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White Sox Hotel Rooming List Reveals Some Great Fake Names
This is the White Sox rooming list for a 2012 midweek series in St. Louis. We don't know the provenance, but we hadn't seen it until Anthony sent it to us, so we're passing it along....
The Cubs' New Mascot Is A Nightmarish, Perverted Furry
In an apparent effort to get the public to stop paying so much attention to their tenuous connections to the traditional baseball experience and start paying more attention to them as a baseball team, the Chicago Cubs have spent the last while systematically eradicating everything that's even remote...
You Know Who Also Untied His Opponent's Shoes? Larry Bird
So it turns out that J.R. Smith isn't the only basketball player to have untied an opponent's shoes during free throws. A couple decades ago, another trash-talking, non-urban volume shooter pulled the same stunt, and somehow managed not to get written up by a professional sportswriter as a cross bet...
Robert Griffin III Has Had It With Fans Complaining About Dumb Things
The Skins QB has stayed largely silent since the end of the season—he's been around long enough to know that after a 3-13 season, you can't win no matter what you say. But on Friday he made a lengthy post on Facebook. On the face of it, it's a response to one stupid person complaining about the arm ...
Five Of The Most Obvious Poker Tells Ever Televised
The poker tell is one of the most romanticized ideas in gambling, the notion that there is a code that will tell you everything about your opponent's hand just waiting to be unlocked. In reality, tells are usually more subtle than they are in the movies, but that doesn't mean there aren't some big, ...
Budweiser Sends Really Dumb Tweet In Branding Exercise Gone Wrong
Budweiser, looking to capitalize on the invaluable #branding opportunity presented to them yesterday by Peyton Manning, sent out the brain dead tweet above earlier this morning. It's been deleted, but we want it to live forever via this screen shot. This is why we need to kill all of the brands....
Aston Villa's Nathan Baker Stretchered Off After Strike To The Face
Villa Park played host to a scary moment today as Aston Villa defender Nathan Baker had to be given oxygen on the pitch after catching an Arsenal strike square in the face....
What Does Peyton Manning's "Omaha" Mean?
“Omaha” was trending on Twitter during the Broncos’ win over San Diego. Omaha, Neb.’s tourism board took notice. It was hard not to, with Peyton Manning barking the snap count directly into CBS’s parabolic microphone, and hence your living room....
The Last Of The Old Way: Larry Bird's Celtics Enter The Modern Era
Excerpted from Unfinished Business, a chronicle of the 1990-91 Boston Celtics season, now available as an e-book. The author's annotations appear throughout the story. ...
Over 2,500 American Breweries, On One Enormous Map
Continuing its excellent graphic beer coverage, Pop Chart Lab has put together a wall map of over 2,500 breweries across the United States. There are plenty of pockets of intense brewing activity—which are exactly where you'd expect them to be—but what's more fascinating are the lone outposts of pro...
Mike Tomlin Said "Obviously" 322 Times In Press Conferences This Year
We've noticed that Mike Tomlin likes to say "obviously" a lot, but just how much is a lot? Andrew McGill of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has crunched the numbers for the last four years of Tomlin pressers, finding that "obviously" was the coach's 25th-most used word, trailing only essential pieces of...
Tyson, Truth & Toback
Over at her great movie blog, Sunset Gun, Kim Morgan interviews James Toback about his Mike Tyson documentary....
Voting For A Hall Of Fame Isn't That Hard
In between swilling citrusy beers and fetching Gatorade for Steve Young, the ever-lofty Peter King took a moment this week to write about his super duper favorite sport... BASEBALL! What, you thought his favorite sport was football? PLEASE. Behind baseball and eight grade girl's softball and keep...
Dallas Mavericks Get Away With Yet Another Game-Ending No-Call
The Dallas Mavericks must have made some kind of deal with the devil, because for the second time in as many weeks, they won a close game after getting away with an egregious foul that wasn't called....
Wilderness Women
Eva Holland's latest for SB Nation Longform is a good one:...
Ahmad Brooks Flew, Cam Newton Flopped, And We All Laughed
We featured Ahmad Brooks's premature escalation briefly yesterday, but it seems the moment from yesterday's 49ers-Panthers game deserves a bit more inspection. After all, there's not one but two meaningful moments here: the flight of Brooks and the flop of Newton....
Peyton Manning Just Wants A Bud Light
After advancing to the AFC Championship, Peyton Manning was confronted with questions about a report that an offseason medical exam will determine his NFL future. He's not worried about his neck. He's just worried about when he'll be able to get his hands on a cool, crisp, refreshing Anheuser-Busch ...
<em>60 Minutes</em> Presents The Case Against MLB
Not 36 hours after an arbitrator largely sided with MLB and pegged Alex Rodriguez's suspension at all of 2014, Bud Selig took a bizarre, televised victory lap. A double-length 60 Minutes segment that publicly (and for the very first time) laid out the evidence against A-Rod, featuring sit-down inter...
Man Falls Through Golf Shop Ceiling; Everyone Plays It Way Cool
Someone, please, get Ron and Billy in a buddy cop movie ASAP. ...