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Karl Malone And Enes Kanter Caught A Tiny Fish

Enes Kanter went fishing with Karl Malone. Karl's wife posted this photo, captioned "His first fish." Fishing with Karl Malone is better than hunting with Karl Malone....

Brooklyn Cyclones' Jackie Robinson Statue Defaced With Racist Graffiti

Overnight, someone spray painted the statute outside the Cyclones' Coney Island ballpark with swastikas and racist slurs, including the words "die nigger."...

The Killing of Gus Hasford

A monster story from the late Grover Lewis:...

Jay Mariotti Has A Website And A Shitty Radio Show [CORRECTED]

Correction (4:04 p.m.): Turns out there are two Genesis Communications in the radio world. Jay Mariotti actually partnered with the one that owns and operates six stations in central Florida—not the one affiliated with Alex Jones and his ilk. Our bad. Fuck Mariotti anyway....

Coach Ted Lasso Behind-The-Scenes Video Almost As Good As Original

You loved NBC's Coach Ted Lasso video, in which an American football coach learns all about the sport of association football. Here's a bit behind the making of it, as captured in London by Spurs TV. We're not sure if Jason Sudeikis is ever not in character—or if he even has a character at all othe...

An Averagely Average Comedy: <em>We're The Millers</em>, Reviewed.

Jason Sudeikis is a perfect fit for We're the Millers, which is a shame, since the movie isn't quite as funny as he is. During his time on Saturday Night Live, Sudeikis often played the handsome, average guy who, the longer you hung out with him, seemed stranger and stranger. He could be the straigh...

Everything Plays

And now for something completely different: Vladimir Nabokov on boxing:...

Shall We Dance?

Another gem from Grantland’s “Director’s Cut” series, this one by the late Paul Hemphill (may he not be soon forgotten)....

Here's JaVale McGee Scaring Random People By Honking A Car Horn

Today's straight-to-YouTube release of Horn Chronicles, Part One (in four volumes!) is just the latest reminder that even though it's the offseason, JaVale never takes a day off from being JaVale....

The Whore of Akron

Last year I interviewed Scott Raab about his entertaining book The Whore of Akron. Dig:...

Lindsay Lohan Is the Only Part of <em>The Canyons</em> That Isn't Horrible

The Canyons opens (and ends, over the closing credits) with photographs of abandoned, dilapidated movie theaters, which would be the world's most obvious metaphor if the film were actually competent enough to be about what it wants to be about. Director Paul Schrader (who should know better) and wri...

3 on 3

Here's the random bit of sports nostalgia for ya. Via Up North Trips....

How Jadeveon Clowney Got Nicknamed "Doo-Doo," And Is Not Sidd Finch

Via Tom Keegan of the Lawrence Journal-World, we get the best detail of Jadeveon Clowney's life yet: He was nicknamed "Doo-Doo" as a child for taking a shit in a swimming pool. It's humanizing, funny, and another reminder that Clowney is not Sidd Finch....

What Might Happen If A Football Coach Coached Soccer

This skit features Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso, an American football coach hired to manage Tottenham Hotspur in England. Look at all the differences! It's a dumb premise, but the jokes are legitimately funny. Who knew so many football clubs were just like the Dallas Cowboys?...

The Jag Rag, Jacksonville's Fan Towel, Will No Longer Be Sold

Late last year, we discovered the Jag Rag, a fan towel created by one enterprising Jacksonville Jaguars fan named Bert Sparks who didn't care about the phrase's original definition. We now regret to inform you that the Jag Rag is no more....

The House That Thurman Munson Built

Originally published in the September 1999 issue of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author’s permission....

Melky Cabrera Tries To Throw A Baseball. It Does Not Go Well

Here's the GIF that pretty much sums up your season, Blue Jays fans....

Jason Kidd Will Use The Matrix And/Or Elysium As Motivation

At a screening of Matt Damon's new sci-fi flick Elysium, Nets head coach Jason Kidd told The Source that he loves The Matrix and thinks he can use it (or Elysium) as a motivational tool. The Jason Kidd coaching experiment is gonna be great, you guys....

Does James Franklin Think His Players Are Really, Really Dumb?

Mr. Big Stuff (Who Do You Think You Are?)

Another good Reggie story. This one if from Foul Ball: Five Years in the American League, by Alison Gordon, who covered the Blue Jays from 1979-83. Gordon describes herself as “a socialist, feminist, hedonist with roots in the sixties, a woman who had marched against the bomb, done drugs, and never,...