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The Rise And Fall Of Professional Bowling
Check out this fun post on the rise and fall of professional bowling by Zachary Crockett over at Priceonomics:...

A Boy Grew in Brooklyn
So goes the title of this memoir piece that Arthur Miller wrote for Holiday back in March of 1955:...

MLBers Say Mike Trout Is The Best—But Not Worth A Historic Contract?
The new ESPN The Magazine has an anonymous survey of 143 current MLB players, and 56 percent of them peg Mike Trout as the best player in the majors. Miguel Cabrera got 26 percent of the vote, and Clayton Kershaw got six percent. But they don't think he's that much more valuable, which isn't exactly...

Marcus Smart Did The "Right Thing" And Look Where It Got Him
Remember when Marcus Smart was the best story in college basketball? A top-three pick who opted out of a historically weak draft and into a historically loaded one, turning down millions because he wanted to improve and he wanted to win at Oklahoma State, he was Everything Right About the Game. ...

For Jared Remy, Leniency Was The Rule Until One Lethal Night
Eric Moskowitz fine piece of reporting about Jeremy Remy for the Boston Globe: ...

How Michael Vick Shaped The Modern NFL
Last Friday, Michael Vick signed a one-year deal with the Jets. He'll be 34 by the time the season begins. The following is excerpted from Deadspin's Big Book of Black Quarterbacks. This entry is written by Kyle Wagner....

Oh No, Mets
The season hasn't even started yet, and the LOLMets are coming on strong....

Johnny Manziel Can Dunk
And with authority! Not bad at all for someone who is listed at 6-foot-1....
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Here's A Guy With Three Testicles [NSFW]
For the second time in three months, Reddit brings you an account of a guy blessed with a little more than the rest of us. Here's a guy with three balls. 2014 has been weird so far. ...

Baylor Bears Celebrate Their Upset By Messing Up Craig Sager's Hair
Baylor destroyed Creighton in a 30-point blowout yesterday, and the six-seeded Bears celebrated their upset of the third-seeded Bluejays as all momentous occasions should be celebrated: by screwing up Craig Sager's hair-do. ...

How One Woman Won A Second Straight Trip To The Final Four
On Thursday, Burger King announced @letsgolakers086 as the winner of an all-expenses paid trip to this year's Final Four. It would be the highlight of a lifetime for many people, but it's just another March for this Los Angeles woman. After all, Wheat Thins sent her to the Final Four just last year....

Who Will Be The Bitchy Cinderella? Round 2 Of The Bitchy Bracket Begins
So the first round of the Bitchy Bracket is done, and we're ready to move on to the second round of voting. Before starting in on voting, though, let's take a brief look at the first-round results, which saw all sorts of touchy fanboys knocked off, including some that, honestly, deserved less respec...

Baseball's Back! Here's An Animation Of Yasiel Puig Being Yasiel Puig
Well, baseball's back. And while the opening, off-continent series is self-evidently annoying for any number of reasons, this year it also means that Yasiel Puig is back. So here's a fun GIF of him doing work. ...

Report: Qatar's World Cup Expected To Take More Lives Than 9/11
"Qatar is a country without a conscience," begins the International Trade Union Confederation's recent report on the working and living conditions of the 1.4 million migrant workers living in Qatar, many of whom are there to build stadiums and infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup. After reading thr...

More Cowbell!
We just couldn't get enough of Stanford's enthusiastic cowbell player, so we took things to their logical and cliched conclusion with the help of Blue Öyster Cult....

She Didn't Care For What She Saw
Send stories, photos, and anything else you might have to [email protected]....

Mark Cuban: "Greedy" NFL Is 10 Years From Implosion
In the worlds of both sports and television, the NFL is a behemoth. But is there something uniquely and grossly profitable about pro football that it can continue to grow indefinitely, or has it hit its ceiling? Mavericks owner Mark Cuban thinks the end is nigh....

Report: Bucs WR Mike Williams Stabbed; Brother Is Suspect
Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Williams is in a Tampa hospital after he was stabbed in the thigh while in his gated-community home in Avila. Police suspect his brother was responsible. There has been no word on the extent of his injury or his condition....

J.P. Tokoto Takes Off
UNC's J.P. Tokoto went soaring for a fast-break dunk in the second half of the Tar Heel's game against Iowa St....

Just Another Day On The CBS <i>At The Half</i> Set
Believe it or not, both Ernie Johnson and Clark Kellogg were dancing to that Pharrell song, "Happy."...