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What The Hell Do I Do With These Frightening Ghost Peppers?
Welcome to the Feedbag, where all the dumb questions about food, drink, cooking, eating, and accidental finger removal you've been embarrassed to ask can finally receive the berating they goddamn deserve. Also: answers. Send all your even-vaguely-food-related questions to [email protected] wit...
Jürgen Klopp Is, Uh, Upset
FEEL THE RAGE. After Borussia Dortmund conceded a 29th-minute goal to Napoli's Gonzalo Higuaín, manager Jürgen Klopp took out his anger on the fourth official and was sent off....
BBC Presenter Introduces News Report Holding A Pack Of Printer Paper
We're big fans of the BBC 24-hour news channel around here, but when we saw presenter Simon McCoy introducing a story about drunk tanks while holding a pack of printer paper, we wondered if this was some kind of British journalism tradition that never made its way to our shores....
Browns Promote Third-String Quarterback To Starter
Browns gonna Browns, I guess. Via the team's Twitter account and an unintentionally hilarious use of the word "BREAKING," the Cleveland Browns have announced that third-string quarterback Brian Hoyer will start this Sunday's game against the Vikings....
Mispronunciation Costs <em>Wheel Of Fortune</em> Contestant Shot At $1 Million
Oh, this poor, poor, well-dressed man....
Teens Throw Huge Party At Former NFL Lineman's House While He's Away
Former NFL offensive lineman Brian Holloway has a house and 200 acres of property in Stephentown, N.Y. Over Labor Day weekend, while Holloway was away, roughly 300 kids threw a gigantic rager at his house without his knowledge, trashed the place, and stole his stuff. Teens are the worst....
Mark May's Twitter Broke And Gave Us So Many Hot Takes
Mark May's Twitter account just went bananas, and it was delightful. Judging by the timeliness of the tweets sent, all of May's drafts went out at the same time. We got a good look at all the gems May chose not to send....
It'll Be A Lot Harder To Scalp Super Bowl Tickets This Year
You are not going to the Super Bowl. You are not a corporate sponsor or a Bruno Mars roadie or the guy who polishes the Snoopy sculpture outside of MetLife Stadium, so you can absorb this news as an abstraction: the NFL is majorly jacking up the prices of the best seats for its first cold-weather Su...
How A White Couple Stuck Up For Black Ballplayers In Jim Crow Florida
Excerpted from From Black Sox to Three-Peats: A Century of Chicago's Best Sports Writing (University of Chicago Press), edited by Ron Rapoport and featuring stories from the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, among other papers. It's an excellen...
How We Acquired That Bo Pelini Audio Recording
That audio of Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini venting and cursing (and cursing and cursing) about fans and some members of the media has existed for two years now. But it was made public yesterday because that's when we first learned of it. In fact, the source who gave us the recording reached out...
The Most Honest Book About Football You'll Read All Year
Former Bronco Nate Jackson's book is out today, and it's an exceptional memoir of life on the NFL's margins. You'll find out what it's like hiding injuries to make a roster, waiting for the year's annual drug test to pass so players can start smoking, and what a dickbag Eric Mangini is. Slow Getting...
Meaningless, Meaningful September Baseball Is Great Baseball
A few thoughts, in no special order, on a lousy ballgame from the other night:...
Sumo Match Ends With Crushing Body Slam
I remember one summer, when I was 10 or 11, I spent a day at home watching sumo wrestling on ESPN2. I came away from the experience thinking that sumo wrestling was boring and dumb. I would not have been so dismissive if some shit like this had gone down. ...
CU Football Player Arrested For Allegedly Throwing Mud At Girlfriend
University of Colorado running back Terrence Crowder was arrested on domestic violence charges early Sunday morning after getting into an argument and physical altercation with his girlfriend. Mud was allegedly involved....
Bo Pelini On Nebraska Fans: "Fuck You, Fans. Fuck All Of You."
This is fun. Here we have an audiotape of Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini flipping his shit about both the media and the Cornhuskers' fans after a 2011 game. Why are we getting this now? Well, our tipster was particularly exercised by Nebraska's flameout against UCLA on Saturday, which has led to ...
The Florida Panthers Really Packed 'Em In For Their Preseason Opener
This was the anthem scene at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla., this afternoon for Predators-Panthers. It proves once and for all that there's no better setting for preseason hockey than a doubleheader that begins at 2:30 on a Monday in south Florida in the middle of September....
There's A New Contender For The Worst Mistake On A Kickoff Return
Less than a week after the Titans' Darius Reynaud started the NFL season with a safety on an opening kickoff, Marshall's Steward Butler gave us an even more derp-tuoso performance during a college game Saturday night....
Did Ray Rice Spit At Phil Taylor?
After the second play of the Browns-Ravens game, Cleveland tackle Phil Taylor earned a flag for slapping Ray Rice's helmet. Taylor insinuated that he was retaliating for something Rice had done....
Jaguars Fans Will Hold A "Sign Tim Tebow" Rally At 3:16 P.M.
The group's slogan captures all the passion and purpose of Jaguars football: "Why not?" Why not, indeed....
Here's A Bench-Clearing Brawl At A Men's Slow-Pitch Softball Game
This happened recently at the USSSA B World Tournament, which is another way of saying it's a bunch of old guys with beer guts rolling around in the dirt in Florida!™...