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Welcome To Johnny Football's Heel Turn: 125 FBS Teams, Ranked
Each week during college football season we put the conventional polls to shame by ranking every FBS team from 1-125, by whatever standard we see fit....
125 College Football Teams, Ranked And Explained
College football kicks off the 2013 season TONIGHT. Here's the absolute minimum you can get away with knowing about each of the 125 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision, in the order that I, Matt Hinton, personally project them to finish at the end of the season....
An Important Message From A Self-Described Chris Berman Lookalike
Presented without comment, via Craigslist:...
You Wanna Buy A Used Eagles RV? Sure You Do.
I mean, you'd be a fool not to drop $2,500 on "The Beast," 31 feet of mean, green, American-made tailgating machine. Just 35 years and 43,000 miles on 'er....
She's Listening To Music
I remember walking into The Sound Library, a boutique record shop in the east village in the late Nineties and hearing something special. It was a short cut off a white label Lord Finesse promo. Rare. Finesse chopped-up and looped a famous Marvin Gaye record on an SP-1200. Man, it was cool. I eventu...
Worst Games Of The 2013-2014 NBA Season
Wednesday, October 30, 2013: Boston Celtics at Toronto Raptors...
A Non-Exhaustive List Of People MLB Has Not Suspended For 211 Games
Major League Baseball has suspended Alex Rodriguez for 211 games. There are, however, many people who haven't been suspended for 211 games. Here are a few of them:...
Down A Lazy River
From Supersonic Electronic, dig these realistically unreal water distortion paintings by Nuria Farre....
Remembering Ashley Whippet, History's Best Frisbee-Catching Dog
The Ashley Whippet Invitational is the world's premier athletic competition for dogs that excel at catching frisbees, and it wouldn't exist if not for the contributions of its namesake. On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang up and Listen, Josh Levin takes a look back at the career of the greatest...
Extra! Ali Throws Punch, Hurts Man!
When Muhammad Ali beat Sonny Liston in their May 1965 title-bout rematch in Lewiston, Maine, a legend was born. Or, more accurately, a legendary controversy was born. Ali (who ditched his Cassius Marcellus Clay "slave" name for his Elijah Muhammad-sanctioned Muslim moniker after defeating Liston in ...
A Champ Looks At A Champ
From Leonard Gardner's 1971 New York Times review of the Jose Torres book, Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story:...
Cheap Fireworks, Ranked
When I was growing up, my friend Tony and I used to sneak around his neighborhood at night, light entire packs of Black Cats, stuff them into mailboxes, and then run away. It was AWESOME. One time, someone shined a flashlight on us and I believed with all of my heart that it was a SWAT team coming...
36 Cheap American Beers, Ranked
I realize you're going to spend Independence Day happily drinking whatever cold beer you're served, because you're polite and you're an alcoholic. And I trust you'll have a fine old time no matter what you drink. But that doesn't mean America's shitbrews are all the same. The list below breaks down...
Why Do We Say Three-Pointers Come From "Downtown?"
If you've ever watched a basketball game, you've heard a play-by-play announcer exclaim something along the lines of, "From way downtown!" after a made three-pointer. But when did this become the go-to turn of phrase for describing three-point shots? On this week's excerpt of Slate's Hang up and Lis...
Big Trouble with a Capital "T"
From Lenny Shecter, dig this 1963 Sports Illustrated piece on Rubin "Hurricane" Carter:...
