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Why We Get Stupid And Shitfaced On New Year's Eve: A Cultural History
This article originally appeared in The New York Observer in 1993 and is anthologized in Luc's wonderful collection of essays, Kill All Your Darlings. ...
A Full-Speed Marcus Mariota Makes Oregon Look Like Oregon Again
The Oregon Ducks' 30-7 trouncing of Texas in the Alamo Bowl tonight was no real surprise, given that Vegas pegged the Longhorns as two-touchdown dogs, and that Marcus Mariota is back, iffy knee and all. Mariota finished 18 of 26 for 253 yards and 133 yards rushing, his best overall game since before...
The Zen Master Goes To LA: How Phil Jackson Started A Lakers Dynasty
The following is excerpted from Lord of the Rings, the new Phil Jackson biography by Peter Richmond. The text is accompanied by footnotes from the author, who also did an interview on The Stacks last week....
St. Louis Rams Players Execute Tame Car Prank
The makeshift single-car garage you see above is apparently the handiwork of some St. Louis Rams players, who decided to prank a couple of their teammates. Looks like their pranking ability is a lot like their team: pretty mediocre....
Marquette's Deonte Burton Ruined Someone With A Dunk
Deonte Burton—of Marquette, not Nevada—absolutely wrecked Samford's Emeka Ikezu on this slam from yesterday's game. Watching it from the floor is delightful....
Lane Kiffin In Tuscaloosa Bar Strikes Fear In The Hearts Of 'Bama Fans
Reader Daniel sends along this picture, noting it was supposedly taken in a Tuscaloosa bar after Nick Saban invited the oft-fired coach to evaluate the Crimson Tide offense the previous week. Sabes said the invite was just for his own edification, he admires Lane's offensive prowess, but the invite—...
Report: The Knicks Have A Very Knicks Plan For How To Stop Sucking
The Knicks are so bad. After getting massacred by the Thunder on Christmas day, the team that won 54 games last year—which, god, how the hell did this team ever win 54 games?—is sitting at 9-19 and reportedly ready to go back to the drawing board. And what's on the drawing board? "Make all the good ...
Photoshop Contest: New York Knick Carmelo Anthony
The Knicks had a wholly shit Christmas, and Carmelo let us see exactly how he felt about it, which was... Sleepy? Disdainful? The defeated yet removed seething of a man who has an opt-out clause coming up? (Maybe he was simply peeing his pants.)...
The Secret Of Phil Jackson's Success: He Never Stopped Questioning
You've seen Peter Richmond around these parts a time or two. He is the author of some of our favorite magazine stories, and for his most recent book he found a subject worthy of his sensitive and searching style: Phil Jackson. The book is called Lord of the Rings, and it's available now. We spoke wi...
Even Carmelo Wanted To Sleep Instead Of Watch The Knicks Yesterday
Yesterday's slate of NBA games sucked. The sleeved jerseys had everyone looking like rec league handball players, and we had to watch the the Derrick Rose-less Chicago Bulls squat and take a dump on the collective chest of the Brooklyn Nets. And then we had to watch the New York Knicks....
1980 ESPN Report About Pool Shark Is Ron Burgundyishly Hilarious
On a slow Christmas news day, WAVY-TV (Hampton Roads, Va.) unearthed this gem from 1980: longtime sports director Bruce Rader's feature on a pool shark who happened to be female. It aired on ESPN, which was just a year old at the time and which in those days would apparently ask local stations for s...
Seven Uninterrupted Minutes Of Mike Woodson Making Faces
If you had no idea who Mike Woodson was, you would only need to watch this video to think, "This is a man who has coached J.R. Smith." ...
The 10 Most Ridiculous Shots In The NBA In 2013
The most deceptive thing about watching the NBA is the way, from time to time, it makes everyone seem totally incompetent. We know that all these guys can make shot after shot when they're all alone, but there's enough cognitive dissonance to convince ourselves that, say, despite the threat of a 6'...
Anatomy Of A Con: How The Public Was Scammed To Build Candlestick Park
While everyone's free to be as nostalgic as they like about Candlestick Park now that it's probably seen the end of its useful life, it's worth remembering that it wasn't only a miserable place to watch a game, but also a forerunner of the modern public financing con. The piece below, which original...
Is Carmelo Secretly A Great Passer? (No.)
There was a stat making its way around basketball twitter yesterday afternoon that cited SportVU data showing that Carmelo Anthony actually racks up 6.8 assist opportunities per game. Compared with his 2.8 assists per game average, this seems like an encouraging number! Except, it isn't really. ...
LeBron Claims Another Victim With Filthy Dunk, Keys Heat Comeback
LeBron James is on a rampage. Just three days after destroying Ben McLemore with a dunk that also melted Chris Andersen's brain, James sent Paul Milsap to the grave with a ferocious slam late in the fourth quarter of last night's Hawks-Heat game....
The Best Movie Scenes Of 2013
Yes, many people are already writing their Top 10 movie lists for 2013. We're saving ours for the last week of the year. While we wait for this terrific movie year to wind down, we're going to start looking back at some highlights. Today, it's our favorite individual scenes....
The Chicago Blackhawks Made The Weirdest Holiday Video
We've seen plenty of cringe-inducing holiday videos in which athletes are forced to sing Christmas carols and wear funny Santa hats, but we've never seen one like this. For some reason, the Chicago Blackhawks decided to make their holiday video movie-themed.Why is this happening? What do any of thes...