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Video Featuring Bros, Potato Gun, And Baseball Mitt Ends Predictably
Props to the bros for breaking out in hysterics before checking to make sure their friend's orbital bone hadn't just been crushed. ...
Wilt Chamberlain: Borscht Belt Bellhop
Over at Grantland, dig this cool short film by Caroline Laskow and Ian Rosenberg on Wilt Chamberlain in the Catskills. ...
Clinton Portis Sues The NFL Over Concussions
There are already numerous lawsuits, joined by thousands of former players, alleging the NFL hid the long-term effects of head injuries and didn't do enough to protect players. Add to them a new suit, filed yesterday in Florida by 83 players including Clinton Portis, Daunte Culpepper, and Carnell "C...
MLB Set To Consider Instant Replay For Just About Everything
According to a report from USA Today, MLB owners are considering a proposal that would completely overhaul baseball's replay system, instituting it for every play besides balls and strikes. It could—could—be in place in time for the 2014 season....
One Year Ago Today, ESPN Hit Rock Bottom
Tim Tebow turned 26 today. That means the dumbest day in ESPN history has turned 1. ...
Kauffman Stadium Scoreboard Promotes Tweet From "@mustacherides69"
You're everyone's hero today, Zach....
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Jason Whitlock Returning To ESPN [UPDATE]
Whoa. The Big Lead reports that Jason Whitlock is leaving Fox Sports and heading back to ESPN. As recently as a few weeks ago, Whitlock was working on test segments for a show on Fox Sports 1—called Red, White and Truth—that hadn't appeared on any lineup for the the network. In the last month, ESPN ...
Hammering On Hank
Our man Tommy Craggs's 2007 story for Slate about how the media abuse baseball's home run king:...
The Books We've Lost
Over at the New York Review of Books, here's Charles Simic on the books we've lost:...
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Sky Sports Reporter Standup Becomes Sky Sports Reporter Falldown
Sky Sports correspondent Nick Collins was reporting from Wembley Stadium ahead of today's friendly soccer match between England and Scotland when midway through the broadcast, he fell off a ladder and out of the screen to what appeared to be certain death. And holy shit, it is awesome....
How To Drink Champagne Without Becoming Even More Broke Than Usual
Let me begin with an uninformed and yet almost certainly accurate assumption: you drink champagne at most twice a year, one of which is the perfunctory glass on New Year's Eve that you end up blaming for your hangover the next morning instead of the 14 Red Bull vodkas you blasted between 1 and 3 a.m...
Messi, Beckham, Pelé Sign For An English Club You've Never Heard Of
This is so dumb....
Fan At Rockies Game Catches Foul Ball In Beer, Takes Huge Sip
Because, as we've seen before, that's just what you do when a baseball lands directly in your beer....
The '72 Dolphins Are Still The Worst, Will Visit The White House
Goddammit. Football season hasn't even started yet, and the '72 Dolphins have already found a way to weasel their way into the news cycle. The NFL's most insufferable group of old dudes will be visiting the White House next Tuesday so that their undefeated season can be honored. ...
The U.S. Open Is Finally Getting A Retractable Roof
In a few years, the U.S. Open will no longer be the most fogeyish Grand Slam. The USTA announced this morning that it will build a long-sought retractable roof over Arthur Ashe Stadium. How exactly they plan to do that—Ashe was built over a landfill and previous studies seemed to indicate a roof was...
The Most Hated Winner In Football: Al Davis In 1969
Originally published in the Nov. 18, 1969, issue of Look magazine. Image by Sam Woolley....
There's A Lot Going On In This USF Video
Dick Vitale? Jon Gruden? I think I'll wait for the next bus....