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Austin Unveils Weaponized Taco Cannon, Declares War On Philadelphia
A war is coming, and it will leave the streets of America bloody and littered with t-shirts and tacos. Earlier this week, we brought you news of the Philadelphia 76ers' new weapon of mass destruction, a monstrous t-shirt cannon known as Big Bella. Now, organizers of the Fun Fun Fun music festival in...
Breaking: Pitt Has A Class On Vampires (Also Something About Three Starters Being Charged With Assault)
The AP more often than not still uses a time-tested format called the inverted pyramid, in which the most basic and crucial facts are placed at the top, with increasingly peripheral details as you read down. The idealist says it's so readers get the important stuff early, even if they don't read to ...
Big Ten Football Is So Gross
You know why Big Ten football is gross? The Indiana Hoosiers—the 3-5 Hoosiers, the 1-3 in conference play Hoosiers, the 50th-ranked Hoosiers, the "3-4 wins should be a goal" Hoosiers, the standing-outside-Gunner-Kiel's-window-holding-up-a-boombox Hoosiers—control their own Rose Bowl destiny....
More Than Anything, Kendrick Perkins Just Wants To Be Coached
Thunder coach Scott Brooks really knows how to get through to his players. Perkins's reaction really is priceless, likely because we wish more basketball players actually reacted with such authenticity....
Oh, Just A 76-Yard Interception Return For Touchdown Off Of A Snap
If you've never seen a pick-six take place directly off a botched snap to the QB, which is most likely on the order of 99.9 percent of you, take a look at this. Football!...
The Man With The Ham Fists: RZA's Kung Fu Movie Just Doesn't Work
In 1995, Quentin Tarantino, skinny, wired, at the absolute peak of his power and influence, showed up at the MTV Movie Awards to give a lifetime achievement award to Jackie Chan. This is just how huge Tarantino was at the time: MTV allowed him to take 10 minutes of its airtime to give a career-cappi...
NBA League Pass Broadband Is Shit, And You Should Not Buy It [UPDATE: It's Even Worse Than Last Year]
Update (November 8): NBA League Pass Broadband is, somehow, even worse this season than it was last year. Scroll down for the full update....
The Bummer About Eli Manning, In Two Maps
Finally, after nine seasons, some respect for the lesser Manning! Two rings, just a game away from 30,000 yards/200 career TDs, in control of the tough NFC East. Looks like everything's coming up-...
Sports Reporter Gets Fired For Message Board Rant
But you must understand that we are all handcuffed by money-hungry corporate fucks who want to run newspapers as a business rather than an essential part to maintaining a free-flowing democracy....
Nate Silver's Braying Idiot Detractors Show That Being Ignorant About Politics Is Like Being Ignorant About Sports
In case you haven't been hanging around the benighted corners of the political internet lately, there's an idiotic backlash afoot against Nate Silver, the proprietor of the FiveThirtyEight blog who made his name as one of the sharpest baseball analysts around....
Tennis Has A Bad Boy Again: Bernard Tomic Caught Wrestling A Dude In The Nude In A Hot Tub
Meet tennis's bad boy, Bernard Tomic! For those who don't know: Tomic is a handsome and talented 20-year old Australian who was going to have a spectacular 2012 and officially become tennis's next big thing. That absolutely did not happen. His ranking peaked bank in June at a very respectable No. 27...
Can Aqib Talib Save The Patriots?
The Patriots' pass defense is miserable in 2012, just like it was in 2011. Football Outsiders ranks them 23rd in the league, and, two weeks ago, they allowed Mark Sanchez to complete 68.3 percent of his passes for 321 yards. I need say no more....
A Guide To The New Criminal Charges Against Penn State Officials Who Allegedly Covered Up For Jerry Sandusky
The first 20 or so pages of the grand jury presentment charging Graham Spanier and two other Penn State administrators with allegedly covering up for Jerry Sandusky is mostly a rehash of the emails, handwritten notes, and other documents contained in the Freeh report. But starting on Page 20—holy sh...
Local News Station Wishes "Ijaz Fahted" and "Dawn Keibals" A Happy Birthday
Even the spectre of Hurricane Sandy couldn't keep NBC 10 in Providence from reporting the first birthday of "Ijaz Fahted."...