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Stephen Curry Is A Fictional Character From Planet X
One of baseball’s last remaining virtues is that the maxim “Watch any baseball game, and you’ll see something you’ve never seen before” is generally true. We think it’s about time that rule be applied to any time Steph Curry is on a basketball court... or off it....
Ovechkin Spotted Getting Gas To Plow Neighbors' Driveways; Is Unafraid Of Blizzard Because "We're From Russia"
Draw your own conclusions about how and why Alex Ovechkin happened to run into D.C. CBS station WUSA at a gas station. All we know is that the Capitals star had three words in response to a query about whether he’s prepared for the blizzard assaulting our nation’s capital: “We’re from Russia.”...
Macklemore's Problem Is That Macklemore Is Bad
Last night, white rapping man Macklemore released a song called “White Privilege II.” The song, which is accompanied by a website, is earnest and ostensibly aims to acknowledge and condemn the very white privilege from which Macklemore profits. It is a bad song. To examine how we got to this point, ...
The Man Who Was Vigo The Carpathian Gets A Compelling Mini-Documentary
No Small Parts, a fan-made documentary series about character actors, has produced this lovely piece on Norbert Grupe, aka Prince Wilhelm von Homburg, aka Vigo the Carpathian, aka one of the biggest assholes there was. It’s based off of Shaun Raviv’s piece on Grupe that we published in October, and ...
Not Even A Fancy Studio Band Can Make Your Sexts Sound Appealing
This truly remarkable song claims to derive its lyrics from “word for word consensual texts sent to a young woman by frat guys.” Enjoy....
Is It OK To Order Delivery During A Snowstorm?
Much of the East Coast is about to get slammed by a nor’easter, with areas in and around Washington D.C. set to receive up to two feet or more of snow. Schools have been canceled, airports are functionally shut down, and even D.C.’s Metro is set to shutter for the weekend. But you’re hungry, and you...
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The Washington Capitals Shouldn't Play Tonight [Update]
The snow in Washington D.C. is expected to start falling around noon. A blizzard warning formally goes into effect at 3 p.m. The region could get two feet or more. The storm “has life and death implications,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said. “People should hunker down, shelter in place and stay off the roa...
Cop Responds To Noise Complaint Of Kids Playing Basketball By Lowering Rim And Dunking On Them
Some no-fun-haver called in a noise complaint against these kids in Gainesville, Fl. for having the audacity—the nerve—to play basketball loudly in what appears to be the damn woods, or somewhere close to the woods anyway....
Grizzlies Fan Becomes Victim Of Apocalyptic Silly String Ambush
The Grizzlies shot 80% on the Nuggets in the first quarter but Rocky and his Nuggets fan cohorts shot 100% on silly string ambushes for the night....
How Washington's Youngsters Turned The Program Around
Ask historically great programs like Texas football or UCLA basketball; losing has a way of compounding itself in college sports. With constant, acute competition for recruits, it can be difficult to reverse the narrative once you start slipping. Why would that five-star quarterback want to play for...
Report: Freshman Hazed At Tennessee HS Found Covered In Blood, Urine, Feces
ESPN’s Outside the Lines has new details about what police say happened the night three high school basketball players are accused of attacking and sodomizing a teammate with a pool cue. They include a timeline of how the attack unfolded, how other students were similarly hazed, how long coaches wai...
High School Student Section Sets Gold Standard For Free-Throw Distractions
Good work by the student section at Sheridan High School (Ohio). These kids distracted their team’s opponents with a fake pregnancy, and it worked....
You Don’t Scare Me, Snow
By now, you are probably aware that the East Coast is about to get murdered with 50 tons of acid methane snow over the weekend. You know this because people who live on the East Coast believe that their weather is EVERYONE’S weather....
Gregg Popovich Loves Photos
While the Spurs were in New York for a Jan. 11 game against the Nets, coach Gregg Popovich apparently nabbed a ticket to Hamilton. Another audience member got the evidence by taking a photo with Popovich, who looked absolutely delighted in his beatnik sweater....
Here's Michael Jordan Gossip That We Desperately Want To Believe
This week, a day after former Chicago Bulls assistant coach Johnny Bach died at 91, we got an email. A friend of a friend had sent the tipster a summary of a 2011 dinner with Bach. It was filled with all sorts of fun anecdotes about Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Jerry Krause, and more characters o...
This Danny McBride-Lookin' Motherfucker's Rap Song About The Panthers Is Actually Good
Yeah, we spend a lot of time here making fun of people who decide to create dopey music videos, and I realize that the one rule everyone on earth should follow is “Don’t make that rap video.” And yet, I am here for this dude’s rap song about the Panthers, which was posted way back in December but wa...
Just Three European NBA Players, Making Jokes And Burning Hassan Whiteside
Jazz center and large Frenchman Rudy Gobert sent a semi-hot, cryptic tweet two days ago:...
Panthers Linebacker Shaq Thompson To Seahawks Fans: "Fuck Y'all, Fuck The Seahawks"
At some point after the Carolina Panthers’ playoff victory over the Seattle Seahawks, Panthers rookie linebacker Shaq Thompson got on Snapchat to deliver a special message to the Seahawks and their fans. The message has since been deleted, but it still lives on the internet:...
What Has Chip Kelly Learned?
The 49ers formally introduced Chip Kelly yesterday, and the media immediately wanted to know if Kelly intended to change anything from his stint in Philadelphia, where his people skills rubbed some players the wrong way and a good number weren’t too sad to see him go. “I don’t know if I can be signi...
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What was the last actual, physical book you read? If you’re struggling for an answer, please keep reading. (Note: This does not count as a book.)...