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Harry Potter's Fantasy Football Team Is Named "Barkevious Mingo's Mum"
The New York Times Magazine cover story this weekend was about Daniel Radcliffe, better known simply as the boy who played Harry Potter. It's an interesting read if you like learning about celebrities who seem pretty grounded and only just a little bit tortured by fame. You learn that Radcliffe is h...
Win Or Lose, Carlos Beltran Is The King
Carlos Beltran hit the 16th postseason home run of his career yesterday, passing Babe Ruth on the career postseason home run list. If you've watched playoff baseball over the last decade you know all about Beltran's surreal ability to come up big in October, but there probably aren't that many casua...
V. S. Naipaul on Writing
"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."...
New York City Strip Club Says It Won't Show Giants Games Anymore
Breaking: People go to strip clubs to watch football. And at Rick's Cabaret in New York City, the football being played by the winless New York Giants is a total buzzkill. So now there's a new policy at Rick's: No more Giants games on the TVs this season....
The Pirates Are Five Wins Away From The World Series
This single from Pedro Alvarez in the bottom of the eighth gave the Pirates a 4-3 lead in Game 3 of the NLDS and proved to be the game-winning run. Pittsburgh is now one win away from the NLCS. Four wins there would get them to the World Series for the first time since 1979. ...
Watch This Bonkers Rugby League Play
I have next to no idea what is happening here, but it is beautifully athletic. This particular try from Michael Jennings came in the NRL Grand Final, which is like the Super Bowl of rugby league....
Pretty Footwork, Dez Bryant
Tony Romo found Dez Bryant in the very back of the endzone for the Cowboys first score of the game. Bryant got both feet just down in the endzone before falling out of bounds....
Eli's Derpiest Interception Yet: Your Week 5 Early Games Roundup
Eagles 36, Giants 21: Take a good look at everything awful in that Eli Manning GIF. The face. The bad pocket. The pass bouncing off a teammate's head. This is the perfect representation of an 0-5 team. For the record, that pass ended up being an interception. Mike Vick was also hurt, but it doesn't...
Here's Fred Couples Watching A Woman Streak At The Presidents Cup
There was a streaker at the Presidents Cup, which I guess means this should technically be tagged "idiot on the links," or "naked idiot on the links." ...
Tommy Kelly, On An Exercise Bike In The Rain, Is The Saddest Person
After tweaking his knee, a dejected Tommy Kelly sat on an exercise bike, but that wasn't miserable enough. It was also raining. Aw, chin up, sport. How 'bout we get ice cream on the way home?...
Happy Derrick Rose Is Back (Again) (Probably)
Derrick Rose returned to action last night and it went pretty well. He dunked in an actual game against other NBA players, officiated by NBA referees and watched by paying NBA fans. So it was preseason. Whatever. Get on the Fun Time Express. Happy Derrick Rose is back (again (for almost-real, this ...
Two Coaches, One Review
Tom Coughlin reacts to a wasted challenge when refs uphold a questionable call on a LeSean McCoy catch on the sideline....
Running Uphill Is The Worst, But You Should Probably Still Do It
I am now mere weeks away from some kind of buffalo/cow/large land-mammal-themed relay race in Kansas City and a few weeks more removed from the Wine and Dine half-marathon in Florida. I'm also going on a booze sabbatical. Things are terrible lately. Come, join in the misery and music. Here's the Spo...
More Like The New York Fumble Giants
Brandon Jacobs, brought (back) in to bolster a shaky and turnover-prone running game, fumbled without ever being touched....
Gah, So Close!
What looked like a no-doubt-about-it interception wound up being a 56-yard hookup between Michael Vick and DeSean Jackson. LeSean McCoy punched it in shortly thereafter for a 13-7 lead midway through the second quarter....