lists Page 14 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Cereals, Ranked
Here is a list of breakfast cereals, in order of deliciousness....
Russian Beers, Ranked
When we think of Russian drinking customs, we like to envision steely-eyed, furry-hatted folk guzzling vodka with silent partners, grim determination, and maybe a pickle. That image has a certain nihilistic charm. It's less romantic to acknowledge that too many of these sad bastards wind up taking ...
Who Are The Best Dribblers In Champions League? A Ranking, 1 To 160
Dribbling is the most visually striking aspect of soccer. The excitement in the game flows from both nearly and actually made goals, and the beauty from the intricate passing and telekinetic movement of a true team. But from a strictly visual perspective, there is no clearer demonstration of mastery...
Bar Games, Ranked
Wait a minute, you can only watch the real, live Olympics on weirdo foreign computer TV at 3:00 in the morning? So my fellow ancients and I don't get to see our beloved curling and snowboarding, or even any of the lesser face-first sledding events, until whichever not-Costas is working finally deign...
State Hate: Which State Is Your State's Enemy?
Alabama: Mississippi...
White Sox Hotel Rooming List Reveals Some Great Fake Names
This is the White Sox rooming list for a 2012 midweek series in St. Louis. We don't know the provenance, but we hadn't seen it until Anthony sent it to us, so we're passing it along....
The Lesson Of Black Monday: Your NFL Team Doesn't Know What It's Doing
Yesterday was Black Monday in the NFL. My team's coach got fired. Your team's coach got fired. EVERYONE'S coach got fired. If six Fortune 500 CEOs were all shitcanned on the same day, the markets would crash; there'd be barricades in the streets by noon. But it's a telling sign of football cultu...
A List Of Baby Names Better Than "Krimson Tyde"
A couple in Alabama named their newborn boy "Krimson Tyde." In case you couldn't figure it out from their kid's name, they're big Bama fans....
It Was A Great Year For Sportswriting; Here's Some Of The Best Of It
Every so often, some crank will write something suggesting that sportswriting is in decline. The argument goes that due to ease of publishing, a general lowering of standards, the reading public's divided attentions, and millennial narcissism and careerism, an entire art has been lost, subordinated ...
Here's <em>The Guardian</em>'s Ranked List Of The 100 Best Soccer Players
Today, The Guardian has completed its top 100 soccer players list by unveiling the top 10. While probably a little too deferential to certain teams and young players, the list is still fascinating for what it says about the soccer world....
The Best Version Of Every Important Christmas Song
NOTE: There are no country music versions on this list, because country music is terrible....
Here's Another Insane Christmas Wish List
After our own Drew Magary shared his daughter's crazy-ass Christmas wish list with the world, we received many other lists from parents around the country who also have, uh, imaginative kids. Here's another one, and it's a doozy:...
Postgame Quotes From Last Night's Knicks Debacle, Ranked
The Knicks did what they do best last night: they lost a game in hilariously inept fashion. While that's bad news for Knicks fans, it's good news for people who like schadenfreude. In that spirit, here are the best of last night's postgame quotes, ranked....
19 People Who Should Have Been <em>SI's</em> 2013 Sportsman Of The Year
Sports Illustrated revealed its 2013 Sportsman of the Year today, giving the honor to Peyton Manning. We disagree with that choice. Here are 19 people who are more deserving....
Florida State Is Historically Dominant: 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. As always, last week's rankings were not consulted....
A Treasury Of Children's Insane Christmas Wish Lists
After I posted my kid's goofy Christmas wish list on Wednesday, we asked you readers to send in some of your own. You were not a disappointment to us. One guy's kid sent in the entire contents of the toy section at Target. Another reader's kid had a list that included a diagram (its instructions and...
When Alabama Loses, The Earth Shakes: 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. As always, last week's rankings were not consulted....