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Report: Mayweather-Pacquiao PPV Will Cost $99
Exactly one month from today, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will meet in the fight everyone wanted five years ago. You’d better start saving up now....
How To Get A Chill Cat
So you’ve decided to get a pet. Maybe you’re hankering for some furry companionship to perk up the lonesome evenings. Perhaps you’re attempting to plug an emotional gap in your life by saving some of god’s non-edible creatures. Or maybe you just want to strike back at those people clogging up your I...
<i>Skyfall</i> Isn't The Best Bond Flick, But It Does Kick The Most Ass
There's no good answer to the "What's the best James Bond movie?" question, since the best James Bond movie will always be the first one you saw when you were a kid. (I ride for Live and Let Die until death.) And there's no good answer as to which James Bond is the best James Bond, since everyone ...
Heroic Chicagoan Escapes Tyrant Tow Truck
We are all born into and struggle against the confines of a system that denies our individuality and seeks to limit us. Some struggle more effectively than others....
Jonathan Taylor's Accuser Recants; Cops Still Investigating Incident
The woman who told police that Alabama defensive lineman Jonathan Taylor assaulted her has recanted her story, according to AL.com. Taylor was arrested Saturday on domestic violence charges, and was subsequently kicked off of Alabama’s football team. ...
Wrigley Field Has A Big Jumbotron Now, Still No Bleachers
It’s three days until opening night, and Wrigley Field is finally starting to look like a real ballpark again. Haha, just kidding! ...
Diego Maradona Prepares For Coming Alien Invasion With Boxing Dummy
Just know that, when the giant blue Martians that have been hibernating miles deep in the Earth's crust finally emerge and begin their assault on this wonderful thing we call human civilization, Diego Maradona has been training and will knock those sons of bitches right back to where they came fro...
Why Does The NFL Need To See Photo Evidence Of Greg Hardy's Abuse?
The NFL has not yet decided how to punish Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy—who was convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend, Nicole Holder, in a bench trial last summer, but later had the charges against him dropped after paying her off to stop cooperating with prosecutors—for violating the leag...
Goddamn It, I Melted A Cutting Board In The Oven
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Check the Squalor Archive for assistance. Are you still dirty? Email her....
Calling It Early: "Trap Queen" Is The Song Of The Summer
Listen, I know it's April. But I'm gonna go ahead and call it: New Jersey rapper Fetty Wap's "Trap Queen" is the Song Of The Summer. ...
Hold On, Jim Caldwell Went For The Most 4th Downs Last Year?
Football Outsiders published its Aggressiveness Index results yesterday, and came back with a very weird result. Jim Caldwell went for a shitload of fourth downs....
When Harry Caray Was A Rebel With A Microphone
This piece was originally published in the October, 1968 issue of Sports Illustrated. It is reprinted here with permission from Cope's family....
Sage Steele Should Be In Jail
I'm gonna preface this by saying that I love Sage Steele. She's black and cool and smart and elegant. These are all good things, things everyone should strive to be. But....
An Exercise Physiologist Explains Why 800 Meters Hurts Like The Devil
It's the first high school track meet of the season. Boys who have completed no warm-up whatsoever other than to wrestle over the last Reeses peanut butter cup stand, hands dangling like heavy weights, near the start line of the JV 800 meter run. Long of shin and weak of chin, they're inanimate, for...
Paiute Tribal Leader Faces Impeachment For Taking Redskins Gifts
A football autographed by Robert Griffin III ain't worth what it once was. But it might still cost a Utah tribal official her job. ...
Here's Facebook's 2015 MLB Fandom Map
It's that time of year again: time to nod our heads at the fact that baseball fandom is largely geographic, unless you're a goddamned Yankees fan. ...
The Time 9/11 Happened During Cristiano Ronaldo's First TV Interview
Hey, Ronaldo's first televised interview! What a skinny little lad he was! Just chatting away with a buddy on the subway! And what teeth! Nice little pad there, Ronny! Bet you played that PS2 a lot, huh! Oh, to just be watching the boob tube with the...uh, is that an airplane crashing into the World...
April Fool’s Day, As Orchestrated By My 9-Year-Old
1. I wake up and walk downstairs....
NBA Court Factors: How Assists Aren't As Unbiased As You Think
There will never be any question over what it means to have scored 25 points, or recorded a number of rebounds, blocks, or steals. Sure, if we've learned anything in the age of analytics it's that raw stats can be misleading—they fail to account for pace or efficiency—but at least they are facts. Ru...