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No Matter How Hilarious It Would Be, Tim Tebow Will Never Play In The Canadian Football League
With Rex Ryan engaged in a hilarious, semi-silent standoff with management over Tim Tebow's playing time, or severe lack thereof, there's been some speculation, idle thus far but growing in volume, that Tim Tebow's last best option for playing professional football, once his underwhelming tenure wit...
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This Monster Eagle Almost Flew Away With A Little Kid [UPDATE]
Has anyone tried to warn us of the impending giant fucking eagle menace? Is this merely the first warning shot? We must be vigilant, or else the giant fucking eagles of the world will make off with all of our children. BUT ONLY IF WE LET THEM....

Powerball Winners Will Fund New High School Football Stadium Only If The Visitors' Locker Room Is Painted Pink
When you win a $200 million-plus lottery, you can pretty much screw with people however you want, especially if you're willing to pony up for something they really want or need. Take Brian and Mary Lohse, who won a Powerball jackpot some three months ago and finally decided they would make a hefty $...

The 15 Or So Most Watchable Teams In College Basketball: An Occasional Ranking
An occasional ranking of college basketball teams on the basis of watchability and with very little regard to how good they might be....

Why Did <em>The Globe And Mail</em> Take Down Its Story About How Kyle Turris Hates Finland?
After supposedly "returning" from the Finnish SM-Liiga, Kyle Turris complained about his lockout home to The Globe and Mail, in just the latest of a few such stories to come out recently. The Globe and Mail piece covered the usual stuff: the food sucked, the travel sucked, "they spoke a different l...

Adrian Peterson's Lead Blocker Deserves Some Praise
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: AP averages 3.9 more yards per carry when Jerome Felton is blocking for him....

Quentin Tarantino, Slave To His Habits: <em>Django Unchained</em>, Reviewed
1. Django Unchained is giddily entertaining, powerful, confident filmmaking by a guy who keeps finding new tricks up his sleeve with every movie. It's a big, sprawling statement that throws everything at the wall and sees what sticks, which has always been one of the strengths of Quentin Tarantino, ...

This Might Be The Oldest Surviving American Soccer Footage
If you're interesting in the long, under-celebrated history of American soccer, I can't recommend enough the uploads from Youtube user "soccermavn." There are old ads, footage of NASL's glory days, and even video of the short-lived United Soccer Association. (Update: He apparently got lots of thes...

The Miami Heat Minority Owner Who Sued Google Because Of This Derpy Photo Is A Dick
The mug you see there belongs to Raanan Katz, minority owner of the Miami Heat, former Israeli basketball player, and real estate developer in Sunny Isles, Fla. He's into silly faces and frivolous lawsuits, and somehow he just got a court in Florida to walk all over the First Amendment....

Photo: The Packers Fan Captured In Its Natural Habitat
The Minnesota-Green Bay game earlier this month that culminated a mass brawl involving a man in a purple sombrero has also spawned this gem of a picture, a self-shot of two visiting fans marred bettered by a photobombing by the Platonic ideal of a Packers fan....

Here Is A Gif Of Wade Boggs Attempting To Dance At Last Night's Oklahoma City Thunder Game
We're not sure why Wade Boggs decided to drop by last night's Spurs-Thunder game, but we're glad he did. In the fourth quarter, just before a Russell Westbrook free throw, the Fox Sports Oklahoma cameras found the baseball Hall of Famer in the stands—after which he boogied a bit in his seat....

What Were Your Favorite Sports Stories From This Year?
The year in sportswriting is almost over, which means that it is time to start making all kinds of "best of" lists. All the cool kids are doing it. We'd like to make a list too, and we'd like your help compiling it. Were there any pieces of sportswriting that you came across this year that you foun...

The Jets Will Make A QB Change, Just In Time To Continue Being Terrible And Directionless
Coming into this season, the Jets had two choices. They could fully commit to Mark Sanchez, signal their confidence in him by signing him to a contract extension, and decide that win or lose, he was going to be the team's quarterback. Or they could acquire a promising backup, one who would immediate...

Mark Sanchez Was A Goofy High School Kid, Like Everyone Else
While Mark Sanchez was completely blowing the game for the Jets last night, someone on Twitter brought up the fact that his girlfriend had gone to high school with Sanchez. With access to his girlfriend's yearbook, he decided to share some high school pictures of Sanchez....

Takeru Kobayashi Eating Hot Dogs In Slow Motion Is Just As Gross As You'd Expect It To Be
This video comes to us courtesy of Animal New York, and it features Takeru Kobayashi, everyone's favorite eater in exile, wolfing down 12 hot dogs in 60 seconds. In slow motion. It's pretty gross. Although we must admit that the musical score does add a certain artistic flair....

Tony Parker Got Everyone To Bite On A Fake Free Throw
The most effective fake is the one when everyone's expecting you to shoot. Considering Tony Parker was at the foul line, this was probably the single most effective shot fake ever pulled off....

Jim Boeheim Closed His Press Conference Last Night With A Call For More Gun Control
Last night, Syracuse men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim earned his 900th career victory when his team defeated the University of Detroit Mercy 72-68. After the game, though, Boeheim seemed to have the tragedy in Newtown on his mind, as he ended with some spirited words about gun control. Boeheim a...

Arsenal's Jack Wilshere Took A Studs-Up Boot To The Crotch Yesterday
Gunners star Jack Wilshere entered a world of pain yesterday in the first half of Arsenal's match at Reading, when Royals midfielder Jobi McAnuff delivered a boot square to Wilshere's balls....

Possibly Suicidal Pigeon Refuses To Leave Field During Chiefs-Raiders Game
We don't know really know what the hell is going on with this pigeon, which crashed Sunday's Chiefs-Raiders game by landing right in the middle of the action and absolutely refusing to give a shit about the 22 large men that were stomping around it. Maybe the pigeon was sick and disoriented, or wo...

Sidney Crosby Played Goalie In A Dek Hockey Game The Other Night
Had there been no NHL lockout, the Pittsburgh Pensguins would have had a travel day Friday after a road game in Boston on Thursday and another one in Winnipeg on Saturday. As it was, Sidney Crosby had some time to kill, and since Justin Bieber had already swagged his way through Pittsburgh, Crosby q...