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Kyle Orton's Back, Baby

Kyle Orton is, once again, a starting quarterback. Prepare yourselves....

Michigan's Problem Isn't Commercialism; Michigan's Problem Is It Stinks

Recently, I've been reading about Michigan's attendance woes (which only really count as "woes" if you consider a college selling out 95 percent of a 100,000-seat stadium at $75+, plus an unspecified donation per ticket, woeful), and it occurs to me that lay people and economists think very differen...

You know what? I'll take it.

Love, Actually: David Fincher's Dark, Thrilling <em>Gone Girl</em>, Reviewed

In early 2011, when David Fincher was getting ready to shoot The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo while in the midst of Oscars promotion for The Social Network, the director made a revealing comment about how he separates his work into two categories: "movies" and "films." To his mind, Fight Club a...

Adrian Peterson's Texts Fired Up The Vikings

The Vikings looked like a brand new team yesterday, running roughshod over the Falcons as if motivated by some rousing pregame speech from Mike Zimmer. Close! It was facing the Falcons defense some rousing pregame text messages from Adrian Peterson....

Michigan Head Coach Brady Hoke: "I Don't Make Decisions On Who Plays"

Brady Hoke deflected criticism about the handling of dazed quarterback Shane Morris Saturday during his weekly press conference today, claiming the Michigan head coach doesn't "make decisions on who plays, who doesn't play." When asked if Morris—who took a nasty, and illegal, shot to the head but wa...

Important WSJ Study: The Cardinals Are The Most Hateable Playoff Team

According to science, the Cardinals are the most hateable team in in the MLB playoffs. ...

CFL Linebacker Talks Trash To Opponent During Halftime Interview

I'm not going to pretend to know anything about the CFL, but I will say that I am now a fan of BC Lions linebacker Solomon Elimimian. That's because during halftime of yesterday's game between the Lions and Calgary Stampeders, he did some great on-camera shit-talking....

Report: Jovan Belcher Showed Signs Of CTE

Jovan Belcher's brain showed signs of CTE, according to newly released information in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against the Chiefs after the 25-year-old linebacker shot and killed his girlfriend before committing suicide in 2012. Belcher's brain was examined a year after his death, when his b...

TGI Fridays Is Breaking Up With Its Own Restaurants

Time was, the name "TGI Fridays" used to goddamn mean something. Kitsch-bedecked walls. Dim lighting. Aerosmith music. Reheated trashfood slathered in bourbon-flavored pancake syrup. The nagging sense that this interstate off-ramp gas-'n'-grub strip was the neon lure dangling before the yawni...

Kosmic Mother Funk Grand Cru: A Sour Beer Worth Road-Tripping For

The Boston Beer Company confounds me. I do like their most famous and best-selling beer, Samuel Adams Boston Lager: It's a seminal brew in many a Masshole's drunken coming of age, mine included, and a large, unbalanced load of the Internet holds this fact against us. I can't swing a dead Yuengling a...

Audio Sans Wires, Kindle Paperwhite, Choose Your Smart Watch [Deals]

There's a wireless audio deal for everyone today. The Sony headphones normally sell for $85, the Boom Urchin is water resistant, and even comes with a suction cup to use it in your shower, and the Philips Fidelio is an awesome choice for anyone with an Apple device....

Ron Gardenhire has been fired as Twins manager after 13 seasons....

Palmer Vs. Palmer

Over at the Daily Beast, I reprinted Tom Boswell's fine 1983 portrait of Jim Palmer:...

Here's Mike Smith Digging Deep In His Nose And Plucking A Fat Booger

It couldn't have felt very good, watching his Falcons get pummeled by the Vikings yesterday, but head coach Mike Smith had to feel some satisfaction from his nose-picking performance. Watch him dig all the way up in there:...

NFL Owners As <em>Dick Tracy</em> Villains

Dan O'Sullivan, who wrote as "General Gandhi" at Mr. Destructo and writes under his real name at Jacobin (among other places), spent yesterday doing the lord's work: pairing off a dozen or so NFL owners with their Dick Tracy villain counterparts. Most Twitter is bad Twitter. This was very good Twitt...

Man Dropped With Single Punch In Brawl At Notre Dame-Syracuse Game

A brawl broke out in the stands at Saturday's Notre Dame-Syracuse football game. Why? Who knows. Anyway, at about the :40 mark, one man took a few punches, then popped up and knocked another guy over with one swing....

That ESPN Domestic Violence Panel You Keep Hearing About Isn't Real [Updates]

On Friday, Esquire.com's Ben Collins wrote a blog post in which some awkward phrasing made it appear as though tonight's episode of Monday Night Countdown on ESPN will feature a special panel discussion on domestic violence....

Can A Ref With No Red Card Send Someone Off? One Player Investigates

It’s an interesting question, one that Guingamp’s Benjamin Angoua tried valiantly to answer this weekend when, as the ref tried to show a red to a teammate, Angoua nipped and slapped at the card, hoping the ref would either listen to reason or get tired of trying to snatch the damn thing out of the ...

The Marathon World Record Will Always Go To The Aged

With Dennis Kimetto's marathon world record on Sunday, it's provided further evidence for what we've long suspected: it's never been a better time to be an old man runner....