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Michael Beasley Reduced To Status As Kevin Durant Flunky

At one point early on in The Offseason: Kevin Durant, that HBO reality show aimed at getting its star better endorsement deals, walking brand Kevin Durant flies some of his buddies out to Los Angeles, where they intend to stay for the summer. We're introduced to Childhood Friend Cliff Dixon, Manager...

Fuck Kevin Durant

Tomorrow night, the world will be subjected to The Offseason: Kevin Durant, an HBO show marketed as a documentary that depicts what The Servant has been up to since the end of the Western Conference Finals. You might think it would be interesting, seeing that over the summer Durant (briefly) played ...

Giants Win The Pennant On Travis Ishikawa Walk-Off Home Run

The National League pennant has been won on a walk-off home run—and, like the "Shot Heard 'Round The World" in 1951, it was claimed by the Giants....

The Thinking Fan's Guide To The 2014-15 NHL Season

We enter a very different NHL after the "Summer of Stats," and we have the Maple Leafs to thank....

Kansas City Sweeps The Angels, And It's Backflippin' Time!

It's a party in K.C. tonight, as the Royals are headed to the ALCS. Do you think they'll have ribs? I bet they'll have ribs....

Hey, Hey, Break It Up, You Kids

Cards Fan Scuffles With Security, Dodgers Fan Right Next To Larry King

St. Louis scraped out a 10-9 win in Los Angeles tonight, but it looks like one Cardinals fan wasn't around to see the final out after a scuffle behind home plate led him to be removed by security. Also, Larry King was there....

Veins!

We Occasionally Feel Sympathy For Umpires

[Better know umpire and new soprano Paul Nauert.]...

A's Get Into Playoffs; Josh Reddick Celebrates With His Sack Out [NSFW]

The Oakland Athletics are in the postseason, and the superhero underwear-clad Josh Reddick is very, very happy about it. (The full, sacktastic version is below.)...

Report: Joe Girardi Called Out Yankees Before Jeter's Final Home Game

The Derek Jeter farewell tour is nice, but it's also serving as a distraction for a large concern in the Bronx: The Yankees have now missed the postseason for a second straight season. Excluding the 1994 season, which had no playoffs due to a strike, that hasn't happened since 1992-1993. Manager Joe...

Brewers Eliminated; Fans Left With Sheets Of Useless Playoff Tickets

The Milwaukee Brewers spent 150 days in first place this season, but they did not make the playoffs: the team was officially eliminated after yesterday's 5-3 loss to the Reds. Milwaukee's collapse provided us with Brewers fans taking sad photos of their now-meaningless postseason tickets. It's not y...

Stop Whining About Pumpkin Beer

We the people like to complain about every damn thing in the world, and for some strange reason, we've settled on pumpkin beer as one of the things to complain about the most. The stuff sells outrageously well, and in so doing serves as a gateway beer guiding people out of the macro cooler, even if ...

Cowboys Fans Got Ripped Off More Than Any Other Fans This Pre-Season

There's no great secret that pre-season tickets are the biggest scam in the great cascade of scams that fuels the NFL machine. Season-ticket holders are compelled to pay full freight for two meaningless games played by guys they've never before or will ever again hear of. ...

Matt Simms Celebrates Touchdown Pass With Salsa Dancing

Fans who tuned into tonight's Big Apple Derby between the Giants and Jets might have expected to see some salsa dancing from G-Men receiver Victor Cruz. That didn't happen, but the Jets' scrub QB Matt Simms filled in the gap with some terrific white dude moves after a late-game touchdown heave to Gr...

32 Paragraphs About 32 Teams: A Thinking Fan's Guide To The NFL Season

The following is excerpted from the team chapters of the always-excellent Football Outsiders Almanac. Buy it here....

This Child Is So Amped For Jaguars Preseason Football

Chad Henne? Toby Gerhart? Field goals? This tyke is all for it. Give him that preseason Jaguars sweetness; he can't get enough....

Buccaneers Will Debut Reflective Jersey Numbers Tomorrow

Tomorrow, the Bucs will debut their new uniforms for the first time since a radical redesign this offseason. We sort of knew this already, but it's another thing to see it in action and you should be properly warned: the jersey numbers, on the front, back and shoulders, will glow....

Jets Fans Can Earn Rewards Points For Not Being Assholes

The Jets have announced a new rewards program for its season-ticket holders, in which they can win things like Super Bowl tickets and a ride on the team's charter flight. All it'll take to accrue points is to show up, and not to be ejected from MetLife Stadium for being a drunken, belligerent mess. ...

Jack Davis Baseball Cover

Found over at It's a Long Season, check out the second cover of Mad Magazine, from 1952. ...