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Everything You Need To Know About Louis Freeh's Damning Report On Penn State [Updating]

After a lengthy investigation into years of sexual abuse within the Penn State football program, former FBI director Louis Freeh released a report of his findings today. We're still thumbing through it. It's withering. Here's what we've learned so far: ...

Olympics Field Guide: Alise Post, The 21-Year-Old "Beast” Of Women's BMX

Name: Alise Post...

Olympics Field Guide: Hiroshi Hoketsu, The 71-Year-Old Olympian

Name: Hiroshi Hoketsu...

Olympics Field Guide: Race Imboden, The New Face Of American Fencing

Name: Race Imboden...

Comments Won't Look The Same On Monday, But You'll Manage Just Fine

We're flipping over to our new commenting/discussion regime on Monday. It's called Kinja, and having dicked around with it a little, I can report that it is not at all like playing underwater blindfold three-dimensional chess. On an architectural level, it's just the current Deadspin system, only no...

Olympics Field Guide: Holley Mangold, Nick Mangold's Window-Busting Superhuman Sister

Name: Holley Mangold...

Olympics Field Guide: Chris Hoy, The Incredible Hulk Of Track Cycling

Name: Chris Hoy...

Olympics Field Guide: Phillips Idowu, The Dennis Rodman Of The Triple Jump

Name: Phillips Idowu...

Happy First Birthday, Grantland! It's Been A Delight Watching You Grow.

Sock photo via Grantland director of business development David Cho's Instagram....

I'm Worried About Quentin Tarantino's <em>Django Unchained</em>

It'd be difficult to find a bigger Quentin Tarantino fanboy than I am. It's a little embarrassing, actually; I was one of those nerds posting on alt.fans.tarantino dorkboards the year Justin Bieber was born. (The fact that Google archives Usenet forums from 20 years ago is just cruel.) I think Jacki...

How A Teenager With A Fake Escort Service Duped Darren Rovell And CNBC [UPDATE]

An 18-year-old high school senior named Tim was bored one day last November when CNBC's sports biz guy, Darren Rovell, sent out the following tweet:...

People Call This Rugby Player "Beast." See If You Can Guess Why.

When you're young and stupid this is how you imagine all sports moments ought to look, like something out of a G-rated movie about an all-star donkey who plays point guard, or one of those daydream sandlot plays that involves you jumping off a friend's shoulders to catch the would-be home run. Then...

"Ass Ranger" To "Zoomies": The Complete List Of Things College Athletes Can't Say On Social Media

How Readable Are Bill Simmons, Jason Whitlock, Rick Reilly, And Other Sportswriters? Science Investigates

The last time we played around with sportswriter analytics, we wondered if we could algorithmically determine a column's author based on his favorite words. (We could!) For a followup, I decided to look at the readability of different writers. Reading level is a nebulous concept and hard to define p...

Do You Deserve That Foul Ball? Consult This Handy Chart

There's some impassioned debate going on in the comments on the post about the couple in Texas failing to surrender a foul ball to the weeping child beside them. What are the real rules, here? Possession is nine-tenths of the law? Children first? What's the right thing to do to avoid the censure of...

It's Hell Becoming A Comfortable And Wealthy Old Filmmaker

It's the fear of any successful creative person, anyone who started their career as a young buck with fire in the belly, all the ambition in the world, all the idealism of the new and stupid: What happens when you make it? What happens when you achieve your goals, early in your life, and you have to...

The Dark Knight Rises, And So Do Our Trousers: The Grierson & Leitch Summer Movie Preview

Back in 1991, your esteemed Grierson & Leitch, then both 16 years old, sat down with this issue of Entertainment Weekly and planned out our holidays. We did not have Box Office Mojo's release calendar, and the Mattoon, Illinois local newspaper wouldn't tell you what movies were playing at the Cinema...

Just Three More Months Until <em>The Dark Knight Rises</em>, Folks

It always seems like the summer movie season begins earlier every year, but it doesn't, not really. The unofficial beginning in 2012 is May 4, when The Avengers—a movie that's so big, apparently, that it turned massive tentpole films like Iron Man 2 and Thor into, essentially, prequels—opens wide, f...

Your Last-Minute Guide To Yu Darvish

What's his deal?...

Your '90s High School Movie Cast Power Rankings

American Reunion comes out today, and I'll confess to liking it a bit more than Grierson does. I agree that these characters aren't close to interesting enough to justify four movies, but I can't help but admire the simply, ingenious premise: Just turn it into a high school reunion. It's a bit baffl...