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Kevin Garnett Tried To Eat Joakim Noah
Kevin Garnett's picked up a lot from other players during his lengthy NBA career, and now it seems he's learning new skills from athletes outside of basketball—specifically soccer's Luis Suárez....

Report: Buccaneers Employ Indentured Servants As Concessions Workers
In a system labor experts are calling "outrageous," the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are among several professional sports teams a Tampa Bay Times investigation found employ unpaid, destitute people to sell peanuts and beer to fans at the stadium....

Daniel Carcillo Channels His Inner Pageant Queen After A Fight
Blackhawks forward and noted shit-stirrer Daniel Carcillo didn't appreciate Brayden McNabb's forearm in his face in last night's game, so he fought McNabb, and "won." Carcillo, a former King, then waved like a pageant queen to the Los Angeles crowd as he exited the ice. How polite!...

Soccer Gots Brain Dingers, Too, Y'all: How To Ignore Football Today
So, here's a common refrain down in the comments of these Sunday punch-bowl poop posts: DURR THEY GOT CONCUSSIONS IN SOCCER TOO Y'ALL DURR DON'T THAT MAKE Y'ALL A BUNCHA HYPOCRITES DURR....

OSU's J.T. Barrett Out For Season; Here's The Ovation He Received
Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett will miss the rest of the season due to the ankle fracture he received late in today's win over Michigan, leaving Cardale Jones to serve as field general for the rest of OSU's season. Above is some previously-unseen video of Barrett being tended to by medical pers...

Bayou Classic Halftime Show Features Marriage Proposal In Formation
We make fun of Jumbotron marriage proposals a bunch, but using Southern University's Human Jukebox to propose? That takes some confidence....

Endurance Athletes May Soon Be Electrocuting Their Brains
What if, prior to Thursday's Turkey Trot, a few minutes hooked up to a 9-volt battery could have lowered your heart rate, increased your power, and made every mile feel easier? This is the promise of ongoing research on transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS. And while the early test resul...

Now That's What I Call Respect
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WKU Ends Marshall's Undefeated Season With Overtime 2-Point Conversion
Florida State stands alone as FBS's sole undefeated team after Marshall collapsed at home today in overtime to Western Kentucky, 67-66, thanks to a brilliant Hilltoppers touchdown pass and subsequent two-point conversion....

62-Year-Old Mickey Rourke Wins "Boxing Match" By "Knockout"
Mickey Rourke has made his living as an actor, and if you expected his sanctioned boxing match today in Moscow against a 29-year-old to be totally legitimate then you've been watching too many movies....

How To Eat Your Thanksgiving Leftovers: Three Good-Ass Techniques
The morning following Thanksgiving is a bleary, cotton-mouthed, dead-eyed time—a time for questions, a time of Reckoning. "Oh, Jesus, how much did I drink yesterday?" and, "Am I going to die?" and, "Why do I keep doing this to myself?" and, "Am I in Fort Worth? How did I come to be in Fort Worth?" T...

You Don't Know Where That Finger's Been!
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CM Punk Rips Apart The WWE In Revealing Interview About His Departure
Former WWE champion CM Punk joined Colt Cabana's "The Art of Wrestling" podcast this week and dove deep into why he left the company. There is a ton of interesting stuff in here, and it's certainly worth a listen for hardcore fans who want the most in-depth look into why Punk left the wrestling behe...

How To Eat Thanksgiving Dinner: A Strategy Guide
How does one eat a Thanksgiving meal? On its face this might seem like a ridiculous question, and also everywhere else too. I mean, who doesn’t know how to eat? (Excepting the British, of course.) Thanksgiving is marked, more than anything else, by its abundance of tasty foodstuffs; practically spe...

Clif Cuts Ties With Some Of Its Most Infamous Climbers
On November 7, the rock climbing magazine Rock and Ice reported Clif Bar had cut five of its 20 sponsored climbers. It's not uncommon for companies like Clif to add and drop athletes, but this was different: the five it cut—Alex Honnold, Dean Potter, Steph Davis, Cedar Wright and Timmy O'Neill—are s...

Who Regressed More After His Rookie Year, RG3 Or Charlie Batch?
Since Robert Griffin's spectacular rookie season, there have been an previous few other things to talk about with regard to Washington—especially once he started to regress. Now there's speculation he could be traded. It's obvious his production has declined, but to what extent exactly? Is it as bad...

The Foodspin Thanksgiving Reader
Hey, whoa, Thanksgiving is here! And although you likely will spend it huddled over a vending-machine candy bar in a snowed-in airport terminal surrounded by wild-eyed and feral-looking strangers, that shouldn't stop you from fantasizing about the delicious non-candy foods you'd be eating if our nat...

Here, Have Some Fantasy Football Lineup-Helper Visuals
Do you really have time to be setting your lineup for the Thanksgiving games? ...

The Warriors' Best Lineups Are Killing The Rest Of The League
By pretty much every metric, the Warriors are one of the best teams in the league. They're 11-2, a half-game out of the best record in the league, lead the league in opponent-adjusted net offensive/defensive rating, and are in lockstep with the Spurs for best defensive rating. They're really good. B...

Devon Still's Ex Says He Hasn't Paid Child Support In Months
Bengals defensive end Devon Still's relationship with his cancer-stricken four-year-old daughter, Leah, has seemed to be perhaps the only true feel-good story in the NFL this year. Maybe not so much anymore, though, as Leah's mother, Channing Smythe, is claiming that Still has recently refused to pa...