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Matt Garza Shares Opinion On Birth Control, Continues To Be A Big Dumbass
For some goddamn reason, former teen dad, father of six, and Brewers pitcher Matt Garza is saying some shit about abstinence-only education on Twitter....
Mirza Teletovic Hits Absurd Game-Winner While Falling Away From The Basket
Mirza Teletovic helped the Suns top the Bulls 103-101 with this quite unlikely game-winner with just 0.3 seconds left. Check out the angle of Teletovic’s body right before he takes the shot: it’s not ideal form but it worked....
The Dystopian Love Triangle <i>Z For Zachariah </i>Proves That Hell Is Other People
One of the best things about Z for Zachariah, the new drama starring Margot Robbie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Chris Pine, is that even after seeing the movie twice, I still have no idea how I feel about any of its three protagonists. That’s by design. Based on Robert C. O’Brien’s 1974 sci-fi novel, the ...
All Pro Soccer In Argentina Suspended After Player Shoved Into Wall Dies
Emanuel Ortega, the player who was hospitalized after getting pushed into a wall, has died from his injuries. In light of this, the Asociación del Fútbol Argentino has suspended play in all divisions throughout the country....
French Player's Premature "Salute" Celebration Backfires Spectacularly
Here's a soccer story told in photos, with the moral being that you should never celebrate too early, lest you get burned so hard, your children's children will still need regular applications of salve....
RZA Is Your Next Great Over-The-Top Action-Movie Supervillain
Can RZA play the villain in every action B-movie? Will RZA play the villain in every action B-movie? Suddenly, it's a salient question. The Wu-Tang Clan mastermind and figurehead made his onscreen debut 15 years ago in Jim Jarmusch's existential-samurai-hitman movie Ghost Dog—a 46-second cameo in wh...
LeBron James Salty Over Hard Foul
With nearly nine minutes left in the fourth quarter, a steamrolling LeBron James looked to be fouled hard by Mirza Teletovic. An uneventful scrum convened under the basket. The play was reviewed and LeBron was assessed an offensive foul and Teletovic a flagrant-1. LeBron was pissed, Teletovic bemus...
Would You Do It Again? We Ask Former NFLer Eric Unverzagt
This is an interview series in which we ask the plaintiffs of the NFL concussion lawsuit one question (and maybe a few more): Knowing what you know now, if you could do it over again, would you still play football?...
Mike Miller Considers Suing Heat For Setting Him Up With Con Man
Former Miami Heat swingman Mike Miller is strongly considering filing a $1.7 million lawsuit against his former team. Miller isn't considering suing for unpaid wages or bonus money, though. He believes that the Heat are responsible for paying him money he lost in a failed business relationship with ...
49ers Team Doctor Found Dead, Was Suspect In Criminal Probe
Dr. Daniel Garza, the 49ers team physician and a professor of orthopaedic and emergency medicine at Stanford University, was found dead in his home Wednesday. It is being treated as a possible suicide and, according to KRON-Channel 4, he was being investigated for alleged "inappropriate behavior" wi...
Matt Garza Went On A Misogynistic Rant Because Of A Squeeze Play
Matt Garza often has issues throwing to first base and the Athletics—who attempted four bunts yesterday, including Coco Crisp's game-opening single and Eric Sogard's sacrifice immediately after—had an obvious plan to try to get in Garza's head. Turns out, it worked. Also turns out, Matt Garza has is...
I Spent All Day Trying To Figure Out If These Are Lou Gehrig's Balls
Reader Mike wrote in to ask, "Did Sports Illustrated publish a picture of Lou Gehrig with his balls visible?" because those are the kind of questions we get. Your answer, Mike: I don't know. But it's not for a lack of research....
The First Weird Baseball Injury Of 2013: Twins Reliever Breaks Ribs During "Horseplay"
Troy McClure warned us, but did we listen? We did not. After TwinsFest at Target Field two weeks ago, Minnesota reliever Anthony Swarzak got into a good-natured tussle....
The Man With The Ham Fists: RZA's Kung Fu Movie Just Doesn't Work
In 1995, Quentin Tarantino, skinny, wired, at the absolute peak of his power and influence, showed up at the MTV Movie Awards to give a lifetime achievement award to Jackie Chan. This is just how huge Tarantino was at the time: MTV allowed him to take 10 minutes of its airtime to give a career-cappi...
Olympics Field Guide: The Embattled (And First-Ever) United States Women's Boxing Team
Names: Marlen Esparza, Claressa Shields, and Quanitta "Queen" Underwood...
Matt Garza Could Be Bound For Detroit
Your roundup of all the hottest hot-stove items of the day (and whatever shit Ken Rosenthal is throwing against the wall). This is ... HOT FUCKING STOVE!...
"Goodnight And Good Luck": Kevin-Costner-Owned Minor League Team's Announcer Quits On Air
Last week we brought you the peculiar odyssey of the Lake County Fielders, a minor league baseball club in Zion, Ill., owned in part by Kevin Costner. The Fielders' manager — former Blue Jays skipper Tim Johnson — resigned over team-wide pay disputes, many of its players refused to play, and the o...
Too <em>Moneyball</em> For Their Own Good: How The Mets Screwed Up The Kazmir Trade
The Angels released Scott Kazmir on Wednesday, and we had seen it coming for years. Hitters clobbered Kazmir in 2009, 2010, and, in his one 2011 start. He lost his control and velocity simultaneously, and stopped striking hitters out....
This Wu-Tang Clan Super Game Boy Commercial Was Banned For Being "Too Ill"
In 1993, members of the Wu-Tang Clan produced a 40-second spot for Nintendo's Super Game Boy. Filmed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1993, it featured a beat by Prince Paul, voice-over from RZA and ODB, and a work of graffiti from the COD Crew. A member of COD found the old video and uploaded it to V...
Confusion Over Garza-Benoit Confusion Finally Resolved
So the Chicago Sun-Times wasn't the only paper to mix up Matt Garza and Joaquín Benoit. The Daily Herald made the same mistake. But don't blame the papers. The error originated with a bad cutline from a wire photographer. Asshole....