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Mike Francesa Wouldn't Shut Up About Paternity Leave Today
Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy is going to be away from the team for a few days on paternity leave, because his wife had a child and he wants to be with his wife and child. This is a thing that men in America, even athletes, do. Usually if they don't, it's because they're not lucky enough to hav...
A's Fan Eats It And Eats It Hard
This gentleman took a concrete bellyflop while chasing a foul ball at this afternoon's game in Oakland. He seemed fine afterward, so there's no need to feel bad about watching this for the 17th time....
'Skins Grounds Crew Rear-Ends Cowboys Fan
Sometimes, the universe has a sense of humor when it comes to fender-benders. Take this afternoon, outsider a Fuddrucker's in Ashburn, Va., where members of the Washington grounds crew had carpooled for lunch. At some point during the meal, their truck slipped out of park and rolled into the car in ...
Will DeSean Jackson Make Washington Better?
Over at FiveThirtyEight, Neil Paine has an interesting post on what sort of expectations we should set for DeSean Jackson. This is a good question, but it raises a second, wider question: What should we expect DeSean Jackson to mean, on net, for his new offense as a whole? ...
At Least The Tiger Woods Bullshit Machine Is As Healthy As Ever
So Tiger Woods backed out of the Masters this week after having a microdiscectomy operation on his spine. And, in accordance with how Tiger Woods conducts business, a gangbang of faceless agents and marketers came together on his behalf and posted a formal statement on his website about the withdra...
The Unnatural Shooting Of A Baseball Player By A Silly Teenage Honey
Excerpted from Eddie and the Gun Girl, a Kindle Single about the shooting of Eddie Waitkus, the real-life event that's best known as the fictional pivot of Bernard Malamud's The Natural. Annotations by the author appear throughout....
MLB Replay Had Its First Major Fuck-Up
It took two days, but it was only a matter of time before MLB's new replay review system exposed its single biggest flaw. And it happened in a big way, on a play that very directly affected the outcome of a game....
Tom Selleck: Pretty Indecisive
Check out Pat Jordan's 1989 GQ profile on the TV star-turned-movie actor:...
Richard Sherman Speaks The Truth On DeSean Jackson
Richard Sherman has written another post for The MMQB, and this time he is wading into the mess of stupid that has bubbled up around DeSean Jackson's release from the Eagles and alleged gang ties. It's the smartest thing that's been written about the situation yet....
2014 Name Of The Year: The Sweet 16
We had a polling malfunction last week: The Bulltron and Sithole polls inexplicably closed early. Our bad, and thanks for letting us know on Twitter so we could re-open them; we might not have caught the error otherwise....
Drake's New Song Is A Big Shout Out To Johnny Manziel
The Johnny Manziel-Drake bromance continues apace. "Draft day, Johnny Manziel / Five years later, how am I the man still?" begins Drizzy's newest song, giving rarely seen prominence to the athlete-shout-out portion of a rap song (poor Andrew Wiggins gets second billing). ...
I Pooped Today
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Reporter Who Said He'd Quit If 'Skins Got DeSean Jackson Does Not Quit
ESPN 980 beat reporter Chris Russell learned a valuable lesson about not saying anything ever, when he promised last week to quit his job if Washington signed DeSean Jackson. Well, Washington signed DeSean Jackson....
Steph Curry Did Something Ridiculous Last Night
Steph Curry does ridiculous things all the time, but it feels like it's been a while since we've had vintage Curry highlight to drool over. So click play on the video above, and get to drooling....
How Did Washington Get DeSean Jackson So Cheap?
The Philadelphia faithful will have their chance next season to tell DeSean Jackson exactly what they think of him, when he returns as the newest member of a divisional rival. Jackson agreed to terms with Washington yesterday, on a relatively team-friendly deal for one of the league's top receivers....
Man Takes Chainsaw To The Neck, Somehow Survives
Even though this is just an X-ray of a chainsaw in someone's neck, and not an actual photo, it's still pretty damn horrifying. The craziest part is that the guy who took the chainsaw to his neck is still alive....
How Many Times Does Clyde Frazier Say "Dishing and Swishing" Per Game?
From night to night, odds are Clyde Frazier is best thing going during any given Knicks telecast. Swoopin and hoopin may as well run on every graphics package. But is there a method to how Clyde dishes out the Clydeisms? Yes, actually. ...
This Photo Is An April Fools' Joke, But We Wish It Weren't
No, Hank the dog did not bite one of the Milwaukee Brewers sausage racers on the dick, but we really wish he had. The photo, which has been floating around Twitter today, is from an obviously joke-y post on OnMilwaukee.com. But the fact that this photo is fake doesn't mean that Hank the dog isn't st...
When Basketball Media Guides Were Brutally Honest
Long ago, as a factchecker for a college basketball encyclopedia, I quickly learned to fear the SWAC. Its member schools' media guides, the official and often sole sources for history and statistics, were riddled with errors, omissions, typos, and for many seasons, simply weren't produced at all. Th...