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War Machine Is Back On TwitterFormer MMA fighter War Machine (born Jonathan Koppenhaver) is currently in Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas as he awaits trial for the beating of Christy Mack. His next appearance in court is an Oct. 17 preliminary hearing at which Mack is expected to testify. Somehow, he (or someone else)...

A Found Love Poem To A Sporty, Dyslexic, Russian Orphan GirlToday's entry in our ongoing Unsolicited Letters series is an odd one, but kind of beautiful. A love poem to a soccer-playing, god-fearing orphan....

A Compendium Of Horrible, Horrible Twitter PoetryTwitter is an inherently silly and disposable means of communication. Oh, but there are people out there who take their tweets seriously. Very seriously. AFFIRMED....

Dan Shanoff's "Deadspin Night Before Christmas"

Those of you familiar with this time of year around the ole Four Letter Word network have probably become accustomed to the yearly Sports Night Before Christmas poem written by Daily Quickie scribe Dan Shanoff. (Lord, he'd been there since 2001. Holy cow.) Well, as most of you know, Dan's no longe...