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Reading Leitch on how all the awful things about football never quite touch the NFL is a good way to start the week. [New York]...

The True Story Of The Fall Of Rome Is A Hell Of Lot Better Than The Hollywood Version

If you were ever forced to sit through a high school or college history class, you probably heard the story of the fall of the Roman Empire. At best, you remember that savage, fur-clad barbarians poured through the gates of a rotting, decrepit empire and snuffed out the light of civilization for a t...

FiveThirtyEight has a cool breakdown of American soccer fandom and the huge lead Manchester United, who suck, have. Somehow, Leo Messi only has more American fans than 14 MLS teams....

How did a photographer covering the Rays’ (and President Obama’s) trip to Cuba file on deadline despite that country’s ancient Internet infrastructure? It wasn’t easy. [Tampa Bay Times]...

Go read Craggs on the Laremy Tunsil fiasco; just go do it. [Slate]...

Who were the NBA players who were passed to the least this year? Our friend Kyle Wagner dug into the stats and looked into a few of the more revealing cases....

Our own Hannah Keyser has a great story up at ESPNW on the women who bookended MLB’s having managed to go 70 years without a female scout; go check it out. [ESPNW]...

Here’s our old pal Jeb Lund taking us inside the first, and ultimately ill-fated, bare-knuckle Backyard Boxing pay-per-view taping. ...

Drew Magary hangs out with Donald Trump supporters at a Trump rally in Iowa. [GQ]...

How The NBA Flushed Out The Exec Leaking Memos To Adrian Wojnarowski

Our own Kevin Draper—who really should have written this for us—goes in on Yahoo scoop-machine Adrian Wojnarowski at The New Republic. You'll read it, because Woj deserves some going-in upon. But this paragraph, from an entire section on Wojnarowski's cozy relationship with longtime Pistons executiv...

Our pal Sam Page has collaborated with artist Molly Brooks on Hockey Ops, a new comic book about hockey-playing soldiers in a war-torn future. It's pretty cool, and you can check it out for less than a dollar over at Comixology....

Meet Jake "Steiny" Steinberg, the 20-year-old Jets marketer, publicist, reporter, blogger, agent, and superfan who had an Entourage character named after him. [SI.com]...

Go read this story in Slate by a guy who makes a convincing case that he was the worst high school quarterback of all time. [Slate]...

How The Onion uses its three-person art department to help create and sustain a satirical alternate universe. [Co.Design]...

Read about Jets offensive lineman Oday Aboushi and how he worked out during Ramadan, from our pal Dom Cosentino. Also, did you know Aboushi has nine siblings? [NJ.com]...

Our pal BronzeHammer has an anti-comedy video series called "The Week in Jokes." You should watch. [YouTube] ...

This profile of Chuck Blazer is a good reminder that American soccer executives can be just as corrupt as the rest of the world's....

Meet the Notre Dame student who says he'll make $1 million on fantasy sports this year. [WSJ]...

FIFA has so many freaking rules about World Cup uniforms. Here are the six weirdest. [Fast Company]...

If you're in D.C. tonight, swing by the Dodge City bar at 8:30, where our own Drew Magary will be reading from Someone Could Get Hurt. We can't say it will end with Drew shotgunning beers with you, but we also can't say it won't....