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Sabine Lisicki Ends Serena Williams's 34-Match Win Streak
Defending Wimbledon champion Serena Williams will make an early exit from this year's edition, as 23-seed Sabine Lisicki executed an astonishing comeback to defeat the world #1....

Somebody Turned The Buttfumble Into A Silent Movie
God bless you, Mark Sanchez. You are the gift that keeps on giving. ...

Victims Of The Boston Marathon Bombing Begin Divvying $61 Million
America, on occasion you really take care of your own. After the Boston Marathon bombing, people and companies pulled together more than $60 million that's now being disbursed to 232 people who were hurt or killed in the attack and its aftermath. Two double amputees and the families of four people w...

Soccer Stadium Blasts Kill 5 As Friday Bombings Claim 22 Lives In Iraq
Twenty-two people were killed yesterday in Iraq when bombs went off in a police officer's car, at a funeral, near a bakery, and at a soccer stadium, Reuters reports. ...

Lede Time
Lenny Shecter is best remembered as the man behind Jim Bouton’s classic Ball Four but for a generation of sports fans who followed Shecter’s columns in the New York Post in the late Fifties and the early Sixties he stands as one of the great sports writers of them all. He had a quick-witted, thought...

Put the Needle to the Groove
Soulful Sixties Sounds—for anyone who loves '60's Soul, R&B, Jazz, Latin and Boogaloo Sounds, man, this tumblr site is the gift that keeps giving. ...

Yet Another Distressing Fact About State Of American Men's Tennis
With Bobby Reynolds's loss to Novak Djokovic in the second round, we can now present to you for the 7,634th time why American men's tennis is deader than dead right now. For the first time since 1912, there will no Americans playing in the third round at Wimbledon. The worst thing about this? We'll ...

Roger Federer Is Out At Wimbledon In Craziest Second Round Ever
Something called Sergiy Stakhovsky just defeated Roger Federer in four sets at Wimbledon, which is less a tournament at this point than it is one of those Agatha Christie books where bodies keep piling up around some quaint English vicarage. Where do we start? Rafael Nadal got knocked out Monday. M...

Donté Stallworth Loves Gay Marriage, Argues With Twitter
Newly minted Redskins receiver Donté Stallworth has opinions on things! He was not a fan of the flu vaccine. But he is a huge fan of today's Supreme Court rulings that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and killed Prop 8 in California. He took to Twitter to celebrate, and more than held his own...


Getting Closer to God in a Tight Situation
It's Wimbeldon time again, a good moment to revisit David Foster Wallace's celebrated 2006 New York Times story on Roger Federer:...

Everything Is Wrong With This
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Rafael Nadal Loses In The First Round At Wimbledon
The best pre-Wimbledon storyline not involving the Serena-Sharapova "black heart" spat was the totally tantalizing quarterfinal: Federer vs. Rafa. They've met only twice in a Grand Slam in the last four years, and they haven't played each other at Wimbledon since the '08 classic. Finally, the thin...


Reporter's Field Report: "Fuck Me, I Can't Even Fucking Talk"
Lindsay Nadrich of Fox's Spokane, Washington affiliate got a little tongue-tied during a live shoot on strawberry picking and got frustrated with herself. She also apparently forgot she was doing a live shoot.* ...

Here's How The USWNT Celebrated Abby Wambach's Record-Setting Goal
Abby Wambach now has 160 international goals, surpassing Mia Hamm's record. It's Tootsie Roll time!...



Brawling And Boozing With The Rats Of Yankee Stadium
Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories, edited by yours truly, is out in paperback now. To celebrate, here's an essay from the late George Kimball. It's about Yankee Stadium II, Billy Martin, finks and phonies, brawling, and, of course, drinking with Bill "Spaceman" Lee....
