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Dammit, Justin Bieber, Stay The Hell Away From Kevin Durant
According to Justin Bieber's Instagram account, which is usually a repository for the pop singer's embarrassing and fraudulent basketball "highlights," Biebs recently grabbed a quick brunch with Kevin Durant. Fuck you, Justin Bieber....

How To Legitimize Bigotry: Embrace Debate
This morning, Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless shouted at each other about Tony Dungy's comments that Michael Sam's sexuality would be an overriding distraction in an NFL locker room, and whether it was a bigger distraction that Michael Vick's return from prison. I'm sorry, that's the worst sente...

Mitchum: Mr. Bad Taste And Trouble Himself
The latest Stacks reprint over at The Daily Beast gives Robert Ward's 1983 Rolling Stone profile of Robert Mitchum:...


Here's What Middle-Aged Napoleon Dynamite And Pedro Look Like
Reader Brian sent along his friend's photo, which he claims was taken in Idaho. He believes the men in the photo look like Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro, "40 years in the future." We can see it....

Andy Murray Will Not Win Wimbledon This Year
Wimbledon defending champion and Britain's great hope Andy Murray was defeated by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in straight sets Wednesday. A nation sneers....

USATF Hires Dopers As Coaches, Doesn't See What's The Big Deal
Yes, USA Track & Field will sue your balls off if you mess with The Almighty Swoosh. But taking performance-enhancing drugs? They're much more forgiving. Hell, they'll even give you a job....

Giants CB Prince Amukamara Parties At A Bar Mitzvah
For some reason, Giants cornerback Prince Amukamara went to a bar mitzvah yesterday. He seemed to have a grand time partying with teens, dancing, and celebrating a boy becoming a man. Next round of Shirley Temples on this guy!...

MLB Network Puts Mitch Williams On Hiatus
MLB Network analyst Mitch Williams is on an indefinite leave of absence from the league-owned cable channel after a series of incidents at a youth baseball tournament that witnesses tell us included the former big-league hurler calling a ten-year-old "a pussy."...

José Fernández Is Hurt, And We Aren't Allowed To Love Anymore
José Fernández is 21 years old and unquestionably one of the most exciting players in baseball. I use "player" in place of "pitcher" with purpose, because it's not just Fernández's ability to mow down hitters that makes him so much fun to watch; it's the fact that he milks every ounce of fun he poss...

Anaheim's Ducklings Have Them On The Verge Of An Incredible Comeback
There's nothing quite like hockey players to make you feel old. Even if you're a hockey player yourself....

Yu Darvish Loses Perfect Game On Error, Sparks Argument On MLB Network
Yu Darvish's perfect game bid tonight against the Red Sox was spoiled by a seventh-inning blunder by his fielders that, in any other ballpark, would have been ruled a hit. ...

What I Learned From Gary Smith
I can pinpoint the moment I realized I was never going to be Gary Smith. This was back in the spring of 2005, shortly before I graduated college. The campus paper had just published the best thing I thought I'd ever written. My profile of George Washington University basketball player J.R. Pinnock w...

Go read Michigan professor Yago Colas on his student Mitch McGary: "Perhaps the humanity he has shown, in class and in smoking a joint, might actually be an integral part of (rather than some unfortunate obstacle to) what made him so effective and thrilling as a basketball player." [Between the Line...

Mitch McGary Declaring For NBA Draft, Victim Of NCAA Reefer Madness
After missing most of last season with a back injury, University of Michigan forward Mitch McGary seemed likely to head back to Ann Arbor for another year of work on his sketchy offensive game and another deep run in the NCAA tournament. Instead, he'll be declaring for the NBA draft—all because he g...

Searching For Tom Lehrer
This is worth reading. Ben Smith on Tom Lehrer:...

Zdeno Chara Laughs At Puny Humans Who Want To Fight Him
Detroit defenseman Brendan Smith has been a target of abuse through the first two games of the series. He decided to take out his frustrations on the nearest Bruin. The nearest Bruin just happened to be the tallest NHL player ever....

