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The Daily Fantasy Nightmare Is Here Because The NFL Made It So
This has been the season of daily fantasy. Yes, it was always there, but this year, the biggest players—FanDuel and DraftKings—have gone all in, buying up seemingly every possible piece of ad space available in sports media. There they are, sponsoring one of the biggest fantasy writers. There they a...
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Javaris Crittenton Pointing A Loaded Gun At Gilbert Arenas Is Still The Most Insane Thing To Ever Happen In The NBA
The Washington Post has an excerpt of Caron Butler’s new book, Tuff Juice: My Journey from the Streets to the NBA—Editorial Reviews on Amazon provided by Dwyane Wade, Pat Riley, and Mark Wahlberg—that delivers his account of the one time Gilbert Arenas nearly got himself shot in the Wizards locker r...
Report: Matt Barnes Drove To Los Angeles To Fight Derek Fisher For Dating His Estranged Wife
Grizzlies forward Matt Barnes drove to his estranged wife’s Los Angeles home last Saturday when he learned that former Lakers teammate and current Knicks coach Derek Fisher was seeing her, according to the New York Post....
Root For The Royals In The Playoffs
It’s no longer the baseball preseason. Time to get your ass fired up for the regular fall season of America’s Pastime. Read all our playoff team previews here. Today, you’re getting to know … THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS....
<i>Steve Jobs</i> May Be About The Apple Guru, But Aaron Sorkin Is The Real Star
The trick to enjoying an Aaron Sorkin project is to never take it as seriously as he does. The creator of The West Wing and The Newsroom and the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Social Network doesn’t write dialogue—he stages showy talk-fests that are meant to either show off how smart his characte...
Sepp Blatter's 90-Day Suspension Is In The Hands Of The Man Who Whitewashed FIFA Corruption
According to various reports, FIFA’s ethics committee has recommended a 90-day suspension of president Sepp Blatter while they wait to see if any of the numerous investigations of him stick. Mind you, this is only a provisional suspension which must be ratified by a man with a track record of trying...
Bad Radio Man Calls ESPN's Jessica Mendoza "Tits McGee," Gets Suspended
Former softball player Jessica Mendoza has been providing color commentary during ESPN baseball broadcasts for a few weeks now. She was on the call for last night’s wild card game between the Astros and Yankees, and this didn’t sit well with Atlanta sports radio host Mike Bell....
Report: Auburn Receiver Duke Williams Went On A Punching Rampage
Auburn Tigers head coach Gus Malzahn announced yesterday that he had dismissed wide receiver D’haquille “Duke” Williams from the team. Malzahn didn’t get into the specifics of why Williams was dismissed, but it might have had something to do with an alleged rampage that Williams went on at a local b...
The Caucasian's Guide To Black Churches
Eleven a.m. Sunday morning was once called “the most segregated hour in America,” but as the nation becomes more diverse, so do its institutions of worship. Steeped in traditions passed down since slavery, churches are one of the cornerstones of the African-American community, and navigating the sub...
Enjoy These Bills Fans Having A Dance–OHHH RKO OUTTA NOWHERE
This video initially looks like mundane footage of some Bills fans dancing and having fun, but what happens next will restore your faith in humanity, or something....
Former FIFA Vice President Throws All Kinds Of Shit At Sepp Blatter
You know you’re in for some good dirt when Chung Mung-joon, a former FIFA vice-prez in the running for the next presidency, hits you with bars like “To call [FIFA] a mafia is almost insulting to mafia, so blatant and arrogant is its corruption.”...
Can I Sue My Ex For Giving Me Chlamydia On Purpose?
Welcome back to Ask a Lawyer, wherein I, a lawyer, respond to your questions. Got a vexing legal issue? Send it over, or drop it in the comments below. Today’s query:...
Here Is What "Stuff" Means in Baseball
What is “stuff”? The New York Times devoted part of its Sunday front page to the question of what, exactly, the term means in baseball. It is, John Branch of the Times reported, an underexamined mystery of the game. ...
Roy Hibbert And Trevor Booker Had A "Fight"
Roy Hibbert is a giant doofus whose sole marketable skill is his ability to raise his arms above his head without falling over. Inconceivably, this once made him the greatest threat to LeBron James’s championship aspirations, but nowadays he is a great big sad hat stand with six fouls to give, and s...
Proposed Rams Stadium Would Cost Taxpayers A Hell Of A Lot More Than Promised
It’s a truly bizarre situation in St. Louis, with Rams owner Stan Kroenke desperate to leave for Los Angeles, and (some) local politicians desperate to build him a stadium to get him to stay. Problem is, according to documents FOIA’d by St. Louis Magazine, taxpayers would be on the hook for a lot mo...
Someone May Have Burned Down Johnny Manziel's Family Home
KYTX is reporting that a lake house owned by Johnny Manziel’s father, Paul Manziel, has burned down. The house is in Whitehouse, Tex., and the fire is reportedly “suspicious in nature.”...
Little Football Players Abandon Game To Dance Like Champions
There’s an argument to be made that the more people learn about the inherent dangers of football, the less parents will be inclined to let their children participate in the game, thus leading to the eventual death of youth football. Thankfully, the Milford Mighty Mites have developed a plan to save ...
Booing Yankees Fans Got The Misery They Deserve
As a firm subscriber to the “do whatever the fuck you want” theory of fandom, I’m never going to get on paying fans for making their displeasure audible. Which isn’t to say the sound of Yankee Stadium loudly booing the Yankees late in their wild-card loss to Houston didn’t make television viewers ve...