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Sure Why Not, One Last Pool Dunk Before The Weekend
This one's from Jon and his buddies again, creators of this. Please enjoy the rest of our pool dunk archives....
Aaron Hernandez's Cousin In Custody For Refusing To Testify
A cousin of Aaron Hernandez has been held at a Massachusetts correctional facility since Aug. 1 for refusing to testify before a grand jury hearing the state's murder case against him....
David Ortiz Found A Baby Somewhere
Where did David Ortiz get that baby? Is he going to eat the baby? Put the baby down, Mr. Ortiz. We can find you another one....
Let's Watch Dwight Howard Grind With An Old Lady
Consider this a sequel of sorts to Let's Watch Charles Barkley Grind With A Middle-Aged Lady. Dwight Howard is still hanging out in Aspen, Colo., and last night he appears to have happened upon a rocking dance party at the local senior center. Shit got a little weird. ...
Worst Columnist In America Compares Johnny Manziel To Rosa Parks
You wanna see some shit?...
The Hit King: Pete Rose In Purgatory
Originally published in the July 1997 issue of GQ. Reprinted here with permission of the author, whose annotations (as told to Alex Belth) appear throughout the story. Illustration by Sam Woolley....
Doug Gilmour Traded Away His Son
NHL Hall of Famer Doug Gilmour is the GM of the OHL's Kingston Frontenacs, and last year spent an eighth-round pick on his son Jake. The Gilmour genes only bought Jake a year—yesterday, Doug sent his son packing for basically nothing....
Who Killed Nugget II? Solving The Death Of Southern Miss's Mascot
The 1992 death of Nugget II, the University of Southern Mississippi's Golden Eagle, is cloaked in mystery. A federal investigation and autopsy revealed two possible causes of death: The eagle's body contained lead shotgun pellets, and it suffered from malnutrition. But no blame was ever assigned, an...
Kevin Durant Remorselessly Swats The Jump Shots Of Children
Children beware, if you attend Kevin Durant's basketball camp, you are likely to get your shit ruined. ...
Do you live in New York City? Do you like sports? Do you like science? If so, then be sure to swing by Gelf Magazine's latest Varsity Letters reading series tonight. Sports Illustrated's David Epstein and author David Sally will be discussing the intersection of sports and science. A great time will...
She's Listening To Music
I remember walking into The Sound Library, a boutique record shop in the east village in the late Nineties and hearing something special. It was a short cut off a white label Lord Finesse promo. Rare. Finesse chopped-up and looped a famous Marvin Gaye record on an SP-1200. Man, it was cool. I eventu...
Mario Balotelli Dunks Thing
Did you know that Mario Balotelli can dunk a basketball? He's a 6-foot-2 professional athlete, so it shouldn't be all that surprising that he can throw it down, but this is still a rather impressive display. I think this dunk may even qualify as a rim-rattler....
Breakfast of Champions: Showtime
Found, sitting on a table at Monroe Street Books in Vermont, just outside of Middlebury (one of my favorite places in the world). ...
Why Pop Culture Gets Under Our Skin
There are pieces of pop culture—songs, plays, movies—that touch us in ways that get inside of us and don't let go. Taxi Driver, The Graduate, or even Lost in Translation, are movies that stir something deep inside people. I liked Lost in Translation well enough but it is one of my wife's favorite mo...
A Tale Of Two NFL Buddies Who Call Each Other "Nigger" And "Cracker"
A fascinating story in today's Detroit News about Tony Scheffler and Louis Delmas, friends since college and teammates on the Lions. Like many friends, they have pet names for each other. Unlike many interracial friends, those pet names are racial slurs....
Alex Rodriguez Appeals Suspension, Likely Won't Claim Innocence
The MLBPA has formally filed an appeal on behalf of its most divisive member. Alex Rodriguez's case will be heard by an independent arbitrator, and we may not know for months whether his record 211-game suspension will stand....
Cleveland Responds To "Let's Go Tigers" With "Detroit's Bankrupt"
We had dueling-fan-base chants this evening in Cleveland. Some plucky Detroiters tried to get a "let's go Tigers" chant going. Cleveland did not appreciate it....
The Butt From The Buttfumble Retires From The NFL
The buttfumble will always belong to Mark Sanchez. But Sanchez couldn't have done it without Brandon Moore's butt. Today, Brandon Moore and his butt retired after 10 NFL seasons, all with the Jets. It's the end for an end of an era....
Check Out Jet Ski Bear, The Bear That's On A Fucking Jet Ski
There's nothing else that really needs to be said here. If you want to see more pictures of Jet Ski Bear, snapped by Graham Morrison of Morrison Guide Service, head on over to the Alaska Dispatch. There's a pretty good photo of Jet Ski Bear's mom tearing apart a fish....