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Typewriter Love
I know writers who still use a typewriter. One close pal whose neighborhood experiences power outages several times a year recently wrote a story on a portable. He wanted to get comfortable with it case he loses power and can't use his electric machine. ...
Ain't That America
Among the luminaries in the owner's box: LeBron James, Hulk Hogan, Chris Paul, Nolan Ryan, Chris Christie, George Strait, and Reince Priebus. Jerryworld is a land of wonder....
Meet The 31-Year-Old Rapper Who Is Dating LeBron James's Mom
See that guy creeping behind LeBron James and Dwyane Wade on the beach in the picture above? His name is Da Real Lambo, he's currently dating Gloria James, and he has a very active Instagram account....
Craig James Fired From Fox Sports Southwest After One Show
That didn't take long....
James Dolan Complained To The NBA About Mikhail Prokhorov's Bullying
Yesterday, the New York Post reported that the David Stern brokered a détente between the feuding owners of the Knicks and Nets last season, apparently because the league hates fun. But the more interesting part comes farther down: this meeting wasn't initiated by the NBA. Instead, Dolan went to the...
Infographic Compares NBA Scoring With Hip Hop Name-Dropping
If you enjoy hip hop and the NBA, then you definitely need to spend some time playing with bdon.org's fancy new infographic. The concept is simple: see how various NBA players' season-by-season scoring numbers stack up against their yearly mentions in hip hop songs....
The Helmet Con: How To Make A Buck Off The Concussion Crisis
"It helps with the ringing in my ears." James Harrison was on the phone, explaining that he collided with other human beings with such ferocity that his ears would ring for hours after games. He was worried about this....
A GIF Of James Harden's Beard Growth
It's amazing how much an unruly beard can change a person. By the end of this GIF, James Harden doesn't just look like a guy marooned on an island by himself for years, he looks like a guy marooned on an island by himself for years. ...
James Harrison Says Something Dumb About <em>Hard Knocks</em>
Newly minted Bengal James Harrison got more than he bargained for when he signed with Cincinnati—the Bengals agreed to be this year's Hard Knocks goldfish. And he doesn't like it....
The Cinderella Man
From the cool-ass site—of two cool-ass books—please enjoy Damon Runyon's 1935 column, "The Cinderella Man":...
Should LeBron Try To Save The NBA's Players Union?
ESPN's Brian Windhorst reports that LeBron James is "considering" running for president of the NBA Players Association, which he says "is in bad shape right now." But should LeBron hitch himself to something that will never operate in his best interests?...
Everything Plays
And now for something completely different: Vladimir Nabokov on boxing:...
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...