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How Greg Jackson Is Changing The Parameters Of Coaching
Last year, we spent a week with Greg Jackson, a top fight trainer, as he and his team prepared four athletes to compete in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. We were granted unusual behind-the-scenes access so that we could answer a fairly straightforward question: Just what does a great coach do, ...
Why USA Bobsled Needs Lolo Jones
Earlier this week, to the surprise of many, Lolo Jones was named to the Olympic bobsled team, despite having only been in the sport for a few years. The teammates she beat out and many independent observers believe it's a conspiracy on the part of USA Bobsled and NBC. Jones is there not because she'...
A University Goes To Court To Keep A Player Off The Team
A college basketball player is charged with sexual abuse. The charges are dropped, but his university kicks him off the team. A judge orders him reinstated, and now the state supreme court will hear the case. There is a fascinating story playing out at Iowa State, one with no easy answers, but that ...
Chipper Jones Set The Woods On Fire
Last night, former Atlanta Braves third baseman and occasional fat person Chipper Jones sent out an ominous, yet fairly light-hearted tweet....
Surfing Footage Shot By A Drone Justifies The Existence Of Drones
See, not all drones are terrifying machines that rain death from above. Some of them are just chill little quad copters with camera's attached to them that are perfectly suited to capture surfers doing awesome things. This drone is cool with us, bro. ...
Joey Goldstein Was A New York City Legend
"I am not a hustler. I am a practitioner who enlightens the American populace and brings joy to the world." Joey Goldstein....
How Davone Bess Fell Through The Cracks
Davone Bess's offseason has gone from funny to frightening. One day, he's tweeting photos of weed. The next, he's having what can only be described as a mental breakdown at the airport. It soon emerged that Bess had another breakdown in March, a month before Miami traded him to Cleveland. The all-im...
Austrian TV <em>Game Of Thrones</em> NFL Playoffs Promo Is Amazing
Are you tired of the incessant attempts to make Game Of Thrones-themed everything? Probably! But check out this promo from Austrian TV promoting today's NFL conference title games anyway, because it's awesome....
Davone Bess Tweets Picture Of Himself Completely Naked
Friday, Davone Bess was arrested after an altercation with a police officer at Fort Lauderdale International Airport, where it was reported he was "acting irrationally" and his pants were falling down. He then tweeted out a picture of himself standing in front of a mirror stark naked early Saturday ...
Davone Bess Was Restrained And Hospitalized 10 Months Ago
Today's arrest of Browns wide receiver Davone Bess—in which he was reportedly singing and dancing in an airport with his pants falling down—did not sound like the actions of a healthy man. The Miami Herald has learned that it wasn't Bess's first incident like this....
Davone Bess Arrested On Charges Of Assaulting An Officer (Update)
Browns wide receiver Davone Bess was arrested early this morning at Fort Lauderdale International Airport for allegedly assaulting a law enforcement official. It's been a rough week for Bess....
Messi Obliterates Defense And Scores In First Start Since Injury
Uh, yeah. Messi Back....
Davone Bess Tweets (Another) Photo Of Weed
Browns receiver Davone Bess tweeted a photo of some weed this morning. This is noteworthy only insofar as marijuana is illegal, though increasingly decriminalized, and a banned substance in the NFL, though ubiquitous and largely unpoliced, and we presume that most of the NFL's rookie symposium consi...
Video Evidence That Americans Don't Know Anything About Soccer
We're at a strange junction in American soccer fandom. The sport is more popular and visible here than ever, but is still pretty niche. So when this guy decided to ask some college kids fairly basic soccer questions, the results were wildly inconsistent....
Sadly, This Great Picture Of Ronaldo Stealing Messi's Girl Is Fake
Cristiano Ronaldo won his second Ballon d'Or yesterday, awarded to the year's best soccer player. He beat out Lionel Messi, who had won it four years in a row. Ronaldo's win was expected (though neither he nor Messi had each other in their top three), so the highlight of the gala was the above photo...
Mayor Of Ames, Iowa, Gets Bored Watching Other Mayor Of Ames, Iowa
Iowa State's men's basketball coach, Fred Hoiberg, is often referred to as The Mayor because of his popularity in town. He got some write-in votes for the actual mayoral race in 1993 and it's in his ISU bio and his Twitter handle. It's pretty official as nicknames go. ...
Tywin Lannister Narrates BBC Olympic Promo
Charles Dance, the actor who plays Tywin Lannister on Game of Thrones (and the bad guy in Last Action Hero, as if I had to tell you), lends his voice to this commercial for the BBC's coverage of the Sochi Olympics....
Weekend Stacked
The Stacks now has a weekend home over at The Daily Beast. ...
Our 20 Most Anticipated Movies of 2014
Now that all the year-end best-of lists are finally over, it's time for some lists that look forward rather than backward. 2014 has a lot to live up to; 2013 was one of the best movie years in recent memory....