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Independent League Baseball Team Lights Fireworks Before Game Ends
Last night was supposed to be a special one for the Rockland Boulders. The president of Ramapo College threw out the first pitch, the team cheekily pushed its anti-PED message by dubbing the evening "A Night of Rods" and giving fans free pretzel rods, and the game was to be followed by a fireworks s...
The Hit King: Pete Rose In Purgatory
Originally published in the July 1997 issue of GQ. Reprinted here with permission of the author, whose annotations (as told to Alex Belth) appear throughout the story. Illustration by Sam Woolley....
A Tale Of Two NFL Buddies Who Call Each Other "Nigger" And "Cracker"
A fascinating story in today's Detroit News about Tony Scheffler and Louis Delmas, friends since college and teammates on the Lions. Like many friends, they have pet names for each other. Unlike many interracial friends, those pet names are racial slurs....
Fred Smoot Is Back With More Disgusting Sex Lingo
Fred Smoot, who is best known for double-donging two hookers while on the Vikings sex boat, has seemingly stumbled into a new career: coming up with disgusting euphemisms for oral sex....
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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....
There's Something About Steve
We could all use a laugh. So read Pete Dexter's 1984 column on Steve Garvey:...
David Ortiz Still Doesn't Know How He Failed That Drug Test
In 2003, MLB conducted survey testing to determine the extent of PED use in baseball. Among those who tested positive (though we wouldn't learn it for another six years) was David Ortiz, then in his first year with the Red Sox. Even now, Ortiz says he has no idea how he ended up on that list....
Riley Cooper Is Back. How Did He Spend His Time Off?
Riley Cooper returned to Eagles practice yesterday, four days after being excused from camp in the wake of a video showing him angrily using a racial slur. Where did Cooper go? What did he do? And how did his teammates handle his return? All very good questions....
Can I Have Your Autograph?
Ray Robinson? Terrific guy—great guy, in fact. ...
Everything Plays
And now for something completely different: Vladimir Nabokov on boxing:...
Ex-Giants Lineman Allegedly Assaults Wife With Her Own Pocketbook
Luke Petitgout, a 1999 first-round draft pick who spent all but one of his nine NFL seasons with the Giants, turned himself in to New York City police today after his wife accused him of smacking her with her pocketbook and shoving her out of a car....
Peyton And Eli Manning Sing An R&B Song About Football And Phones
Yes, this is just a dumb commercial for DirecTV and NFL Sunday Ticket. But it also features Eli Manning crooning, "It's like I spilled milk all over your blouse by accident (or on purpose)/It's like the milk is like football, and the blouse is your phone." The Mannings just do not give a fuck, and ...
Hand Jive
You'll like this—Peter Duffy's 2009 New York magazine story on handball:...
And Now, Bob Ley Saying "Hashtag: A-Hole" On Television
We owe this special moment to Antonio Bastardo's use of PEDs, and former relief pitcher Dan Meyer's pathetic bitterness. Thanks, fellas....
Alex Rodriguez Suspended Through 2014
Major League Baseball announced it will suspend Alex Rodriguez for the remainder of this season and all of 2014 for his role in the Biogenesis scandal. It becomes effective Thursday. That's 211 games, by far the longest PED suspension ever handed out by baseball. He will appeal, and is expected to b...
Hey Fatso!
Peter Richmond remembers Art Donovan, a master storyteller:...
The Full List Of Suspended Biogenesis Clients
As we all sit and wait for MLB's official announcement on Alex Rodriguez, the players who have accepted suspensions for their roles in the Biogenesis scandal have begun to leak, including the three names that hadn't yet been leaked....
Perfection
Slide on over to The Unbearable Lightness of Betting and read where you'll find a reprint of Brendan Boyd's essay, "Perfection":...