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A Troubling Statistical Conundrum, From A Burger King Baseball In 1996
Reader Sully from Holy Cross wrote in this weekend with a question. ...

It's Remarkably Easy To Beat NFL Drug Testing
If we’ve learned one thing from his trial...it’s that Aaron Hernandez probably killed a dude or three. But if we’ve learned a second thing from the trial, it’s that Aaron Hernandez smoked a lot of weed. Like, a ton of it, and all the time. Enough to keep even the largest fictional giant in a permane...

Joakim Noah Will Always Be There To Shit-Talk LeBron James
One of the most endearing things about Joakim Noah is his continued insistence on just not having it with LeBron James and whatever team James happens to be on. There was the time he called out James for his dancing in the middle of a game, the time he called the Heat “Hollywood as hell,” and there...

Last Night's <i>Mad Men</i>, With The Dialogue Removed
Mad Men's final season began last night (technically, this is part two of the final season, but nobody really buys that), and while the visuals (Roger's mustache! Don's lonely apartment!) and Matthew Weiner's dialogue tend to get most of the attention from critics and viewers alike, there's a grea...

That's More Than Five, Chuck, & Ric Flair Is On There Twice
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Curt Schilling: "Ask My Wife ... Not Pleasurable But Consistent"
Here we have what appears to be 48-year-old Curt Schilling making an extremely awkward joke about his mediocre sex life during the top of the seventh inning of tonight’s Cardinals-Cubs game. (Skip to 0:37 if you don’t want any of the dumb yukking.) I suppose it’s possible Schilling was referring to ...

Notre Dame Beats South Carolina On Late Jumper For Championship Berth
Notre Dame has booked its ticket to the championship game thanks to a clutch rebound and jumper from Madison Cable. ...

Shaun Livingston Swings His Arm Into Dirk Nowitzki's Junk
Hmmm. Shaun Livingston is not someone you typically associate with goonish behavior, but here’s Livingston taking a swing at Dirk Nowitzki’s brat and two veg during the Mavs-Warriors game Saturday night. ...


Cheez Whiz And Grape Jelly: What's Your Weirdest Eating Habit?
Pickles and ice cream are for amateurs, man. Peanut butter and American cheese sandwiches, hold the bread—that's how you do vile food pairings in style....

MLB Finds Jarred Cosart Placed Bets, But Not On Baseball
It only took MLB investigators about a week to get to the bottom of Marlins pitcher Jarred Cosart’s betting habits, after his spot got blown up on Twitter. The conclusion: dude bets on sports with a bookie, which is technically illegal but not against MLB rules, but never bets on baseball, which wou...

How John Calipari's Juggled Kentucky's Lineups To A Near-Perfect Season
In late October, Kentucky coach John Calipari announced a unique substitution pattern, one specifically designed to take advantage of the squad's nine McDonald's All-Americans. He would platoon his Wildcats, splitting the team into White and Blue units that would alternate for several minutes spurts...

The Pittsburgh Pirates Should Be America's Team This Season
There’s nothing America loves more than a winner who has suffered and, Lord knows, the Pittsburgh Pirates have suffered. Twenty losing seasons in a row. The Pittsburgh drug trials. The cobbled-together public ownership that ended up $22 million in debt. Talented player after talented player leaving...

Sim Bhullar Is A Good Giant
The Kings called up 7-foot-5 Sim Bhullar from their D-League affiliate on Thursday and signed him to a 10-day contract, making him the first player of Indian descent in the league. In Bhullar’s time on the Reno Bighorns he’s slimmed down to 360 pounds, and one time he mashed a guy 30 feet into the e...


Reports: Shaka Smart Is Leaving VCU For Texas
According to numerous reports, what has been rumored for days has come true: Shaka Smart is leaving VCU to become the University of Texas’s next head basketball coach. ...

Utah Tribe Impeaches Chairwoman For Taking Redskins Bribe
On Thursday, the Tribal Council of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah voted unanimously to boot the tribe’s highest-ranking elected official, Chairwoman Gari Lafferty. ...

If You Need An Easter Beer, Well, Here's Your Easter Beer
I had a hectic morning, because folding laundry counts as hectic if you have a certain kind of lifestyle, and therefore I’m a bit behind on my daily media-eating. Can someone help catch me up? Specifically I’m wondering if the part of the internet in charge of dispensing cultural edicts has decided ...

Former Bucs GM: We Spied On Justin Blackmon's Favorite Bar For A Week
I rolled my eyes at the claim that an unnamed NFL team had shadowed Jameis Winston on a flight—surely lots of teams had scouts flying into and out of Indianapolis around the combine. But maybe it’s not so crazy. Former Tampa GM Mark Dominik admitted that in 2012, the Buccaneers dispatched a scout to...

Report: Bowling Green Fires Basketball Coach After Incident At Bar
There’s something weird going down at Bowling Green State University, where first-year men’s basketball coach Chris Jans was just fired despite leading the team to a 21-12 record this year. According to Fox Sports Ohio’s Zac Jackson, Jans was fired because of something he did at a bar....