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Lurid Confessions Of A Times Square Silver Man
During the early aughts, when I was bobbing about the murky shark tank of my mid-20s, there were several years when my income was derived entirely from standing in a silver unitard around NYC....

Bill Belichick Doesn't Regret Going For It On Fourth Down, Twice
The Patriots nearly pulled out a miracle tying drive thanks to two fourth-down conversions, but the game and the circumstances might’ve been vastly different if two earlier fourth-down tries had been successful—or never attempted at all. Of all the what-ifs New England is dealing with today, two Bil...
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We Can't Read Your Sign, Dickhead [UPDATE]
Here’s some Jersey shithead with an illegible sign making an ass out of himself behind the Monmouth Co. sheriff. Hey, dickhead, you’re holding a white sign in the middle of a snowstorm. Nobody can read your fuckin’ sign. If you had a brain in your skull, you’d be inside....

Dele Alli Wondergoal Puts Spurs Up 2-1 On Crystal Palace
Is this the goal of the season? It might be, as Dele Alli scored an absolutely incredible golazo that has us searching for words....

Matt Hendricks Stops Slapshot With His Dick And Balls
This here’s Matt Hendricks and he’s making that there face because he took a hockey puck to the Johnson while defending against a Howitzer of a slap shot. ...

Is This The Crash That Darius Fleming Is Talking About? (Updated)
This morning has seen plenty of coverage about the heroics of Patriots linebacker Darius Fleming, with the general narrative being that he rescued a woman from a burning car last week on his way home from Patriots practice. But tracking down documents regarding the heroics has proved trickier. In th...

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Knicks Win In Double-OT After Carmelo Anthony Hits Tying Three At End Of Regulation
What could possibly get the whole Internet talking about a January afternoon Sixers-Knicks game? The combination of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and a free League Pass preview. Just when we were ready to rub a Sixers win in the face of our New York-based co-workers, ‘Melo had to pull this rabbit out o...

The World Needed Another Latvian Rap Song About Kristaps Porzingis
One music video about Latvian-born New York Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis wasn’t enough. There’s a second one titled “Keep Calm Like Kristaps Porzingis,” which features Lamborghinis in the snow, dabs, and heavy influences from Future....

Giant Monster Dunks On Poor Sucker; Poor Sucker Laughs
San Antonio’s “sort of an odd thing” Boban Marjanović (pictured here) is 7-foot-3, very strong, and has hands the size of Manu Ginobili. What I am saying here is that one can only do so much to prevent him from catching and dunking basketballs. Sometimes he’s just gonna catch a basketball and dunk i...

James Ward-Prowse Opens Scoring With Free Kick Stunner
Southampton took an early 1-0 lead on West Brom with a fifth-minute free kick from James Ward-Prowse that Boaz Myhill found absolutely unstoppable....

NYC Firefighter Fined $4,000 For Accepting Free Super Bowl Tickets
Here’s a helpful tip for any New York City government employees who have ever worked with the NFL: don’t accept those free Super Bowl tickets....

Aaron Ramsey Can't Stop Killing Famous People
Yesterday, Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsey scored in a 3-3 draw with Liverpool. This morning, the world learned that Alan Rickman—one of the greatest working actors, world-famous for roles like Hans Gruber, Severus Snape, and the Sheriff of Nottingham—was dead at 69. His cause of death: Aaron Ramsey, maybe....

Bill Belichick On How He Hurt His Eye: "Great"
Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was feeling extra grumpy at this morning’s press conference. He opened with a short statement on the Chandler Jones situation, and then got snippy with reporters who kept asking him about it:...

Russell Westbrook Ejected As Thunder And Mavs Get Into It
Mavericks-Thunder was never going to be close, not with Dallas resting all five starters after an overtime game the night before. And it wasn’t—OKC jumped out to a double-digit lead in the first quarter, extended it to 23 by halftime, and cruised to a 108-89 win. But not being competitive didn’t mea...

Japanese High School Team Scores Intricately Choreographed Free Kick
Really good soccer teens at East Fukuoka....

Some Theories About Bill Belichick's Mysterious Black Eye
Patriots head coach Bill Belichick showed up to his press conference this morning sporting a shiner above his left eye. He didn’t bother to explain how he got it, so we’ve come up with a few educated guesses....

Deshaun Watson Deserved Better
It’s not right to call any part of Alabama’s 45-40 victory in last night’s national championship game fluky, but there’s no denying that they were carried to the win by precisely the kind of wild, momentum-swinging plays that we usually see buoying an underdog’s chances. ‘Bama was of course the favo...

How Alabama Pulled Off The Perfect Onside Kick
Alabama, it will not surprise you if you know Nick Saban’s near-sociopathic attention to detail, had been practicing precisely that onside kick every week since August. But it wasn’t until long film study had identified a potential weakness in Clemson’s kick return coverage, and firsthand observatio...

Crying Knicks Child Is Now A Big Kristaps Porzingis Fan
Remember that little Knicks fan who sobbed like a baby when his team drafted Kristaps Porzingis?...