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Kitten Bowl Player Names, Ranked
Cat puns are the highest form of humor. Now that Hallmark Channel has unveiled the roster for this year's Kitten Bowl, it's time to subjectively and correctly rank the competitors' names....
Sweater-Vested Ole Miss Ballboy Really Wants The Damn Football Now
"Hand it over, froggy."...
TCU Kicks Off Peach Bowl With Perfectly-Executed Trick Play
Were you late in tuning into today's Peach Bowl? Then you missed TCU taking advantage of a Bo Wallace interception on the opening drive to run this perfect trick play for a touchdown. New Year's Eve is often the sneaky best day for bowls, and this one's already turning out to be worth the watch....
46 Times Vox Totally Fucked Up A Story
If you work in the media, you're going to get things wrong. Accuracy and timeliness are in conflict, and when you're dealing with vast amounts of information, accuracy will sometimes suffer. No one is happy about this, but it's how it is, and this is the tradeoff you implicitly accept when reading n...
The Scientology Christmas Catalog Is Totally Insane
Finding the right gift for everyone in your family can be a real bitch. Your mom just wants a phone call. Your dad wants you to find a job. These are not easy people to shop for. But what about your second cousin who moved to L.A., got introduced to Scientology by an actor friend, joined the ch...
Marshawn Lynch's Non-Answers To Stupid Questions Have Reporters Furious
Here's the last half of Marshawn's Lynch's curt, polite press conference after he ran off a play that everyone wanted to talk about. Without taking sides, it's easy to understand why reporters are frustrated that Lynch wouldn't play ball. It's also easy to understand why Lynch hates this shit....
Christmas Songs, Ranked
Hark! The herald bloggers rank the Christmas jams. O come, let us rejoice them....
Gifts From "The 12 Days Of Christmas," Ranked
12. Eleven pipers piping....
Drugs, Chess, Books, Or Gambling: How To Fight Boredom In Prison
Leisure time, unstructured and purposeless, generally makes up most of an American prison inmate's day. Most convicts are just sent to the yard, where they socialize, exercise, play games and sports, and make their deals. Entire lives are spent in the incarcerated world, typified by the sexual com...
"That Joke Has Everything": David Letterman, Before <i>Late Night</i>
In December 1981, a month before Late Night With David Letterman debuted on NBC, Peter W. Kaplan profiled the young comedian, and heir-apparent to Johnny Carson, for Esquire. The story is reprinted here with permission....
South Dakota High School Wrestler Names, Ranked
Yesterday we brought you the 2015 Lacrosse All-Name Team, featuring such standouts as Deemer Class, Addington Elliot, and Brickman House....
How The NFL's Forgotten Christmas Albums Almost Made One Man Rich
For the entirety of my childhood, my brother, mom, and I spent one day a year—usually a Saturday two or three weeks out from Christmas—being serenaded by the 1970 Oakland Raiders. Specifically, we would spend the day putting up our Christmas tree while Daryle Lamonica, Jim Otto, and others mooed C...
Did Vanderbilt Try To Kill An Ex-Hoops Player's Tell-All Book?
They were supposed to celebrate that night. It was mid-August, and Kyle Fuller, Eric Schulman, and Jerry Castro were all together in Nashville. The Tennessean had posted an article about their book project, a Kickstarter-funded look at Fuller's life as a Vanderbilt basketball player and student ...
Andrew Hawkins Has Some Remarkable Thoughts On Protest
Andrew Hawkins made headlines when he took the field with a shirt protesting the recent shooting of two unarmed Ohioans. The Browns made us proud when they refused a demand from Cleveland cops to apologize. And now that he's explained it, we realize that Hawkins isn't just some athlete who threw on ...
Video: Art Briles Confronts Bob Bowlsby Over Big 12 "Co-Champs" Snub
Reader Alex L. sends along video he shot of Baylor coach Art Briles confronting Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby following the Bears' win over Kansas State on Friday. Briles said he was angry at the conference's insistence on co-champions—something he (accurately) predicted would strand Baylor on t...
Alabama, Oregon, FSU, And Ohio State Make College Football Playoff
Your college football playoff selections are here, and Alabama, Oregon, Florida State, and Ohio State will face off to decide this season's national champion....