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<em>Now That's What I Call Music</em> Celebrates 50th Installment
The 50th U.S. edition of Now That's What I Call Music! was released today—featuring hits from Pharrell, Katy Perry, Lorde, and John Legend—and it's making lots of people feel old (and inspiring some interesting analyses)....
Chris Paul Reminds Us Who The Point God Is
The real bummer about last night's game between the Thunder and Clippers is that it turned into a blowout fairly quickly, and not just because blowouts suck. See, if the Thunder had managed to keep it close, Chris Paul probably would have dropped 60 on those suckers....
An Ex-Con's Guide To Prison Weightlifting
Lifting weights in an American prison means joining a culture unlike any seen in a free-world gym, full of crudely welded pig iron and rust. Men forsake masturbation to improve their bench-press stats and consume cans of Jack Mack, the cheapest tinned fish in the world, along with the filthy broth i...
What Are The Most "Overrated" and "Underrated" Movies?
What movies do audiences love, but critics hate? Over on his blog, Ben Moore tackles this question with data scraped from the Rotten Tomatoes API. The chart above shows the critic and audience scores for over 1,200 films; movies that scored high with viewers (and were panned by critics) are in red i...
Mark Jackson Has Been Fired
As first reported by USA Today's Sam Amick the Golden State Warriors have fired head coach Mark Jackson. ...
Eric LeGrand Will Speak At Rutgers's Commencement After All
Calling it a "miscommunication" (a pretty freaking big one, and one that apparently took 14 hours to clear up), Rutgers has announced that paralyzed former football player Eric LeGrand will indeed give a commencement speech....
Shovel Girl Is Doing Just Fine, You Guys
Yesterday, the world got to meet Shovel Girl, the star of the greatest eight minutes in YouTube history. But many were left wondering about Shovel Girl's well-being, due to the fact that she got hit in the head with a shovel. It looks like she's doing just fine....
Pitch Invader Knocked Unconscious By Rival Pitch Invader
Last week, MFK Kosice beat Slovan Bratislava in the final round of the Slovak Super Liga's top knockout competition. After the match, one fan decided to go for a run on the pitch. An opposing supporter took offense, chasing him down and knocking him out with one blow....
Down With NBA Playoff Color-Outs
Whoa, hey, the paperback edition of Someone Could Get Hurt drops today, so if you were too cheap to spring for a hardcover last spring (and you were; I've seen the royalty statements), now you can buy it on the cheap. Everyone wins when you give me your money....
You Can't Really Get Troy Tulowitzki Out Right Now
Troy Tulowitzki hit two more home runs last night, bringing his season total to nine, ballooning his slash line to .408/.512./.786, and raising his fWAR to a league-leading 3.1. Those cartoonish numbers speak for themselves, and are bound to regress, but Tulo is doing things he's never done before i...
The Four-Minute Mile Turns 60
Sir Roger Bannister's magic mile, the first under the four-minute barrier, hits its 60th birthday today. On a blustery English day in 1954, Bannister ran the impossible....
Idiot Father Shakes His Baby Around While Diving To Catch A Home Run
In fairness to this dad, on the list of things that you should not do while holding a baby, "diving into a scrum on the stadium floor for a home run ball" trails other modern parenting pratfalls, like using a chainsaw, or being thrown into the sun. Still, this seems ill-considered. ...
Who Is The <em>Real</em> Racist, According To The Internet?
Everyone is in agreement: There are a whole lotta racists out there. What we can't seem to agree on, however, is who the real racists are. For help, we searched the internet, which had a few thoughts on the subject....
Matt Cain Injured Himself Cutting His Sandwich Into "Fancy Triangles"
The Giants placed starter Matt Cain on the disabled list yesterday with a cut on his right index finger. The team announced it was sandwich-related, which normally wouldn't rate extra mention in the pantheon of weird baseball injuries. But the Chronicle has more details:...
A Season Of Corey Perry's Endearing Dick Moves
Corey Perry is the master of walking that fine line between scamp and scoundrel. During last night's Kings win, TSN dug up footage of Game 1 of Perry filling L.A.'s Jeff Carter's glove with water. ...
Euroleague Players Get Together For Amazing Pool Dunk
We like pool dunks. This one, orchestrated by the Euroleague, may not be the most complicated one we've ever seen, but it is certainly the most polished. It also incorporates a water jet pack, so it's got that going for it....
Gilbert Arenas Lives To Hate On Roy Hibbert
Roy Hibbert pooped the bed again last night, failing to score a single point or pull down a single rebound in 18 minutes against the Wizards. Watching Roy Hibbert play like shit for the last eight games has been the most depressing thing about these playoffs, but his struggles have also brought a gr...
Police Report: Jameis Winston Avoided Store Security
Surveillance video shows Jameis Winston appearing to go out of his way to avoid walking past store security with his 30-odd dollars worth of crab legs, perhaps putting the lie to his claim to officers that he had forgotten to pay. ...
Terrible Umpire Laz Diaz Taunts Shawn Kelley Into Getting Ejected
Baseball is full of pointless indignities, but the fact a player can be ejected from a game he's already, by rule, barred from re-entering is one of the most impotent. With that impotence in mind, here's professional MLB umpire Laz Diaz goading Yankees pitcher Shawn Kelley into getting ejected....
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