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Stoned Immaculate: <i>Inherent Vice</i>, Reviewed

With each passing movie, Paul Thomas Anderson wanders further and further away from the terrain mapped out by his filmmaking peers. He hasn't gotten lost yet: Inherent Vice may not be as undeniably astounding as his last three efforts, but that doesn't make it any less startling or wonderfully...

Sidney Crosby's Face Is Messed Up And Sort Of Mumpy Looking [Update]

The Post-Gazette's Seth Rorabaugh noticed that Sidney Crosby looked a little different after today's morning skate:...

College QB Forced To Sue T-Shirt Company To Retain Eligibility

Just when you think the NCAA bylaws couldn't possibly become more ridiculously hypocritical, a story like this comes along....

Transcript: Roger Goodell Doesn't Know What's Going On

ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr. published a nice scoop yesterday, having gotten his hands on the transcript from Ray Rice's suspension appeal hearing. He highlights one particular exchange which shows that if you take him at his word, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has absolutely no idea what's going on in...

White Flight: The Knuckleheaded <i>Exodus: Gods and Kings</i>, Reviewed

1. I'm not sure who ever could have thought that Exodus: Gods and Kings was a good idea. Putting aside—only for a moment—the much-discussed "whitewashing" of the cast, the movie seems almost specifically designed to appeal to absolutely no one. It's a Bible story, but it paints Old Testament God as ...

The Tigers have acquired OF Yoenis Cespedes from the Red Sox for starter Rick Porcello and a minor-league pitcher....

The Piggyback Bandit Has Found A New Stomping Ground

Newer readers, or those with faulty memories, may have forgotten about Sherwin Shayegan, better known as The Piggyback Bandit. Let us remind you. ...

German Zombie Scores Game-Winning Goal While Wearing A Defibrillator

Why, you might be asking, do the other members of German third tier side Stuttgart Kickers react to Daniel Engelbrecht's not particularly impressive game-winning goal, scored in stoppage time, with such passion and joy? Well, it's because Engelbrecht is a real life zombie....

Russell Wilson Apparently Enjoyed This Porn He Found On Twitter [NSFW]

Russell Wilson was recently logged into his Twitter account, and it looks like he found some porn to enjoy. We know this because until a few minutes ago, the tweet at the top of the "favorites" page on Wilson's Twitter account included a very, uh, NSFW picture. Scroll down to see the porn that Russe...

Doug Gottlieb Has Thoughts On Kobe Wearing An "I Can't Breathe" Shirt

CBS college basketball analyst Doug Gottlieb has a TAKE on Kobe Bryant's choice of t-shirt, and the mangled hashtag is just the cherry on top....

Chris Rock's Rock-Star Moment: <i>Top Five</i>, Reviewed

Chris Rock has such a warm, magnetic presence that it's baffling that he has never seemed that comfortable as an actor. Cutting and ferocious as he may be onstage, onscreen he often comes across as timid, like he doesn't belong. (It's telling that when I think of his film career, the first thing t...

Crossfitter Hurts His Balls

Reader Jon sent this video of his friend training at a Crossfit gym. The Bruno Mars song playing makes what happens next all the more agonizing. Hopefully, this man's balls are OK....

Manchester United Are Back Where They Belong, But Can It Last?

Well, they've done it. They've survived the year from hell, with a hopelessly overmatched manager, a rumored but never unveiled treasure chest meant to revitalize a squad whose actual age was catching up to their prematurely graying and receding hairlines, a humiliating season of unending self-infli...

Fuck The British Royal Family

His Royal Highness Prince William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn, Baron Carrickfergus, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Personal Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty The Queen, looks like ...

The Day John Lennon Was Murdered

Via Cathal Kelly's Twitter feed, dig Jimmy Breslin's column about John Lennon's death:...

ESPN Duped By Fake Ken Rosenthal Twitter Account

At 1:12 a.m. ET, Jon Heyman broke the news that the Oakland A's had traded Jeff Samardzija to the Chicago White Sox: ...

Buccaneers Will Stop Using Unpaid Homeless People To Sell Beer

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will no longer employ unpaid, destitute indentured servants as concessions stand workers, according to a statement issued by the team's concessions partner Aramark....

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Stan Van Gundy Shows Us How Much It Hurts To Coach Josh Smith

One of the many problems Stan Van Gundy faced when he took over the Detroit Pistons was Josh Smith's dreadful three-point shooting. He shot 265 threes last season and only hit 26 percent of them, but Stan Van has managed to put the straps on him a bit this year. Smith's shot just 30 threes so far (h...