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Giants Player Accused Of Faking Injury Placed On Season-Ending IR
The Giants are really taking this ruse to slow down the Cowboys offense seriously....

Tyrone Williams Rents A Citi Bike
Kottke delivers. So what else is new?...

Here's A Guy Doing Some BMX Tricks With A Heavy-Ass Citi Bike
The bikes from New York City's Citi Bike bike-share program are heavy as shit and slow as all hell. Our friends at Animal NY wanted to see if it was possible to have a little fun while riding one, so they put BMX pro Tyrone Williams to the test. Watching this makes me want to be 13 again. ...

Jimmy Fallon And Justin Timberlake Do A Bunch Of End Zone Dances
They call this bit "The Evolution of End Zone Dancing," but once they get past the "Dirty Bird" it's really just Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake dicking around for a few minutes. We're OK with that, but only because they do a dance called "Earthquake Waiter." That one is funny, for some reason....

Vanity Fair Turns 100
Slide on over to Vanity Fair and dig their 100th Anniversary site. ...

Blindsided
Michael J. Mooney's a good one. I remember liking this GQ story he did a couple of years ago:...

<em>Game Of Thrones</em>-Themed Fantasy Draft Features Costumes, Sullen Faces
OK, that's it. There can be no more Game-of-Thrones-as-sports shenanigans. We've officially reached the tipping point, because some dude named Dennis just emailed us to let us know that he and his friends have combined fantasy football and Game of Thrones to create "League of Thrones." Costumes were...

Why Lionel Messi Is Even Better Than You Think
One of the key findings of The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong is that soccer, more than any other team sport, is a weak link game: matches are won and lost, and championships and relegation are secured, by the genius and quality of a club's superstars, but even more so b...

The Greatest Comic Book Of 'Em All: Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali
One of the juiciest pop culture sports books ever made is this 1978 gem with art by Neal Adams. ...

The Man In The Ice
Nine years ago, Chris Jones wrote this keeper for Esquire: ...

Soccer Player Lights Up One Direction Member, Receives Death Threats
Louis Tomlinson is one-fifth of the boy band One Direction. This weekend, he participated in a charity soccer game to honor former Celtic and Aston Villa player Stiliyan Petrov, who was forced to retire after being diagnosed with leukemia. The game did not go very well for Tomlinson....

Ain't That America
Among the luminaries in the owner's box: LeBron James, Hulk Hogan, Chris Paul, Nolan Ryan, Chris Christie, George Strait, and Reince Priebus. Jerryworld is a land of wonder....

Dipshit Hockey Player Murders Grizzly Bear For Sport
Sorry everyone, but today's Bear Friday news is a big fucking bummer, and we have Minnesota Wild defenseman Clayton Stoner to thank for it. That's because Clayton Stoner thought it would be cool to go to British Columbia, shoot a grizzly bear, and then take some pictures of himself holding up the be...

Jacoby Jones Leveled By Teammate
Rookie Brynden Trawick wasn't watching where he was going on a punt and ended up bodyslamming teammate Jacoby Jones. Oops....

The 16 Fall Movies You Should Be Excited About: A Guide
Labor Day is the signpost every year that the sugary summer junk is behind us and that the nutritious square meal of awards season has finally arrived. That's the theory, anyway: In actuality, summer movies like Before Midnight and Fruitvale Station will be as well-received as any Oscar bait, and th...

Where Have You Gone, Mickey Mantle?
I'm in a taxi, trying to get to Yankee Stadium. I'm late and I've got my uniform on. But when I get there the guard won't let me in. He doesn't recognize me. So I find this hole in the fence and I'm trying to crawl through it, you know? But I can only get my head in. I can see Billy and White and Yo...

Watch Fox Soccer Channel Die In The Most Undignified Manner Possible
When Fox Sports 1 replaced SPEED two weeks ago, it received a touching goodbye from longtime race coverage personality Mike Joy. Fox Soccer Channel was not provided a similar honor....

Let's Watch The Raiders' Taiwan Jones Jump Over A Car For $200
A bunch of Oakland Raiders went out for Darren McFadden's 26th birthday the other night. It was a momentous occasion. Taiwan Jones, a running back who was switched to cornerback during the offseason, jumped over a BMW for $200. Tyvon Branch posted it to Instagram. A good time was had by all....

The Best And Worst Of Summer Movies: A Grierson & Leitch Report
Summer movie season is over. It's finally had its fill of us, leaving our mangled body twitching on the side of the road as it drives off with a rubbery squeal. Here at Grierson & Leitch, we're very much looking forward to fall and its crop of award-hungry prestige movies—we're speaking, of course, ...

Ricky Williams: America's Most Blunted
Chris Jones puts one—or many—in the air and gets lifted with Ricky Williams. "The Runaway" appeared in Esquire back in December of 2004:...