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How To Make Mashed Cauliflower, Because It Goddamn Tastes Great
The first thing to do is clear up any misconceptions that the reason to make mashed cauliflower, and not mashed potatoes, is that mashed cauliflower is the more calorically or nutritionally upstanding choice. If that is what you are thinking, stop thinking that, because that is stupid. You're stup...
Thomas Vanek Pulls A Hertl With Slick Between-The-Legs Goal
Everyone's got Hertl fever! Two days after Thomas Hertl's four-goal extravaganza, which included a preposterous between-the-legs goal, Buffalo Sabres forward Thomas Vanek decided to unleash a Hertl-style goal of his own....
Joe Thornton On The Proper, Explicit Way To Celebrate A Four-Goal Game
Adam Oates was not too happy with Sharks rookie Tomas Hertl's "disrespect to the league" when he went between the legs to score his fourth goal. Here's Hertl's teammate Joe Thornton to put it all in perspective....
Adam Oates Is A Hertl Hater
Hockey is a bizarre, wonderful, terrible sport where a fresh-faced teenager can wow the world with a precocious and exuberant display of skill, and at least one NHL lifer's response is, "Someone should hurt that kid."...
Tomas Hertl Is Your New Favorite Hockey Player
Something became very clear last night, right around the time a 19-year-old Czech rookie was going between his legs for his fourth goal of the game: It's Tomas Hertl's world, and we're all living in it....
King Tee and Richard Pryor Act A Fool
What do you get when you mix King Tee with Richard Pryor? Fun, dummy, fun is what you get. King Tee's "Act a Fool" already had Pryor cut-up on the record, we just added more because too much vintage Pryor is still not enough....
ThruYou: Kutiman's You Tube Mash-Ups
Does it get any better than this?...
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...
Mike "Doc" Emrick's Passing Synonyms: A Daft Punk Mashup
We mentioned earlier this week that someone had tried to make a list of all Doc Emrick's synonyms for "pass it" used in the marathon opening game of the Stanley Cup Finals. Feeling that list was incomplete, I tracked down all 140 of them, then set them to Daft Punk....
Here's Shawn Marion As The <em>Super Mario Bros.</em> Character You Never Asked For
First of all, it makes no sense because Bowser doesn't come anywhere near World 1-1, and Mario could never carry any cool stuff on his back, like, say, an NBA championship trophy. But that's fine, Dallas Mavericks CGI worker bees. You have fun with your green screen and rampant video game-revision...
Fan Yells Out "Mashed Potatoes" During Graeme McDowell's Shot; McDowell Tells Him To Go Jerk It
Graeme McDowell won for the first time in two years when he closed out the World Challenge at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Sunday. On McDowell's approach shot on 16, someone in the gallery yelled out "mashed potatoes!"—which will never not be funny....
Grierson & Leitch's Year In Review: The Best Forgotten Performances
Yes, many people are already writing their Top 10 movie lists for 2012. We're saving ours for the last week of the year, but while we wait for this full, rich, and weird movie year to end, we're going to start looking back at certain highlights. Today, it's our favorite performances that won't be re...
"Mild" Concussions, Magical Helmets, And Other Ways Football Lies To Itself
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Before Steroids And Supplements, Olympics Dopers Used Brandy And Strychnine
These days, Olympians have to pass random drug tests and steer clear of shady supplements to avoid the wrath of the IOC and World Anti-Doping Agency. But back in 1904, during the Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Thomas Hicks of the United States (pictured above, middle) secured gold in the marathon rac...
In 1998, Jerry Sandusky Told State Officials And University Police That "He Had Done This With Other Children In The Past"
Allegations of Jerry Sandusky's abuse date back to 1994, but it was only in 1998 that one came to the attention of Penn State officials, and more importantly, the state child services department and University police. On May 3, Sandusky called up the home of the then-11-year-old (the one who would l...
This Is Not How A Rally Car Jump Is Supposed To Go
Finnish driver Toomas Heikkinen was involved in this practice crash at the X Games on Friday, in which he was trying to clear a 50-foot gap on the RallyCross course. He cleared about 45 feet of it....
Thomas Hill, Duke's Famous Weeper, Finally Confesses: I Wasn't Crying
"The misconception is that there are tears coming out of my eyes," Thomas Hill told me on Thursday. "There weren't." Hill is the former Duke guard who in 1992 became the happily crumpled face of the Blue Devils' last-second victory over Kentucky in the Elite Eight—maybe the face of March Madness its...
The Thrill Of Old-Fashioned Sports Brutality
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
The Law Took Kyle Busch's License Away For Doing 128 In A 45 Zone
We know, it is awfully hard to believe that some guy who drives expensive cars around at 150 mph for a living would get caught driving an expensive car at 128 mph. Where could he have learned to do something horrible like that?...
Kentucky Demolition Derby Winner Charged With DUI After Winning Demolition Derby
Bad hoodoo from the Jessamine County Fair. Dark times. A champion laid low. On Wednesday, David L. Warner Jr., of Nicholasville, Ky., drove a beaut of a derby in the ultra-competitive small car class. Warner demolished many things on his way to the title. But instead of getting to enjoy his victory,...