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Tell Us About The Grossest Thing You've Ever Seen On Public Transportation
One morning last week, I was riding the train into Manhattan, and saw a woman slurping down a Tupperware container full of soupy, smelly oatmeal. She sat perched on the edge of her seat, shoveling glob after glob into her mouth. I couldn’t get off the train fast enough. It was gross! Surely you’ve s...
The Daily Fantasy Protest Looks Like A Good Time
A few hundred users and (mostly) employees of daily fantasy sites gathered outside the lower Manhattan offices of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman this morning, three days after the AG ordered the DFS sites to stop accepting wagers in New York. Both DraftKings and FanDuel are prepared to ...
Report: DraftKings Gearing Up For A Major Legal Fight
Daily fantasy company DraftKings is trying to cut back on its ad spend and hiring one of the nation’s foremost lawyers in preparation for a huge legal battle in New York, according to Bloomberg....
New York AG Orders DraftKings And FanDuel To Stop Taking Bets From New York Residents
Things are only getting worse for the definitely skill-based daily fantasy industry, as New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ordered DraftKings and FanDuel to cease accepting bets from New York residents. In a prepared statement, Schneiderman assailed daily fantasy, saying it constituted ille...
Derrick Rose Turned His Son's Meme Face Into A T-Shirt
Derrick Rose’s son is one of the world’s more expressive sports babies, as evidenced here and in the photo above. This is apparently is not lost on Derrick Rose, who wore a very cool T-shirt in the locker room yesterday:...
Mount Union Football Coaches Crush It As Pro Wrestlers For Halloween Practice
The Mount Union Purple Raiders are the best team in the history of Division III football, having won 23 straight conference titles and 11 of the past 22 national titles. One of their secrets of success, apparently, is lightening things up at practice. Enjoy the team’s coaches hamming it up as wrestl...
Mike Huckabee Goes "Hunting"
On the sweltering plains of humanity’s early days, pre-industrial tribesmen acquired rich animal protein for their diets via persistence hunting. Working carefully in groups—and taking advantage of the stamina, sweat-cooling, and water-carrying advantages humans have over terrestrial ungulates—they ...
CBS Reporter Jamie Erdahl Reports Steve Smith Injury News She Got From A Fake Twitter Account
There’s nothing more ridiculous than fake Twitter accounts, but they persist because so many stupid people fall for them. One such person is CBS sideline reporter Jamie Erdahl, who quoted a fake Ian Rapoport report that Steve Smith’s injury was a torn Achilles tendon. The network had to quickly retr...
Pierre Garçon Is Leading A Class-Action Lawsuit Against FanDuel On Behalf Of NFL Players
On Friday Pierre Garçon filed a federal class-action lawsuit in Maryland against FanDuel on behalf of all the NFL players whose likenesses and names the site uses, he says, without proper permission. FanDuel has marketing agreements with 15 NFL teams, including Washington, who was one of the first t...
¡Es Insano! Timbers Advance In MLS Playoffs After Breaking Physics In PKs
Portland Timbers are moving on in the MLS playoffs after defeating Sporting Kansas City in a wild match that required eleven rounds of penalties—with the winner being scored by, and then saved by, Timbers keeper Adam Kwarasey....
"Weird Al" Yankovic Is Every Coach At A Postgame Press Conference
“Weird Al” Yankovic has expanded his abilities to parody. His latest effort takes on the usually dull ritual that is the postgame press conference. The image of Weird Al with short hair might shock you, but move past that....
A new study attempts to identify the “greatest” sports record of all time, taking into account things like longevity, distance ahead of closest challenger, the era in which it was set, and how truly individual the achievement is. The winner? Barry Bonds’s 688 career intentional walks. [Pacific Stand...
Chris Christie Flips Out On Debate Question About Fantasy Football
Things got testy multiple times at last night’s GOP debate, with the candidates repeatedly going off on the CNBC moderators for asking what they perceived to be biased or inane questions (even as they generally failed to provide substantive answers to the substantive questions). Toward the end, thin...
Fox Loses Broadcast During World Series
It’s not just you: during the bottom of the 4th inning of tonight’s World Series game from Kansas City, Fox’s broadcast cut out. After a few seconds Fox cut to a clearly confused Dan O’Toole in the studio, who explained that power was lost to Fox’s truck, and got Dontrelle Willis to blab about god k...
Backwards Runners In Reverse Look Like Regular Runners, Only Weird
It takes a second to figure out what you’re watching here, but when you finally do, it’s merely very strange. It’s people running backward, but the video’s in reverse, so it makes them look like they’re casually jogging away from something chasing them. The ghoul from It Follows, maybe, or a particu...
Barnsley Fan Falls Asleep On Stadium Toilet For Seven Hours, Loses Hat
League One (the third tier of English soccer) Barnsley are currently in the shitter, having won just four games in 14, and in position to be relegated to League Two at the end of the season. Yesterday a supporter joined them....
While all eyes are on ESPN and the 300 or so people they are laying off today, the SportsBusiness Journal reports that the Universal Sports TV channel is shutting down. The channel mostly had rights to Olympic sports, and featured a lot of swimming, cycling, and rugby. NBC will pick up some of its r...
Little Shit Takes Out Passing Bike With Basketball
I don’t know anything about this video and I don’t have much to say about it beyond that there is nothing to do in the suburbs, and that I hope bad things happened to this kid once the camera stopped rolling....