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Bad Man Employs A Damn McChicken Sandwich As A Tool Of Spousal Abuse
A Des Moines man is in jail today, after he assaulted his pregnant wife with a goddamn McChicken sandwich. And not by feeding it to her! By throwing it at her and smashing it into her face. That's way worse!...
The Time Manute Bol Hit Six Three-Pointers In A Half
Reader Max sent along this video because he'd never seen it before, never even heard of one of the weirdest NBA happenings of all time, and he thought more people should see it. I support that sentiment entirely: everyone should watch highlights of the night 22 years ago when 7-foot-7 Manute Bol dec...
Report: It's Not Johnny Football Time Just Yet
According to reports from NFL insider the 7-5 Browns are not going to start Johnny Manziel on Sunday against the Colts, despite the fact that Manziel played well after replacing struggling starter Brian Hoyer during last week's game against the Bills....
Kendrick Perkins Attempted To Post Up Anthony Davis. Try Not To Laugh.
Kendrick Perkins is an anthropomorphic pumpjack that somebody taught to play basketball. Anthony Davis is an unofficial member of the Avengers. This is what happens when the former tries to shoot over the latter in the post....
Mike Ditka Says He's "Embarrassed" For "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" Rams
Crappy leather-faced old man Mike Ditka has taken to the pages of the Chicago Sun Times to hit us with his take on the Ferguson protests, as well as the decision by a few Rams players to express solidarity with the protesters by walking onto the field in a "hands up, don't shoot" pose. ...
Stephen Curry, Three Pointer, For The Win, Without A Doubt
How very Orlando Magic to have the ball and a two-point lead with ten seconds left and lose. How very Stephen Curry to be the reason why....
Kirk Hinrich Submits Contender For Dumbest Foul Of The Season
Two weeks ago I wrote that Alex Len had committed the dumbest foul of the season. Tonight Kirk Hinrich announced his challenge to the throne....
Colbert Lampoons Reaction To The Rams' "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" Intro
Stephen Colbert waded into the mess surrounding the St. Louis Rams players who came out to player introductions against the Raiders on Sunday in the "hands up, don't shoot" pose, and the subsequent demand from the St. Louis Police Officer's Association that the Rams apologize. The bit is quite fun...
Mikaela Shiffrin Is Striving For Perfection
Mikaela Shiffrin's style is sure-footed and rhythmic. Like the best slalom skiers, she sets up her turns high. She thinks a few turns ahead. And Shiffrin—who in Sochi last winter became the youngest racer ever to win Olympic gold in slalom and who thus spent several days as a cheery, effervescent ...
NHL Fines Kings $100,000 For Trying To Sneak Slava Voynov Into Practice
Kings defenseman Slava Voynov has been suspended by the NHL from taking part in team activities since his domestic-violence arrest on Oct. 19. (He was charged with a felony count of "corporal injury to spouse with great bodily injury" one month later.) Today, Voynov practiced with the Kings. That wa...
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Darnell Dockett Is Apparently Live-Tweeting Jury Duty [Update]
Update, 5:30 p.m.: It's come to our attention that the photo of a courtroom that Dockett tweeted is actually an old photo, from a 2013 trial in Washington State. So it's entirely possible that he's making this whole thing up. Our original post on Dockett's tweets is below....
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Learns Painful Lesson About Tackling Rob Gronkowski
Packers safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix is a rookie, and he still has many lessons to learn about how to survive in the NFL. He received an important bit of knowledge during Sunday's game against the Patriots, though: Unless you are, I don't know, J.J. Watt or the Incredible Hulk, don't ever try to tackle ...
The Patriots Hung Out With Justin Bieber Last Night
We like to give the people what they want. Here on the internet, the people just want to be able to feel something, anything—usually hate. So! Here are the New England Patriots hanging out with Justin Bieber. You're welcome....
Andre Miller Throws Some Classic Old-Man Game At The Heat, Scores
Andre Miller is 941 years old and has been in the NBA longer than it has existed; his first career assist, as a matter of fact, was a pocket bounce-pass to a rolling Chester Arthur for a two-handed jam. In all the years since, Gramps has learned a few tricks to augment his nonexistent athleticism, ...
Odell Beckham Jr. Continues To Be A Superhuman
We already knew that Odell Beckham Jr. is a mutant who possesses the ability to make catches that mere mortals can only dream about, but we didn't know that he could also do stuff like this:...
Peter King Is A Goddamn Embarrassment
SI.com's Peter King, the most powerful NFL writer in the business, sees his job as flattering other powerful people so that they'll allow him to uncritically pass on whatever they'd like to have passed on. He's very good at it, as the incredible correction buried a couple of thousand words into hi...
FIFA Announces Who Will Stand Next To Ronaldo When He Wins Ballon D'or
As inevitable as Cristiano Ronaldo's impending Ballon d'Or victory has been, this year's award campaign has been especially tedious. So we're happy that FIFA's announcement of the three finalists brings us one step closer to being done with the whole thing....
Travis Kelce Explains His In-Game Wank: "He Deserved A Shot To The Face"
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who is really good, was caught making a wanking motion during last night's game against the Broncos. The well-executed wank was in response to Broncos linebacker Von Miller laying a bit of a cheap shot on Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith, and after the game Kelce took to ...
Hockey Blogger Fired For Being A Serial Creep To Women On Twitter
Steve Lepore, a hockey blogger for Awful Announcing who also wrote for Rolling Stone and other outlets, was canned over the weekend after being exposed as a serial harasser of women online. His preferred method seems to involve befriending women on Twitter before nebbishly sliding into their DMs to ...