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A Quick Note On Sisyphus

Here’s a tweet from yesterday that I have been thinking about:...

Let Me Show You My Pogs: Bad Boy Club

Bad Boy Club sounds like an aggro brand, but it was actually founded out of 1980s San Diego surf culture. The Bad Boy Club logo featured a flat-topped muscle man flexing his bicep with a spike-studded bracelet. You’d see it on bumper stickers, so that people knew that vehicle’s driver was a certifie...

Tommy Pham Vents About Being Jerked Around By The Cardinals

The St. Louis Cardinals’ Tommy Pham, who recently turned 30, had his breakout season in 2017 when he hit 23 homers, stole 25 bases, achieved a .411 on-base percentage. And yet, he began the year by being optioned to Triple A. Pham hasn’t forgotten....

Stormy Daniels. Stormy Daniels. Stormy Daniels. 

Stormy Daniels's Lawyer Once Handed Jerry Jones His Own Ass In Open Court

Last week Jack Dickey of Sports Illustrated published a neat look at the history of Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her suit against President Trump. I recommend reading it, as it’s been a strange route to this moment of sudden cultural prominence for Avenatt...

John Lynch Says Kyle Shanahan's "Master Plan" Was Getting Kirk Cousins To The 49ers

San Francisco 49ers GM John Lynch went on ESPN Radio’s Mike & Trey Wednesday to talk about his team’s big offseason and Jimmy Garoppolo’s exciting future. Getting Garoppolo for a second-round pick from the Patriots last year was huge, since the quarterback looked outstanding as he led the 49ers to f...

Myles Turner's Big Dunk Created A Great Bench Reaction

A strong slam in the middle of a game is nice, but it’s even better when it causes witnesses to briefly lose their minds. Last night, Pacers big man Myles Turner sent his teammates into hysterics:...

The Fraudsters At Jimmy Haslam's Pilot Flying J Had Some Very Racist Takes On The Browns And Raiders

A U.S. District Court Judge has unsealed transcripts of secretly recorded tapes gathered in the investigation of fraud perpetrated by Browns owner Jimmy Haslam’s Pilot Flying J company. While the transcripts apparently don’t contradict Haslam’s claim that he was in no way involved in the scheme, the...

Is The Freshman Dominating Maryland High School Basketball Actually 20 Years Old?

The Cinderella-est story of the schoolboy hoops season in the Washington, D.C., area came to an end over the weekend. It turns out the year’s most fantastical feel-good tale really was a fantasy after all....

Kobe Bryant Now Has As Many Oscars As He Does NBA MVP Awards

Kobe Bryant and Glen Keane tonight won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film tonight in Los Angeles for Dear Basketball, based on the poem he wrote to announce his retirement from basketball in 2015. In his brief speech, he noted that while some expect basketball players to “shut up and dri...

Nobody Seems To Know Whether Josh Emmett's Face Was Broken Legally<em></em>

This weekend, featherweight hitters Jeremy Stephens and Josh Emmett met in the octagon and punched each other a whole bunch, before Stephens knocked Emmett out early in the second round and broke his orbital bone in three places. Emmett—whose entire game is based around landing meaty shots with his ...

Jimmy Butler's Injury Could've Been So Much Worse, But The Wolves Are Still In Trouble

So it’s a torn meniscus and likely surgery for Jimmy Butler, after he crumpled to the court Friday night:...

Oh No, Not Jimmy Butler

Jimmy Butler—the Timberwolves’ leading scorer and best player, and the NBA’s leader in minutes per game prior to the All-Star break—went down in a crumpled heap in the third quarter of Minnesota’s Friday night loss to the Houston Rockets. It looked like a non-contact injury, and Butler had to be hel...

Amy Van Dyken Ranks The Swim Strokes, For Once And For All

Amy Van Dyken has six Olympic gold medals in swimming, so who better than her to finally settle the debate that has stymied mankind since life first tetrapod-paddled up onto dry land. Which swimming stroke is the best??...

Jimmy Garoppolo's 49ers Contract Is A Win For Both Sides

The details on Jimmy Garoppolo’s new contract with the 49ers are available for scrutiny, and it’s hard not to notice how beneficial the terms turned out to be for both the player and the team....

West Brom Players Apologize For Hijacking Taxi For A Munchie Run To McDonald's

West Brom players Gareth Barry, Jonny Evans, Jake Livermore, and Boaz Myhill were detained by local police in Barcelona yesterday after allegedly commandeering a taxi that had taken them from their hotel to a nearby McDonald’s drive-thru, driving the cab back to their hotel, and ditching the vehicle...

David Brooks Seems Extremely Confused (About Amphibians)

Amphibians, as every little kid knows, are born in water, as larvae, breathing water through gills. Later they undergo metamorphosis, and emerge from the water with (in most cases) air-breathing respiratory systems. Even after they’ve taken to land, though, they retain highly permeable skin that can...

Man Goes Missing While Skiing In New York, Is Found Six Days Later In Sacramento<em></em>

On Feb. 7, Constantinos “Danny” Filippidis was reported missing after he disappeared from a ski trip to Whiteface Mountain in upstate New York. Oddly, his car was still in the parking lot and all his belongings were intact at the ski lodge. Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers, Ne...

Getting Injured In An Olympics Practice Run Is True Sports Heartbreak 

There is a new contender for the most brutal heartbreak possible in sports. It’s not a Game 7 loss or even an 0-16 season. It’s not finishing fourth in a medal event or suspiciously wiping out in consecutive short track races. It’s this: You train your whole life in a largely obscure sport that’s on...

How Does Kevin Garnett's Hood Work? [Update]

The Celtics got beat down by the new-look Cavaliers yesterday and also retired Paul Pierce’s jersey. His old Celtics running mate Kevin Garnett was in attendance, and—oh my God what is going on with this hood:...