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Paul Pogba Finally Played Like Paul Pogba

Most every great player has a signature move, a thing they do to or with or around the ball that immediately clarifies for you that that one of 10 uniformly colored little blurs out there running with the ball is in fact, say, Arjen Robben and not Philipp Lahm. (In that instance, it’s Robben’s dangl...

Billionaire CEO Has A Few More Incredibly Patronizing Thoughts Before Election Day

This presidential election could decide the fate of abortion, immigration, race relations, and nuclear proliferation. What our nation needs now is a patronizing letter from an egomaniac corporate CEO. ...

Dallas Mavericks Revoke Credentials Of Two ESPN Reporters

The Dallas Mavericks revoked the season credentials of ESPN reporters Marc Stein and Tim MacMahon, according to multiple reports:...

NFL Deletes Highlight Clip After Realizing What Mark Ingram Said

Saints running back Mark Ingram scored a marvelous touchdown in the second quarter of today’s New Orleans-San Francisco game to give his team a 28-10 lead, leading the NFL to rush tweet a highlight of the play—and, just as quickly, delete the tweet after hearing the language used by Ingram as he pas...

LeBron James, J.R. Smith Encourage Ohio Crowd To Get Out The Vote At Hillary Clinton Rally<em></em>

Ohio man LeBron James introduced Hillary Clinton at her rally Sunday in Cleveland. James was joined by J.R. Smith, who located a shirt for the big day, and Smith’s daughter, Demi....

Golden Tate Humiliates Three Vikings Defenders, Scores In Overtime

Golden Tate clowned three Vikings defenders on his way to a 28-yard touchdown which gave the Lions a 22-16 overtime win over Minnesota....

Steelers Wrap Up Loss With Possibly The Worst Onside Kick Ever

Two weeks after undergoing surgery to repair a torn meniscus, Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger returned to the starting lineup today against the Ravens. It did not help, as Pittsburgh turned in an ugly 21-14 loss....

Travis Kelce Ejected After Throwing Towel At Official

Travis Kelce hit the showers early today in Kansas City after earning a quick two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, the second for throwing his towel at an official....

They Finally Took Away Donald Trump's Twitter Account

With just two days left in our collective national hell, the Trump campaign is in its final push to do... something. After all, Trump doesn’t have any pollsters since the campaign refused to pay them. And he barely has the support of his own favorite daughter. Now, though, Trump’s lost perhaps the o...

The Man Has Spoken

Police Kick Out Fan For Photographing Pro-Art Briles Shirts At Baylor Tailgate

Five months after Baylor head football coach was fired for his role in the university’s sexual assault scandal, fans are selling #CAB t-shirts outside today’s game against Texas Christian to show their support for Coach Art Briles. A TCU fan who attempted to take a picture of the shirts was reported...

Baylor's Sexual Assault Scandal: Still No Report, Still Few Answers

Baylor’s board of regents is sharing details of the university’s sexual assault scandal with select media outlets after months of staying publicly silent. A group of regents spoke anonymously with the Wall Street Journal last week, and two days ago an interview with four regents—Ron Murff, James Gra...

Did Robert Caruso Con The Washington Press—Or Is That What The Russians <i>Want </i>You To Think?

How hard is it to con people in Washington, D.C.? Easier than you might think, considering it’s the place where things like nuclear war get decided. The national-security circuit in particular, with its think tank fellowships and massive government contracts, is one of the juiciest rackets around....

Racism And Sexism Are Extremely Bad For The Economy

Over the past 50 years, our nation’s institutions have become less racist and less sexist. This decline in discrimination has been very good for America’s economy. ...

Did You Hear The Latest Big Election Scoop?

This past weekend, I caught some evolved form of plague from my two-year-old, disease-carrying nephew. Though I’m past the worst of the illness at this point, some residual sinus pressure remains. So I stopped by the drugstore on my way into the office. It was here that I learned that Huma Abedin an...

San Antonio Cop Reportedly Fired For Feeding Homeless Man A Literal Shit Sandwich

Our American law enforcement system enables its officers to abuse their power and harass the citizenry in ways both petty and outright barbaric. Here’s a particularly cruel example, from down in San Antonio: a cop was fired this week after he fed a homeless man a shit sandwich. I do not use “shit sa...

Durant Versus Westbrook Was Fun, And Then It Was A Rout 

For about nine minutes last night, it looked like the Thunder might beat the Warriors. But then Jerami Grant dunked and screamed in Kevin Durant’s face, Durant went supernova and scored 39 points, and the Warriors won by 26....

Russell Westbrook Says There's No Particular Reason He Dressed Up Like A Photographer

Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook wore an interesting outfit last night, but that’s something that can be said about him literally anytime he walks out of his front door. This particular outfit caught people’s attention, though....

Here's Some Wholly Believable Donald Trump Jr. Gossip<em></em>

Earlier today, Miami-based DJ Scott Melker posted a story on Facebook from his time at the University of Pennsylvania—time that he shared with none other than First Son-hopeful Donald J. Trump Jr. And according to Melker, Don Jr. (and his father, for that matter) behaves pretty much exactly like you...

Vox Scams Readers Into Thinking Prescient World Series Tweet Was A Scam [Update]

How incredible was it that the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians, baseball’s two most hard-luck franchises, would meet in the same World Series? Throughout the postseason, as the fates of the two teams converged, a certain prognostication from two years ago kept reappearing on Twitter:...