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Susan Slusser and Demian Bulwa detail the harsh journey Yoenis Céspedes's family endured to reach the U.S.: "Their travels included four countries, six boat rides, two trips to jail, an immigration raid, accusations of human trafficking and a dispute with a Dominican baseball agent." [San Francisco ...
Ilya Kovalchuk Joins The KHL, And He's Getting A Raise
Four days after Ilya Kovalchuk's shocking retirement from the Devils, he's found himself a job. As expected, Kovalchuk's deal with SKA St. Petersburg of the KHL was made official today. Let's see how much he'll make, and then maybe we'll stop calling his NHL retirement "shocking."...
Teenager Jordan Spieth Finally Wins PGA Tour Event
Here's something to remember if you played 18 this weekend: 19-year-old Jordan Spieth won his first PGA Tour event on Sunday, outlasting David Hearn and 2007 Masters champ Zach Johnson at the John Deere Classic. And it was arguably a long time coming for Spieth. (P.S.: You're so old.)...
Here's A Bunch Of Pro Golfers Giving The <i>Happy Gilmore</i> Shot A Try
This is fun and something we've all done, right? Sometimes teeing off like Sandler did in Happy Gilmore is the only way to get through a round of golf. A European Tour camera crew got several players participating in the Scottish Open to try out the famous (infamous?) shot....
Live at the Barbecue
From Garden and Gun, here's Rodney Scott's BBQ mix tape....
How To Deep-Fry Soft-Shell Crabs (Yes, Dammit, Deep-Fry Them)
Deep-frying is bullshit. It's messy and labor-intensive and user-unfriendly. It requires a ton of oil, most of which will be wasted, plus—most of the time anyway—dumb annoying messy crap like egg wash and flour and breadcrumbs. In its worst, most diabolical incarnations, it even requires friggin...
Help! How Do I Get These Rust Stains Out Of My Shirt?
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her....
Bill O'Brien, Penn State Trustees Hold Private Meeting In Plain Sight
Penn State football coach Bill O'Brien wants the university to consider a proposal to ask the NCAA to modify the heavy sanctions against Nittany Lions. O'Brien also considers lawsuits like the ones filed by Pennsylvania's governor, a state senator, and the Paterno family to be detrimental to that ca...
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The Happiest Hooligan Of Them All
Here's the original manuscript of W.C. Heinz's 1959 True magazine story on Pepper Martin: "The Happiest Hooligan Of Them All." ...
Los Angeles Lakers Amnesty Metta World Peace
This sucks. ...
ESPN Reports Some Stupid Shit About Yasiel Puig
My stars! Yasiel Puig used his interpreter to try to pick up girls, and it was "not the first such occurrence," Pedro Gomez tells us darkly, citing "a source." But wait! It gets worse! Puig also failed to show proper deference when greeting Luis Gonzalez, according to Gomez, who on this count is me...
Rae Carruth, The Women Who Loved Him, And The One He Wanted Dead
Originally published in the May 2001 issue of GQ. Reprinted here with the author's permission. His annotations appear throughout the story (click on the asterisk and wait a moment for his comment to appear). Illustration by Sam Woolley....
ESPN Gets Defensive About Ratings Drop
Earlier this week we told you about ESPN's recent ratings woes. The numbers dropped significantly in the second quarter this year. They were down in the first quarter, too, and they were flat last year. Now that the news is getting around, ESPN PR—which usually projects an air of lordly remove in t...
Everybody Street
Over at Lomography, Cheryl Dunn talks about this cool-looking new documentary about New York City street photographers....
Was Baseball More Fun During The Steroid Era?
That's what John Rocker said on a radio interview, and, messenger aside, he's got a point:...
Lamar Odom Went Nuts On The Paparazzi
Lamar Odom went kind of bonkers on the paparazzi today, pawing through the backseat of a photographer's car and throwing all of his shit, including camera equipment, in the middle of the street. ...
Metta World Peace Reacts Wonderfully To Reports Of His Pending Release
Now that it looks like the cap-strapped Lakers are going to amnesty Metta World Peace sometime in the next week to save $14.8 million, Metta World Peace has reacted on Twitter in the most Metta World Peace way imaginable....