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Pierre The Pelican Just Got Infinitely More Terrifying
Gah! Run away, kids! Run away as fast as you can!...

Kansas Wigginses Defeat Duke Jabaris
The Jabari Parker/Andrew Wiggins match we eagerly wanted hit a snag, because eight other players just had to also play on the court. Wiggins and Parker each had their moments in the Jayhawks' 94-83 over the Blue Devils....

Drunk Man Tries To Steal Thunder Girls' Wooden Stool, Gets Arrested
Troy MacBeth was attending an Oklahoma City Thunder game last Wednesday when he allegedly attempted to take a wooden stool that belonged to the Thunder Girls. Why would he do that? That face has "good decisions" written all over it....

Michigan State Fan Behind ESPN Set Is <em>Really</em> Into Usher
Spartans supporters had reason to celebrate in Chicago tonight after MSU held off top-ranked Kentucky to earn a major early-season OOC win. One Michigan State fan took the opportunity to show off his terrible dance moves on ESPN's airwaves....

Ivan Johnson Is Shooting Threes And Doing The Big Balls Dance In China
After failing to find a new deal in the NBA this past offseason, Ivan Johnson continued his basketball career in China, signing with the Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Bulls. He seems to be having a great time....

Michael Jordan Traded His Flu Game Sneakers For Applesauce (Sort Of)
Graham crackers and applesauce. That's all Michael Jordan wanted during an early-season game in Utah. The Bulls' trainer had his graham crackers, but applesauce was nowhere to be found. ...

How To Make Football Players Lose Their Minds: Cancel Saturday Practice
Man, those kids are gonna get druuuuuunk on Friday night....

Michigan Offense Drives Man To Drink, Drive Drunk
Around 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 3, hours after Michigan's embarrassing loss to Michigan State, Dearborn police responded to a call about a man asleep in his car at a gas station. He had been unconscious for 90 minutes. He had urinated on himself. He was arrested, and told officers he had really had no choi...

Sid Bream Hates His Name: Athletes' Replies To Fans
A few weeks back we asked you to send along any notes or letters you've received after writing to pro athletes. Varsity Letters is a hopefully semi-regular feature in which we share some of our favorites. Please send your athlete responses to me at [email protected]....

Coach K's Goofy West Point Yearbook Photo From 1969
This wonderful artifact surfaced on Imgur earlier today, and it will be enjoyed by people all over the world for years to come. If Duke haters have any sense at all, they will start referring to Coach K as "Mick Krizilonski" from here on out. ...

These Old Ladies Chugging An Energy Drink Are The Best Basketball Fans
These two Wichita State fans weren't going to let a 12 a.m. start time get in the way of them watching their beloved Shockers put a hurting on Western Kentucky. While other ladies their age were sleeping soundly after enjoying a 4 p.m. dinner, these two heroes were housing an energy drink and watch...

Florida Ruined The NFL
Burn Florida. Sterilize the entire state of its NFL teams as you would an MRSA contamination. Float it into the Gulf, Bugs Bunny-style. Send the NFL to Los Angeles or London or Lucknow, anywhere but the Sunshine State—professional football cannot thrive on its saline soils. After an ugly, addled Mon...

Buckeye's "Wipe The Field" Boast Is The Future Of FBS Shit-Talk
The biggest stones in college football today belong to Evan Spencer, who plays receiver for Ohio State and who just got his name written on wipeboards across the Midwest today. ESPN.com reported the lad said, in reference to top- and second-ranked Alabama and Florida State, "I'm a little biased. I t...

Video: Bears Fan Tasers His Packers-Fan Wife To Settle A Bet
Finally, video has emerged of Bears fan John Grant using a stun gun on his wife, after he won a bet on the outcome of last week's Monday Night Football game. (She's a Packers fan, you see.) ...

Drunk Fan At Alabama-LSU Game Has Unsettling Dance Moves
Yeah, I don't have the slightest clue what this guy's deal is. But I do know that he needs to become best friends with Raptor Fan as soon as possible. ...

The Problem With Bitching About Fourth Downs And Two-Point Conversions
It's funny how the analytics of a sport can often mirror the sport itself. Sabermetrics are as regimented (or more) as the national pastime ever was; basketball analytics have progressed into lively, intersecting data points thanks to new player tracking technology; and heady football talk often en...

Steven Stamkos Stretchered Off After Leg Injury
Oh hey there's a gif too DON'T LOOK AT IT....

People Keep Tweeting Hate And Support At The Wrong Jonathan Martin
You know what this Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin mess could use? Some levity. So let's take a moment to laugh at how dumb people on the internet are. ...

An Emotional Shannon Sharpe Rips The Dolphins Locker Room
On CBS's pregame show, Shannon Sharpe had some very strong words for the Dolphins, less about their handling of the Incognito-Martin fallout, and more about a locker room that let things get to the point where a white player can call a teammate a "half-nigger" and it's supposed to be taken in good h...

How Peter King Got His (Late) Dog Because Of The Redskins
It's almost not fair to write about putting down an aged dog, because there's no possible way you can read it and not get misty-eyed. (Bill Simmons's piece on his late dog remains one of the best things he's ever written). Today it's Peter King's turn to pay tribute to Twitter-famous Bailey, who was...