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Donald Trump Praises Tom Brady, Vladimir Putin In Batshit Super Bowl Interview<em></em>

The great tradition of powerful people turning to sports reporters so they can seem folksy—aka avoiding any questions or followups of significant consequence—continued this Super Bowl with our nation’s sentient chancre fielding questions from Jim Gray on Westwood One Sports radio. The interview was ...

Tom Brady Seals Status As Greatest Player Ever As Nation Mourns

Those wild, magical assholes managed to do it again. For the fifth time in seven appearances, the New England Patriots are Super Bowl champions....

Melissa McCarthy As Sean Spicer Is The Best Thing On <i>SNL</i> In Years

Melissa McCarthy made a special appearance on Saturday Night Live tonight to portray White House press secretary Sean Spicer. It’s incredible:...

Donald Trump Says Bill Belichick Once Kissed Him And Said "I Love You"

Mark Leibovich reminisced about a time he spoke to Donald Trump “in the fall of 2015” for a profile, and shared some of the incumbent president’s stories in a New York Times Magazine piece. There is one particularly fishy anecdote involving Patriots coach Bill Belichick and smooching....

Oh, God, The King Cake Baby Is Out In The Wild Again Today

New Orleans’s favorite nightmare demon infant is out roaming the streets once again—that’s right, the King Cake Baby is at the city’s annual King Cake Fest today....

King Felix's Yankees World Series Ring Was A Replica His Son Got As A Ballpark Promo<em></em>

Yesterday we wondered why Felix Hernandez had a 2000 Yankees World Series ring, recovered in a burglary bust in Bellevue, Wash. As it turns out, the reason is pretty funny and cute....

Wait, Why Does Felix Hernandez Have A 2000 Yankees World Series Ring?

Police in Bellevue, Washington held a press conference today to announce that they’d busted a burglary ring that had stolen somewhere near $3 million worth of stuff from 123 homes in the Seattle-Bellevue area. ...

Bill Belichick: Players, Players, Played Hard, Players

Bill Belichick, man of much pettiness and few words, had this to say about the New England Patriots’ 36-17 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers:...

Bill Belichick On Trump Mentioning Him In Speech: "We've Got A Big Game"

At an event the night before his inauguration, Donald Trump shouted out Patriots owner Bob Kraft in the crowd, complimenting him for a “great quarterback” in Tom Brady, and “great coach” in Bill Belichick. Belichick, who wrote a letter to Trump wishing him luck the day before the election, did not w...

Tennis Match Turns Into A Contest Of Who Can Retire First

Sachia Vickery (ranked No. 135) and Elise Mertens (ranked No. 127) are set to play qualifiers later this week to try and earn slots in the main draw of the Australian Open. That’s a Grand Slam, a far more alluring attraction than the Hobart International, where these two met in the second round yest...

Bill Belichick Seen Sleeping On Boat

The Patriots were off Friday through Sunday, so head coach Bill Belichick and his girlfriend Linda Holliday spent part of the team’s break snoozing and relaxing on what appears to be a ferry....

Marco Belinelli's Incredible Off-The-Butt Buzzer-Beater Waved Off By Refs

Marco Belinelli very nearly scored the coolest buzzer-beater of this NBA season (and probably many others), but alas, it came too late. I get that the referees have to uphold “standards” and “fairness” and “the rules,” but this shot deserved better....

The Blazers Are Bad And Tired Of Being Lectured By Festus Ezeli 

Following last season’s surprise second-round playoff appearance, the Portland Trail Blazers are 15-21 and struggling badly. ESPN’s Chris Haynes has a good story examining the Blazers’ summer, and why they failed to sign any free agent of note, re-signed all their own players, gave way too much mon...

Harry Kane Doesn't Look Like A Great Player, And Yet He Is<em></em>

Just look at that face. If you showed a bunch of people who didn’t know any better a picture of Tottenham’s unassuming star forward Harry Kane and asked them to guess what he does for a living, I’m quite confident that “pro athlete” would rank way down the list, somewhere behind “accountant,” “hands...

Anti-Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Hang Enormous Banner During Vikings Game [Updates]

Protesters calling for U.S. Bank to stop funding the Dakota Access Pipeline project hung a huge banner from the Vikings’ stadium during Minnesota’s game against the Bears today:...

I Don't Think He Won The $10,000

Joe Mixon Says He's Sorry In Press Conference Nobody Watched [Update]

Joe Mixon apologized repeatedly in a press conference today, the first public appearance for the star Oklahoma running back since his lawyer one week ago released video of him punching fellow OU student Amelia Molitor in 2014....

This Strange Column About Bud Selig And Drugs Is Extremely Confusing

Estimable baseball writer Tim Brown has a column up today that’s either about how Bud Selig’s election to the Hall of Fame shows up the condemnation of players such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens by the likes of the veteran baseball writers who have refused to vote them into the Hall of Fame for ...

Matt Light Says He Tricked Brandon Meriweather Into Asking Bill Belichick To Pick Up His Bar Tab<em></em>

Former Patriots offensive lineman Matt Light showed up on radio show Toucher and Rich this morning after his old teammate Brandon Meriweather called in, and told a wonderful story about the time he set up a painfully awkward conversation between the safety and head coach Bill Belichick at the 2011 P...

Security Guard Appears To Be Masturbating Near Cheerleaders During Chargers Game

The video below, a version of which was originally posted to Facebook, appears to show a security guard stationed near the Chargers’ cheerleaders at Sunday’s Raiders-Chargers game masturbating as they perform:...