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Drugs, Chess, Books, Or Gambling: How To Fight Boredom In Prison
Leisure time, unstructured and purposeless, generally makes up most of an American prison inmate's day. Most convicts are just sent to the yard, where they socialize, exercise, play games and sports, and make their deals. Entire lives are spent in the incarcerated world, typified by the sexual com...
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...
Brazilian Legends Pelé And Coutinho Are Terrible At (Video Game) Soccer
What do you get when you give maybe the greatest soccer player of all time and his old strike partner a couple controllers, a soccer video game, and point a camera at them? Pretty much the same level of cluelessness if I gave the same tools to my grandpa. But hey, at least they have fun with how muc...
"Gary's Wife Complains About Fatigue Too": Your College GameDay Signs
Baylor's making its case for selection to the college football "playoff" today as College GameDay's in Waco. Here's the best signs we spotted on today's broadcast:...
Magic: The Gathering, That Old Nerd Favorite, Is The New Poker
When we reached the last stop on the MAX Yellow Line light rail, a large group of Magic: The Gathering pros loped off the train toward the Portland Expo Center right alongside me. Tall Paul Rietzl, with his square jaw and blonde crew cut … rail-thin David Ochoa, with his owlish glasses … handsome ...
<em>Battle Royale</em>'s Wincing Nastiness Can Never Be Duplicated
Once upon a time, seeking out a way to see Battle Royale, the 2000 Japanese movie about little kids killing each other on an island, felt like finding a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook or something. This movie was never banned in the U.S. the way it was (and still is) in Germany. But even though it q...
Andre Miller Throws Some Classic Old-Man Game At The Heat, Scores
Andre Miller is 941 years old and has been in the NBA longer than it has existed; his first career assist, as a matter of fact, was a pocket bounce-pass to a rolling Chester Arthur for a two-handed jam. In all the years since, Gramps has learned a few tricks to augment his nonexistent athleticism, ...
"Harvey Updyke For President": Your Iron Bowl <em>College GameDay</em> Roundup
College GameDay is in Tuscaloosa this morning, and the 'Bama fans brought their best Auburn insults for the occasion. Here are the highlights and lowlights of this morning's signs....
Blocked Punt Averted By Yale Punter's Pump-Fake
Who would have expected a smart play from the punter of an Ivy League school? You should all be shocked....
"Yale Cites Wikipedia": Your <em>College GameDay</em> Sign Roundup
ESPN's College GameDay crew is in Cambridge this morning for today's decisive Yale-Harvard game, and the Crimson snooty-snoots brought out their best for this morning's show. Here's the top signs that aired on TV today:...
The Moment Chicago Radio Hosts Found Out On The Air That They Were Fired
We mentioned this while it was happening yesterday, but it's another thing altogether to see video of Chicago sports radio hosts trying to doing their show as they learn their entire station is going to be shut down....
Sequel Fatigue: <em>The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1</em>, Reviewed
I've now seen three Hunger Games films, and I feel confident saying that eventually, something is finally going to happen in one of them. There's been no shortage of incidents—action scenes, plot twists, emotional moments—but what's strange about this series is that everything always seems to ...
Despots, Serial Killers, And Dick Jokes: <em>Football Manager</em>'s Banned Names
From the sheer number of funny names assigned to the randomly generated players in Football Manager, you may have assumed there is no filter on name combinations. And while you may have seen a "Willy Pinas" or two, you haven't seen a "Adolf Hitler," "Tim McVeigh," or a "Dick Licka" for a good reas...
Tits Out For The Tide: Your <em>College GameDay</em> Sign Roundup
ESPN's College GameDay traveled once again to Tuscaloosa, where a surprising number of Jameis Winston sign-holders were in attendance. You know he beat Auburn, right, Bamafan?...
Hold X To Kick Spacey's Ass: Defending <em>Call Of Duty: Advance Warfare</em>
Last night I watched in horror as high-tech commandos blew up the Golden Gate Bridge, sending huge chunks of my city's signature landmark showering down onto a fleet of Navy vessels. Burst-jumping down the bike lane I've personally used many times, I did my best to stop the atrocity. Alongside my ...
15-Year-Old Wonderkid Added To Video Game After Dad's Tweeted Permission
The real point of career modes in soccer video games is to snatch up a grip of the world's most hyped youngsters and slowly build a juggernaut. Fans of Football Manager—that impossibly detailed, life-consumingly fun computer game—were dismayed to find Norway's new starlet Martin Ødegaard missing...
"Urban Meyer Is A Juggalo": Your <em>College GameDay</em> Sign Roundup
Quality work from Michigan State this week on College GameDay. Here is your sign roundup:...
"Trevone Enjoys Boykin Dudes": Your <em>College GameDay</em> Sign Roundup
Here's the "best" of what West Virginia had to offer on ESPN's College GameDay this morning....