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Masseuse accuses Deshaun Watson of sexual assault during massage in her home [UPDATE]

A Houston-area masseuse has accused Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed Tuesday night and announced in a social media post from the accuser’s attorney, Tony Buzbee....

Pepe Le Pew should be canceled, but Space Jam misses a huge opportunity

“Now they are canceling Looney Tunes characters!”...

It’s time the NHL did a better job protecting its players

Don’t worry, the NHL can still find a way to show its ass even with the NBA having a showcase event. On the same day that Tom Wilson was suspended for braining Boston’s Brandon Carlo into the boards with a cheap shot, Brad Marchand couldn’t be upstaged. And this is the same Brad Marchand who openly ...

Ariel Young, injured in crash by former Chiefs Coach Britt Reid, likely has permanent brain damage

Tom Porto, the family attorney for Ariel Young, the 5-year-old girl that was injured last month in a car accident with Britt Reid, has spoken out for the first time. In an interview with Good Morning America, he provided an update on her condition....

Ariel Young emerges from coma almost two weeks after accident caused by Britt Reid, but has 'long road to recovery' [Updated]

Updated on February 16, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.:  Ariel Young, the five-year-old that was injured in the car accident with Britt Reid, is out of her coma. An initial update was posted by Tiffany Verhulst last night on the GoFundMe page for Ariel’s family that says “Ariel is awake.” However, while this pos...

At Trevor Bauer’s Dodger intro, media hold his misogynist feet to ... a cozy, warm, crackling fire

I can’t sum this up any better than Craig Calcattera did, so let’s start there:...

Britt Reid is gone from the Chiefs as 5-year old Ariel remains in coma

One week after Britt Reid, Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach and Andy Reid’s son, caused a car accident and admitted to police officers that he had been drinking, many people are left wondering if there will be ramifications from the NFL and/or the Chiefs organization. Conveniently enough for the C...

Put a mask on, Tom Brady

Tom Brady has won so many Lombardi Trophies that he just doesn’t seem to care anymore. It must be like being so rich that you can have whatever and however many cars you want, and just hand the keys to your McLaren to your teenager. After all, if something happens to it, it’s not a big deal – you ha...

Andy Reid looks like an undercover toucan in his Super Bowl mask

I don’t know what’s going on with Andy Reid’s mask right now, but he looks like a stork who’s about to drop off some children....

This is Ariel, the girl Chiefs coach Britt Reid, Andy’s son, hospitalized

Her name is Ariel, and she is five years old. She’s fighting for her life because Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid, son of Andy Reid, smashed into the car she was sitting in. Reid told officers he had been drinking....

K.C. coach Britt Reid, Andy Reid’s son, involved in car accident; reportedly told cops he'd been drinking [UPDATED]

Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach, Britt Reid, son of head coach Andy Reid, was in a car accident on Thursday night that left two young children injured. One of the children, a five-year-old, has life-threatening injuries. According to reports, Reid told the police that he had been drinking, and a ...

DeMarcus Cousins Is On The Sacramento Kings

DeMarcus Cousins is on the Sacramento Kings. He is not on the Boston Celtics. His time on the Boston Celtics has not gone well or poorly, because he has not had any time on the Boston Celtics, because all of his time has been on the Sacramento Kings. (Also he is not on any other teams, except for th...

The Scandinavian Crime Fiction Starter Kit 

So you stayed up all night to finally read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and now you’re hooked on Scandinavian noir. Welcome to the club—after ABBA and Lego bricks, crime novels are the region’s biggest cultural export. But while Girl and its sequels brought the genre onto the global stage, Stieg...

The Story Behind Dashiell Hammett's Last And Most Popular Book

The following is excerpted from Nathan Ward’s The Lost Detective, a new book about the early life of Dashiell Hammett, one of the greatest crime writers in history....

The Professional: Donald E. Westlake

Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008) was one of our most prolific and entertaining writers. Now, we've got this posthumous treat: The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany, published by the University of Chicago Press and edited by Levi Stahl. The book is a ton of fun. I recently had the ch...

The Five-Forty Eight

Ah, now he's a gem from The New Yorker--John Cheever's 1954 short story, "The Five-Forty-Eight":...

How Gotham City Got Mapped

It's tough to build a great fantasy world without a map—there's a reason why the Game of Thrones credits are basically a Google Earth flyover—and comic book worlds are no exception. While Batman's "Gotham City" has been around since 1940, it wasn't properly mapped until 1998's "No Man's Land" arc. O...

I'm David Peace, Author Of <em>The Damned Utd</em> And <em>Red Or Dead</em>. Let's Chat.

We're joined by novelist David Peace. Named one of Granta's Best of Young Novelists in 2003, he's the author of the Red Riding Quartet, the Tokyo Trilogy, GB84, The Damned Utd—"probably the best novel ever written about sport," per The Times—and, most recently, Red or Dead, an exploration of the lif...

Stop by at 1:00 EST to chat with novelist David Peace—author of, among other outstanding books, The Damned Utd and Red or Dead—about soccer or fiction or life or whatever you like....

When Bill Shankly Ruled Liverpool

One of the best books of 2013 will come out in its first American edition next week when Melville House publishes Red or Dead, David Peace's long, strange, and transfixing novel about Bill Shankly's career at Liverpool FC. The single most convincing fictional depiction of the endless repetition that...