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A Whole Lot Of Ravens Fans Turned Up To Exchange Their Ray Rice Jerseys
Today is the day that Baltimore Ravens fans can go to M&T Bank Stadium to exchange their Ray Rice jerseys for another Ravens jersey of their choice. Based on photos from the stadium, a lot of people are taking advantage of this deal....
A List Of Gross Shit Ingested By That Bro Who Fell Into His Own Puke
Remember the poor Irish bro who tried to haughtily bounce from a disgusting eating and drinking competition only to end up in a giant pool of puke? Well, now we know exactly what kind of disgusting foods and drinks precipitated all that vomit....
Steve Smith Has Some Thoughts About Domestic Violence And Elevators
Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Steve Smith took to Twitter last night to briefly share his take on proper elevator behavior and how men should treat women....
What's The Matter With Jim Brown?
Originally published in the December 1986 edition of Sport magazine, as part of a special 40th anniversary issue devoted to "The 40 Who Changed Sports." This story is a good analytical companion to Pete Dexter's insane 1981 profile of Brown, reprinted here last week ....
Bro Haughtily Tries To Exit Drinking Competition, Fails
Each year, the University College Dublin hosts an event known as Iron Stomach, in which a group of freshmen sit on a stage and are forced to eat and drink absurd amounts of gross things. The proceedings are nasty enough to necessitate a large trough—meant for collecting puke, spit, and whatever the ...
The NFL's Useful Idiots Want Roger Goodell To Get Tough; They're Wrong
The bad thing about the corruption in NFL reporting is that there's literally no way for a league higher-up to fuck up badly enough to be held to account by the people best positioned to do so. The good thing is that if you want to know what the NFL wants you to think, all you have to do is read w...
Rickey & Robinson
Roger Kahn's latest book, Rickey & Robinson, has just been published. For more, check out this post by the book's editor, Mark Weinstein. ...
California's Endless Drought Cruelly Menaces Innocent Sushi Prices
Well, you finally did it, humans. You finally fucked up the ecosystem enough to imperil something that matters. No, not the millions of innocent human beings whose access to potable water is threatened by what appears more and more to be the end of rain- and snowfall in California. No. The sush...
Ray Rice Appeal Won't Be Heard By Roger Goodell
Late last night, the NFLPA officially filed a grievance on behalf of Ray Rice, appealing the indefinite suspension he received hours after tape of him punching out his fiancée was made public—and months after the NFL had decided a two-game suspension was appropriate. It sounds like that disciplinary...
Korean Mayor Egged By Councilman For Relocating Baseball Stadium
What you see here, via our friends at MyKBO.net, is the mayor of Changwon, South Korea, Ahn Sang-soo, getting busted with an egg thrown by councilman Kim Sung-il. ...
Sandy Koufax: Jackie Robinson Tried To Make Things Easier For Me
The beauty of the Internet is that it offers up surprises and treats. Never know when you're going to find something worth remembering. I was toolin' around my Tumblr feed the other day when I ran across a beautiful illustrated piece by an artist named Katherine W. Wirick. Another talented picture-m...
Angry Ukrainian Mob Throws Politician Into A Dumpster
An angry mob was waiting outside of Ukraine's parliament today, and they were not playing games. When they spotted Economic Development Party member Vitaly Zhuravsky leaving the building, they grabbed him and threw his ass right into a dumpster....
Will The Elite NFL Media Still Be Stooges After The Ray Rice Scandal?
The longtime agent and I were talking about NFL reporters and professional lapses. I said, "I guess you see lapses—"...
Even Bank Robbers Decide What Tie To Wear: The Essence Of Elmore Leonard
Hard to imagine having a cooler job than the one Gregg Sutter had for more than 30 years, when he served as the late Elmore Leonard's researcher. Sutter is the editor of the Library of America's Elmore Leonard anthology, which will be released in three volumes, the first of which was published a f...
Listen To Cheryl Tiegs's Very Sloppy Appearance On Twins TV And Radio
Maybe Cheryl Tiegs is really tired. Maybe she's really intoxicated! But the former supermodel dropped in on both the Twins' TV and radio broadcasts tonight during Minnesota's game against the Tigers, and she sounded.. sloppy....
Hey, You: Help Prove That Average Fans Are The Best Scouts In Baseball
Whether or not you know it, if you're a baseball fan, you probably appreciate or enjoy the game a little bit more because of Tom Tango. The pseudonymous saberist, currently a consultant for the Chicago Cubs, has had a hand—often the most important one—in developing many of the most interesting and u...
Miami Backup QB Arrested On DUI Charge, Possession Of Stolen License
Kevin Olsen's season just keeps getting worse. The Miami Hurricanes quarterback was suspended for the first two games of the season, reportedly for a failed drug test, and now he faces more trouble after a DUI arrest early Monday morning. ...
Atlético Madrid Prove La Liga Is Still A Three-Team Title Fight
Heading into the weekend, the seventh Madrid derby of 2014 was the biggest match on the slate, just like it was the best match of the preseason during the Spanish Supercup, and just like it was the biggest match in the entire sport during the Champions League final a few months earlier. This one d...
Keenan Allen: Richard Sherman Is "Not Really A Shutdown Corner"
Richard Sherman was the least-targeted corner in the NFL last season, and still managed to rack up the most interceptions. In Week 1 against the Packers, Aaron Rodgers didn't give him a single look. For Week 2, the Chargers say they weren't scared of Sherman for a second....