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We Need To Talk About Paul George's Wardrobe
This is the outfit that Paul George put on after his team lost to the Bulls last night. That is a lot of leather. Just so, so much leather. But this outfit shouldn't shock anyone, because Paul George has been doing this for a while....
Which Countries Have Produced The Most World-Famous Athletes?
The treemap chart above—part of the Pantheon project out of MIT Media lab—shows the birth countries of "globally known" sportspeople from 4,000 BC to 2010, i.e. sportspeople who are listed in the Wikipedias of at least 25 different languages. The U.S. and the U.K. come out on top, having produced 16...
Double Bird-Flipping Arkansas Fan Salvages A Forgettable Season
The Arkansas Razorbacks' season came to an end last night in the ghost brackets of the NIT, losing on the road to Cal. They weren't without their supporters, though; foul, throwback-wearing supporters in headbands who weren't afraid to flip some birds, at least....
Watch A Couple Of Guys B.A.S.E. Jump Off NYC's Freedom Tower
The Freedom Tower is the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere and these two dudes just jumped off it. The video was filmed in September of last year—and appears to be the black-clad parachutists who landed near the Goldman Sachs building September 30, 2013 and then vanished—but was just upl...
Grigor Dimitrov Halts Match To Help Ballgirl Overcome By Heat
Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov called a timeout in his third-round match at the Sony Open yesterday afternoon. He noticed a ballgirl overcome by the 90-degree Miami heat, and escorted her off the court to get treatment. ...
Poll: White People Don't Want College Athletes To Be Paid
A poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News finds that a sizable majority of Americans are opposed to paying college players. Well, white Americans. ...
For Jared Remy, Leniency Was The Rule Until One Lethal Night
Eric Moskowitz fine piece of reporting about Jeremy Remy for the Boston Globe: ...
Oh No, Mets
The season hasn't even started yet, and the LOLMets are coming on strong....
Who Will Be The Bitchy Cinderella? Round 2 Of The Bitchy Bracket Begins
So the first round of the Bitchy Bracket is done, and we're ready to move on to the second round of voting. Before starting in on voting, though, let's take a brief look at the first-round results, which saw all sorts of touchy fanboys knocked off, including some that, honestly, deserved less respec...
Report: Qatar's World Cup Expected To Take More Lives Than 9/11
"Qatar is a country without a conscience," begins the International Trade Union Confederation's recent report on the working and living conditions of the 1.4 million migrant workers living in Qatar, many of whom are there to build stadiums and infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup. After reading thr...
Wichita State Finally Loses; Kentucky Advances To Sweet 16
This will be a tough game to top. Kentucky beat the No. 1 seed and previously undefeated Wichita State Shockers 78-76. It was an offensive showcase—especially for Wichita State's Cleanthony Early who had 31 points and one thunderous dunk—and both teams exchanged leads for most of the second half. ...
Cleanthony Early Hammers Dunk Over Kentucky
Fred Van Vleet found Cleanthony Early streaking to the rim near the end of the first half of Wichita St.-Kentucky and it was just all over. Done. Said Shockers coach Gregg Marshall, "I just wish we had more time in the half." Same....
Doomsday Prepper Sells Heavy Metal Bed & Breakfast To Fund Marijuana Biz
My neighbor is a reality TV star. Brent Bruns II, who with his family appeared on such intelligent National Geographic Channel programs as Doomsday Preppers and Doomsday Castle, decided to settle down in our neighborhood and open a rock & roll-themed bed and breakfast. Alas, he's now selling it to g...
Max Scherzer Rejects "Substantial" Offer; Tigers Play Greedy Card
This morning, the Tigers woke up and decided to call their reigning Cy Young winner greedy. Max Scherzer was apparently offered a long-term deal "that would have placed him among the highest paid pitchers in baseball" and he turned it down. So the Tigers put out a press release killing him for it an...
Goalkeeper Blows Game With Enormous Boner In Added Time
Poor Dimitrios Konstantopoulos. It's bad enough the Middlesbrough goalkeeper cost his team a point today against QPR by allowing a goal in the 94th minute, but it's how he did it—by completely whiffing on a clearance and allowing Bobby Zamora the chance to walk in a goal—that is utterly embarrassing...
Evgeni Malkin Beats Tampa Bay Lightning
Evgeni Malkin scored or assisted on every goal for the Penguins today in a 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning. Malkin tied the game and gave Pittsburgh a one-goal lead with two goals in five minutes late in the third period. Nevertheless, the Lightning forced overtime with just over a minute left ...
Wayne Rooney Scores Goal From 50 Yards Away
Wayne Rooney opened the scoring for Manchester United today with a long-range bomb reminiscent of Luis Suarez's goal for Liverpool two years ago, a 50-yard volley that left NBC's announcers almost at a loss for words. We're sure Rooney's West Ham opponents had a few, though....
How To Make Sausage Gravy, And Shave A Few Years Off Your Lifespan
Sausage gravy is deeply, deeply disreputable food. In its typical presentation, slopped across biscuits in some charmingly run-down roadside diner with Patsy Cline playing on the jukebox, it is, in essence, flour on flour, dressed up as actual sustenance by the inclusion of token quantities of butte...
Russell Westbrook Knocked Out Of Game With Knee Injury [UPDATE]
Russell Westbrook, whose knee injury kept him out of most of last year's NBA playoffs as well as numerous games this season, had to be helped off the court tonight in Toronto after suffering what the Thunder are calling a knee sprain. ...
Here's Jim Tressel's Application To Be U. Of Akron President
Akron's president will step down this summer. Among the 19 candidates under consideration is Jim Tressel, the only one without a doctorate. ...