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"No Other Men In It, Just Me": A Letter From A Porn Hopeful

Yesterday we shared an adorable letter from a fan of the New Orleans Pelicans, begging the team to give him a chance and a million-dollar contract. Reader Daniel used to work at an adult video company, and dug up a letter from one of the company's biggest fans, begging for a role in porn....

Shane Victorino's Nifty Catch Gives Way To Slapstick Routine In Stands

Here we have a happy-go-lucky Red Sox fan, his mood perhaps buoyed by the effects of a few alcoholic beverages, becoming a whirlwind of destruction following a brief encounter with Shane Victorino....

Fan Writes Letter To Pelicans Asking For $1 Million Contract

I know what the jerseys look like, but the Pelicans are a real NBA team. With professional players and everything. You can't just get a job by writing them a polite, poorly spelled letter—hold on, did you say you're better than LeBron and "Kobie?"...

Brandon Marshall Is Better Than Drew Brees, And Other Fantasy Truths

Fantasy football may not have all the blood and sweat and violence and trauma of the game as it's played on the field, but there's at least one way in which it's just like the real thing: as John Madden put it, "usually the team that scores the most points wins." How you get those points may be ver...

Dead Letters: Sick Burn, Pete Prisco. Sick Burn.

Subject: How To Make A Pimento Cheese Sandwich: A Recipe Unlike Any Other/Article...

College Football Has Officially Arrived

Note In A Fan's Notes

Found this copy of Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes in a bookstore on the Upper West Side last week. Dig the inscription:...

Hecklers Bring Turkish Soccer Player To Tears

A Super Lig game between Trabzonspor and Çaykur Rizespor was hit with a big dose of the sads when Trabzonspor midfielder Volkan Sen broke down into tears after being heckled by a group of fans....

ESPN Camera Catches Dodgers Fan With "Fuck Boston" T-Shirt

I like it, but the purple-and-gold color scheme makes me think this guy might just be a Laker fan who repurposed this shirt from a past Lakers-Celtics series. If that's the case, then good on him for maximizing the value of his insulting t-shirt....

Idiots On The Field Invade <em>SNF</em>, And Jerome Simpson Leveled One Of Them

It's preseason for security staff too, as we learned tonight at Candlestick Park as back-to-back Idiots invaded the field during the Vikings-49ers matchup, with one of them getting taken down by Jerome Simpson....

[UPDATE] Siragusa Forced To Sell Restaurant License After Drunk Patrons Die

UPDATE: In the official press release regarding the matter, Siragusa is not listed as an owner of this specific Tiffany's. The owners are Bruno D'Uva Sr., Bruno D'Uva Jr., and Lisa Barna....

Dead Letters: "Mister, Jesus IS The True Savoir Of Mankind"

Subject: jews, fantasy debate, and dick displacement theory......

Police Investigating Robbery Claim Over Home Run Ball At Giants Game

On Wednesday, in the seventh inning of the Red Sox' blowout win over the Giants, Stephen Drew hit a three-run homer. NESN's cameras showed a man who triumphantly came up with the baseball. But San Francisco police are currently looking for that dastardly individual. They say he's a villain who robbe...

Idiots on the field thwarted by own idiocy: Two Phillies fans promised to run on the field if their tweet got 200 RTs. Unfortunately for them, stadium security was on Twitter too. [Crossing Broad]...

Guy Intentionally Screws Up Mock Drafts To Capture Reactions

For people who really like fantasy football, mock drafts are useful as a run-through, just to get a feel of which players are being picked in what round. As we found out thanks to a man named Stefan, people take their mock drafts very seriously....

Drunk Cardinals Fan Tries To Kick Cubs Fan, Falls On Own Head Instead

According to the YouTube uploader, this happened Friday outside Wrigley, sometime after the Cubs actually won the first game of the teams' weekend series. Related: Has anyone talked to Will Leitch since Friday?...

Flyers Fans Set Fake World Record For Watching Paint Dry

Yesterday, the Flyers painted the ice at the Wells Fargo Center. And they invited their fans to "help us set a new Guinness Book of World Records for the most people to simultaneously watch paint dry." Literally almost hundreds of people showed up....

No Stopping Grown Man's Pursuit Of Souvenir Little League Baseball

This is from Saturday, but we're just now catching up on our review of the weekend's slate of Little League World Series games, by which we mean we only now saw this vid over on Busted Coverage....

Terrible Person Grabs Foul Ball Away From Young Boy At Fenway

While much of the focus on last night's Yankees-Red Sox game landed on the Fenway faithful's treatment of A-Rod, the true villain in attendance was this gent who celebrated the achievement of grabbing a foul ball away from a little kid....

Dead Letters: "I Have A Pic Of [ESPN Person] Performing Oral Sex"

Subject: [ESPN on-air talent]...