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Diamondbacks Fire Grit Lord Kirk Gibson
The Arizona Diamondbacks have done away with manager Kirk Gibson and bench coach Alan Trammel, just a few weeks after canning general manager Kevin Towers. And so ends the Era Of Grit in Arizona....
Wrong Cricket, Buddy
Hey, pal! There's a match going on! Get outta here!...
Mario Balotelli Does Helium Voice Trick, Still Has Spirit Of A Child
Is it too soon to delete that other post? Because Mario Balotelli's Instagram is all you need to know about soccer....
Thom Yorke Did Not Bypass The Gatekeepers. He Is One.
As of this morning there is a new Thom Yorke solo album in the world, titled Tomorrow's Modern Boxes and available for $6 via BitTorrent. This is cool and good; I heartily recommend you stop using BitTorrent to illegally download pornography long enough to legally check it out, flush as it is wi...
Local TV Tries To Cover Shellshock Bug, Fails Miserably
With news breaking yesterday of a potentially catastrophic bug in the Bash shell since dubbed "Shellshock," media outlets rushed to breathlessly tell viewers about their newly hackable Apple computers. In that rush, they almost universally got the facts wrong....
CBS Radio Producer Gets All Emotional About Derek Jeter
Before Derek Jeter's emotional last game at Yankee Stadium, CBS Sports radio host Damon Amendolara brought his Yankees-fan producer, Shaun Morash, on the air to talk about Jeter's impending retirement. The tears came pretty quickly....
Hey, Come Over And Look At This Soccer Player's Floppy Dong Real Quick
This is FC Girondins de Bordeaux striker Thomas Touré, who was in action yesterday against AS Saint-Étienne. And this is Thomas Touré's dong....
The Most Popular Color Combinations In College Football
Here's a relationship chart of the colors of all 128 FBS college football programs, put together by 614 analytics. It serves as a good reminder that some schools have some truly ghastly color combinations. Brown and orange, Bowling Green? ...
The Sports Guy Vs. ESPN: How Bill Simmons Lost Bristol
It was, he would later tell a confidant, like something out of The Godfather. Bill Simmons was meeting with two of the most powerful executives at ESPN, John Skipper and John Walsh, in a conference room in ESPN’s then-unfinished Los Angeles office hard by the Staples Center. Within three years, thi...
How To Be A Soccer Fan
Towards the tail end of this past World Cup, more than a few readers emailed us looking for guidance on how to become a soccer fan. Never ones to disappoint our adoring readership, we've now obliged. Here's how we imagine that conversation would go....
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Smartphone Dash Mount, Tiny Drone, Workout While Your Work [Deals]
The iOttie One Touch was your favorite smartphone car mount (and my favorite as well), and its follow-up is heavily discounted today on Amazon for the first time. The new design adds a telescoping arm to bring the screen two inches closer to you, and the redesigned cradle accommodates phones up to...
That Derek Jeter Screencap, With Every Number Being Two, Is Fake
You might have seen this Derek Jeter photo somewhere on the internet today. Wow, look at all those twos! The baseball gods made it so, #R2p2ct, etc. Unfortunately, it's fake, and the guy who made it feels bad for fooling you....
The Oral History Of The 2003 World Series Of Poker Main Event, Day One
The 2014 WSOP Main Event begins airing this weekend. Here's an account of the tournament that started the poker boom, from the people who were there. Excerpted from the full oral history, The Moneymaker Effect: The Inside Story Of The Tournament That Forever Changed Poker....
Stop Name-Dropping John Cassavetes, And Start Actually Watching Him
As any film-studies student (or, to evoke that near-extinct species, any video-store clerk) will tell you, director John Cassavetes is the Father of Modern American Independent Cinema, a touchstone for all up-and-coming cinéastes. The actor whose mug graced classic Golden Age fare like Rosemary's ...
Washington Keeps Serving Fans Skunked World Cup Beer
As if anyone needed another reason to hate Dan Snyder, it turns out that fans at FedEx Field have been getting served beer left over from a 2014 World Cup promotion. The shit isn't exactly fresh....
Old-Ass, Fat-Ass Bear Roams Around Canadian Neighborhood
The residents of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, have spent the last few days hosting a very old, very fat, and very chill bear....