlins Reliever Tries To Eat Giant Omelet, Fails
A.J. Ramos knew he was in trouble when they brought the omelet out on a pizza pan....
Terrible Basketball Column Sends Us Through The Looking Glass
Writing parodies of a terrible sports columns is a thing that all the cool kids on the internet like to do these days. On Sunday, our friend @FanSince09 wrote one such column at Zoo With Roy about the Philadelphia 76ers' decision to hire the analytics-driven Sam Hinkie as their general manager. It w...
Cricket Cheerleader Gets Smacked On Head With Cricket Ball
This video from the Indian Premier League is about a month old. We never saw it coming. We're showing it to you now as a belated heads up....
Tom Wilson Loses His Skate Blade, Awkwardly Flops Back To The Bench
Watch Capitals rookie Tom Wilson run into Ryan McDonagh along the boards—or better yet, listen to it. You can hear the metallic ting of Wilson's skate blade coming off. What followed was Wilson's best impression of a beached porpoise. ...
Jacked
Here's Donald Katz's 1995 profile on the late Jack LaLanne for Outside magazine:...