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Spring Mix: Another Fine Mess
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Robert Mathis Cites Male Fertility Drug For Failed Drug Test
Today the NFL announced that Colts linebacker Robert Mathis will serve a four-game suspension for violating the league's drug policy. Mathis quickly released a statement, with an explanation we haven't heard before: He was taking a fertility drug to help his wife get pregnant...and it worked....

Wrigley Field Mural Depicts Scene From Comiskey Park
To celebrate Wrigley Field's 100th anniversary, the Cubs painted a bunch of murals on the outer wall of the stadium facing Waveland Avenue. One of the murals, seen above, is said to depict Charles Lindbergh taking in a Cubs game in 1927. The only problem with the picture is that it wasn't taken at W...

College Soccer Coach Charged With Murder Of 12-Year-Old Boy
Oral "Nick" Hillary, the men's soccer coach at Clarkson University in Upstate New York, was arrested yesterday and charged with the 2011 murder of a 12-year-old boy....

Carlos Gomez Googled "Rich-People Conversations" To Talk To Ryan Braun
There are many things about Carlos Gomez that are delightful, and this week's issue of Sports Illustrated contains an anecdote about Gomez that will make you want to be best friends with him....
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Twins Fan Gives Finger To Little Girl Who Won't Throw Back HR Ball [Update]
This is from Wednesday's game, a David Ortiz home run that was retrieved by a girl in the first row. When the girl made it clear she had no intentions of tossing the ball back onto the field, the woman in red let the girl know to her face what she thought of that decision....

Beijing Man Sues Yao Ming For Ineffective Fish Oil Pills
A man in China who felt that he was duped into buying useless fish oil pills is taking the pharmacy and Yao Ming to court....

Fuck Chipotle
Everyone's rightfully goofing on Chipotle today for unveiling a line of cups and bags featuring insta-literature from the likes of Toni Morrison and George Saunders. Now, I have no issue with restaurant chains scrawling stuff on their packaging. Cook Out could post entire passages from Leviticus o...

Non-African Wins Race
Good news and bad news, white people. Good news is, for the first time ever, a non-African (ok, he is a New Zealander) won a 5K race over a field of Kenyan runners on Kenyan soil. No literally, it was a dirt track....

High School Coach Now Regrets Letting His Pitcher Throw 194 Pitches
On Tuesday, Dylan Fosnacht of Rochester (Wash.) high went 14+ innings, striking out 17 batters and finishing the afternoon with a pitch count of 194. In a year where a disturbing numbers of MLB's best young arms are going in for ligament replacement surgery, Fosnacht's undeniable accomplishment is b...

Lil B Lines Make The Best High School Yearbook Quotes
We all know the feeling: It's the end of your high school career, the four most formative years of your young life, and you want to pick that perfect quote to embody the wisdom you've gleaned on your journey. That so many of our young people are choosing Lil B-inspired quotes bodes well for our coun...

Steve Kerr Turns Down The Knicks Because They're The Knicks
After choosing the Warriors over the Knicks, Steve Kerr went out of his way to insist that his decision had everything to do with family:...

Kawhi Leonard, Who Is The Future, Ran The Blazers Off The Floor
If you didn't catch any of the Spurs' series-clinching win over the Blazers last night—yet another perfectly orchestrated, Spursian blowout—the only highlight you really need to watch is the one above....

Fried Chicken Sandwich Smackdown: Wendy's Vs. KFC
Fried chicken is the best. The main reason I had to stop reading about death row inmates' last meals is that every single thing about this sentence so far is ghastly; I was also secondarily appalled by how many of them forgot to request fried chicken. I understand that if they were good decision-mak...

The Prettiest MLB Box Scores You Can Find Online Are Now Updated Live
You might remember Statlas's baseball graphics from the end of last season, which aimed to provide a more contextual, visually-appealing update to traditional MLB box scores....

Lacrosse Gets The "Bad British Commentary" Treatment
There may come a day when these videos are no longer funny, but this is not that day. ...

Donald Sterling Is Master Shake From <em>Aqua Teen Hunger Force</em>
From the moment the initial tapes emerged, people have remarked on the similarity between Clippers owner Donald Sterling's voice and that of the character Master Shake on Aqua Teen Hunger Force. We did some searching through old ATHF episodes, and discovered these similarities are more than uncanny....

Jeremy Chardy Saves Match Point With Amazing Forehand, Beats Federer
47th-ranked French tennis player Jeremy Chardy didn't appear to have much of a chance against Roger Federer today in Rome, especially when facing match point in the third-set tiebreaker. Then he pulled this unbelievable forehand winner off—and leveraged it to a 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) win....

Everyone Loves Josh Reddick's Sexy Walk-Up Song
A's outfielder Josh Reddick has decided to start using George Michael's "Careless Whisper" as his walk-up song, and it's got everyone in Oakland feeling sexxxy....