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Donald Cerrone And John Lineker Are What's Right With Fighting
I love body shots. There is a horrible, wonderful noise generated when a professional athlete hits another professional athlete in the torso, a thudding slap of skeleton and meat. It sounds like a Foley artist's garish exaggeration of what you think a body shot should sound like. I love this sound...
Hacking Still Sucks: On <em>Watch Dogs</em> And Next-Gen-Console Malaise
The promise of Watch Dogs was simple, and explained much of the anticipation leading up to the wantonly hyped prestige video game's May release: Finally—finally! (finally?)—someone was going to make hacking cool. In this case, it was the developer Ubisoft, whose ambition to make coding as engrossi...
Report: Arizona Tribe Refused Redskins' "Bribe" To Build Skate Park
As first noticed by Dan Steinberg, a release from a Native advocacy group claims that representatives from Dan Snyder's Original Americans Foundation met with an Arizona tribe yesterday to offer a donation to help build a skate park, an offer that was unreservedly rejected as "bribe money."...
Yakuza Throwing Frisbees: The Graceful Savagery Of <em>Sonatine</em>
In 1994, the year after he released his lyrical yakuza movie Sonatine, the Japanese movie star and director Takeshi Kitano got into a bad motor-scooter accident. He came away with half of his face paralyzed. You almost couldn't tell....
Prosecution: Aaron Hernandez's Fiancée Lied About Disposing Of Guns
Prosecutors are turning up the heat on Shayanna Jenkins, Aaron Hernandez's fiancée. In a filing, they list more than a dozen instances of evidence contradicting Jenkins's testimony to a grand jury in the murder case against Hernandez....
Brett Favre Unqualified To Discuss Safety Of Football, Says Sportswriter
Only the parents of boys are welcome in the discussion of whether it's unsafe to let children play football. So says Mike Florio, a collectible commemorative helmet-phone in the employ of NBC Sports, who's mad at Brett Favre for expressing reservations about whether he'd encourage his non-existent ...
Satellite-Free NFL Sunday Ticket For Xbox, PS4, Tablets: Coming Soon?
NFL Sunday Ticket has always been notoriously inaccessible, limited to just DirecTV subscribers and people who bought a copy of Madden last year. It sucks. But that looks like it's about to change. A page that's turned up on the DirecTV website says satellite-free packages of Sunday Ticket will be o...
A Funny Story About Then-Rookie Eric Lindros Being A Huge Dickhead
Former NHL player and referee Paul Stewart has a new column up on the Huffington Post about his officiating days. It's peppered with excellent anecdotes, none better than one involving Eric Lindros, then a rookie for the Philadelphia Flyers, being a spectacular prick....
The Trouble With Floyd Mayweather
Last week, Floyd Mayweather announced that he will fight a rematch with Marcos Maidana on Sept. 13. Their first fight, two months ago, was Mayweather’s closest challenge in years, with many in the boxing media believing that Maidana had earned the decision. And while that bout may have failed to mee...
Why I Love <em>So You Think You Can Dance</em>, Dopey (Or Dead) Dads And All
Less than 10 minutes into the first episode of the 11th season of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance, a contestant's dad was onstage dancing to "Blurred Lines." To begin, he set a water bottle on the floor before him, and then, as though initiating an ancient mating ritual, he approached and hovered a...
Big, Dumb, Unsexy: <em>Sex Tape</em>, Reviewed
Sex Tape is such a dumb movie that it's hard to know where to start. So let's try this: Its premise is total nonsense. Married-with-kids couple Jay (Jason Segel) and Annie (Cameron Diaz) decide to spice up their inert love life by filming themselves with Jay's iPad doing every position mentioned...
Pouncey Brothers To Be Sued For Maybe Beating Up A Guy In A Club
The Pouncey twins should probably just lay low on their birthday next year....
Greg Hardy's Girlfriend Testifies: "I Was So Scared I Wanted To Die"
Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy was in court today for allegedly beating his girlfriend Nicole Holder and threatening to shoot her in May. Holder initially wasn't present, but arrived in time to give her testimony....
We'll Pay You To Read The Tampa Bay Bucs' Longform Advertorial
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have put something terrible on the internet, a 32,000-word piece of what we can only assume is advertorial content presented as the kind of #longform journalism that is meant to get Serious Readers stiff. ...
The Vikings Considered Black Uniforms
We are fans of unrealized uniform concepts (even if they are teal monstrosities). So we're excited that Paul Lukas at Uni Watch has gotten his hands on two sets of prototype designs for the Minnesota Vikings, made by Reebok in 2003....
The Flyers Almost Had Teal Jerseys
Here is an excellent read for anyone interested in uniform marginalia, design trivia, or just the fashion horror show that was the 1990s. It's the previously untold story of the time the Philadelphia Flyers nearly went teal....
Browns Owner Avoids Federal Prosecution With Massive Settlement
Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, who is the CEO of a truck stop empire that committed a whole bunch of fraud, probably won't be spending any time in prison for presiding over a company that bilked customers out of tens of millions of dollars. That's because his company, Pilot Flying J, just agreed to pay ...
It's Very Good To Own An NFL Team
NFL owners cry poverty all the time, usually when they want a new stadium or new CBA. And because their books are private, there's little (save common sense) to dispute their claims. But the Green Bay Packers are publicly owned, and last week, the Packers released their financials....
The Hottest LeBron Take Comes Via The Florida GOP
The fun thing about LeBron is that he is famous enough to inspire enough different varieties of strong feeling in people that he can now mean just about whatever you want him to mean. Prodigal son. A man in full. Coward. Traitor. ...
Chad Johnson Scores First Touchdown In CFL, Hugs Reluctant Official
Chad Johnson scored his first touchdown in the CFL for the Montreal Alouettes on Friday night and his first impulse was to hug official Jocelyn Stone. Stone appears less than excited....