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FC Bayern's Franck Ribéry Wins UEFA Best Player in Europe Award

Frenchman Franck Ribéry was just awarded the trophy for the UEFA Best Player in Europe. The award, which was first handed out in 2011, recognizes the best player from a European soccer club the previous season. Ribéry plays for FC Bayern, who won the UEFA Champions League over German rivals Borussia...

Jerry Jones Says He Has A Super Brain

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones recently got a CT scan, and afterward he had this to say about it to the Dallas Morning News' Rainer Sabin:...

Gangster, Gangster

Come magazine award season, Paul Solotaroff's latest piece for Rolling Stone, "The Gangster in the Huddle" (co-authored by Ron Borges) is sure to garner some well-deserved attention: ...

96-Year-Old Man Gets Hole In One, Dishes Wonderful Golf Wisdom

Before we get into this story, I just want to point out that it features a 96-year-old man named Mel Boonstra and his golfing partner Gord Grevengoed. Every old man in America should be named Mel Boonstra or Gord Grevengoed....

Here's A Very Strange Music Video Featuring Gazing NBA Players

Good news for any hoopsters still doing their thing out there: someone went and made a music video just for them. ...

The Real Rocky

Or The Ballad of Chuck Wepner. In case you aren't familiar with Wepner's story, dig George Kimball on Sly Stallone and “Rocky”:...

Blowout Loss Sends Serena Williams's Opponent Into Arms Of Ball Boy

Francesca Schiavone might have said she didn't need a hug, but as her first-round U.S. Open match against Serena Williams got completely out of hand Monday night, Francesca Schiavone totally needed a hug....

What's The Rumpus?

Kudos to Rolling Stone for reprinting Jonathan Cott’s 1976 profile of Maurice Sendak:...

Great Players Who Never Had A Great Moment

There have been great players who never had a great moment; men who went on year after year, running up formidable statistics, but were no more fearsome than anybody else in the few, crucial moments of their careers. They popped up or flied out in key at-bats, or did not even fail that spectacularly...

What's In A Name, Sugar?

Vhy a duck? Leigh Montville's latest for Sports on Earth is a lot of fun:...

Buck Dilla

Buck O'Neil meets Jay Dee. A little something we threw together a few years ago:...

Head Of Elite Youth Basketball Program Charged In Drug Investigation

As reported by the Washington City Paper, Curtis Malone, the co-founder and president of DC Assault, has been arrested after a year-long DEA investigation indicated that he is a part of a D.C. drug ring. DEA agents found what is believed to be 100 grams of heroin and one kilo of cocaine in Malone's ...

Adam Jones Says A Giants Fan Threw A Banana At Him

Orioles outfielder Adam Jones took to Twitter after yesterday's 10-2 win in San Francisco to complain about a fan tossing a banana onto the field. The Giants say they have no record of the incident....

Why Pop Culture Gets Under Our Skin

There are pieces of pop culture—songs, plays, movies—that touch us in ways that get inside of us and don't let go. Taxi Driver, The Graduate, or even Lost in Translation, are movies that stir something deep inside people. I liked Lost in Translation well enough but it is one of my wife's favorite mo...

Dioner Navarro Carted Off After This Collision, Holds On To The Ball

Dioner Navarro had to be carted off the field in the seventh inning after a collision at the plate with Chase Utley.With Utley on second, Kevin Frandsen lined a single to right field in just about perfect position for Cole Gillespie to field the ball on a couple of hops and fire a laser home to Nava...

Karl Malone And Enes Kanter Caught A Tiny Fish

Enes Kanter went fishing with Karl Malone. Karl's wife posted this photo, captioned "His first fish." Fishing with Karl Malone is better than hunting with Karl Malone....

Brooklyn Cyclones' Jackie Robinson Statue Defaced With Racist Graffiti

Overnight, someone spray painted the statute outside the Cyclones' Coney Island ballpark with swastikas and racist slurs, including the words "die nigger."...

Friday Night Tights

Michael J. Mooney's 2010 New Times story on women football players:...

Jay Mariotti Has A Website And A Shitty Radio Show [CORRECTED]

Correction (4:04 p.m.): Turns out there are two Genesis Communications in the radio world. Jay Mariotti actually partnered with the one that owns and operates six stations in central Florida—not the one affiliated with Alex Jones and his ilk. Our bad. Fuck Mariotti anyway....

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