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What Do We Think Happened In Right Field On This Bunt Home Run?

Okay, yes, I know the answer to the question posed in this headline, but I’m not going to tell you what it is until you watch this clip from a minor-league baseball game and formulate your own theory:...

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...

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:...

Reports: College Football Players Will Play In Michigan-Florida Game

Jim Harbaugh is confirmed to be coaching a football team up in Ann Arbor, but right now, that’s about all he’ll tell you. While it seems safe to assume that his football team is, in fact, made up of currently eligible football players, the most recent official roster out of Michigan is still from 20...

An Attempt At Untangling The Legend Of Madison Bumgarner Dating A Girl Named Madison Bumgarner

Madison Bumgarner, the larger-than-life ace of the San Francisco Giants, carries the backstory of the hero in a tall tale. He began chewing tobacco in the fifth grade; he got married in blue jeans; he chopped up a rattlesnake with an axe and saved the two baby bunnies he found inside. But one story ...

Former Falcons Defensive Line Coach Can't Figure Out Why He Was Fired Three Days After The Super Bowl

Bryan Cox, Sr. spent the last three seasons as the defensive line coach for the Atlanta Falcons. He was fired three days after the team’s historic defensive collapse in the Super Bowl, along with defensive coordinator Richard Smith. Cox isn’t quite sure about how this happened....

What's Wrong With Novak Djokovic?

This time last year, Novak Djokovic was about to complete his fourth consecutive Grand Slam win—as dominant a run as the tour has ever seen. But this year, since the first week of January, he has yet to get further than the quarterfinals of any tournament at all....

The Case Of The Missing Tom Brady Super Bowl Jersey Has Only Gotten Better

Earlier today, the NFL announced that authorities had recovered Tom Brady’s missing Super Bowl LI jersey, as well as the quarterback’s jersey from Super Bowl XLIX. As more evidence about the case has been released, the story has gotten even more bizarre....

NFL: International Media Member Had Tom Brady's Stolen Super Bowl Jerseys

According to a statement just released by the NFL, Tom Brady’s Super Bowl LI jersey, which was stolen from the locker room after the game, has been recovered. Authorities also recovered Brady’s Super Bowl XLIX jersey, which no one even knew had been missing....

Now Here's A Mystery For All You Sea Sleuths Out There

Now here’s an item of interest. I don’t make the claim that every piece of news rises to the level of a matter of national importance, but that doesn’t mean that you won’t get a kick out of hearing some of the odd things that happen across our nation. ...

Someone Seems To Have Stolen Tom Brady's Super Bowl Jersey

We have an honest-to-God post-Super Bowl mystery on our hands, and I am elated. You see, Tom Brady doesn’t know what happened to his game jersey:...

Watch Ray Lewis Deliver A Pregame Speech To The Patriots In A Seemingly Empty Garage For No Good Reason 

Have you ever looked around a vacant garage and thought, “Boy, this would be a great place for Ray Lewis to pretend he’s giving a Super Bowl pep talk, repeatedly using ‘we’ and ‘us’ to describe a team he never played for as he pumps up the empty room”? So has the NFL! ...

The Case Of Kyle Shanahan's Missing Backpack Has Been Solved

Kyle Shanahan is about to coach in the biggest game of his career. He might need his playbook this weekend, but he lost it after the backpack he was carrying it around in at NFL media day got nabbed! Who could have pulled off such a dastardly caper?...

The Stock Market Sure Is High

Exciting, the Dow closed over 20,000 yesterday for the first time in history. What is the best thing to do with this information? Uhhhhh......

Why Is HBO Refusing To Deny That <i>Westworld</i>'s Robots Poop?<em></em>

HBO’s Westworld, the haunting tale of what can happen when cowboy sex robots go awry, spent its first season unwrapping many of the mysteries that so captivated its audience—save, that is, the question that has tormented fans most of all. And that’s apparently exactly how HBO wants it....

One Of Cycling's Great Doping Mysteries Has Just Been Solved<em></em>

When the Spanish police raided the lab of cycling doctor turned doping kingpin Eufemiano Fuentes in 2006, they found 211 blood bags from athletes he worked with, as well as coded ledgers detailing his appointments with those athletes. Some of the codenames corresponded to the names of riders’ dogs, ...

The Writer Who Was Too Strong To Live

Jennifer Frey drank herself to death....

Food Blogger Apparently Sold Soul To Devil

Just like me and you, Mimi Thorisson is a food blogger. So why is her life so fucking crazy?...

Battle Of The Bulge: That Time A Possible John McEnroe Dong Shot Didn't Have The Ethics

Deadspin has dong-shot standards....