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Cool Dunks Look Even Cooler In Slow-Mo
There won't be any basketball until Thursday night (bad) because the NBA decided to give everybody a week long break (good) but without changing the start or end date of the season (dumb) so there are more back-to-backs and four-games-in-five-nights (very bad) this year....
Report: Eagles Turned Down Josh Gordon For Nick Foles In 2013
That's the word from ESPN's Eagles beat writer Phil Sheridan—formerly of the Inquirer—who says that Philly nixed the trade offered by Cleveland before the start of the season....
McFarland Cross Country: They Built It And Hollywood Came
Given how Hollywood likes to tart up the truth (see American Sniper, Frozen, et al.) you probably have a very good sense of what's going on with Disney's soon-to-be released McFarland USA. The Kevin Costner vehicle is based, as they say, on the true story of a boys' cross country team from McFarland...
Amar'e Stoudemire Wrote A Cute Goodbye Poem To New York
The Knicks and Amar'e Stoudemire have finally parted ways, bringing an end to what was supposed to be an era of fortune and glory. Amar'e may not have ever lived up to his contract from a production standpoint, but he was a great Knick, as further evidenced by how he said goodbye to the city....
Jackie Robinson West Is A Lens On What's Happening On The South Side
This post is in reply to a post we ran earlier today, criticizing a recent column of the author's....
No Hitter Has Ever Been More Terrifying Than Albert Belle In This Game
July 25, 1999. Orioles versus Angels in Turn Ahead the Clock Day at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, hence the hideous monochrome sleeveless trashbag novelty jerseys. Albert Belle batting cleanup. ...
Does Skiing Need Cheerleaders?
The 2015 World Ski Championships have had some historic firsts. The first World Champs to be held in the U.S. this century. The oldest women's winner (Tina Maze, 31, downhill). And then the oldest World Champs winner, period (Hannes Reichelt, 34 downhill). The first skier to win the same discipline ...
What Exactly Did Yahoo Publish That Got Dan Gilbert So Angry?
On Thursday, we reported that Quicken Loans and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, and his lawyer, called Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer last year to complain about a line in a blog post authored by Kelly Dwyer. This happened the day after Yahoo and Quicken Loans signed a major brand agreement. May...
No, The Jackie Robinson West Story Is Not About Gentrification
This post originally ran in slightly different form at danielkayhertz.com....
Hockey Mom Finds Herself In Twitter Beef With Hockey Teens
Twitter is bad. It's bad for a lot of reasons, one of those being that it is a place where a hockey mom can trade barbs with high school hockey players and eventually get called a cunt by a teenager....
How To Clean Up Every Mess Depicted In <i>Fifty Shades of Grey</i>
Fifty Shades of Grey is not a good book. The story essentially boils down to two boring people engaged in a boring contract negotiation, punctuated by seemingly endless rounds of shower/bathtub sex and a few light spankings. It's really very, very dull stuff....
Spend Your Tax Refund on a KitchenAid, Cheap Flash Storage, More Deals
If you like to cook, here's your tax refund splurge for 2015. [ KitchenAid Ultra Power Tilt-Head Stand Mixer, $240]...
Mad Genius Attempts To Smuggle So Many Damn Beers Into Soccer Game
I don't know how much beer costs at a Turkish soccer game, but I imagine the prices are just as exorbitant as they are here, and so I sympathize with this man's desire to sneak his own aclohol into the stadium. I admire his ingenuity as well, as it is no small feat to design an outfit that can conce...
Train Horns That Keep Me And My Wife Awake At Night, Ranked
My wife and I recently moved to a house in the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood of Tucson, Ariz. Because we had never visited the house in the middle of the night, we didn't realize quite how loud the freight-train horns were. We have adjusted, in part with the help of earplugs. (To spoil another potentia...
Steve Kerr Really Coached The Hell Out Of That All-Star Game
Here's a few clips of mic'd-up participants in last night's NBA all-star game, the best of which feature Western Conference head coach Steve Kerr really flexing his coaching muscles. ...
After The Fall: Sympathy For The Devil
What do Dave Pell, Don Van Natta Jr, and Longform all have in common? They all singled out Brin-Jonathan Butler's stellar SB Nation Longform piece on Mike Tyson and Cus D'Amato:...
How Else Did The 49ers Screw Up Their Coaching Search?
Nothing about this Niners offseason, from the inevitable Jim Harbaugh divorce to the awkward promotion of Jim Tomsula, has been easy or painless. The coaching staff was assembled of cast-offs and no-names, and the team was accused of doing everything on the cheap now that it's got that new stadium. ...
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