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Bored Baseball Fans Play Baseball Video Games At Baseball Game
We've got two bored baseball fans to share today, both of whom find virtual baseball games played on one's smartphone to be more compelling than actual baseball. The image above comes to us from a recent Cubs-White Sox game....
“Runs Adeptly”
Jeter gets infield single, runs adeptly to 3d on Cano's single and scores on Wells's sac fly to RF. Huge smile as he bumps fists in dugout....
Here's Manny Ramirez Disguised As Your Grandmother At The Airport
Having a former Taiwanese baseball star like Manny Ramirez as a teammate must be pretty cool for all involved with the Triple-A Round Rock Express. That said, now that he's barnstorming it back in the states, Manny's gonna get noticed, especially whenever he wears his usual getup. Good thing his fel...
This HOA President Takes His Job Way Too Seriously
Members of the Westwind Home Owners Association recently received an email—which was forwarded to us by a helpful tipster—from their organization's president, who has had it up to here with people not cleaning up after dogs who poop in the neighborhood. But don't worry, this HOA president has a fool...
The Evolution of Bicycles
From Gizmodo: 100 Years of Tour de France Bikes mapping the evolution of cycling....
ESPN Gets Defensive About Ratings Drop
Earlier this week we told you about ESPN's recent ratings woes. The numbers dropped significantly in the second quarter this year. They were down in the first quarter, too, and they were flat last year. Now that the news is getting around, ESPN PR—which usually projects an air of lordly remove in t...
Three Belize Players Claim They Were Approached About Fixing USA Match
The USMNT mollywhopped Belize 6-1 on Tuesday in their opening match of Gold Cup play. That's not a surprise; the US is a much better team. But three Belize players have come forward alleging that they were approached by a man offering them money to fix the match....
Greg Oden Brought His Swag To Last Night's Justin Bieber Concert
Greg Oden is looking at Dallas, Miami, San Antonio, and Cleveland as potential landing spots for his NBA comeback. But that's not the real Greg Oden news that's out there today. Turns out he's a Belieber!...
“D-Day, Which Will Live In Infamy”: June's Local TV News Screwups
June was relatively quiet for local TV news apologies, at least compared with the previous disastrous month. Still, there's plenty of war-related doozies as well as the usual collection of misidentified criminals, innocent businesses targeted as dangerous or fake, and pit bull panic....
Fox Sports Pundit To Fan: “Speak English, I Don't Speak Ghetto”
As previously noted here, Fox Sports pundit/middling professional fighter Chael Sonnen is an asshole who does all sorts of things that one has a hard time imagining, say, fellow Fox Sports pundits Terry Bradshaw or Tim McCarver getting away with. There even seems to be a pattern to these things! He...
David Ortiz Got Champagne And A Sad Note On His Record-Breaking Night
Red Sox slugger David Ortiz became the all-time hits leader at the designated hitter position last night. What kind of gift did the Red Sox get him to celebrate the occasion? Based on the photo above, which came from teammate Jacoby Ellsbury's Twitter account, all he got was some champagne and what ...
Joakim Noah Scores A Soccer Goal, Loses His Mind
This is from Steve Nash's annual charity soccer match in New York last month (there's a second one in L.A. this Sunday). On a team with Stuart Holden, Sacha Kljestan, Sammy Ameobi, and Oguchi Onyewu, it fell to Joakim Noah to score the game-winning goal. No need to act like he's been there before, b...
Brain Game
If you've never read "Game Brain," Jeanne Marie Laskas' 2009 GQ story, do yourself a favor. It's a good one:...
Everybody Street
Over at Lomography, Cheryl Dunn talks about this cool-looking new documentary about New York City street photographers....
Derek Jeter Is Back
With a heavenly choir and a rainbow stretching from Hunts Point to Riverdale, the True Yankee has returned....
Was Baseball More Fun During The Steroid Era?
That's what John Rocker said on a radio interview, and, messenger aside, he's got a point:...
<em>Fox & Friends</em> Anchor Throws Basketball Into Baby's Face
And not just any baby! No, this is the very same baby whose awful shooting form somehow turned him into an internet sensation a few months ago....
The Art Of Storytelling: Celebrity Profiles
Check out Tom Chiarella's essay in the Indianapolis Monthly about writing celebrity profiles:...
That's An Excellent Question
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