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Nick Saban Is Like Hitler, Says Alabama Fan Who Loves Nick Saban
AL.com's Jon Solomon has written a wonderful article about the die-hard Alabama fans who flock to SEC media days with the hope that they will get a chance to meet Nick Saban. Some arrive looking for an autograph, others want to give gifts to Saban, and some just come to pay their respects—and also t...
A Pissed-Off Charl Schwartzel Smashes His Club In Frustration
After bogeying Nos. 10, 12, 13, and 14 today at Muirfield, Charl Schwartzel found himself in the rough at No. 15. He didn't quite get to the green from there, and his 6-iron paid the price. Stupid 6-iron. Schwartzel wound up with a double-bogey at 15....
What Does Jungle Bird, Golf's Favorite “Streaker,” Want From Us?
A lot of people think the man who calls himself Jungle Bird and wears a mohawked, Union Jacked knit cap and crashes sporting events for the purpose of cawing at the camera is crazy. He's not, we swear. He just wants to save the world....
How Do I Trick My Date Into Thinking I Can Cook?
Welcome to the Feedbag, where all the dumb questions about food, drink, cooking, eating, and accidental finger removal you've been embarrassed to ask can finally receive the berating they goddamn deserve. Also: answers. Send all your even-vaguely-food-related questions to [email protected] wit...
You Can't Play A World Cup In A Hospital: Brazil 2014, Argentina 1978
On June 30, Brazil dismantled Spain before a rapturous home crowd in the final of the Confederations Cup, the test run for next year's World Cup. The hosts' surprise win—and what it augurs for 2014—temporarily displaced massive protests as the story of the tournament. June saw hundreds of thousands...
Rejected Pooldunk Theater: No Pool, Still Awesome
After we posted Pool Dunk Megahighlight: The Splashening, Joshua sent me this Vine. It sadly doesn't qualify, but deserves its own post....
Your Best Pool Basketball Dunks: Trampoline Edition
Yesterday we brought you what we dubbed the Greatest Pool Basketball Dunk of All Time. Then we were sent one that might've been even better. Now? The field is wide open....
Why Pre-Recorded Stadium Music Is Stupid, By Huey Lewis
This post was originally published on The Talkhouse....
How To Do A Bieber Fangirl Story: Ask About The Eagles' QB Dilemma
Dear local television producers: If you insist on assigning a reporter to do an on-camera spot from outside an event like a Justin Bieber concert, don't have her play it straight. Don't have her ask stupid questions that elicit nothing but squeals of joy and shouts of excitement. Don't have her show...
Bidding Is Now Open On RGIII's Supposed Sext Life
On Sunday, Busted Coverage posted screencaps of text messages supposedly between a professional athlete and a college student/Hooters waitress. The story would not have been all that newsworthy had it not been for two factors: The athlete is Robert Griffin III, and the texts were sent on Griffin's w...
Errant Thomas Bjorn Shot Smashes ESPN Camera Lens At British Open
Via Guyism, Mike Tirico said that was an $80,000 camera lens Thomas Bjorn destroyed as he tried to hack his way out of the rough at Muirfield's No. 1:...
Kobayashi Chugs A Gallon Of Milk In 20 Seconds
Takeru Kobayashi is still exiled from the Nathan's hot dog eating contest, but that just means he has more time to do things like scarf some pizzas with some bros, or, in this case, chug an entire gallon of milk for the sake of entertaining the kind folks at Uncle Bob's Self Storage....
Unicorn Mask-Wearing Porn Star Kicked Out Of PNC Park For Sexy Dancing
When our pal Dave mentioned last week on Twitter that "a stripper wearing a unicorn mask was just kicked out of PNC Park," we felt obligated to seek out a photo and some more information. Little did we know we'd be discovering an odd cult of unicorn mask-wearing porn stars....
Bringing It All Back Home
Grantland's Director's Cut series began with this gem from Tony Kornheiser: a 1980 Inside Sports cover story on Nolan Ryan:...
Groom Tricked With Elaborate Bungee Jumping Prank At Bachelor Party
This is from Norway. The groom is terribly afraid of heights, and bungee jumping and parachuting are two activities he specifically wants to avoid during his bachelor party. But he's got great friends, so of course they're taking him bungee jumping. Or so he's led to believe....
Graven Image
Check this out over at the New Yorker: E.L. Doctorow reads John O'Hara's short story, "Graven Image" and discusses O'Hara—a wonderful writer—with Deborah Treisman....
The End Of Lenny Bruce
Head on over to Bronx Banter and check out Dick Schaap's 1966 tribute to Lenny Bruce:...
Heartbreak On Wheels
Here's Ben Fong-Torres' 1975 Rolling Stone cover story on Linda Ronstadt:...