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BBC Makes Shirtless Andy Murray And Geri Halliwell Sing Spice Girls Songs In Bed
This video of Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, along with excessively cheery host Michael McIntyre, prompting Andy Murray to fill in the blanks on Spice Girls songs is so weird and delightful....

The NFL's Women Summit Was The Mindless Pandering It Always Was Meant To Be
First, let’s get this out of the way: The NFL and its franchises are a corporate enterprise. They exist to make money. They don’t exist to do anything else. They do not exist to make this a better world. They do not exist to uplift anyone. They do not exist to enact change on inequality or ending po...

White Girls Saying "Nigger" On Instagram Is The Black Mirrorest <i>Black Mirror</i> Shit
Imagine a world, one that very much resembles our own, set in some not-too-distant, semi-dystopian future. A sort of bizarro version of our modern Western society, where the increasing imposition upon society of otherwise benign technology and social media has warped the very fabric and structure of...

Man Arrested At Girls J.V. Basketball Game: "I Regret Punching The Ref In The Face"
A good apology does not waste time delicately circling around the point, a good apology shows remorse, a good apology does not redirect blame. An example of a good apology: “I regret punching the ref in the face. It was an emotional response. I shouldn’t have done it. I’m sorry.”...

Coach Of High School Team Shut Out 102-0: "My Girls Did Everything Possible To Score"
Common as extreme blowouts are in high school basketball, a true shutout is still extremely rare. The state of Montana had its first one in any level of recorded organized basketball last weekend, and man, is it a bummer: Froid-Medicine Lake High 102, Brockton High 0....

Chargers Twerk Girl Is Now Free Agent Twerk Girl
The San Diego Chargers are no more. The team plays its first game since 1960 as the Los Angeles Chargers tonight, and they will be down at least one fan when they step onto the field in Denver: Chargers Twerk Girl....

Sports! It's Tonight's <i>Mean Girls</i> Liveblog
Look, the White Sox already played today, so there are no sports worth paying attention to tonight. Mean Girls just started on ABC Family, so let’s follow along with that instead....

Pro Cyclist Apologizes For Lame Jokes About Fucking The Podium Girls
Jan Bakelants, most famous for winning the first stage of the 2013 Tour de France and wearing the yellow jersey for a spell, is going to this year’s Tour for AG2R La Mondiale, and he wants everyone to know he’s really horny....

Saints Lineman Nick Fairley Out For The Year With Heart Condition
Nick Fairley had the best season of his career last year for the Saints, racking up 6.5 sacks in 16 starts and earning himself a new $28 million contract with New Orleans. However, the Saints placed him on the non-football injury list this afternoon after doctors evaluated the heart condition that F...

Fox Still Sucks At Broadcasting Golf, Keeping Golfers' Girlfriends Straight
So Brooks Koepka won the U.S. Open at Erin Hills today, bringing to a merciful end Fox’s awful efforts at airing golf—for the weekend, at least. The network went out with a typical bang of a blunder: picking out the wrong Brooks Koepka girlfriend....

The Corporation Does Not Always Have To Win
As you’ve surely* seen by now, the big story of the day has to do with viral videos of some confusing group of United Airlines security and/or cops—it doesn’t matter, they’re all The Man—violently dragging a ticketed passenger out of his seat and off an overbooked Sunday flight. A computer had rand...

Samir Nasri Tweets, Deletes Claims Of "Full Sexual Service" From L.A. IV Treatment Center<em></em>
It looks like Samir Nasri took a quick trip to L.A. while Sevilla is on winter break. How relaxing: the sun, the sand, the IV vitamin therapy, the “full sexual service.”...

Phillies' "Pistachio Girl" Fired For Being A White Nationalist
Emily Youcis, better known as “Pistachio Girl” at Philadelphia Phillies games, has been fired from her vendor job by Aramark, because she couldn’t stop supporting white nationalism online....

<i>Gilmore Girls' </i>Paris Geller Deserves A Happier Ending
The nemesiship-turned-friendship between the cultishly beloved Rory Gilmore and her convenient, cantankerous foil Paris Geller in the original seven seasons of Gilmore Girls is a deeply unfeminist parable about how, in order to be likable, smart women must be unfailingly accommodating and utterly un...

FYI: HBO Shows Are Not Real
It’s great to see people speaking out passionately for social justice. So it pains me to tell you that you’ve accidentally been directing that passion towards a world that is total fiction. ...

Matt Ryan Wanted No Part Of Making This Block
Here are two facts. The first is that the Falcons are rounding into form as an offensive juggernaut, their 45-32 shootout win over the Saints an almost ideal display of firepower that saw them score touchdowns on five consecutive drives. This was a balanced attack, with big nights from Devonte Freem...

Peyton Manning's Hairline Is A Lie
Eagle-eyed reader Jim writes in that an ad campaign on ESPN.com features multiple Peyton Manning hairlines scattered amongst inane takes by Stephen A. Smith and fantasy football promotions. The former NFL QB is shilling for some brand you’ve never heard of, and when we checked for ourselves we found...

Italy Manager On Pirlo And Giovinco Snubs: If You Play In MLS, You Pay The Consequences
Antonio Conte, manager of the Italian national team, has the distinct misfortune of heading into a major international tournament with the worst crop of Italian players in recent memory. So unimpressive is the 30-man preliminary roster he just announced, the bulk of which will make up the squad he t...