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RGIII Would Like To Confuse The Hell Out Of You With This Quote
Robert Griffin III has been working with the first-team offense, and though the final approval from Dr. James Andrews is still pending, it's a given that he'll be starting in Week 1. But when asked to quantify just how ready he is, Griffin only made everyone's heads hurt....
Gangster, Gangster
Come magazine award season, Paul Solotaroff's latest piece for Rolling Stone, "The Gangster in the Huddle" (co-authored by Ron Borges) is sure to garner some well-deserved attention: ...
96-Year-Old Man Gets Hole In One, Dishes Wonderful Golf Wisdom
Before we get into this story, I just want to point out that it features a 96-year-old man named Mel Boonstra and his golfing partner Gord Grevengoed. Every old man in America should be named Mel Boonstra or Gord Grevengoed....
King Tee and Richard Pryor Act A Fool
What do you get when you mix King Tee with Richard Pryor? Fun, dummy, fun is what you get. King Tee's "Act a Fool" already had Pryor cut-up on the record, we just added more because too much vintage Pryor is still not enough....
Here's A Very Strange Music Video Featuring Gazing NBA Players
Good news for any hoopsters still doing their thing out there: someone went and made a music video just for them. ...
Ring Lardner: An American Original
This week gives Ring Lardner who is being honored with a volume by the Library of America (edited by Ian Frazier). We'll run one of his stories from the collection tomorrow, and later today we've got a treat from his eldest son, John. Meanwhile, check out three of his most famous stories at the LOA'...
The Only Qualified Drug Testing Lab In Brazil Just Lost Accreditation
Boy, this would really be a problem if Brazil were going to host any major international sporting events in the next, say, three years....
Ironman Winner Nearly Loses At Finish Line On Account Of Gloating
Ironman contestants: in the future, please make sure to cross the finish line before celebrating and pretending to be an airplane. No one will feel bad if you lose in the final stretch because of this, and the person in second place won't always be as forgiving as this guy....
The Easiest Way To Catch A 350-Pound Marlin
This video's apparently a few days old, but it's new to us. A group of fishermen floating near the Dominican Coast made the most effortless catch ever when a 350-pound blue marlin jumped onto their boat, essentially invalidating the whole point of fishing....
The Real Rocky
Or The Ballad of Chuck Wepner. In case you aren't familiar with Wepner's story, dig George Kimball on Sly Stallone and “Rocky”:...
Joseph Mitchell: My Ears Are Bent
Something good is this: John Schulian on Joseph Mitchell:...
Young Gun: Dempsey Pounds Willard
Slide on over to Deadline Artists for this look into the past—Grantland Rice's 1919 column on the Jack Dempsey Jess Willard fight:...
Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart Is A Mess
The Miami Marlins held a Legends of Wrestling celebration on Saturday and a bunch of former wrestling stars were present. Goldberg was there, as were both members of the Hart Foundation, Bret "The Hitman" Hart and Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart. Bret is old. Jim is a disaster....
Innervisions
From the wonderful site, Letters of Note, here is a letter that Hellen Keller wrote in January, 1932. After a visit to the Empire State Building she described what she saw and heard:...
The Last Days of Stealhead Joe
From Outside, here's a good story by Ian Frazier—"The Last Days of Stealhead Joe":...
Wing-Eating Contest Ends With A Pantsing And A Punch In The Face
To clarify: The winning dude-bro gets pantsed. The shirtless loser who does the pantsing gets punched in the face—and seems so surprised to get punched in the face. We've got no details on this other than what you see here, but if that Jacksonville sign in the background is any indication, this happ...
Strange Sports Stories Comics
From the excellent tumblr site, The Bristol Board, check out these Strange Sports Stories. ...
Kolb's Possibly "Career-Ending" Concussion Is The NFL's Nightmare, Too
It was a low-impact play in the open field, and not even the announcers noticed the concussion that might've ended Buffalo Bills quarterback Kevin Kolb's career. ...
Up The Stairs With Cus D'Amato
From the Library of America's Story of the Week site, here's a gem—Pete Hamill's tribute to Cus D'Amato:...