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The Secret To Convincing Your Significant Other To Let You Play Video Games Whenever You Want
So you’ve found the love of your life. The two of you somehow tolerate one another enough that you’ve decided to share a home. Now you’ve got a problem: How do you convince them to let you get away with all those eight-hour binges on The Witcher 3?...
Buccaneers' New Kicker, Whom They Took In The Second Round, Misses First Career Extra Point
The Buccaneers traded up to take kicker Roberto Aguayo in the second round, because they suck. Eight minutes into Tampa Bay’s first preseason game tonight against the Eagles, they scored a touchdown—setting up Aguayo’s first professional extra point. Which he missed....
A Dumb, Avoidable Comedy Of Errors Led To Cancelling The Hall Of Fame Game
Last night’s NFL preseason curtain raiser between the Packers and Colts, the annual Hall of Fame game, was canceled because of unsafe playing conditions. Apparently, the paint used for the logo and end zones turned sticky, and congealed into a hard mass. Considering the weather was normal and that t...
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NFL Hall Of Fame Game Cancelled Due To Terrible Playing Surface [Update]
Tonight, after six months of bleak NFL news and training camp reports about how football is not sleeping (it never does), football is back! Rather, it would have been, if terrible turf conditions in Canton didn’t force the NFL to cancel the Hall of Fame Game preseason opener between the Colts and Pa...
How Not To Break The Law Playing <i>Pokémon Go</i>
Welcome back to Ask a Lawyer, wherein I, a lawyer, respond to your questions. Got a vexing legal issue? Send it over, or drop it in the comments below....
Greg Jennings Is Retiring, So Let's Remember His Greatest Highlight
NFL receiver Greg Jennings, who had a solid career and was a key cog in that tremendous 2010 Packers team, announced his retirement today. With Jennings leaving the league, now is a great time to look back and remember his greatest contribution to the game....
Here's The Song Of The Summer, And Also Every Single Other Day Of Life
Folks, it’s a sweaty summer Friday, and chances are you’re work-sick and ready to let loose. Please find some relief in the song of the summer....
Hornets Minority Owner Has Wild, Bigoted Shit To Say About The NBA Moving The All-Star Game
When the NBA announced it was moving the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, North Carolina, because of anti-LGBT legislation the state passed in March, the Hornets reacted quite reasonably. “We understand the NBA’s decision and the challenges around holding the All-Star Game in Charlotte this season...
North Carolina State Senator Burns Governor Over All-Star Game Fiasco
Jeff Jackson is a state senator from North Carolina, who is currently roasting his state’s dipshit governor for his hateful House Bill 2 that caused the NBA to up and move the 2017 NBA All-Star Game out of Charlotte. He has plenty of good and righteous points to make, like how much money McCrory cos...
The NBA Has Moved The All-Star Game From North Carolina Because Of Anti-LGBT Law (UPDATE)
Update (5:33 p.m.): The NBA has officially relocated the 2017 NBA All-Star Game away from Charlotte, North Carolina, in response to an anti-LGBT bill the state passed in March. Here is the league’s statement:...
"Guys, Start Talking"
Say what you will about Colin Cowherd and Jason Whitlock, but it’s clear they both take direction well. Here are the All Takes Matter hosts pretending to chat—at the direction of Fox broadcast personnel—as the network attempts to promote their shitty TV show....
Savor The Moment The Canadian Anthem Singers Realized Their Buddy Had Gone Rogue
The biggest story to come out of last night’s MLB All-Star Game had nothing to do with the game at all, but with a pregame performance of “O Canada.” Remigio Pereira, member of the Canadian singing group The Tenors, replaced some of the lyrics in the anthem with “all lives matter,” a favored politic...
"O Canada" Rendition Features Modified, Racist Lyrics [Update]
This only aired in Canada, as Fox went to commercial break in the U.S. All-Star Game broadcast, but what the fuck? These four Canadian men (known as The Tenors) decided to add one of white supremacists’ favorite phrases into “O Canada.” We have no idea what is going on here....
All My Pokémon Are Boring Trash Idiots
This weekend, I walked around Central Park—a hub for Pokémon Go enthusiasts, apparently—for about three hours trying to catch some good pocket monsters. All I got was a flock of Pidgeys. I hate them....
Try Not Caring About The Latest Fad
So everyone is obsessed with this new Pokémon game, and, after gauging the early potential way wrong, you’re already hopelessly out of touch with this newest mania. Maybe you lack the necessary nostalgia to find the conceit all that appealing, falling as you do right into a narrow age bracket that c...
Here Are Your 2016 MLB All-Stars
This afternoon, Major League Baseball announced the participants in next week’s All-Star Game. They include Jose Altuve and also some other people. Here are the full rosters....
Zack Hample Apologizes For Ballhawking At MLB's Fort Bragg Game
The Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves played a game Sunday at Fort Bragg, a military base in North Carolina. It was the first MLB game to be played at an active base, and the crowd was filled with military members. Also in that crowd was ballhawk Zack Hample....
The Indians Set A New Franchise Win Streak Record In The Most Difficult Way Possible
For the first time in franchise history, the Cleveland Indians have won 14 consecutive games. And it only took them 19 innings against the Blue Jays to lock down lucky number 14. ...