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The 10 Films I'm Most Excited To See At The Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on Wednesday, is the year's premier film festival, the launching pad in recent years for celebrated movies like The Tree of Life, No Country for Old Men, The Artist, Amour, Holy Motors and Inglourious Basterds. It's funny that Cannes takes place just as summ...
Arrest Made In Stabbing Of University Of Delaware Quarterback
Police in Newark, Del., have arrested a man in connection with the stabbing of University of Delaware quarterback Trevor Sasek early Sunday morning, according to the News-Journal of Wilmington, Del....
The Mets Sign Rick Ankiel
This is not the end of one of the stranger careers in baseball history. Jon Heyman reports the Mets have signed Rick Ankiel to a major-league deal, and he'll immediately join the team in St. Louis....
LeSean McCoy Spent The Day Calling Matt Barkley "Mark"
Rookie quarterback Matt Barkley was probably really excited to meet all of his new Eagles teammates at practice today. They have so much wisdom to impart on him, so much encouragement to give, so much complete disregard for whoever the hell all these new guys are....
Add This Balk To The 2013 Astros Lowlight Reel
What could possibly make this balk more perfectly Astros? The fact that it made the game 7-0, maybe....
The Spurs May Finally Be Too Old For This Shit
It's hard to imagine the Spurs getting old. Maybe it's because they've already spent so many years as the elder statesmen of the Western Conference that we just expect them to keep doing what they do forever—consistently outplaying and outsmarting younger teams while staring down the perils of age b...
Trespassing Snake Brutally Murdered With Pellet Gun By Patrick Willis
And we have the gory photos from the scene thanks to Patrick Willis, who posted them to Facebook. The 49ers linebacker looks pretty pleased with with himself for successfully protecting his home from the scourge of that nonvenomous gopher snake....
Terrible Basketball Column Sends Us Through The Looking Glass
Writing parodies of a terrible sports columns is a thing that all the cool kids on the internet like to do these days. On Sunday, our friend @FanSince09 wrote one such column at Zoo With Roy about the Philadelphia 76ers' decision to hire the analytics-driven Sam Hinkie as their general manager. It w...
Cricket Cheerleader Gets Smacked On Head With Cricket Ball
This video from the Indian Premier League is about a month old. We never saw it coming. We're showing it to you now as a belated heads up....
Tom Wilson Loses His Skate Blade, Awkwardly Flops Back To The Bench
Watch Capitals rookie Tom Wilson run into Ryan McDonagh along the boards—or better yet, listen to it. You can hear the metallic ting of Wilson's skate blade coming off. What followed was Wilson's best impression of a beached porpoise. ...
Jacked
Here's Donald Katz's 1995 profile on the late Jack LaLanne for Outside magazine:...
The Magic is Back
Well, not yet. But for Greg Prince, co-author of the fine site, Faith and Fear in Flushing, the glass of Mets fandowm is always half-full. Check out this Q&A with Greg as he talks about volume 1 of a 4-part book sereis: The Happiest Recap....
Mike Keenan Will Coach In Russia, And Made This Weird Video To Say Hi
After four years away from the bench, Mike Keenan will take the reins of the KHL's Metallurg Magnitogorsk. The team announced the deal with this video, which combines the best of Russian production values with Keenan's inimitable charisma....
Roundup: What You Missed The Weekend Titus Young Went Way Off The Rails
Titus Young Arrested...AGAIN...
Derek Boogaard's Family Is Suing The NHL For Wrongful Death
Almost two years ago to the day, Derek Boogaard died in his Minneapolis apartment. Late Friday afternoon, his family filed suit in Circuit Court of Cook County (Illinois) for his wrongful death. ...
It's Only A Matter Of Time Before Someone Says "Shushgate"
Aw, crap. It was me. ...