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Relegation-Bound Team Willing To Consider Thinking About Moyes
When we last touched base with disgraced former manager David Moyes, he impressed us with both his shocking lack of foresight and his optimism at getting a good new gig sometime soon. Well, Real Sociedad may not be in the Champions League, and they might be in the early stages of a relegation battle...
Here's Ex-NFL Cheerleader (And Accused Rapist) Molly Shattuck's Mugshot
Former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader Molly Shattuck turned herself in at Sussex County Superior Court earlier today after being indicted on charges of raping a 15-year-old boy multiple times. There's her mugshot, via the Baltimore Sun....
Youth Hockey Coach Fired For Being A Big Fan Of The Nazis
Christopher Maximilian Sandau (not pictured), a minor hockey coach in North Delta, B.C., was fired this weekend after his league discovered his Facebook page, which was chock full of Nazi propaganda. "You can't be a Nazi and coach kids hockey," one parent said, but most of Sandau's adult life seems ...
Adam LaRoche Kills A Giant Elk; Dan Haren Is Bummed About It
Free-agent first baseman Adam LaRoche is an avid hunter, and earlier today he posted a photo of a giant-ass elk that he shot on his Twitter account. That's a really fucking big elk, and the fact that it's dead has LaRoche's former Nationals teammate, Dan Haren, feelin' a little blue....
That Whole ESPN Report On RGIII Was Kind Of A Mess
On Sunday, ESPN had a big Trouble-in-Landover report that was actually two stories rolled into one. The juicier one, a claim that a locker-room outburst was proof that Robert Griffin III had "alienated" his teammates, was quickly disputed by a whole bunch of reporters who were in the room. Now the s...
<em>The Basement Tapes Complete</em> Gives You All The Bob Dylan You Can Stand
Chronology imposes narrative when all else fails. So thank the tape-crawlers who've assembled Bob Dylan and the Band's The Basement Tapes Complete, the 11th volume of The Bootleg Series, Dylan and Sony Music's shrewd posterity-burnishing enterprise, for putting the thing together in as close to prop...
Marcus Lattimore To Retire Due To Persistent Knee Problems
Marcus Lattimore, once a star running back at the University of South Carolina and a current member of the San Francisco 49ers, is retiring from football at the age of 23 without ever having played in an NFL game. ...
Most Fruit Beers Suck; This One Doesn't
For such a handsome and hopeful young man, it took me a remarkably short period of time to get a bit jaded about the Craft Beer Movement™. It's not that I don't appreciate good beer—hell, you could go so far as to say I even respect it—and I also like the fact that the overwhelming majority of Ame...
Penguins Re-Sign Marc-Andre Fleury. No, Really.
In a move sure to be universally lauded by fans of the other 29 teams, the Pittsburgh Penguins have extended goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury on a four-year deal with an average annual value of $5.75 million....
Damning Emails Show The NCAA Was "Bluffing" On Penn State
Who wants to read some internal emails that make the NCAA look incompetent, reactionary, and completely unable to justify its own authority? ...
The Chiefs' Travis Kelce Might Be The Next Revolutionary Tight End
The best NFL offenses are lousy with new-breed tight ends—guys like Rob Gronkowski, Julius Thomas, and Jimmy Graham, the dudes who bust up defenses with an unfair blend of size, speed, and pass-catching ability. And while you can't really tell from the raw numbers, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is...
Cleaner Water for Cheap, $10 in Amazon Credit, and More Deals
In addition to the cool shape, this water filter comes with two replacement filters, and an all-time-low $22 price tag, today only. [ EveryDrop Premium Water Filter by Whirlpool with 2 replacement filters, $22]...
Plane Flies "Fire John Idzik" Banner Over Jets Practice
Everything is really going swimmingly in Florham Park, huh?...
Sean Avery's Theater Debut Derailed By Pizza-Related Rehearsal Meltdown
That's a good headline. Really tells a story. Are you sure you even want the details, or should we just leave it at that?...
The Lakers Suck So Goddamn Bad And I Love It And So Should You
The Lakers lost to the fun and exciting Phoenix Suns last night, 112-106, in Los Angeles. They're now 0-5 for the first time since 1957, when they were the Minneapolis Lakers and Kobe Bryant was only like 15 years old....
No, Andrew Luck Is Not On Pace For The Best Season In NFL History
There's been a lot written lately about Andrew Luck being on pace to break the single-season passing-yards record. While Luck is having a solid year, to what degree can we attribute these gaudy statistics to his dominance? And how much do his numbers merely reflect the era in which he's playing? ...