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T-Wolves' "Ladies Night" Again Features Free Season One DVD Of <em>Girls</em>
Are you a woman who is also a fan of the Minnesota Timberwolves? Are you also unable to afford HBO and/or really bad at keeping up with popular culture? Then you need to get yourself to one of the Minnesota Timberwolves' "Ladies Night Out" games this year....


Here's Victor Oladipo Crooning A Bill Withers Song
This is from back in April, but the internet just discovered it because it was tweeted out last night by Shelby Gogreve, the woman on stage with Magic rookie Victor Oladipo, who fancies himself as a singer. The video above is from Indiana University's Spirit of Indiana Showcase. It's Oladipo and G...

High School Runner Drops Out Of Race Because Her Bib Number Was 666
A Kentucky cross country runner decided to drop out of this weekend's regionals rather than race in the bib number 666, because she said it conflicted with her religious beliefs....

At Swim, Two Girls
Also from BASW 2013, dig Bridget Quinn's beautiful piece, "At Swim, Two Girls":...

Chargers Score Extremely Disappointing Fat Guy Touchdown
He didn't even have to run anywhere!...

Tom Landry's Widow Says Tom Landry Died A Giants Fan
For the first 29 seasons of the Dallas Cowboys' existence, they were coached by Tom Landry, who was best known for his formal sideline attire, most prominently that ever-present fedora. Landry was the Cowboys, at least until Jerry Jones bought the team in February 1989 and promptly fired him, among ...

Taj Gibson Has A Strange Happy Face
It's not every day your backup power forward hits a buzzer beater, albeit to end the first quarter, so we'll cut him some slack if he doesn't yet have the Kobe ice grill committed to muscle memory. Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images...

A Wink At A Homely Girl
If you don't have good dreams, Bagel, you've got nightmares....

The Greatest Slugger Never To Play In The Major Leagues
As David Ortiz adds to his legend this week—the version that omits any mention of PEDs, of course—let's take a moment to appreciate John Schulian's 2000 SI profile of Josh Gibson:...

Illinois QB's Father Banned From Campus After Arrest
Nathan Creer, the father of Illinois starting quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase has been banned from campus for a year after being involved in a drunken fight at Saturday's game. ...

Baby Andy Reid Has The Best Halloween Costume
Baby Mangino is a legend around these parts, but Baby Andy Reid has arrived to make a bid for the title of America's Best Baby Coach. You may say it's the mustache that really makes this costume, but I say it's all about the wide, vacant eyes. ...

Disbelieving Raiderfan Reaction Somehow Appropriate
That this is a reasonable and expected response from a Raiders fan whose team still has a three-point lead and the ball with 90 seconds left tells you how truly wacky the 2013 NFL season has been....

Duke Wins At No. 14 Virginia Tech, May Not Totally Suck This Year
Blue Devils football, heretofore a model of futility, managed to roll into Blacksburg, Va., today and slip past a Virginia Team that was favored by almost two touchdowns. The 13-10 win made Duke bowl-eligible for a second straight year — a feat for a team that has played only nine bowl games, none o...




