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Twitter crowdsources Charles Barkley’s greatest hitsCharles Barkley: 11-time NBA All-Star, three-time gold medalist, and, uh, professional comedian? After a tweet this weekend about Barkley’s legendary sense of humor blew up, short, laugh-out-loud clips of the Inside the NBA analyst have started appearing in droves on Twitter. The original has over 3...

The Jarrett Allen social media jokes were funny, but his real life teammates were wrong for making him buy that phoneiShameThe personalities are the most fun part about the NBA, but not only because they’re flashy or frequently appear in gossip blogs. Those players are fun, but it’s different types of personalities in the league that make it work....

College Football Coaches Love To Get Upset About The InternetCollege football coaches, as a general rule, are a weird group of people. The job seems built to attract a specific type of deeply strange person—take the most obsessive and ambitious and aggressive gym teacher possible, then pay him millions of dollars and make him one of the most recognizable and ...

CNN Wonders If Smartphones Are Why The Tennis Youth Can't Beat Roger Federer

An article over at CNN today formally advances a claim dropped casually by commentators, coaches, fans, and any crank with a taste for caricaturing a whole generation. Here goes: Smartphones are hampering tennis’s young players, which is why they can’t stop the Big Three in the men’s game, who enjo...

Which Ear Is Your Phone Ear?

I recently became deaf in my right ear thanks to a sudden brain hemorrhage, which is a freakish life-threatening injury that I highly recommend avoiding. The good news out of this, apart from me not being dead, is that it turns out my surviving left ear is my phone ear. I didn’t even realize it was ...

Use Some Goddamn Headphones<em></em>

Here is a take for you: Wear some goddamn headphones when you watch a video in public....

Go Ahead, Take Out Your Camera At A Ballgame<em></em>

As Jose Altuve strode up for his fifth and final plate appearance in Game 2 of the ALCS, Fox panned to the crowd, a mass of fans in orange, with phones in front of their faces. The game wasn’t on the line; Boston was already down by seven and had shown very little signs of life in the previous 16 in...

Jimmy Butler Gives The Masses His Number, Tells Them To Call<em></em>

Jimmy Butler held his introductory press conference up in Minnesota this morning, and when he was asked about rumors of his discontent in Chicago, he waved it off and encouraged anyone who wanted to to hit him up. “My phone’s in my back pocket,” he said, “773-899-6071.”...