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Report: Ryan Braun Personally Calling Brewers Season Ticket Holders
Ryan Braun is placing calls to Milwaukee Brewers season ticket holders to apologize for using performance-enhancing drugs and getting suspended as a result, according to a report by CBS58....

Some Asshole Got A Tattoo Of An Orioles Logo On Top Of A Redskins Logo
So does this mean this person prefers the Orioles over the Redskins? That he loves both teams with equal fervor? That he could only get one tattoo and couldn't decide which way to go? All of the above are plausible explanations. I'm thinking he lost a bet....

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. ...


The 16 Fall Movies You Should Be Excited About: A Guide
Labor Day is the signpost every year that the sugary summer junk is behind us and that the nutritious square meal of awards season has finally arrived. That's the theory, anyway: In actuality, summer movies like Before Midnight and Fruitvale Station will be as well-received as any Oscar bait, and th...

John Wall's New Mansion Has 10 Bathrooms And A Basketball Court
It's good to sign a max contract....

Western Michigan Coach Demonstrates "New Traditions" In Hilarious Video
Look out Kliff Kingsbury, there's another college football coach out there who's aiming for the title of Swaggiest Bro-Coach to Have Ever Swagged. Meet Western Michigan head coach P.J. Fleck. He's here to walk you through the new game-day traditions that will be taking place at Bronco games this ye...

Robert Towne's Memories Of Sports In L.A.
We know Robert Towne as a great screenwriter—Shampoo, Chinatown, The Last Detail, Personal Best, Tequila Sunrise (never mind the script doctor work he's done, most famously on Bonnie and Clyde and The Godfather). But here's something for ya, a bonus piece he did for Sports Illustrated back in 1984:...

Learn To Hit Like Stan Musial From This Cool Old Vinyl Record
Used to be able to buy this 1963 record at Phillips 66 gas stations....

Yasiel Puig's New WWE-Style Entrance Music Is As Absurd As You'd Hope
I'm obviously not going to argue for this as a great song on merits, but if any player should have a ridiculous custom entrance theme that wouldn't strike you as at all out of place as the walkout music for the WWE champion it's Puig, and this does the job just fine....

Here Is @Vodka_Samm's .341 BAC Mug Shot
Samantha Goudie, the University of Iowa college student who had a wild, drunken Saturday at the Hawkeyes football game—to put it mildly—looks like the saddest Ke$ha ever in her mug shot photo....

Brandon Marshall Is Better Than Drew Brees, And Other Fantasy Truths
Fantasy football may not have all the blood and sweat and violence and trauma of the game as it's played on the field, but there's at least one way in which it's just like the real thing: as John Madden put it, "usually the team that scores the most points wins." How you get those points may be ver...

Skip Bayless Is Making Up Shit About The Michigan-Notre Dame Rivalry
This morning we illustrated how one ESPN blowhard will make up facts in order to argue for continuing a college football series lucrative for the WWL. Not to be outdone, Skip Bayless chimed in on the topic this morning on First Take, and somehow managed to get it even more wrong than Mark May....

I Must Go On. I Can't Go On. I'll Go On.
Our man Mark Jacobson has a beautiful story on Sonny Rollins in the latest issue of Men's Journal. Rollins played with the great musical innovators of the mid-century—Parker, Monk, Dizzy, Miles....

Why The NFL And Players Were Both Desperate To Settle Concussion Suits
Now that emotions have cooled, it's worth looking back at the concussion litigation that led to a $765 million settlement from the NFL. Something resembling a near-certainty emerges: Had it gone to trial, this was a case the NFL was going to win, for two distinct and dispassionate reasons....

You're All Right, Jack
The title is a riff on the Peter Sellers movie, I'm All Right, Jack. Now, check out Dan Jenkins on the 1975 Masters:...

Brutus The Buckeye Showed Up At A Wedding In Columbus
After pumping up Ohio State fans on Saturday, Brutus the Buckeye certainly deserves a me-day. The mascot apparently chose to spend Sunday partying at a wedding in Columbus, and it looks like everyone involved had a grand time....

Pam Oliver Was Seriously Concussed From A Football To The Head
Sideline reporter Pam Oliver was hit in the head with a football during a preseason game, and no one thought much of it. But Saturday, Oliver revealed that the contact was bad enough to give her a serious concussion....

When The Treadmill Makes You Hate What You Once Loved
I discovered something this week on the treadmill. God, the treadmill is just the worst. The absolute worst. That's not the discovery. Calling that a discovery is like saying Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. What I'm saying is: the Vikings were somehow involved in the manufacturing of a...
