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Go read Michigan professor Yago Colas on his student Mitch McGary: "Perhaps the humanity he has shown, in class and in smoking a joint, might actually be an integral part of (rather than some unfortunate obstacle to) what made him so effective and thrilling as a basketball player." [Between the Line...

Why Running Bandits Are Bastards
The roads into Boston are free 364 days a year, so why would you pay to run a marathon on that one odd day? Rules don't apply to you! You're too rich! Too young! ...

Brenda Martinez Was Tough Right From The Get-Go
Do not mess with Brenda Martinez. She does not suffer fools or thugs or pretenders, and that's just a short list. The toughness she brings to Drake stadium tonight is just an extension of street skills she learned as a kindergartner....

Former Barcelona Manager Tito Vilanova Dead At 45
FC Barcelona has just announced that former manager Tito Vilanova passed today following a two-and-half-year battle with throat cancer. He was 45 years old. ...

Hawk Harrelson Takes To MLB Network To Complain About Hemorrhoids
Chicago White Sox announcer Hawk Harrelson turned up on Chris "Mad Dog" Russo's MLB Network show High Heat yesterday, and things went pretty much exactly as you'd expect, with lots of talk about Carl Yastrzemski, Tony La Russa, and this year's purportedly dangerous White Sox squad. There was also th...

How Difficult Is It To Qualify For The Boston Marathon?
We've spent the better part of this week focusing on elites, but now we turn back to the heart of the Boston Marathon: the qualifiers....

Mitch McGary Declaring For NBA Draft, Victim Of NCAA Reefer Madness
After missing most of last season with a back injury, University of Michigan forward Mitch McGary seemed likely to head back to Ann Arbor for another year of work on his sketchy offensive game and another deep run in the NCAA tournament. Instead, he'll be declaring for the NBA draft—all because he g...

Bib Forgers Are Dumb Twentysomethings Raising Money For Charity
Bastards with hearts of gold are still bastards, and the perpetrators of Bibgate 2014, if not innocent, are at least trying to justify themselves out of a bad situation....

Insane Handbook: Bills Cheerleaders Are Told How To Wash Their Vaginas
There are a few things you need to know if you want to be a successful Buffalo Bills cheerleader. “When menstruating, use a product that [sic] right for your menstrual flow,” reads the “General hygiene & lady body maintenance” section of the handbook given to cheerleaders, known as the Jills. “A tam...

Do You Know These Runners? Because They're Probably Bastards.
Everyone wanted to be in the Boston Marathon this year, and the race actually expanded its field by more than a third, to 36,000, to accommodate everybody. But it still sold out, and then there's that pesky detail of having to pay. So four runners decided they'd find alternative means of entry, clai...

How To Cheat, Do Drugs, And Succeed At Baseball, By Dock Ellis
We're big fans of Dock Ellis, obviously, so we enjoyed this latest animated short, narrated by the man himself and excerpted from Donnell Alexander's Beyond Ellis D. Honestly, listening to Dock Ellis talk about drugs, cheating, and Gaylord Perry is almost as much fun as listening to Vin Scully talk...

Blue Jackets Fan Mixes Up His BJs
Ohio is catching Blue Jackets fever! Last night, ESPN's Browns writer Tony Grossi learned a little bit about his local hockey team, and also acronyms:...

Is Frank Vogel An Elite Quarterback?
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Marc-Andre Fleury Reverts To Type
Because it's the Cup, we got bad Marc-Andre Fleury....

Prepare To Have Your Mind Blown By A Balloon And A Runner
Ed. Note: Due to the breakout success of i09's story on a balloon in a minivan, Nick Denton has asked each Gawker subdomain to blow its readership's mind with a balloon-related post. This is Fittish's version....

Meb's Yankees-Red Sox First Pitch Not Total Disaster
It can be tough for distance runners to use their emaciated upper bodies for most things other than ballast, but Boston Marathon winner Meb Keflezighi's first pitch at the Yankees-Red Sox game last night wasn't a total disaster. A little outside, sure, but just watch how the bottom drops out. ...

Nick Young's First Pitch For The Dodgers Was Horrendous
Swaggy P threw out the first pitch for the Dodgers tonight. It was the opposite of swaggy....

Blue Jackets Win In OT After Marc-Andre Fleury's Screwup In Regulation
The Blue Jackets won their second playoff game ever when Nick Foligno flicked a long shot past Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. But how the Pens blow a 3-0 lead in the first period? Let's go back to the end of regulation....

How Skechers Beat Nike In The Boston Marathon
When Meb Keflezighi won the Boston Marathon, he broke the tape wearing Skechers. Skechers, the maker of shoes that tone Joe Montana's ass. The hell?...
