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Inventor Shows Effectiveness Of Football Helmet With Bat To The Head
This video, filmed in 1932, is some hare-brained attempt to demonstrate the effectiveness of a newly-invented American football helmet. The inventor, a Giorgio Tsoukalos-looking character, performs several examples of the safety features his product has to offer. He lets a player kick him in the hea...
Rolling Bachelor Party Headed For Kentucky Derby Finds Dead Body In RV
A road trip to the Kentucky Derby sounds like a pretty cool bachelor party (for everyone except the driver, anyway). You get yourself some of your closest friends and put them in an RV with some beers and you've got yourself a weekend. This all presupposes, of course, that you don't find a corpse hi...
Front-Row View Of Damian Lillard's Buzzer-Beater Is Awesome
This Vine is awesome. It's a court-level view of Damian Lillard curling around a screen, clapping for the ball, and sinking the game-winning buzzer-beater from behind the arc against Houston last night. Everything about it is perfect. The angle, the clapping, the shot, the buzzer and mostly, the cro...
Lillard Buzzer-Beater Delivers Portland To First Series Win Since 2000
Damian Lillard hit a buzzer-beating three to give the Trail Blazers a 99-98 win over Houston, Portland's first series win in the NBA playoffs in 14 years....
LSU Outfielder Makes One Of The Best Catches You'll Ever See
LSU entered the bottom of the 9th in College Station tonight up 4-0 on Texas A&M. A Tigers pitching meltdown, though, left the bases loaded and the game tied with two outs. A deep opposite-field liner from Aggies infielder Blake Allemand appeared to be a walkoff game-winner—until the LSU left fielde...
V. Stiviano Appears On <em>20/20</em>, Says Donald Sterling Is Not A Racist
While Donald Sterling spurned his date with Barbara Walters, V. Stiviano did appear on 20/20 this evening and told the ABC host that she believes the banned Clippers owner "comes from a different time," but is not a racist—and that they are still a couple. Other revelations: Sterling's been paying h...
Phil Mushnick: Donald Sterling Was Lynched
Look, is there anything even worth saying about this? New York Post hack Phil Mushnick, as we've previously reminded you, is a race-baiting troll whose job is basically to come as close to just filing a column consisting of the word "moulignan" written out 800 times as he can without getting fired. ...
Donald Sterling Still Planned To Attend Clippers Game After Tape Leaked
ESPN's Ramona Shelburne has the definitive—so far—tick-tock of the release of the Donald Sterling audio and the reactions from Clippers players and the NBA. You'll want to read it, not least for the glimpse of how Doc Rivers handled it when the news of Sterling's lifetime ban came down....
Dead Letters: "Are Jews Taking Over the NFL?"
Subject: Floyd Mayweather Jr....
(500) Hours of Spidey: <em>The Amazing Spider-Man 2</em>, Reviewed
1. There's a moment in 2004's original Spider-Man 2, directed by Sam Raimi, that represents the peak of what a comic-book movie can do. It's when an unmasked Spider-Man attempts to save a (geographically impossible, but no matter) elevated NYC subway train from careening off the platform and into th...
Meet Kyle Lowry. He's Very Good (And Probably Not A Giant Asshole).
NBA fans have known for a while that Kyle Lowry is pretty damn good. But that respect was an abstract one: Lowry's value was an acknowledged fact, if not one with specific dimensions. He's good, but why? He plays in a far away land, is never on national TV and has made more headlines for the trade ...
Banana Truthers Say "We Are All Monkeys" Campaign A Media Conspiracy
You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you'll never fool some Villareal fans into believing your simplistic racist narrative, lame-stream media....
Report: Donald Sterling Has Cancer
While Donald Sterling was dealing with the NBA taking his team, he may have been also battling prostate cancer, according to the New York Post's sources....
The NBA Wanted To Kick Donald Sterling Out Of The League In 1982
Historical nuggets are the best nuggets! In 1982, the NBA convened a special committee of owners, who unanimously recommended that the league force Donald Sterling to sell the Clippers. It didn't, and you know how that went. ...
Kool Keith Gets Back Into Playoff Form With "Durant & Westbrook"
I would accuse Kool Keith of shamelessly pandering for sports-blog love by naming his new song "Durant & Westbrook" (off the upcoming Demolition Crash), but if by this point you haven't realized just how few fucks Hip Hop's King of Weird gives about the mainstream, then you haven't been paying atten...
Why Rich Lacrosse Parents Are Making Their Kids Repeat A Grade
In the lax-crazy scholastic sports scene of the high-end Washington D.C. market, a game between Landon School and Georgetown Prep is essentially 'Skins vs. Cowboys, except with more people named Topper. They're two of the fancy-pantsiest all-boys secondary schools in the area, and their athletic riv...
It's Good To Be Rich Enough To Buy A Basketball Team
Larry Ellison has tried—and failed—to purchase an NBA franchise before, but his dream may soon come true thanks to the suddenly for-sale Clippers. The founder of Oracle is something like the world's fifth-richest man. His net worth is $50 billion, give or take a few billion dollars (and something is...
Mike Francesa Is Not Happy With His Fox Sports Partners
Mike Francesa's afternoon WFAN talk show simulcast moved from YES to Fox Sports 1 six weeks ago, bringing the longtime New York voice to a national audience—that is, when not pre-empted for Champions League soccer on the nascent News Corp (err, "21st Century Fox") network. ...
Donald Sterling, Charming Bully
Adopted Clippers fan Bill Simmons has filed his long-awaited Donald Sterling column for Grantland, and the most interesting part is a story about a plane ride spent sitting behind the Clippers owner. In the past few days, the Sterling anecdotes have naturally tended toward the grotesque, painting hi...
Kyle Lowry Abuses Deron Williams, Gets His Signature Highlight
You wouldn't be blamed for not knowing a whole lot about Kyle Lowry before this year. He's a 28-year-old point guard who's averaged 11 points and five assists per game throughout his career, and who has toiled away in relative obscurity in Memphis, Houston, and now Toronto. This year, he became the ...