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What's Wrong With The Jets, Besides Everything?
Six games in, let’s check in on the 2016 New York Jets:...
Rick Pitino Denies Responsibility For Louisville Prostitution Scandal, Once Again Invokes 9/11
Last year, a book written by a self-described madam detailed allegations that the Louisville basketball program provided strippers for team parties within the dorms, and that some of the strippers were paid to have sex with athletes, as a means of attracting recruits. Former graduate assistant Andre...
Yelling Is Pointless<em></em>
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. Buy his book here....
Richie Incognito Is Still Richie Incognito<em></em>
The Bills are playing the Dolphins this weekend, which means that offensive lineman Richie Incognito faces his former team for the third time since he was suspended for the final eight games of the 2013 season after teammate Jonathan Martin accused him and other players of bullying. Incognito had a ...
How To Make Half-Smoke Chili And Take A Decade Off Your Life<em></em><em></em>
This week’s episode of Foodspin takes us to the fabled (and somewhat controversial) Ben’s Chili Bowl, which has been an institution here in Washington, D.C. for nearly 60 years. There, Burneko and I discover the wonders of the Ben’s half-smoke, which is a big fucking sausage smothered in chili and o...
Report: Eddie Lacy Fat Again
Packers running back Eddie Lacy’s weight is under constant scrutiny by both his coaches and the media, and head coach Mike McCarthy has publicly pleaded with Lacy to lose weight in the past. Things were looking good this offseason when Lacy reported to camp in shape, but he seems to have backslid th...
Cleveland Dunked On Jose Bautista
Cleveland rookie pitcher Ryan Merritt was making just the second start of his career yesterday when manager Terry Francona sent him to the mound to face the Blue Jays in Game 5 of the ALCS. Before the game, Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista seemed confident in his team’s chances against the young star...
5-Year-Old Diehard Celtic Fan Calls Up Club To Apologize For Missing Game
Kids these days. They whine and whine about how much they want—no, need—that drum set they’re always going on about, then you get one for them and after two months it sits quietly in the basement, unused and collecting dust. “But daaaaad, all my friends have motorized scooters,” that ungrateful brat...
Celtics Fan Enjoys Himself
I’m usually unimpressed by the dinguses who do wacky things behind the broadcast table at NBA games, but I have to admit that this dude’s routine during last night’s Knicks-Celtics game made me chuckle:...
Ex-Virginia Football Player Alleges Culture Of Hazing, Including Naked Wrestling Matches And Staged Fights
In a lawsuit filed in United States District Court last Friday, ex-Virginia receiver Aidan Howard alleges that the football program promoted a culture of “bullying, abuse, harassment, and discrimination,” one which forced him into a staged fight with another player that left him with a broken eye so...
Did The MLB Replay Booth Just Cost The Dodgers A Run?
Adrián González tried to run on Jason Heyward in the second inning tonight. Heyward’s throw took a hop, and barely arrived on time, but the umpire determined that Willson Contreras’s tag got González on the jaw before his left hand grazed home plate....
The Cleveland Indians Are Headed To The World Series
The Cleveland Indians will be back in the World Series for the first time since 1997, after they made quick work of the Blue Jays and won a fairly rote ALCS, 4-1. They won Game 5 in the same way they won most of their games this postseason: they slapped a few dongers, then Andrew Miller stifled the ...
Shirtless Idiot On The Field Attempts To Inspire A Blue Jays Rally
We got an Idiot On The Field at the ALCS....
Tom Brady Probably Gets Owned By Donald Trump When They Golf
Tom Brady has been pretty damn cagey about his association with Donald Trump since the sentient Cheeto ramped up his soon-to-be-failed attempt to become the president of the United States....
Daniel Cormier Betrayed By Talk Show Host
UFC light heavyweights Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson went on a Canadian morning show yesterday to promote their upcoming bout at UFC 206 in Toronto. Everything was going fine until the host accidentally fed Johnson some intel about his opponent....
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The NFL And NFLPA Remind Us How Meaningless The League's Brain Damage Protocols Are
The NFL and NFLPA have released a joint statement explaining why Cam Newton wasn’t removed from the game to be evaluated for symptoms of brain damage after taking multiple blows to the head in Week 1. What the statement says, essentially, is that the things that millions of people saw happen to Newt...
Organize Or Die
Realistically, there is only one way out of our predicament. ...
Debate Prep Is Hard<em></em>
As a celebrity, he had a history of saying improper things, and he was in trouble following a leaked tape of himself at his most offensive. As a candidate, he never seemed to stick to a script, and he’d often contradict himself. And yet professionally unserious Kinky Friedman was running a serious c...
Canucks Fans Bail Out Anthem Singer After His Mic Cuts Out
Affable old blues man Jim Byrnes was in Vancouver last night to sing “The Star Spangled Banner” and “O Canada” before a game between the Blues and the Canucks, but everything went wrong right as he reached the end of the first song....