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Panel: NYPD Officer Used Excessive Force When Wrongly Arresting James Blake
An independent investigation by the Civilian Complaint Review Board determined that the NYPD used excessive force when officers wrongly arrested former tennis player James Blake in September while conducting a credit card fraud sting....
Man City Academy Kids Flee, Return, Flee Again From Nutmeg Master's Skills
The purest physical distillation of what it feels like to have your mind blown by a feat of mastery is the innate urge to turn and sprint as far away as humanly possible from the scene of said feat. These Manchester City academy players repeatedly exhibit this behavior, which in itself is evidence e...
The Storm Inside Reggie Jackson
This piece was first published in the July, 1977 issue of Esquire. It is reprinted here with permission. Also be sure to check out the other Jackson profile, written the same year, that we republished in March....
How Daily Fantasy Fucked Things Up For Everyone
Daily fantasy sports should have been a great thing. A form of betting just shiny and different enough from handing a brown bag of cash to a guy named Fingers at the local dive bar to be treated as respectable enterprise, it had the potential not just to make insane amounts of money, but to change t...
American Ninja Warrior Is A Lot Better With Dinosaur Costumes
Even if you have no idea what American Ninja Warrior is, I promise that you will enjoy this clip of someone running through a training course in a T-Rex costume. ...
How To Talk To A Grieving Person
In the weeks and months after my father died, “How are you?” became my least favorite question. It was always benign and well-intentioned, but it also inevitably reminded me that I felt like shit. I’d rather have given a gruesome blow-by-blow account of how my father died than talk about how I felt....
The Colts Are An Absolute Mess At Quarterback
The Colts have got to be cursing the NFL schedule makers for sticking them with the Thursday night game this week, because if there was ever a team that needed a few more days to rest up, it’s this one....
UConn's Bacon Jalapeño Mac And Cheese: A Sober Student's Review
This week, we met a drunken (and possibly former!) University of Connecticut student named Luke Gatti whose hunger for the bacon jalapeño mac and cheese served by the school’s Union Street Market was so great that he got himself arrested (and publicly humiliated) trying to get some. Was this foodstu...
The Rangers Were Annoyed That The Blackhawks' Banner Ceremony Took So Long
The Blackhawks went all out to commemorate the start of their championship defense—and why not? How often do you win a Cup? But last night’s ceremony went on forever. There was a red carpet walk. Every player got an introduction. Videos played. The Stanley Cup came out. Gary Bettman was booed. Final...
Katie Nolan Calls Out "Garbage Human" Greg Hardy
On last night’s episode of Garbage Time, Katie Nolan discussed the return of Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy, who was suspended after being accused of violently abusing his then-girlfriend. ...
Corrupt FIFA Executives Suspended, To Be Replaced By Corrupt FIFA Executives
As was reported yesterday, save the not-unreasonable belief that a known whitewasher would break out the paint, Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini, and Jérôme Valcke have all been suspended for 90 days by FIFA’s ethics committee....
I Hope The Cubs And Pirates Hate Each Other Now
A day after the Astros advanced with a pitching performance as boring as it was dominating, the Cubs and Pirates figured out how to up the entertainment value even as Jake Arrieta shut Pittsburgh down: a fight!...
Matt Barnes Terrorizes Ex, Amusing Sportswriters
This past Saturday, Memphis Grizzlies forward Matt Barnes reportedly drove nearly a hundred miles from Santa Barbara to the Los Angeles home of his estranged wife Gloria Govan—whom he was arrested on suspicion of abusing in 2010—to harass and physically attack New York Knicks coach Derek Fisher for ...
Thabo Sefolosha Testifies He Was Giving Money To Beggar When Arrested
Thabo Sefolosha testified today that he was trying to give money to a beggar and then leave in a car service when he was arrested outside of a New York City nightclub in April. That is when, according to Sefolosha, a police officer who had been unnecessarily belligerent and confrontational to him sh...
Kyle Schwarber Crushes Two-Run Homer Into The Allegheny
The Cubs were at it early in their Wild Card game against the Pirates, causing all sorts of trouble for Gerrit Cole. The biggest swing belonged to Cubs right fielder Kyle Schwarber, who absolutely destroyed Cole’s third inning pitch for a two-run homer. ...
The Daily Fantasy Nightmare Is Here Because The NFL Made It So
This has been the season of daily fantasy. Yes, it was always there, but this year, the biggest players—FanDuel and DraftKings—have gone all in, buying up seemingly every possible piece of ad space available in sports media. There they are, sponsoring one of the biggest fantasy writers. There they a...
Javaris Crittenton Pointing A Loaded Gun At Gilbert Arenas Is Still The Most Insane Thing To Ever Happen In The NBA
The Washington Post has an excerpt of Caron Butler’s new book, Tuff Juice: My Journey from the Streets to the NBA—Editorial Reviews on Amazon provided by Dwyane Wade, Pat Riley, and Mark Wahlberg—that delivers his account of the one time Gilbert Arenas nearly got himself shot in the Wizards locker r...
Report: Matt Barnes Drove To Los Angeles To Fight Derek Fisher For Dating His Estranged Wife
Grizzlies forward Matt Barnes drove to his estranged wife’s Los Angeles home last Saturday when he learned that former Lakers teammate and current Knicks coach Derek Fisher was seeing her, according to the New York Post....
Root For The Royals In The Playoffs
It’s no longer the baseball preseason. Time to get your ass fired up for the regular fall season of America’s Pastime. Read all our playoff team previews here. Today, you’re getting to know … THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS....
<i>Steve Jobs</i> May Be About The Apple Guru, But Aaron Sorkin Is The Real Star
The trick to enjoying an Aaron Sorkin project is to never take it as seriously as he does. The creator of The West Wing and The Newsroom and the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Social Network doesn’t write dialogue—he stages showy talk-fests that are meant to either show off how smart his characte...