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Meet The Guy Who Wrote Those Bizarre Scouting Reports For NFL.com
Think of the most important thing you'd want to know about an NFL prospect. The piece of information that should be listed first on his NFL.com draft profile. It is, almost certainly, nothing like these:...

The Man Who Scored The NHL's Greatest Shootout Goal Hangs Up His Skates
Defenseman Marek Malik announced his retirement from hockey today, after five years in Europe following a 15-year NHL career that stretched all the way back to the Hartford Whalers. But few players, especially with that kind of service time, are so inextricably linked to one meaningless moment as Ma...

Kickboxer Knocked Out In First Round With 360 Back Kick
Raymond Daniels knocked out Francois Ambang at 1:47 in the first round of a fight on a Glory card tonight, about 1o seconds after Ambang was knocked down from a flurry of punches and could barely pick himself up and stand upright. ...

Why Rich Lacrosse Parents Are Making Their Kids Repeat A Grade
In the lax-crazy scholastic sports scene of the high-end Washington D.C. market, a game between Landon School and Georgetown Prep is essentially 'Skins vs. Cowboys, except with more people named Topper. They're two of the fancy-pantsiest all-boys secondary schools in the area, and their athletic riv...

Frank Martin Is A Beautiful Flower
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WFAN Just Obliterated Mike Francesa's Most Effective Marketer
WFAN Audio, the internet's largest repository of Mike Francesa clips, was decimated today, as WFAN/CBS issued takedown notices on hundreds of YouTube videos. This is only notable to that small subset of the population who cares what Francesa's up to, but that's kind of the point—even fewer people ar...

Holy Shit, The Marlins And Braves Cannot Stop Striking Each Other Out
Remember last night, when the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins combined to strike out 28 times, a thing that had never before occurred in the modern era? Well, those crazy free-swingers went and did the exact same thing today, and they didn't even need a full nine innings to do it this time. ...

Sports Personalities Fail To Be Subtle While Promoting New Wayans Movie
What do Robert Griffin III, Mike Epps, and ESPN's Jemele Hill all have in common? They all want you to go see their boy Marlon Wayans's hilarious new movie, A Haunted House 2, TONIGHT!!!...

How Nolan Nawrocki Made Himself Into The NFL's Most Infamous Scout
Nolan Nawrocki lives in the nicest house in a tidy neighborhood in Elmhurst, Ill., a western suburb of Chicago. When I visit him a couple of weeks before Easter, the windows are already awash in signage....

This Is The Worst Baseball Column
This has to be a joke, it just has to be. Either it's a joke, or the The Batavia Daily News mistakenly published a Scott DeSmit article on sabermetrics from 2003. There can be no other explanation for this lede: "[c]omputers have ruined baseball and 'Sports Illustrated.'" ...

Youth Basketball Player Pulls Off The Greatest Flop In History
We all agree that flopping is terrible and nobody should do it, but you've got to respect this kid's hustle....

UMass Guard Derrick Gordon Comes Out As Gay
Derrick Gordon, a sophomore starter on the UMass men's basketball team, has announced that he is gay. ...

Here's The Contract Steve Masiello Signed With USF
In case you were wondering, here is the contract current former suspended Manhattan College basketball coach Steve Masiello signed with South Florida before it found out he never graduated college. As is often the case, the devil is in the details....

How To Fry Brussels Sprouts, And Learn To Love Them At Last
You think of Brussels sprouts and you think of misery. When you were a kid, some damn do-gooder grownup nuked a frozen bag of them in the microwave , and scooped a bunch of them onto your plate next to your delicious SpaghettiOs, and laid some bullshit on you about how eating them would make you gro...

Angels Extend Mike Trout Through 2020
The Angels signed Mike Trout to a six-year $144.5 million contract extension that will keep him in Los Angeles and Anaheim through 2020. It's not exactly Miguel Cabrera money, but Trout now has a long term, multi-million dollar deal that lasts into his year 29 season. Trout will then become a free a...

Best Ever: The Making Of "What Do You Think Of Ted Williams Now?"
This piece originally appeared in the eighth issue of The Classical Magazine. It is reprinted here with permission. ...

Train Surfing Is As Insane, Dangerous As It Sounds
Italian photographer Marco Casino just took first prize in the World Press Photo Multimedia Awards with his short film Staff Riding that follows South African train surfers. Yup, train surfers. Catch the entire short after the jump. ...

We Need To Talk About Paul George's Wardrobe
This is the outfit that Paul George put on after his team lost to the Bulls last night. That is a lot of leather. Just so, so much leather. But this outfit shouldn't shock anyone, because Paul George has been doing this for a while....