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2014 Was A Banner Year For Food Spills On Highways
Early this morning, a cargo truck overturned on a Detroit highway, scattering boxes of frozen chicken wings across the asphalt, capping off what has been a remarkable year for highway-spill enthusiasts. Let us now stroll down food-spill memory lane. Watch your footing, it might be slippery....
Browns Refuse To Apologize To Cleveland Cops About Tamir Rice T-Shirt
The Cleveland Browns have unequivocally denied a demand from Cleveland police that the team apologize for Andrew Hawkins wearing a shirt yesterday that called attention to the deaths of Tamir Rice and John Crawford. ...
California Split 40 Years Later
Kim Morgan recently sat down with Elliot Gould, George Segal and Joseph Walsh to talk about California Split, a movie they made with Robert Altman:...
Cleveland Cops Demand Apology, Call Activist Browns Players "Pathetic"
Browns receiver Andrew Hawkins wore a shirt demanding justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford before today's game against the Bengals, and the act so infuriated Cleveland cops that the city's police union president is now demanding the team apologize—calling Hawkins's statement (and one previously ...
Wofford Upsets N.C. State After Wiped-Away Buzzer-Beater
The Wofford Terriers beat North Carolina State today for the first time in 80 years after a buzzer-beater from Trevor Lacey was wiped off the board following video review....
How CBS And The NFL Teamed Up To Screw <em>Wheel Of Fortune</em> And <em>Jeopardy!</em>
In January, CBS acquired the rights to air NFL Network's Thursday Night Football through the first half of the season. That slate turned out to be some of the shittiest professional football ever put on television, and it was a financial catastrophe for the Tiffany network. But prime-time nation...
Ford Blimp Crashes At Portland Trail Blazers Game
Ford executives were heard shouting at the inflatable SUV's handlers, "Whatever you do, don't roll it over!"...
Corey Crawford Is Out A Few Weeks Because He Fell At A Concert
Corey Crawford's mysterious "lower-body" injury turned out to be a fairly hilarious one—the Blackhawks goalie says he missed a step and fell down while leaving a concert....
The Buffalo Bills Will Host The Jets At "Home"...In Detroit On Monday
Where will the Jets-Bills game be played, and when, you ask? Finally we have a definitive answer: 7:00 p.m. ET Monday night, at Ford Field in Detroit. The NFL announced earlier today that Sunday's game would be moved from Buffalo, as Western New York will be busy digging itself out from under snow f...
Stanford Ends UConn's 47-Game Winning Streak In OT
UConn versus Stanford has been one of women's college basketball's best rivalries over the past decade, and tonight's contest was no exception. Down ten at home with just six-and-a-half minutes remaining, Amber Orrange had nine of the Cardinal final 22 points—including a game-tying three with just t...
Tony Allen So Excited To Enter Game, He Forgot To Take His Shirt Off
NBA uniforms have gotten pretty ridiculous lately, but we aren't quite to the point where players are competing in their warmup shirts. That didn't stop the Grizzlies' Tony Allen from trying to enter tonight's game against the Kings while still sporting his warmups....
Greg Schiano Cooks Bacon In "A Pile" Like Some Kind Of An Idiot
There's lots going on in the ridiculous lede of this Redempto-Matic MMQB story about hilarious football coaching failure Greg Schiano's post-NFL journey of self-discovery or whatever the hell....
Coach K Talks U.S. Foreign Policy With Dumb Basketball Metaphors
Mick Krizilonski was a guest speaker at the Association of the U.S. Army conference last month, and he seized on the opportunity to bemoan President Barack Obama's decision to rule out using ground troops to combat ISIS. He did this in the most annoying and Dook-ish way imaginable....
Vikings Cornerback Has Important Questions About <em>Forrest Gump</em>
Jabari Price had some major questions about Forrest Gump last night....
Cops: Players Shouted "Football Strong!" After Dislocating Man's Brain
Police say the five California University players arrested yesterday on charges they brutally stomped a man outside a Pennsylvania restaurant left the man with brain injuries so severe that "the lower part of his brain has shifted 80 degrees."...
Cal U. Cancels Football Game After 5 Players Busted On Assault Charges
California University (PA) has canceled tomorrow's scheduled game against Gannon University after five of its players landed in jail on charges they beat a man so badly he now suffers from severe brain injury....
How Muhammad Ali's Rope-A-Dope Myth Suckered America
Myth now dominates our misunderstanding of Muhammad Ali, who was once the most accessible celebrity in the world. The truth of the man is nearly irretrievable. With Ali having receded into an exile of his own choosing, the jokes and half-truths and outright lies he once told to entertain us have h...
Pornhub-Sponsored Soccer Team Threatened With Ban
It started off as a prank. Then Pornhub caught wind, and everything went to shit. ...
I Love It When You Call Me Big Papa
Found this over at Longform: The New Yorker's legendary 1950 Lillian Ross profile of Hemingway:...
Robert Kraft Loves His Players A Little Too Much
Here's a tender moment between Patriots owner Bob Kraft and Vince Wilfork. It's sweet, and totally common for owners to share intimacy with their employees....