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LaTroy Hawkins Took A Ball In The Nuts And It Was The Worst Thing Ever
It is clear now that the Dodgers cannot lose. Scoring two in the ninth and one in the 12th, Los Angeles took its eighth straight. But I'm not here to talk about that. With the help of my friend LaTroy Hawkins, I'd like to tell all the kids out there just how important it is to wear your cup....
Alfonso Soriano Is A Breath Of Fresh Air
In two nights, Alfonso Soriano has four home runs and 13 RBI. In those same nights, the Yankees have demolished the Angels 14-7 and 11-3. He's played 17 games for the Yankees this season and has seven home runs. It is 2013 and Yankee Stadium is chanting "Soriano" like it's 2003. ...
Fake Shane Spencer Hoaxes Radio Show, Implies Jeter, Rivera Used PEDs
When you have a former Major League Baseball player on to admit steroid use, it is very, very important to make sure he's actually a former Major League Baseball player....
Baseball On The Radio, George Carlin, Ike and Tina, Jurassic Five Jam
Another little jam for you—chuckle and groove. ...
Iman Shumpert Releases New Track, And It's Good
Kendrick Lamar may have put a stranglehold on the rap industry last night, but he wasn't the only one to drop a new verse. Knicks forward and sometimes-rapper Iman Shumpert released "Versace (Freestyle)," and it happens to be very good....
Yeah, But How Does it Read?
Few years ago, Franz Lidz wrote a piece on former SI managing editor Gil Rogin for the New York Observer. ...
A-Rod Hit His First Home Run Of The Season
Alex Rodriguez socked his first homer of 2013, a solo shot off of Justin Verlander, in today's game. Yankees fans seemed OK with it....
J.R. Smith's Hair Has Gone Rogue
A couple of days ago, J.R. Smith showed up on Instagram looking like this. Rodman? Sisqo? Simon Phoenix? Nope. You'll never guess where the Knicks' swingman got the idea to go blond....
What Is Nate Silver's New ESPN Site Going To Look Like?
Nate Silver's ESPN-owned FiveThirtyEight site is not going to be The Nate Silver Show + a few contributors. Silver's plan is to make it a Grantland II, of sorts. ...
For The Boids
Last summer, Molly Langmuir wrote a nice piece for New York magazine about pigeon racing: ...
The Butt From The Buttfumble Retires From The NFL
The buttfumble will always belong to Mark Sanchez. But Sanchez couldn't have done it without Brandon Moore's butt. Today, Brandon Moore and his butt retired after 10 NFL seasons, all with the Jets. It's the end for an end of an era....
Roundup: Your Best A-Rod Out On The Town Photoshop Entries
We asked, and once again you delivered. What follows is the best of the photoshop contest submissions we got for this image of A-Rod hitting the town in Florida last week. You jerks never manage to disappoint....
Can I Have Your Autograph?
Ray Robinson? Terrific guy—great guy, in fact. ...
Mind The Gap
From the New York Magazine archives, here’s the late, great Vic Ziegel on Ali-Spinks II:...
Ex-Giants Lineman Allegedly Assaults Wife With Her Own Pocketbook
Luke Petitgout, a 1999 first-round draft pick who spent all but one of his nine NFL seasons with the Giants, turned himself in to New York City police today after his wife accused him of smacking her with her pocketbook and shoving her out of a car....
Summertime
Charles Simic writes about summertime over at the New York Review of Books:...
Throw It Down, Big Man
Check out Pat Jordan's 2001 New York Times profile of Bill Walton:...
Hand Jive
You'll like this—Peter Duffy's 2009 New York magazine story on handball:...
Here's Chicago Booing A-Rod In His First At-Bat
We had to wait until the second inning thanks to some iffy baserunning and the human element, but Alex Rodriguez made his season debut moments ago in Chicago and it was, as expected, a shitshow. He was lustily booed in his first at-bat since Major League Baseball suspended him for 211 games....