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Why Are Bad Laws Still Protecting Penn State And Temple?
The Penn State defense is so well-practiced, so perfected, that by now you can practically write it yourself. The accusations are unsubstantiated; too much time has passed; nobody remembers; there are no records. The language changes from email to email and statement to statement as the university b...
Zika And A Political Crisis Have Made The Rio Olympics A Looming Disaster
Writing in the Harvard Public Health Review, University of Ottawa professor of population health Amir Attaran makes a persuasive argument that the outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil is so dangerous that the upcoming Rio de Janeiro Olympics—scheduled to kick off in 84 days—should be postponed, move...
Study: Millennials Shouldn't Worry About Peaking Early
If the headline writers at the Harvard Business Review are hip to the concept of trolling, I’d think that was exactly what they were doing with a recent piece on “generational issues” that claims, “The Problem with Millennials? They’re Way Too Hard on Themselves.”...
Orlando Magic Head Coach Scott Skiles Unexpectedly Resigns
Orlando Magic head coach Scott Skiles has suddenly resigned, according to the team: ...
The Blazers Were A Miracle
The Portland Trail Blazers looked dead about three different times in the fourth quarter of their Game 5 loss to the Golden State Warriors. There was the time when the Warriors’ starters came back in with a four point lead and quickly stretched it to eight. After C.J. McCollum shot them back into it...
36 Years Ago Today, Dr. J Scored The Coolest Basket In NBA History
On May 11, 1980, in the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Julius Erving drove around Mark Landsberger, who managed to pin him under the basket with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s help. But he easily evaded both defenders with the most audacious layup I’ve ever seen in the NBA, swooping up from unde...
Curt Schilling Shares A Truly Transcendent Meme On Facebook
Curt Schilling reposting memes on Facebook is no longer an occurrence worth regularly noting, unless it’s an exceptionally ridiculous meme. This is one of those times....
Step Aside Sports Baby Pretenders, Riley Curry Is Back
Riley Curry’s dad won his second consecutive MVP award this afternoon. Good for him! He won it unanimously, but that didn’t stop Riley here from warning voters that if they don’t vote for him next year, there’ll be trouble....
Six Things Every Man Should Have In His Bathroom Cabinet
Your bathroom cabinet doesn’t have to look like a shelf at Walgreens, but it should have the basics—or at the very least, you should know what the basics are. (Necessary hygienic items aside, of course.) Guys ask me about beauty products all the time: These are usually the kind of dudes who think fa...
The Predators Have Something Left In The Tank
The Predators are counter-punchers. They fought back from 3-2 down to make it to the second round. They fought back from being outplayed in the multiple overtimes of Game 4 against the Sharks to snatch a win. With their backs up against the wall again last night, they fought back from an early two-g...
All Hail Steph Curry
I didn’t think Steph Curry would play tonight. He probably didn’t think he’d log 37 minutes tonight. His coach didn’t plan to let Curry loose and have him take a third of the Warriors’ shots, and yet, he torched the Blazers for 40 points on 32 shots to lead the Warriors to a crazy 132-125 win in the...
Ballboy Passes Out, Faceplants
Venus Williams was just starting out her opening-round victory over CoCo Vandeweghe in Rome at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, when this here ballboy took a dive and fell straight on his face after apparently overheating. Our man will presumably live to ballboy another day after his friends carried...
Yeah, We Dunno Either
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Sam Bradford Ends Extremely Weak Holdout
The crisis that has paralyzed the Philadelphia Eagles for 15 harrowing days is finally over: Sam Bradford has put an end to his holdout....
Someone Should Have Died In<i> Captain America: Civil War</i>
I loved Captain America: Civil War. It was fun and somehow pulled off the monumental feat of not being a bloated, nonsensical mess despite the presence of like 734 super heroes. Except one thing: no one of importance dies in Captain America: Civil War, and someone should have....
Rivalry Match In Brazil Ends In Massive Brawl, Sending 5 Fans To Hospital
The gruesome stomping out you see above was just one instance of fan violence that occurred during this weekend’s CSA vs. CRB rivalry match. After the game ended 0-1 in favor of CRB, which won them the local state championship at stake, dozens of opposing fans streamed onto the pitch and started fig...
Domestic Abuser Tyreek Hill Says Fans Have Every Right To Hate Him
In this new era of the NFL deciding it cares about domestic violence, it’s become a post-draft tradition to identify the selectee who committed the most despicable crime in college, and even criticize his team for drafting him. This year’s stigma belongs to new Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill....
PSU Prez Slams "Unsubstantiated" Accusations From Alleged Sandusky Victims
Penn State president Eric Barron responded to revelations that Joe Paterno may have known about Jerry Sandusky’s abuse of children as early as 1971 and that as many as six of Paterno’s assistants personally witnessed Sandusky molesting children with an angry open letter declaring that the stories “s...
That Is Not How The DC Comics Universe Works
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Kevin Pillar Is A Filthy Thief With No Regard For His Own Body
The stuntman catch in the clip here, by Blue Jays centerfielder Kevin Pillar, came in the top of the ninth inning Saturday, with Toronto down a couple of runs and needing a miracle. The Dodgers wound up winning, but not because Pillar gives a single thin shit about the welfare of his joints and orga...