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Former NHLer Patrick O’Sullivan writes unflinchingly about the horrific abuse he suffered as a child, and what you—“the people in the parking lot”—can do to save the next kid....

Ichiro Is On The Mound For The Marlins

Ichiro Suzuki is an ageless wonder who quite possibly has limitless baseball powers he only chooses to dole out sparingly for the art of it. One of those powers is pitching, which he did against the Phillies today. His official line? One inning pitched, one earned run, and two hits. Here’s some evid...

It Appears Clinton Portis Owes A Lot Of People A Lot Of Money

Court filings unearthed this week reveal that banks, the IRS, and a casino are lining up to collect from former star NFL running back Clinton Portis. Even worse, it looks like the bank is trying to foreclose on the house Portis bought for his mother in 2004....

Phillies Catcher Accidentally Pegs Pitcher In Throat

Thank the capabilities of slow-mo these days, because just seconds after Phillies catcher Cameron Rupp flung a ball right into pitcher Sean O’Sullivan’s throat, the broadcast immediately showed two exceptional angles of “Man Getting Hit By Baseball.”...

Boxer Has Stool Hurled At Head While Celebrating Knockout

Spike O'Sullivan stopped Anthony Fitzgerald today in the first round of a middleweight bout that was ugly before it even started, and the controversy continued after the fight as someone (presumably from Fitzgerald's corner) threw a stool at O'Sullivan's head as he celebrated the win:...

<em>Sun-Times</em>' Bears Headline: "Hedy Hey Hedy Hey Hedy"

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Justin Bieber's Latest Boxing Highlight Is A Sad Sham

Justin Bieber is bad at a lot of things, like singing and dancing and writing lyrics and dressing and soliciting prostitutes and driving and basketball and other things, too. For some, reason, though, boxer Floyd Mayweather, a very bad, 37-year-old man, has decided to befriend this child, and even...

Ichiro Talks Shit In Spanish, And Latin Players Love Him For It

Ichiro stories are the best stories, and the Wall Street Journal recently published another great one that will make you dread the day Ichiro eventually retires. It turns out, Ichiro has spent his career becoming a favorite of Latin players around the league because he talks shit to them in Spanish....

Ichiro Hits First Home Run Of The Season, Jeter Gives Him The Business

Ichiro Suzuki hit his first home run of the season last night, a three-run homer that put the Yankees on top of the Blue Jays 6-4. It was Ichiro's first home run in almost a full calendar year, and as he approached the dugout, Jeter gave him the who are you and what have you done with Ichiro? look. ...

Ichiro, on not being a starter for the first time in his career: "I know the rules in baseball aren't going to change, but maybe they can play four outfielders? I haven't thought about that before. But now I do." [NJ.com]...

The Story Behind The Story: The Manti Te'o Hoax

Let's go behind the scenes of one of our most notable stories from 2013. Here's how "Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax" came to be....

Our old pal Jack Dickey takes a look back at the Manti Te'o story, and reminds us that even when a story goes through 24-hour news meat grinder, things can remain unsettled. [TIME]...

Opera Star: I'm Obsessed With Manti Te'o

Nico Muhly, the young composer behind the very buzzy opera Two Boys, has a bit of an obsession with Manti Te'o. Two Boys, currently running at the Metropolitan Opera, has a Te'oish plot: It's about a teenage boy who assumed numerous online personalities in order to convince an older teenage boy to—t...

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo Sued Over The One True Thing He Told Manti Te'o

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who masterminded the hoax behind Manti Te'o's fake dead girlfriend, is being sued in Los Angeles Superior Court by a friend who claims he suffered brain damage after a March 2012 auto accident while riding in a car driven by Tuiasosopo....

Ohio State Football Game Makes One Mesmerizing Timelapse Video

This is just cool. Timelapse videos are beautiful, but sort of all look the same at one point. This is a new one on us, though. Here's Ohio State playing Wisconsin last week, sped up beyond recognition. ...

I Will Believe Any Insane Ichiro Suzuki Story

There was a blog post today on blogger "Bloggin'" Murray Chass's blog about Yankees outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, and it includes this predictably insane story about the lengths Ichiro goes to in selecting his bats:...

French Fans Continue To Honor Cycling's Doping Past With Bare Asses

Another day, another butt! Sunday's ass exposure by a Tour de France spectator demonstrated the slight-of-hand necessary to pull off a classy mooning of the peloton as it rides past. Today's was not so subtle....

Puerto Rican League Game Delayed When Players' Families Start Fighting

We are actually big fans of Baloncesto Superior Nacional, the Puerto Rican professional basketball league that's become somewhat of a summer league stop-over for sub-NBA pro ballers. (Games are aired live on local TV here in St. Petersburg.) Last night's Humacao-Carolina vs. Ponce game, though, got...

Health Is Bad For You: My Weird Weekend At Toronto's Fitness Shitshow

TORONTO—"Dear Toronto Pro Supershow Delegate," read a slip of paper handed to everyone checking in at Toronto's Intercontinental Hotel on Friday. "For your convenience we have 'Special Towels' through our Housekeeping Department. We recommend that these special towels/ linens be used in conjunction ...

How To Give A Best Man Toast That Doesn't Suck

We got this email the other day from reader Alex. It's the kind of email we get a lot round these parts:...