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Visitors Are Going To Make So Many New Friends In Sochi
This photo, in the men's room at the Olympic Biathlon Center in Sochi, was snapped by the BBC's Steve Rosenberg. You might just want to hold it....
Our Month Without Booze Is Past The Midpoint. Shit's Getting Real.
Week Three. The Wall. We warned you that Week Three would be the hardest. The novelty of Drynuary definitely wears off by now, boredom creeps in with a vengeance, and somehow you have to negotiate the interminable two weeks between the NFL conference championships and the Super Bowl without your fav...
Richard Sherman And The Plight Of The Conquering Negro
Last night in the NFC championship, the San Francisco 49ers trailed the Seattle Seahawks by six, 23-17, with 30 seconds left in the game. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick had led the 49ers all the way down to the Seahawks' 18-yard line. He took the snap out of the gun, set his feet, and released a floss...
Report: Suicide Bomber May Have Breached Security At Sochi Olympics
Here's some unsettling news out of Sochi. Russian police reportedly fear that a "black widow" suicide bomber may have recently breached the ring of security around the site of the 2014 Olympic games. Police have reportedly launched an urgent search in an effort to find the woman....
How Davone Bess Fell Through The Cracks
Davone Bess's offseason has gone from funny to frightening. One day, he's tweeting photos of weed. The next, he's having what can only be described as a mental breakdown at the airport. It soon emerged that Bess had another breakdown in March, a month before Miami traded him to Cleveland. The all-im...
Skiing Through Colored Snow Produces Some Stunning Visuals
Ski videos can get tiresome—we've all seen plenty of slo-mo clips of bros shredding through powder while concussive house music plays over the footage—but brothers Nicolas and Loras Falquet have found a way to add a new wrinkle to the genre. ...
Sad Manchester United Allow Elderly Samuel Eto'o To Score Hat Trick
No one would have imagined this before the season started: Chelsea demolishes Manchester United 3-1, and the only remotely surprising thing is that Samuel Eto'o—a thousand years old, a chronic misfirer—was the man who knocked in the goals. And yet that's how it is....
Keifer Sykes Is 5-Foot-11 And A Dunking Maestro
Green Bay guard Keifer Sykes may only be 5-foot-11, but his height does absolutely nothing to prevent him from throwing down ridiculous dunks. ...
Bill Belichick: Wes Welker Intentionally Took Out Aqib Talib
New England’s top cornerback was removed from the equation early in the second quarter, when, sticking to Demaryius Thomas on a crossing route, he was hit low by Broncos WR Wes Welker and left with a knee injury. Belichick was his usual circumspect self after the game: “That was a key play in the ga...
Animated Version Of Paul George's 360 Windmill Dunk Is So Damn Cool
We didn't think it was possible to make Paul George's insane dunk any better than it already was, but then internet hero Patrick Truby went and proved us wrong....
Jim Harbaugh's Antics Are Your First-Half NFC Championship Highlight
Is Jim Harbaugh coaching? Then he's probably throwing some kind of tantrum. He was certainly up to his usual tricks at the end of the first half today, and if we have to pick sides we're hoping for another game of Jim Harbaugh antics in the Super Bowl....
Spacey Royals Fan Is Worst Person To Ask About School Shooting Plot
Kansas teenager Brendan Moore was arrested and charged last week for planning a school shooting at Topeka West High School. A crew from local news station WIBW wanted a fellow student to interview for a reaction, and they found Nate Magers. They should have kept looking....
High School Basketball Player Makes A Wild, Unintentional Bounce Shot
Logan Jurgensmeier of Hinton (Iowa) was only trying to keep the ball in play against Sioux City West (Iowa), but his bad bounce pass turned into an accidental two points when it kissed off of the rim and spun in. Jurgensmeier looks as baffled as the rest of us....
Paul George Unleashed A Once-In-A-Lifetime 360 Windmill Dunk
You had better watch this dunk, because it's probably never going to happen again....
Metrodome Deflated For Final Time; Demolition Begins Monday
The home of the Minnesota Vikings has been deflated for the final time. This is time lapse video of the roughly 35-minute process. Once home to the Twins, Vikings and Timberwolves, the Metrodome slowly lost all its major tenants but the Vikings. Now that the Vikings have a new billion-dollar facil...
Patriots Asked About Smoking Weed While In Denver
The Patriots are on the road this week in Denver to play the Broncos in the AFC Championship game, so let's talk about drugs. Denver is in Colorado, where (like Washington, host to the NFC Championship) the recreational use of marijuana is legal. On Friday, multiple Patriots, including Bill Belichic...
How To Cook Chicken Cutlets, And Give Yourself A Reason To Keep Living
These are dark times, friends. Literally! It's dark as hell all the time, because it is winter, and everything is polar vortices and bitter bullying winds and frostbite and uncontrollable sobbing and making a fort out of couch cushions and hiding inside the fort shrouded in sweaters and jackets an...
Jamaica's Bobsleigh Savior Could Be The Olympics' Best Story
The Jamaican team is one good weekend away from qualifying a two-man sled for the Sochi Olympics, in what would be the island nation's first appearance since the 2002 games. They just might not have the money....