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Innovative Minnesota Vikings Keep Finding New Ways To Turn Ball Over
The free-falling Minnesota Vikings keep breaking new ground in football—today figuring out that the ball doesn’t even need to be snapped in order for them to turn it over. That’s the Midwest work ethic in action!...
Report: New NBA CBA Bans Players From Using Hoverboards, Trampolines, Guns
Details of the NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement are still leaking out in dribs and drabs, as the big-money items get the most attention (players naturally want to know how much they’ll be making, and horrified fans want to know exactly how much their team will pay on Jrue Holiday’s inevitab...
Oakland City Council Approves Framework Of NFL Stadium Plan
Oakland is one step closer to helping Mark Davis pay for an NFL stadium. The Oakland City Council and Alameda County Board of Supervisors both voted to approve the framework of a plan that would require that Oakland pay $200 million and give up a $150 million piece of land. The County Board vote pas...
What Does The U.S. Department Of Energy Do?
The Department of Energy (DOE) is a Cabinet-level department in the United States government, created in 1977. It is a descendant of—and consolidates the functions of—several predecessor agencies, among them the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), which was itself a descendant of ...
Shea McClellin Pulled Off A Perfect Leap Over The Ravens' Offensive Line
Malcolm Butler made a perfect deflection on third down to put the Ravens’ best player (kicker Justin Tucker) on the field for a 34-yard field goal attempt. Tucker missed his first field goal attempt of the year on the attempt, but it was through no fault of his own. Patriots linebacker Shea McClelli...
Poverty Doesn't Need Technology. It Needs Politics.
Yesterday marked the conclusion of the two-day Summit on Technology and Opportunity, an anti-poverty conference cohosted by the White House, Stanford University, and Mark Zuckerberg’s charity. Something is wrong here....
KC Wins In Overtime On Bank-Shot Field Goal As Time Expires
A Kansas City-Denver game that looked to be another primetime stinker proved a thriller in the end as the Chiefs won on Cairo Santos’s field goal that ricocheted off one upright and in as overtime expired....
Government Employees On Trump: "Everything. Is. Fucked."
Across the federal government, career employees are reckoning with the prospect of working for a Donald Trump administration. Today, people from the CDC, NLRB, DOT, TSA, and other agencies speak very freely about their hopes and fears....
Oh Hell Yeah Baby, The American Premier League Takeover Is Well Underway
“My seeds, run with his seeds, marry his seeds,” Ghostface once remarked, explaining the strategy by which an influx of money amongst a tight-knit group of individuals can be kept, collected, and grown into a sum that benefits the group for generations. He continued, “That’s how you keep Wu-Tang mon...
11 Sports GIFs That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity
Boy, it’s been a hell of a week for America. With discord rising as a result of the election results, racists feeling emboldened by Trump’s victory, and Leonard Cohen passing, it’s tough to feel good about anything. In an attempt to spruce up your Friday afternoon, we collected eleven sports GIFs th...
President Obama Notes That The Warriors Blew A 3-1 Lead In The Finals
In these, the precious final days before the title of Leader of the Free World is officially handed over to an unhinged megalomaniacal trash TV star, it is important to treasure the relatively good times we have today. To help us at least temporarily forget about this lost world we find ourselves in...
<i>Atlanta</i> Stumbled Too Often To Really Soar<em></em>
Atlanta, a dark comedy series created by Donald Glover that just wrapped its first season on FX, garnered almost universal praise as soon as it premiered. There were uniformly glowing press reviews, a credulous acceptance that the show would be, as its star and creator Donald Glover had taken to du...
Why Are Workers At Our Richest Universities Going Hungry?
This month, Harvard University received a $10 million donation earmarked to study residents in poor neighborhoods in Boston. The same week, Harvard’s dining workers had to go on strike in search of a living wage. ...
That Time Kobe Bryant Destroyed A Hungover Luke Walton
Incoming Lakers head coach Luke Walton was a rookie in L.A. once upon a time, and he joined up right at the tail end of the first era of dominant Kobe Bryant teams. Yesterday, he told a story about Kobe’s intensity back in those days to Jesse Williams on his “Open Run” podcast yesterday. He showed u...
Grover Norquist Rages At Debate: What About The Motherfucking Vapers?<em></em><em></em>
We know where Donald Trump stands on pussy grabbing (for). We know where Hillary Clinton stands on drinking water (against). What we don’t know, however, is where either candidate stands on the biggest issue of the election: Vapers’ rights....
Stanford Needed 59 Minutes To Score A Touchdown, But One Is All They Needed
Seventh-ranked Stanford came from behind to beat UCLA at the Rose Bowl tonight when Ryan Burns connected with JJ Arcega-Whiteside in the final minute of the game to give the Cardinal a 16-13 lead in a game that featured only a pair of offensive touchdowns....
You Can't Expect A Wall Street Guy To Live Like A Peasant Just Cause He Takes A Government Job, Okay?
Stefan Selig was a vice chairman at Bank of America before becoming Commerce Department undersecretary in the Obama administration. Do you really expect a man like that to stay in a freakin Red Roof Inn??...
Which Was Longer: Katie Ledecky's Margin Of Victory Or The Johnson-Teixeira Fight?
Today was a great day for Brazilian sport, but it was not a great day for Brazilian fighter Glover Teixeira, whose UFC 202 match against Anthony “Rumble” Johnson was over nearly as it began. But was that match shorter than Katie Ledecky’s margin of victory in the 800m freestyle? Watch this video to ...
All 306 Olympic Medal Events, Ranked
My friend Danny always says that the Olympics is a great opportunity to reflect upon how we have grown or regressed during the past four years. Four years ago I was working for NBC during the Olympics. I was getting paid thousands of dollars to watch television. My office was the Saturday Night Live...
Jerry Richardson Received A Statue Of Himself With Two Panthers For His Birthday
Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson turned 80 this month and received quite a gift from his team’s partners: A big-ass statue of himself holding a football, flanked by two ferocious, muscle-bound panthers. It must be awesome to be rich and have rich friends....