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Buffalonian Intimately Familiar With Tom Brady's Bathroom Habits
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U.S. And Mexico Both Lose World Cup Qualifiers
This kid is everyone's spirit kid. He's pissed. And why not, everything about Friday night was a bummer. Before the U.S. men even dug themselves a 2-0 hole in the first 10 minutes, Michael Bradley went down with an injured ankle in the pre-game workout....

Sixth-Grade Running Back Hurdles Defender En Route To End Zone
Via Bob's Blitz, this youngster for the Rebels of Obion County (Tenn.) knew right when to press the correct button on his controller. ...

Jets Sign Handsome, Bad QB To Temporarily Replace Handsome, Bad QB
The Jets weren't satisfied with their quarterbacks after the cutdown to a 53-man roster, so they made another move Monday, signing Brady Quinn....


Hey, Bulldog
The Wife wants a bulldog. I want a Bernese mountain dog. Instead, we have two cats....

The Sprinklers Went On During The Fourth Inning At Coors Field
Just as DJ LeMahieu's at-bat was beginning in the fourth inning at Coors, the sprinklers turned on for a few seconds and splashed the entire field and most on it. Home plate umpire Chad Fairchild wants nothing to do with any of it. ...

Jose Fernandez Isn't Fair
Here's Marlins phenom Jose Fernandez throwing Troy Tulowitzki a curveball so vicious that it briefly turned the all-star shortstop into an overmatched little leaguer....


Rockies Coach Lectures Young Phillies Fan Before Giving Him Baseball
This is sweet as all get-out....
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Here's Video Of Tom Brady's Injury [Update]
EVERYBODY PANIC....

Mel Brooks: Funny Is Money. Shit Is Good Pepper
Brookslyn reprints one of the great interviews ever conducted. Brad Darrach's 1975 chat with Mel Brooks (thanks, once again, to Cinephilia and Beyond):...

Fan At Rockies Game Catches Foul Ball In Beer, Takes Huge Sip
Because, as we've seen before, that's just what you do when a baseball lands directly in your beer....

Fake Shane Spencer Hoaxes Radio Show, Implies Jeter, Rivera Used PEDs
When you have a former Major League Baseball player on to admit steroid use, it is very, very important to make sure he's actually a former Major League Baseball player....

Baseball On The Radio, George Carlin, Ike and Tina, Jurassic Five Jam
Another little jam for you—chuckle and groove. ...

America's Most Important Soccer Player Conquers The Old World
Originally published in Howler Magazine, whose latest issue is a celebration of U.S. soccer's centennial. Follow the magazine on Twitter, @whatahowler....

The Cinderella Man
From the cool-ass site—of two cool-ass books—please enjoy Damon Runyon's 1935 column, "The Cinderella Man":...

The Crowd Sounds Happy
Baseball lends itself to radio, this much we know. Hasn't changed much through the years either. The game still sounds good on the radio. But let's go back some, and hear about Nicholas Dawidoff's experiences listening to Ned Martin call Red Sox games in the 1970s:...

The Life Of An MLS Player Making $35,000 A Year
Not every pro athlete is rich. (We've seen the salaries of every MLS player.) Clint Irwin, the starting goalkeeper for the Colorado Rapids, makes the standard MLS rookie minimum of $35,125. He's not complaining, but he'd like you to know it's not all champagne and private jets....

Mascot Fired For Not Being Fat Enough
Bradford City is replacing its mascot, the "City Gent," after the man playing him for 19 years lost too much weight. Be warned, this story is very British....