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What The Royals' Pennant Win Sounded Like From The Parking Lot

It's the next-best thing to being inside the stadium! (No it's not. A bar would have been better. Or your couch in front of a TV. But I'm glad this video exists!)...

Important NBA Voices Begin Agitating For A Shorter Season

The book on NBA Commissioner Adam Silver reads that he is an innovator, more open to radical change than expected from somebody whose most salient job responsibility is protecting a multibillion dollar industry. And now that Silver has kicked Donald Sterling to the curb and signed a new media rights...

Paul Rudd Invites Royals Fans To Kegger At His Mom's House

Paul Rudd is from Kansas City (actually Overland Park) and seems like a pretty fun and chill guy, so you can trust that he knows the sweetest place to celebrate the Royals winning the American League pennant. And that place isn't the Power & Light District, Westport, or some over-priced joint on T...

Watch The Final Out As The Royals Advance To The World Series

This Royals team is incredible. Just two weeks ago, they were down a run in the bottom of the 12th inning of the AL Wild Card play-in game against the A's. But a furious rally advanced them to the ALDS, where they swept the Angels 3–0, and tonight they just completed the 4–0 sweep of the Orioles. Th...

[Update With Editor's Note] Is A Colorado Senate Candidate Lying About His Football Career?

Read a note from the editor here. ...

Here's A Movie About A Basketball That Bounces Between Movies

All of your favorite movies! Plus Men in Black 3....

Jesus, Have You Looked At The 76ers' Roster?

Just look at this roster. Look at it. ...

Justin Gatlin's Glory Lap Turning Contentious And Weird

Justin Gatlin, track and field's most controversial athlete of 2014, has had a doozy of a last few weeks. And he's not even running currently....

Michael Keaton Forever: <em>Birdman</em>, Reviewed

Birdman doesn't have any right being as fantastic as it is. Structured around a gimmick—the whole movie is meant to look like one continuous shot—and featuring a potentially eye-rolling plot device (a has-been actor's personal and professional life comes crashing down on him in the days before...

Teens: Please Don't Masturbate In The Penalty Box

Maybe you saw this letter from a concerned hockey mom in this week's Dear Prudence advice column on Slate: ...

Lululemon's Buffalo Store Taunts Fans With "Wide Right/No Goal"

Being a Buffalo sports fan can be pretty depressing. The Bills are, at best, mediocre and remain the only franchise to lose four Super Bowls in a row while winning zero. The Sabres offer little relief, having also won zero championships and promising to be one of the worst teams in the NHL this seas...

Nick Young Is Now Part Of The Snoop Lion-Iggy Azalea Beef

Beef! We've got a fresh beef on our hands! Gather 'round to learn all about the new beef!...

Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Sued For Exploiting Volunteers [Update]

Competitor Group, Inc., which owns the nationwide Rock 'n' Roll Marathon and Half Marathon series, has had a class-action suit brought against it for an alleged violation of federal and state labor practices. The plaintiff claims she and others across the country volunteered because they thought CGI...

Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye Is A Rye Beer Worth Fighting For (Or About)

The easiest way to upset a self-identified Beer Geek is to point out the nipple-blood that's soaked through his couple-of-Xs-too-small "Water & Barley & Hops & Yeast" t-shirt. After that, you might as well compound the problem by pointing out that lots of great beers contain all sorts of extra ingre...

TV Reporter Gets The Crap Scared Out Of Him By Screaming Royals Fan

Someone needs to send Johnny Kane to the Jim Cantore School Of On-The-Scene Reporting. You can't just let a dude crash your report like that and not send him off with a flying knee to the chest....

French Player's Premature "Salute" Celebration Backfires Spectacularly

Here's a soccer story told in photos, with the moral being that you should never celebrate too early, lest you get burned so hard, your children's children will still need regular applications of salve....

Mayor Of London Hacks Down Little Boy In Pick-Up Soccer Match

Boris Johnson, Mayor of London and amateur sportsman, was watching some children play soccer today when he was invited to join in on proceedings. Presumably to teach them a lesson in the true, physical nature of English footy, he took out one kid with this terribly timed challenge:...

Ball State Football Players Allegedly Involved In "Poo Dollar" Prank

The "poo dollar" is a prank in which a person—likely a teen because teens are the absolute worst—wipes their ass with a dollar and then leaves it on the ground so that an unsuspecting mark will them come and pick it up and get poop all over their hand. According to police, three Ball State football ...

Jarrod Dyson Claims An Oriole Deliberately Kneed Him In The Head

Jarrod Dyson said he believes Orioles 3B Ryan Flaherty deliberately "put a knee down" on him on a pickoff attempt last night, as retaliation for his earlier comments that this ALCS would be a short one....