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Wall Street: Olive Garden Makes Bad Food Badly
A fight for control over Olive Garden's parent company, Darden Restaurants, has shed light on some of the Italianish restaurant chain's less-than-ideal kitchen practices. For example: Olive Garden kitchens do not salt their pasta water. For another example: Olive Garden kitchens exclusively prepar...

Russia Too White To Be Good At Track
Once the reigning European king, this year Russia finished a dismal fourth at the European Athletics Championships. The reason, the head of its athletics federation says, is because Russia isn't black enough....

NFL Team Security Job Description Is Basically "Security-Footage Getter"
The NFL and Roger Goodell have claimed repeatedly there was no effort made to get the Revel Casino's elevator surveillance footage directly from the casino itself. (Goodell said he believed that would be illegal, something refuted by the New Jersey Attorney General's office the next day.) Here comes...

Houston DB Trevon Stewart Gets Confused, Does Some Very Bad Defending
Playing defensive back is not an easy thing to do, so we shouldn't judge Houston defensive back Trevon Stewart too harshly for doing whatever the hell it was he was doing during this play against BYU last night....

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Ravens Fans Stand Up For Ray Rice
What would possess a fan to wear a Ray Rice jersey last night? Nearly every one—and there were more than a few—said they wanted to make the statement that Rice doesn't deserve what's happened to him....

Huge Red Wine Counterfeiting Scheme Busted In Italy
Italian cops have foiled what the Siena police chief calls "the biggest fraud ever carried out in the agricultural and food sector": a wine expert's attempt to pass off nearly a quarter-million bottles of fake Brunello di Montalcino wine....


Lolo Jones On Aching Feet, Memory Loss, And Other Perils Of Dancing
The new season of Dancing With The Stars kicks off on Monday, and among its contestants are the usual list of obscure B-list actors and Duck Dynasty granddaughters. And then there's Lolo Jones....

That's How You Hail Mary
Despite being beat in every way possible in the first half, Houston's pulled within reach at halftime thanks to this Hail Mary at the end of the second quarter—enabled by an especially doofus-y move by BYU, which held the ball itself with only seconds remaining....

Giancarlo Stanton Removed On Stretcher After Fastball To The Face
Giancarlo Stanton left tonight's Marlins-Brewers game in the fifth inning after a Mike Fiers fastball hit him square in the face. A stretcher and cart was necessary to get the Miami slugger off the field....

California Golf Coach Attempted To Order Hits On Children He Molested
California junior golf coach Andrew Nisbet, who was charged with over 65 counts of child molestation last December, tried to have two of his victims killed by a hitman while he was in jail, according to investigators....

Antonio Brown Sent To Locker Room After Hit Leaves Him "Dazed"
Steelers WR Antonio Brown, fresh off a fine earned by stomping the Browns' punter in the face, exited tonight's game in Baltimore early after a massive hit on a pattern across the middle that left him, in the words of Jim Nantz, "dazed."...

CBS's James Brown Calls On Men To Improve The Way They Treat Women
Before tonight's Steelers-Ravens game, CBS's James Brown delivered a powerful speech regarding domestic violence in America and what men should do to take responsibility. Brown touches on the language men use and the attitude it displays. The speech was eloquent, acknowledging all women who are vict...

Here's Audio Of Hawks GM Danny Ferry's Racist Remarks About Luol Deng
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has acquired an audio recording of the conference call with GM Danny Ferry's racist comments on Luol Deng, with Ferry saying the forward had "some African in him." The comment had previously surfaced in transcription after Hawks controlling owner Bruce Levenson off...

Keith Olbermann Blows Up On The NFL Yet Again
Another day, another handful of revelations evincing the NFL's tone-deaf, irresponsible handling of the Ray Rice situation, another opportunity for Keith Olbermann to expose it all at 5 p.m. EDT....

Ravens Fans Explain Why They're Wearing Ray Rice Jerseys Tonight
"I don't believe in domestic violence, but I will say: any woman who can hit a man, a man shouldn't have to sit there and take the abuse."...

CrossFit Still Litigious, Still The Worst
Don't mess with the CrossFit bros over at your nearest warehouse-cum-gym. Everyone knows that. Scientists and their journals know it. Magazines know it. Apparently the only entity that didn't know it was an Italian fitness equipment company called Cross Gym. They sure as hell do now....
