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DeMarcus Cousins "Talked Back" To His Coach, Never Came Out Of The Locker Room After Halftime, Is Suspended Indefinitely [UPDATE]

DeMarcus Cousins didn't play the second half of last night's game against the Clippers, or even come out of the longer room after the half. Cousins was asked to stay behind because of, according to Kings coach Keith Smart, "conduct detrimental to the team." Smart declined to expand on that explanati...

Forbes's 2012 List Of The Most Valuable Teams In College Football Reads A Lot Like The 1936 AP Poll

Forbes's latest best guess at the most valuable college football programs is out, and if you're a Texas fan, congratulations: Your slavering devotion to the Death Star of the Big 12 has paid off once again. You're number one! Granted, you're in the "also receiving votes" category in the AP's poll of...

Stop Concern-Trolling About Johnny Manziel's Basketball Tickets

There are two ways to look at this brief cut of Thursday night's nationally televised game between the Mavericks and the Heat, in which Steve Kerr proposes that Johnny Manziel ought to be the subject of suspicion because he is ostensibly an unpaid amateur and he was sitting in extremely expensive ...

Doug Collins Bought 18,000 Big Macs Last Night

Every time the 76ers score over 100 points or more, each fan in attendance at the Wells Fargo center gets a free Big Mac. Last night, Doug Collins’s team got the ball back with just under 24 seconds left in the game, up on the Hawks 99-80. The conundrum: going for the points could seem like showing ...

With Their Name Change Looming, The New Orleans Hornets Have Also Trademarked "Rougarou," "Mosquitos," "Swamp Dogs," And "Bullsharks"

It is, by now, established that if and when the New Orleans Hornets change their name to the Pelicans, they'll have one of the best mascots in the league. Feisty, local, unique—its got everything you'd want in a mascot, and the Pelicans will rocket to the top of the standings based on their team nam...

How To Cook A Pot Roast: A Guide For People Who Want To Live, Dammit

Somewhere along the way, it got common to treat Christmas dinner like Thanksgiving II: This Time Without Turkey—like a big showpiece meal for which amateur cooks are meant to serve up some impressive exotic culinary masterpiece far outside the bounds of their humble repertoire of comfort foods. Take...

Here's UCF's Best Dance Teamer, Who Just So Happens To Be An Eight-Foot-Tall Man

It was so brief, we weren't sure we had seen it correctly, but reader Todd sent in the video: UCF's dance team seems to be organized around, if not led by, an extremely tall, enthusiastic and graceful male dance teamer. We like his style. We like his passion. We like his pom-poms, and the fact tha...

The Bulls-Knicks Game Went To Complete Shit Last Night, And Produced This Beautiful GIF Of A Dismayed Spike Lee

When you're not particularly used to losing, any downturn in your fortunes seems like it must be the result of some malevolent scheme from outsiders that bear you ill will. Such was the case for the Knicks last night when they fell down big in an ugly game against the Bulls and decided they didn't ...

What People Said About the Piece of Shit Video Game the NRA Made Six Years Ago

Welcome back to "Backhanded Box Quotes," a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of Metacritic and elsewhere on the Internet. ...

Jacked Creature: In Praise Of Tom Cruise's Relentless Intensity

There are lots of perfectly understandable reasons not to like Tom Cruise. His attitude about antidepressants. The Oprah couch-jumping episode. That church he attends. And, outside of his personal life, he's made tons of questionable professional choices, yes....

Cockblocked By John Denver!

Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase two heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go....

The 27 Dumbest Things Gregg Easterbrook Wrote In 2012

Imagine the import of an alien to answer the yes-or-no question, "Does your society believe in God?"...

Relax, Everyone, Novak Djokovic Is Not Hoarding All The World's Donkey Cheese (Yet)

Hang on! Stop everything! There was no bigger story in sports in the last two weeks than the news that Novak Djokovic had cornered the market on the world's annual supply of donkey cheese to supply his restaurants in his native Serbia. But, bummer: The New York Times flooded the zone (not really) to...

You Can Search YouTube For LITERALLY ANYTHING + "Rap" And Get Instant Sad

So maybe this is obvious, but people like to rap on YouTube. And then they leave the videos up, forever. On one hand, this is a curious anthropological development for humanity. On the other hand, it means there's a rap video for virtually any noun, verb, or other descriptor in English....

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Here's The Youtube Video That Got A Norwegian Kicker A Tryout With The Jets

Back in September, a 27-year-old from a tiny Norwegian town named Havard Rugland uploaded this video to Youtube. Despite only ever having played soccer, he's able to do some crazy things with a football: Over-the-head kicks, drop kicks, kicks across gorges, kicks onto a moving boat, kicks from the ...

Jake LaMotta Is 90 Years Old And About To Get Married For The Seventh Time

There's no getting down boxing's real-life Raging Bull, and the New York Post has heard things: former middleweight champ Jake LaMotta, age 90, plans to marry Denise Baker, his fiancée of the last dozen years or so, on Jan. 4 in Bisbee, Ariz. It will be LaMotta's seventh wedding, and the Post says B...

The Vikings Ended Practice With A Breakdancing Circle

It's likely a lost season for the Vikings (though, perhaps, not for their quarterback). Does that mean they can't have fun? No, no it does not....

New York City Nightclub DJs Will Not Stop Tormenting Kris Humphries

This story from the New York Daily News' gossip blog would make you feel bad for Kris Humphries if there wasn't something so undeniably hateable about him (it's mostly his face). Apparently, Humphries was trolled by two DJs at an NYC night club (the same one in which Tony Parker got his eye gouged ...

The Knicks Tried To Trade Amar'e Stoudemire For Basically Anyone

Yesterday, Howard Beck of The New York Times wrote about the impending return of Amar'e Stoudemire to the New York Knicks. Most of the story is about the problems that Beck foresees coming along with Stoudemire's return, but buried within it is this bit of information:...