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Guillermo del Toro's<i> Crimson Peak </i>Is Best Watched On Mute
1. Crimson Peak is a movie that’s all windup and no pitch. It requires a patience of you that I’m not sure it necessarily earns, and a level of patience it doesn’t feel obliged to reward. It’s not a slog; the movie always looks fantastic, and it has enough earthly delights to string you along its gr...
Frank Isola Has An Adorable Story About A Young Stephon Marbury
New York Daily News reporter Frank Isola has known Stephon Marbury for a long time, even before the Coney Island-raised Marbury played for the Knicks. During a break on Thursday’s taping of Around The Horn, Isola told Jackie MacMullan of the time he helped out a 13-year-old Marbury, who was hanging ...
Howie Kendrick Is Probably Still Looking For A Jeurys Familia Slider To Swing At
Sports tactics are easier to judge after the fact, of course, and I am not a big-league lifer, so take this with a grain of salt. Still, I can’t help but imagine that in years to come, when members of the 2015 Los Angeles Dodgers reflect on this season, they will shake their heads sadly, look into t...
The Mets Celebrated With A Beer Slip 'N Slide
The Mets’ victory celebrations had everything from smoochin’ to sprayin’, but the cherry on top was a beer slip ‘n slide in the locker room. Which meant, in practical terms, dumping a bunch of beer on the floor and sliding through it....
Ecstatic Mets Fan Gives Terry Collins A Big Ol' Smooch
You’re a middle-aged Mets fan who just watched his team advance to the NLCS, and Mets manager Terry Collins is coming your way. You’re probably pretty drunk. Do you play it cool? Of course not....
Daniel Murphy Doesn't Want To Stop Being A Met Just Yet
Daniel Murphy’s Mets days are probably numbered, but he made sure last night that there will be at least a few more. Murphy pretty much was New York’s offense in their Game 5 win over the Dodgers, and backed by another excellent pitching performance from Jacob DeGrom, the Mets are through to the NLC...
Youth Football League Cancels Season Due To Violent Threats Against Officials
A youth football league in Mt. Pleasant, Penn., has cancelled its season in the wake of continued violent threats against league officials. The decision to cancel the season was made yesterday, after someone left a box full of ammunition shells with the names of league officers written on them at a ...
Warriors Beat Reporter's Blog Posts Appear To Be Copy And Pasted From Press Releases
Earlier tonight, the Columbia Journalism Review reported that the San Francisco Chronicle’s reporter on the Golden State Warriors beat, Rusty Simmons, had been suspended by the paper after writing a news story on the Warriors’ purchase of land for their new arena that was copied almost entirely from...
This Child With A Chase "Butt-Ley" Sign Is A Good Mets Fan
We like to bust on the Mets and their fans quite a bit around here, but even we can’t deny the brilliance of this small Mets fan:...
Autopsy: Former NFL Player Tyler Sash Died From Accidental Painkiller Overdose
The Iowa Department of Public Health released the autopsy results for former New York Giants safety Tyler Sash, who was found dead in his Oskaloosa home on Sept. 8. According to the findings, the 27-year-old Sash died of an accidental overdose when he mixed two pain medications....
Report: Chase Utley Will Be Available For The Rest Of The NLDS
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the appeal hearing for Chase Utley’s two-game suspension will take place next Monday, meaning that he will be available to play in Game 4 of the NLDS, as well as Game 5 if the Dodgers win tonight. ...
Klay Thompson's Girlfriend Seems To Have Called Him Out For Cheating
Warriors shooting guard Klay Thompson has been dating internet-famous model Hannah Stocking. But that relationship might be over now, based on a few now-deleted tweets that Stocking sent....
How To Introduce Your New Significant Other To Your Friends
Hey, look at you! You’ve been dating someone long and semi-seriously enough that it’s time to stop hiding him or her from your friends. So let’s make those introductions. Ahhhhhh! A little bit of nervousness is totally understandable. It’s very important that these people like each other!...
Cops: Fight Outside Dodgers Stadium Leaves One With Critical Injuries
According to Los Angeles police, a fight that broke out in the Dodgers Stadium parking lot after Friday night’s NLDS game between the Mets and Dodgers has left one fan with critical injuries....
"Chase Utley Deserves The Electric Chair"
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Yoenis Cespedes Blasts Three-Run Homer To The Moon
Yoenis Cespedes, a good and righteous baseball man, got in on the Mets’ ongoing beatdown of the Dodgers with this massive three-run jack: ...
Mets Fans Lustily Boo Chase Utley
Two days after Dodgers second baseman Chase Utley fractured Ruben Tejada’s fibula with a brutal takeout slide, Mets fans let him know how they felt about it during pregame introductions for Game 3:...
This Is A Great Football Photo
The low-angle shot from behind a team deep in its own end is quickly becoming my favorite football photo. Here’s one from yesterday’s Patriots win over the Cowboys, taken by Getty Images’ Christian Petersen, showing God’s and Pepsi’s mighty grace shining down upon Touchdown Tom Brady. (I think there...
14 Times Jay Z Got Owned By Another Rapper, Usually On His Own Song
Sorry, but the Jay Z you all worship might not be as good as you think. Or maybe it’s just that he’s easily dwarfed by the guest verses on his own tracks. These days he’s more or less abandoned making new music, instead busying himself with buying up companies and brands and streaming services or, i...
Report: Chase Utley Could Be Available To Play Tonight
Hoo boy. MLB’s suspension of Chase Utley was announced after 9:00 last night, fewer than 24 hours before tonight’s Mets-Dodgers Game 3. Utley has the right to appeal, and he’s exercising it—but he and the MLBPA want more time to prepare than MLB has given him. If Utley’s appeal isn’t heard today, hi...