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Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Tom Junod remembers Phillip Seymour Hoffman:...
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Philly Radio Host Gets All Homophobic In Email Fight With Listener [Updates]
Mike Missanelli is the host of a drive-time sports radio show on Philadelphia radio station 97.5 The Fanatic. His bio page is full of plaudits—"Mike's sports acumen, witty pop-cultural references and overall fun persona are just a few of the many factors that draw listeners to the show and helped hi...

The View From The Super Bowl Flyover
No Super Bowl is complete without a gaudy display of militarism, and Super Bowl XLVIII featured a nine-helicopter flyover. Here's what it looked like from above....

Excellence, Not Ego: Remembering The Great Philip Seymour Hoffman
What surprised me the most when I heard the news of Phillip Seymour Hoffman's death was that his passing ran so counter to the reputation he had earned over his 25 years as an actor. Dependable, intelligent, consistently remarkable: These are the qualities we had come to associate with Hoffman's...

Shaun Phillips Is Feeling OK Today Because He's Got A Really Nice Kid
Broncos defensive end Shaun Phillips was understandably upset after his team got destroyed by the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl, but he took to his Twitter account after the game to let everyone know that despite the loss he's going to be fine, mostly because he has a rad son....

The Land Of The Permanent Wave
From Bud Shrake's classic Harper's story:...

9/11 Truther Sneaked Into Super Bowl By Telling Security He Was Late
The most memorable quote from the Super Bowl was, unexpectedly, "Investigate 9/11. 9/11 was perpetrated by people within our own government." But how in the hell did that guy make it past so many levels of security to interrupt Malcolm Smith's press conference in the first place? Pretty easily, it t...

The Seattle Seahawks Burn The Broncos' Touchdown Factory To The Ground
The best offense-best defense matchup should have been a grinding, tough, watchable-for-all-60-minutes game with a million lead changes, or so that's what we envisioned. Instead, the Seahawks devoured everything in front of them. Seattle embarrassed Denver's NFL-best offense, 43-8. It wasn't even cl...


Lookin' Good, Gunslinger
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"Stone Cold" Matt Stairs Chugs Beers At Wing Bowl
Were you wondering what former MLB player/Phillies folk hero Matt Stairs was up to these days? He's living the dream, dammit....

Cal Ends #1 Arizona's Unbeaten Season With Last-Second Jumper
Justin Cobbs's fadeaway jumper gave Cal an upset for the ages tonight, as the buzzer-beater delivered a Pac-12 win that ended the top-ranked Arizona Wildcats' unbeaten season....

Duke Forces Overtime At Syracuse In Wild End Of Regulation
The final 25 seconds of this game were pretty nuts. Duke seemingly pissed the game away with a turnover under the basket, down one. After Syracuse made two free throws, Duke took the ball back with 4.6 seconds left, down three. Rasheed Sulaimon drilled a streaking, desperation three at the buzzer. ...

Drunk Dude Sings Lil Jon's "Get Low" On D.C. Metro
This is fantastic. This hammered dude belts out a few lines from Lil Jon's "Get Low" while rocking back and forth in his Metro seat, setting off little impromptu sing-along in the car. After the initial flurry, he goes silent for a good two minutes. And then:...

The Dick Vitale Concert Series: Barry Manilow
Dick Vitale thinks you should give up if you can't "get lucky" with some Barry Manilow on the ol' gramophone. That's right, Dickie V. is back on the concert circuit and last night he live-tweeted a Barry Manilow show. He's still basically just tweeting the names of the songs in all caps and randomly...

As a follow-up to yesterday's Great Chili Super Bowl Roundtable of 2014, Kissing Suzy Kolber's Sarah Sprague has curated a dozen delicious chili recipes from assorted internet food types (including me), in the Great Chili Super Bowl Recipe Roundup of 2014. Go check it out. There's sure to be a chili...

Batman On Steroids: How The <em>NFL On Fox</em> Theme Song Was Born
It was March 1994, and Fox Sports president David Hill was on the phone with a new employee. Hill himself was something of a new employee. The network was only a few months old at that point, being built on the fly after Rupert Murdoch had unexpectedly outbid CBS for NFC broadcast rights. Hill was k...

A Blueprint For Unionizing College Sports
On Tuesday, we learned that the Northwestern football team had filed paperwork with the National Labor Relations Board in an attempt to unionize and officially become classified as university employees. Thomas Frampton, an attorney and co-author of A Union of Amateurs: A Legal Blueprint to Reshape B...


Why The Seattle Seahawks Are In The Super Bowl
Need a last-minute primer on the teams before heading out to your Super Bowl party? Here's everything you need to know about the Seahawks for today. You can find our Broncos preview here....