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Arian Foster's Personal Stock Offering Sounds Like Bullshit
Arian Foster is partnering with a company called Fantex Holdings to offer you, the grotesque fan, a chance to buy a minority stake in his future earnings. It's a not-all-that-shocking-but-come-on-still-what-the-hell kind of deal. But it's also kind of bullshit....
Can You Identify The Baseball Stadium From The Minimalist Poster?
A couple of months back, we featured the first eight of S. Preston's minimalist baseball stadium posters. Well, he's finished the whole set....
Richie Incognito Was Pretty Much The Raddest Kid In Englewood, N.J.
Now a fearsome, controversial lineman for the Dolphins, Richie Incognito was once like many of us: a child of the awful, awful early '90s....
In 1908, The Chicago Cubs' Mascot Was A Terrifying Squirrelbeast
OK, so I'm pretty sure that this abomination is supposed to be a bear (cub?), but you can't convince me that it doesn't look more like a nightmare squirrel that was spawned in the deepest pit of Hell. In fact, I don't think it's posing in this picture at all. I think the bloodthirsty beast is actual...
Why Injured Athletes Like Gronk Aren't Allowed To Be Cautious
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here....
The Fun-Hating Spurs Threw Just One Alley-Oop Last Season
The chart above, based on data from NBA Stats, shows the number of alley-oops each team has thrown in the last two regular seasons. No surprises at the very top, although it's nice to see the mediocre/bad Blazers, Hornets, Timberwolves, and Wizards crack the top ten....
The Great American Menu: Foods Of The States, Ranked And Mapped
What are the United States' best regional foodstuffs? Its worst? These are the questions that bedevil the mind of man—but no longer! For here, we have ranked them. Rigorously scientific (not), ardently researched (nope), and scrupulously fair (not even a little bit): this is the Great American Menu!...
Will Instant Replay Kill The Neighborhood Play?
In the end it didn't matter. The Tigers won handily even with Stephen Drew clearly coming well off the bag on a would-be double play in the second inning. (The throw to first would be late.) But what if this extra out, which cost Detroit at least one run, had meant the game? This question's only hyp...
Maryville Rape Case To Be Re-Opened
In response to mounting public pressure, county prosecutor Robert Rice has requested that a special prosecutor be appointed to re-open the rape case involving a high school football player and a 14-year-old girl that was dropped by Rice's office last year. ...
No Punter Left Behind: How One Guru Made The Art Of Kicking A Science
It's just past noon on Oscar Sunday and Chris Sailer is leading film study in a creaky, sun-drenched auditorium in the bowels of Notre Dame High School's Spanish–style campus in Sherman Oaks, Calif....
Today In Unfortunate Ad Placement
We know Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce are getting up there in years, but the inadvertent layout of today's print edition of the New York Daily News is being less than subtle about it....
Science: Bacon Is The Ultimate Ingredient
While we always knew it within the thickening walls of our heaving hearts, Wired.com has managed to prove it empirically: Bacon does, in fact, make (nearly) everything better....
Moron: Adrian Peterson's Sex Life Is As Offensive As Redskins' Name
Hey look, it's the dumbest sports column you'll read all week....
Meanwhile, Outside MLB Headquarters...
Selig's official position on killing children was unclear at press time. ...
Michigan Gets Maced And Kicked In The Balls: 125 FBS Teams, Ranked
Each week during college football season we put the conventional polls to shame by ranking every FBS team from 1-125, by whatever standard we see fit. As always, last week's rankings were not consulted....
The World Needs This Picture Of Yao Ming Standing Next To Muggsy Bogues
We've long gotten a kick out of looking at pictures of Yao Ming standing next to people and things that are much shorter than him, but this is the picture we've been waiting for. It's just Yao and the shortest player in NBA history chilling on a Shanghai balcony, looking like two principal cast memb...
Braves Fans Threaten Team Boycott Over GLAAD Spirit Day Facebook Post
Today is GLAAD Spirit Day, an annual event that aims to bring awareness to bullying of LGBT youth. (You might notice a lot of people wearing purple today. That's why.) In association with the organization, every MLB team posted a link to GLAAD's Spirit Day webpage to their Facebook site. Braves fan...
The Playmaker Gives Up The Ball
Paul Solotaroff profiles Jason Kidd in the latest issue of Men's Journal:...