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A Christmas Carol And The Yankee Stadium Ticket Stub
Today gives a choice find over at Forgotten Bookmarks. ...
How Would Mike Francesa Have Discussed The Civil War?
After his successful Revolutionary War commentary, time-traveling Mike Francesa is back, this time in the run-up to the Battle of Antietam. The best moment comes around the 2:32 mark, when a caller—Dred, from Scottsville (groan)—asks for Mike's take on Harriet Tubman. Mike responds as if she's Al ...
Let's Talk About What Should Constitute Male Rights
Did you know that there is a such a thing as mens' rights activism? It's true! According to this article, there is a small (three inches?) group of HARDCORE BROS who have had it up to here with the ongoing vaginization of America, and they're not gonna take it lying down (unless they got a chick o...
The New Browns Facility's Walls Are Full Of Fake Quotes
This past August, the Cleveland Browns unveiled their newly renovated training facility to the local press. The four-month, $5 million project to transform the Browns' home into a mid-grade, mid-2000s, middle-management expo featured, among other things, a series of inspirational quotations on the w...
Unspinning The Mythical Gyroball, The Demon Miracle Pitch That Wasn't
Once feared, now largely forgotten, the gyroball retains a stubborn hold on the baseball imagination. Perhaps Red Sox closer Koji Uehara can put the pitch to rest:...
San Diego State Baseball Team Plays Game In Halloween Costumes
This is a yearly tradition at San Diego State, and it's evidence that baseball games would get much higher ratings if they were always played by people in costume. I mean, what game wouldn't be improved by the inclusion of a shortstop wearing a giant cardboard box?...
Your Chinese Street-Food Was Probably Cooked In Poop Oil
Well, this is horrifying. Street vendors in China have taken to using something called "gutter oil"—quite literally the oil gathered from gutter runoff, dumpster sludge, garbage juice, and untreated fucking sewage fuck fuck fuck—to cook food for human consumption. And then unwitting humans are con...
Brandon Saad Set Up Patrick Kane With A Sweet Spin-O-Rama
So Brandon Saad is stealing Patrick Kane's moves now—and by that we do not mean Saad went on a weekend bender at the Tau Kap house, though one can always hope. Rather, Saad busted out the Spin-O-Rama—which Kaner had learned from Denis Savard—during last night's win over the Wild....
Chris Bosh Is Getting Ornery For Some Reason
The NBA season starts tonight, so journalistic outlets the world over are publishing stories on the Miami Heat, because last year they repeated as champions, and this year they could three-peat as champions, and LeBron James and Michael Jordan and legacy and narrative. ...
NBA Stat Guru Kevin Pelton On Greg Oden, The Fraudulent Knicks, And More
Kevin Pelton is one of the smartest guys covering the NBA, and his SCHOENE projection system is one of the best predictive tools in NBA analytics. He was nice enough to answer a few questions about the upcoming NBA season....
Donald Sterling Is Still Doing What He Can To Sink The Clippers
Clipper fans, here is a sobering reminder that despite the fact that your team is better than it has ever been and is poised to supplant the Lakers as the toast of L.A., you are still rooting for a franchise that is owned by a racist shitbag who will always be this close to ruining everything....
Leaked Video: The Gronkowskis Are Pitching An Animated TV Show
We've obtained the sizzle reel that the Gronkowski clan is shopping around Hollywood, hoping to land a contract for an animated TV show. So. Much. Zubaz....
Book Excerpt: Shane Comes To The Metrodome
We've got a bunch of goodies for you this week on Monsters, Rich Cohen's winning new book about the 1985 Chicago Bears. First, dig this excerpt over at SI.com:...
How An Achilles Tear Affects NBA Players (Or, Why Kobe Is Screwed)
The Lakers season begins tonight with their home opener against the Clippers, but Kobe Bryant won't be playing. Bryant tore his Achilles tendon on April 12, and while he's still "ahead of schedule" in his six-to-nine-month recovery, he still hasn't begun running. He will miss at least the first seve...
Golden Tate Suggests You Not Even Bother
For about 25 yards, Golden Tate had this touchdown in the books and brought out his finest stop, please, you're embarrassing yourself taunts for the St. Louis secondary. Until, of course, safety Rodney McLeod caught up to him and almost forced him out before he got in the end zone. ...
Nicki Minaj Performed At Villanova's Hoops Mania
An elderly basketball coach sits at a desk in his home study. Framed pieces of netting adorn the walls and 60 Minutes is on the television as he reads scouting reports. His attention turns to the computer. An email from Jay Wright....
New York Red Bulls Win First Trophy In Franchise History
Wow. What a sporting night. Not every night brings us a historic accomplishment 17 years in the making, but that's exactly what we got in New Jersey last night. I'm talking, of course, about the New York Red Bulls clinching the MLS Supporters' Shield....
Cardinals Radio Guy Laughed At Red Sox For Holding Kolten Wong On
Via Awful Announcing, go directly to the 2-minute mark of the video below. "That's silly," Cardinals play-by-play man Mike Shannon can be heard saying during the KMOX broadcast. He was talking about Mike Napoli holding Kolten Wong at first base. Shannon also laughed. He then described what happened ...
Chris Cooley Says Albert Haynesworth Was Trying To Get Released
Remember when Albert Haynesworth signed that massive contract with the Washington Redskins, and then spent a season playing so poorly that people actually wondered if he was trying to get released? As it turns out, he was!...