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Vikings Owners Must Pay $85 Million For "Organized Crime-Type" Fraud
The owners of the Minnesota Vikings were ordered to pay nearly $85 million in damages to former business partners they defrauded with "evil motive", and will face a criminal investigation into their actions, which a judge declared violated racketeering laws. There's a chance this ruling could hold u...
9 Things You Should Know About Skip Bayless, According To Skip Bayless
Skip Bayless told Michael Smith and Jemele Hill yesterday that he gave a Washington Post journalist a list of bullet points of "how I would try to capture me." (The Post recently published a profile of Bayless.) ...
Mark Richt Wants To Sex You?
Someone's been reading a lot of Whitman lately. ...
The Broncos' Running Backs Played Rock-Paper-Scissors For A Touchdown
Denver's tailback Cerberus seemingly exists only to screw fantasy teams. It can seem like carries are decided by a game of chance. But that'd be ludicrous, right?...
Rick Reilly's Dumb Vuvuzela Joke, Explained
Reader Freddie writes in:...
Sam Gagner's Broken Jaw Is Grotesque
Dear lord, Sam Gagner, what happened to your face?! Oh right, Zack Kassian's stick....
Report: The Dodgers Peed In The Diamondbacks' Pool
Just when you thought baseball's dumbest controversy had dribbled off, here comes a report that the Dodgers treated the Chase Field pool like a giant toilet. L.A. is No. 1 indeed....
Bow Down To The Hoop Queens
Earlier this year Skip Hollandsworth wrote a story for Texas Monthly on the most dominant team in the history of women's college basketball. It's worth your time:...
The Heat And Nets Will Wear Nickname Jerseys
The AP reports that the NBA is eyeing "nickname jerseys" for at least one Nets-Heat matchup this season, when instead of last names on the back of the uniform, players will sport their nicknames. All we can say is it's a good thing Kris Humphries isn't with Brooklyn anymore....
Cobra '79 T-Shirt
Via It's a Long Season check out this boss T-shirt by Chris Brennan. ...
Paul Pfeiffer's Spiritual Basketball Artwork
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, By Paul Pfeiffer (2000-2006)...
Peyton "FIGJAM" Manning: Your <i>Monday Night Football</i> GIF Roundup
Denver 37, Oakland 21: Fuck I'm good, just ask me. Yeah, you are Peyton. You're pretty effing good. This little smirking moment came after Manning successfully changed a play at the line, converting a third-and-six pass to Demaryius Thomas for a first down early in the third quarter. It wasn't a bi...
Islanders Player Too Modest To Let Bird Flap In The Wind
This poor guy. A teammate in the back of this John Tavares interview poked his head around the wall of the showers and saw nothing but cameras rolling. Apparently in the nude and unwilling to strut his stuff for all the viewers tuning in for Islanders pre-season post-game coverage, he popped back ...
A Scene From A Bill Belichick Press Conference
Getting injury information out of Bill Belichick is like pulling teeth. Today was especially excruciating....
Say Hi To Sweet Pea, The Hostess At The Center Of The Ravens Bus Brawl
Earlier today TMZ broke the story of Bryant McKinnie's birthday party, which started with a club party and ended with a fight in a party bus, reportedly sparked by a stripper breaking a bottle of Armand de Brignac over Jacoby Jones's head. OK, everyone said, sounds like a typical night out with McKi...
Mary McCarthy on Salinger's Closed Circut
Who you callin' a phony? From her 1962 Harper's review of J.D Salinger's Frany and Zooey, here's Mary McCarthy:...
Gallery: All The Tacky Crap MLB Teams Gave Mariano Rivera This Season
It's looking pretty likely that Mariano Rivera, the greatest closer and one-pitch pitcher in MLB history, will play his last game this Sunday. He holds the saves record at 652, but this only scratches the surface of his statistical dominance. His 2.21 ERA translates to a park- and era-adjusted ERA+ ...
Big D After JFK's Assassination
The Cowboys had to repair Dallas' image after the JFK assassination. So writes Michael Granberry in the Dallas Morning News:...
Brandon Bollig Is Not A Stickhandler
Last week, video of Patrick Kane pulling off some really remarkable stickhandling went, as we in the biz would say, viral. So his Blackhawks teammate, enforcer Brandon Bollig, decided to give it a shot. Not so easy, it turns out. We like this video better....
TMZ: Ravens In Stripper-Instigated Party Bus Brawl
It was reportedly Jacoby Jones that got hurt ("Questionable–Bashed over head by stripper"), but this is just more evidence that Bryant McKinnie's social life needs its own Hard Knocks camera crew....