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Drake Celebrates "Drake Night" By Reading The Raptors Starting Lineup
On Saturday, the Toronto Raptors celebrated Drake Night, because Drake is the Raptors' new global ambassador and Drake can apparently make them do whatever the hell he wants. Drake....
The Cubs' New Mascot Is A Nightmarish, Perverted Furry
In an apparent effort to get the public to stop paying so much attention to their tenuous connections to the traditional baseball experience and start paying more attention to them as a baseball team, the Chicago Cubs have spent the last while systematically eradicating everything that's even remote...
Robert Griffin III Has Had It With Fans Complaining About Dumb Things
The Skins QB has stayed largely silent since the end of the season—he's been around long enough to know that after a 3-13 season, you can't win no matter what you say. But on Friday he made a lengthy post on Facebook. On the face of it, it's a response to one stupid person complaining about the arm ...
Five Of The Most Obvious Poker Tells Ever Televised
The poker tell is one of the most romanticized ideas in gambling, the notion that there is a code that will tell you everything about your opponent's hand just waiting to be unlocked. In reality, tells are usually more subtle than they are in the movies, but that doesn't mean there aren't some big, ...
Aston Villa's Nathan Baker Stretchered Off After Strike To The Face
Villa Park played host to a scary moment today as Aston Villa defender Nathan Baker had to be given oxygen on the pitch after catching an Arsenal strike square in the face....
Pimp Sues Nike For Making Weaponized Shoes
Today in Frivolous Lawsuit Theater: Convicted Portland pimp Sirgiorgio Sanford Clardy is serving a 100-year prison sentence for, in part, stomping a john with his Air Jordans. Now Clardy's suing Nike for not labeling their sneakers as weapons....
The Last Of The Old Way: Larry Bird's Celtics Enter The Modern Era
Excerpted from Unfinished Business, a chronicle of the 1990-91 Boston Celtics season, now available as an e-book. The author's annotations appear throughout the story. ...
Mike Tomlin Said "Obviously" 322 Times In Press Conferences This Year
We've noticed that Mike Tomlin likes to say "obviously" a lot, but just how much is a lot? Andrew McGill of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has crunched the numbers for the last four years of Tomlin pressers, finding that "obviously" was the coach's 25th-most used word, trailing only essential pieces of...
Tyson, Truth & Toback
Over at her great movie blog, Sunset Gun, Kim Morgan interviews James Toback about his Mike Tyson documentary....
Voting For A Hall Of Fame Isn't That Hard
In between swilling citrusy beers and fetching Gatorade for Steve Young, the ever-lofty Peter King took a moment this week to write about his super duper favorite sport... BASEBALL! What, you thought his favorite sport was football? PLEASE. Behind baseball and eight grade girl's softball and keep...
Dallas Mavericks Get Away With Yet Another Game-Ending No-Call
The Dallas Mavericks must have made some kind of deal with the devil, because for the second time in as many weeks, they won a close game after getting away with an egregious foul that wasn't called....
Ahmad Brooks Flew, Cam Newton Flopped, And We All Laughed
We featured Ahmad Brooks's premature escalation briefly yesterday, but it seems the moment from yesterday's 49ers-Panthers game deserves a bit more inspection. After all, there's not one but two meaningful moments here: the flight of Brooks and the flop of Newton....
Seahawks Ban Californians From Buying NFC Championship Tickets
I hope everyone's ready for a full week of two insufferable fan bases shitting up comment sections everywhere....
Man Falls Through Golf Shop Ceiling; Everyone Plays It Way Cool
Someone, please, get Ron and Billy in a buddy cop movie ASAP. ...
Dwight Howard Posts Up Small Child, Slam Dunks On Him
Dwight Howard or not, this is adorable....
It's Funny Because It's Bigger Than A Normal Helmet
Anything for the playoffs. What concussions? No, seriously, what concussions?...
Charles Barkley: Patriots Fans Don't Appreciate Their Team
Charles Barkley was hanging around the Patriots locker room after their win last night—apparently he's friends with owner Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick?—so the assorted media got him to answer some football questions. His assessment of New England's fans and media? They're spoiled....
