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How To Oscar-Bait Your Way To A Best Picture Nomination
Oscar nominations got released this morning, and the Academy only used nine of the 10 Best Picture slots (snubbing All Is Lost, Fruitvale Station, Inside Llewyn Davis, or The Butler, depending on what you're into). Last year, we took a look at the IMDB plot keywords that were most—and least—associat...
Handball Player Scores Crazy Goal With Ingenious Ball Spin
This is one of those moves Falcao Mikkel Hansen has probably practiced on the playground(?) courts for years before finally unleashing in game. I wonder what the goalie's thinking....
The Wizards' Bandwagon Cam Is Brilliant
If you show up to a Wizards game decked out in the opposition's gear, prepare to be shamed on the jumbotron. This is the Wizards' bandwagon cam (we got a glimpse of this last night, but now we have video), which picks out fans who flaunt their flimsy affiliations with powerhouses like the Heat so th...
No, Paying Athletes Won't Bankrupt College Sports
The NCAA's biggest and most bruited argument against compensating players is that athletics programs couldn't take on the additional burden of player salaries without going bankrupt. The argument has a certain appeal to a certain kind of fan, the one who thinks sports took a turn for the worse at ro...
"Bad British Commentary" Makes College Football Delightful
"Notre Dame? Wow, a French team. Good luck to them."...
Davone Bess Tweets (Another) Photo Of Weed
Browns receiver Davone Bess tweeted a photo of some weed this morning. This is noteworthy only insofar as marijuana is illegal, though increasingly decriminalized, and a banned substance in the NFL, though ubiquitous and largely unpoliced, and we presume that most of the NFL's rookie symposium consi...
100 Charts For AFI's Top 100 Movie Quotes
Just in time for Oscar announcements, Nathan Yau of Flowing Data has made mini-charts for all of AFI's top 100 movie quotes. While not every quote lends itself perfectly to visualization, there are plenty of gems. Here are some of the best:...
What The Hell Did Peyton Manning Inject Into His Neck?
One of the more unusual sports medicine stories in recent memory involves the best quarterback on the planet, a freak injury, and a subtle bit of legalese....
James Harden Shakes Austin Rivers Right Out Of The Arena
The next time this happens, Austin Rivers should probably just accept his fate and hit the ground. Stumbling backwards and then throwing up his hands as if it was someone else's fault that James Harden jellied his legs wasn't really a good look. There's no defensive rotation that can save you in th...
Keith Olbermann Twitter-Fought With Tom Sestito's 13-Year-Old Sister
For the singular achievement of racking up 27 penalty minutes in one second of ice time, Canucks forward Tom Sestito was named Keith Olbermann's worst person in the sports world. He called Sestito, among other things, a "boxing hobo on skates." One person who took issue with that was Sestito's 13-ye...
Are Knicks Tickets The Biggest Ripoff In The NBA?
Going to an NBA game can be damn expensive, or it can be incredibly cheap, depending on which city you're in and where you want to sit. But which cities and teams will let you see a game from a decent seat for less than your car payment?...
Hockey Assists Don't Get Niftier Than This
This is some German hockey action, but flair translates. Keep an eye on the forwards for the team in black, Krefeld Pinguine, as they backcheck. Kevin Clark loses his stick, but fellow Winnipegger Adam Courchaine smoothly flips it back up to him mid-rush. Teamwork!...
Jameer Nelson Did The Big Balls Dance
Last night's Bulls-Magic game was a three-overtime thriller marked by plenty of big shots, but it would just have been a standard 101-99 Bulls win if not for Jameer Nelson and his big balls. Here we see Nelson tying the game with a jumper in the closing seconds of the fourth quarter, and then hitti...
Greg Oden Played Basketball!
For the first time in more than four years, star-cross'd Greg Oden put on a uniform, entered an official NBA game, and dunked a basketball. His first thought? "It was a feeling of 'Get back on defense.'"...
Darren Rovell's Proposed NFL Is A Hellscape Of In-Game Shilling
The future of football is a hash of overheard corporate gibberish, and of course it's Darren Rovell who conceived it for us....
Real Madrid Coach Carlo Ancelotti Glimpsed The Edge Of Existence
While this photo was snapped during Real Madrid's 2-0 win over Osasuna to reach the Copa del Rey quarters, the stare of head coach Carlo Ancelotti is that of a man who is elsewhere, possibly someplace Kubrickianly dark and distant. ...