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The Royals Are Calling On The Last Man Who Can Possibly Save Them
Teams hire their legends as their coaches (e.g., Roy to the Avs) with mixed feelings. On one hand: Who better to bring success to a franchise than someone who had it there before? On the other: How did the hiring process go so poorly that a team wound up with a sentimental, nostalgic choice as the f...
This Shitting Dog Is The Blackhawks' Good Luck Charm
Turns out the Red Wings lost to a pile of dog crap....
This Time, The Egg Avoided Jim Knox's Face
Let's recount our Jim Knox greatest hits:...
School Self-Reports NCAA Violation After Golfer Washes Her Car With "University Water"
The West Coast Conference held its meetings this week, and one item of interest came out via Portland basketball coach Eric Reveno: one school self-reported an NCAA violation because an athlete washed her car on campus....
Gordon Gee Joked That Catholics Can't Be Trusted, The SEC Can't Read
Ohio State President Gordon Gee, the man who expensed more than $64,000 worth of bow ties, has stuck his foot in it yet again, getting recorded making a few innocuous jokes about Notre Dame, Louisville, and the SEC. Some of them were legitimately funny!...
This Gallery Of Adrian Beltre GIFs Will Make Your Day
GIF maestro Drew Sheppard went and did us all a huge favor by creating a gallery of Texas Rangers-era Adrian Beltre GIFs. The gallery is full of all the things that make Beltre so damn GIFable: From-the-knees homers, slick defensive plays, and plenty of Beltre's patented don't-touch-my-head freakou...
Yearbook Typo: "Congrats To Our Home Run Hitler"
Via Reddit, a truly unfortunate typo in a high school yearbook. Or maybe not a typo, just a truly unfortunate nickname. ...
Bad Ass
My favorite bean ball story involves Dock Ellis when he was pitching for the Pirates in the 1970s. The following excerpt is from In the Country of Baseball, written by Ellis with Donald Hall....
The American Athletic Conference Reveals Its Logo
The American Athletic Conference (or "the American," as the cool kids say) unveiled its new logo this morning. The member schools are said to be thrilled, at least after their first choice of logos was turned down....
Crying 4-Year-Old Mets Fan Wants To Be A Yankees Fan
"Whoever is winning, I want to cheer for them." This might be the most honest justification for being a Yankees fan we've ever heard....
Bill Simmons Thinks Memphis Fans Get Tense Because MLK Was Shot There
For many years now, Bill Simmons has positioned himself as a kind of ULTRA fan. He's not simply the voice of the fan anymore. He is more fan than you. He understands fandom in a way that you could not possibly understand. He understands that when fans get loud, things are going well! And when fans ...
Somebody Should Let Menendez And Lautenberg Know About This
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He Punches like a Fucking Mule Kick
Here is a good story from "Second Wind: Memoirs of an Opinonated Man," by Bill Russell with the historian Taylor Branch (1979, Random House; currently out-of-print). It’s about Russell’s grandfather and his mule, Kate. Russell’s family was from Monroe, La., and he lived down there until he was about...
The Blackhawks (Finally) Win Game 7
Well, that was an interesting finish. It took a little bit longer than Chicago would have liked, but the Blackhawks will advance to play the Los Angeles Kings in the Western Conference finals....
Kobe On Rovell: "The Voice Of Biz." Oh My God, I Am Dying
Seriously, though, congrats Darren. The best voice of biz in the biz. #mindonbiz #mambabiz...
Chicago's Go-Ahead Goal Was Waved Off Because Of Off-Setting Penalties
Coincidental minor penalties and 1:47 are all that stood between the Chicago Blackhawks and a Game 7 win over the Red Wings. ...
Nathan Fielder's Newest Text-Message Prank Is A Relationship-Killer
We've covered the text-message-based exploits of Nathan Fielder here before when he told followers to text their parents about drugs. This time the prank is a whole lot more personal and it has a huge cliffhanger element. ...
The Rutgers Search Advisory Team Is A Disaster
As we near the end of Day Five of this easily-avoided train wreck in New Jersey, the Rutgers search committee is trying to convince itself that it did not completely fuck this hiring up six ways to Sunday. ...
Guys Who Taped Call Between NFL GMs Charged With Federal Crime
A little over two months ago, we published a recording of a phone call between Bills then-general manager Buddy Nix and Buccaneers GM Mark Dominik. A couple of 20-year-olds had shared with us the fruits of their ingenious prank, wherein they called the Bills' switchboard as Dominik (looking to speak...
Lukas Podolski Scores Goal Six Seconds Into Match Against Ecuador
The German national team traveled to Boca Raton, Fla., today to take on Ecuador in an international friendly, and the Ecuadorians wasted no time in serving up a big bucket of suck. Ecuador unwisely played the opening kick toward its own goal, and it took only six seconds for German striker Lukas Po...