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Hemingway On Bullfighting
Choice find by the good people at Longform: Ernest Hemingway's 1930 story on bullfighting for Fortune:...
Kill All Humans, Or At Least Mute Them: <em>Godzilla,</em> Reviewed.
1. The go-to example for critics complaining about big-budget summer blockbusters today—and how they've devolved from some past, theoretical peak—is Steven Spielberg's Jaws. One of that 1975 film's many genius innovations was to hold off, as long as possible, on ever letting us see the shark. The mo...
Cat That Saved Boy From Dog Attack Will Throw Out First Pitch
Tara, the cat that saved a boy attacked by a dog earlier this week in California, will throw out the first pitch at a minor league baseball game, because the law of the world dictates that minor league baseball must find a way to capitalize on any news story, regardless of magnitude....
Report: Donald Sterling Won't Pay Fines, May Sue NBA
The ousted Donald Sterling will not sit idly as the NBA finds a way to fully remove his association with the Clippers. According to an SI report, Sterling has hired a lawyer, who has already sent a letter to the NBA rejecting their $2.5 million fine....
Fuck Chipotle
Everyone's rightfully goofing on Chipotle today for unveiling a line of cups and bags featuring insta-literature from the likes of Toni Morrison and George Saunders. Now, I have no issue with restaurant chains scrawling stuff on their packaging. Cook Out could post entire passages from Leviticus o...
The Man Who Helped Bring Down Donald Sterling Is An Asshole, Too
If you were watching closely, you might've seen Kevin Johnson, the former NBA guard who's now mayor of Sacramento, sitting courtside at Staples Center during Game 4 of the Clippers-Thunder series. His arm was around his wife, Michelle Rhee, and the two seemed to preside over the action, conspicuous ...
The Death Of A Cowboy
Sometimes you read a story and everything about it is in harmony—narrative, character, setting, emotion, and insight. Such is the case with Peter Richmond's 1990 tribute to Lane Frost. I'll get out of the way now and let you appreciate it for yourself:...
Studs And Bob
Via the always nourishing Kottke, check out Studs Terkel's 1963 interview with Dylan. ...
The Technicality That Will Allow The NBA To Get Rid Of Both Sterlings
With all of Adam Silver's stern talk in his press conference announcing Donald Sterling's lifetime ban, it appeared the process of removing Sterling's ownership interest would be swift. However, not much in the way of action has happened since then. This SI report mentions an interesting technicalit...
Roger Mason's Comments About LeBron Boycotting Next Year Were Bullshit
So yesterday, we wrote about National Basketball Players Association VP Roger Mason, Jr., who last night appeared on Jim Rome on Showtime and declared quite emphatically that LeBron James was taking The Hard Stance. If Clippers owner Donald Sterling still had the team next year, the face of the leag...
Military Physical Fitness Tests, Ranked
20 dead-hang pull-ups...
We Made Some Improvements To The Knicks' New D-League Team's Logo
Remember when the Knicks announced that they would be taking fan suggestions for the name of their new D-League team? Yesterday, they finally revealed the name and logo of the new team. Drum roll please......
Steve Kerr Turns Down The Knicks Because They're The Knicks
After choosing the Warriors over the Knicks, Steve Kerr went out of his way to insist that his decision had everything to do with family:...
Just Give Us The Habs And Bruins Every Year, Please
Consider me officially on-board with the NHL's new playoff format. Formerly, the second round was re-seeded based on regular season record, which may have been fairer, but paid no mind to familiarity or its cousin contempt. The new bracket format is designed to match up divisional rivals, and after ...
Fried Chicken Sandwich Smackdown: Wendy's Vs. KFC
Fried chicken is the best. The main reason I had to stop reading about death row inmates' last meals is that every single thing about this sentence so far is ghastly; I was also secondarily appalled by how many of them forgot to request fried chicken. I understand that if they were good decision-mak...
Milan Lucic Gets Heated In The Handshake Line After Game 7 Loss
We're not sure what Milan Lucic said to Dale Weise and Alexei Emelin in the handshake line after Boston's Game 7 loss to Montreal, but the conversation didn't look pleasant....
Bill Murray Channels Harry Caray For Minor League Promo
The Toledo Mud Hens will be hosting Ghostbusters Night on May 30, and they somehow managed to get Bill Murray to cut this promo for the event. I didn't even know Murray had a Harry Caray impersonation in his bag, but this isn't terrible. All those beers he shared with Caray seem to have paid off....
Everyone In California Has An Insane Donald Sterling Tape For Sale
If you enjoy listening to Donald Sterling rant incoherently, you're in for good times. Every conversation Sterling has had over the past few weeks seems to have been caught on tape, and every one of them seems to be for sale....
Donald Sterling Is Master Shake From <em>Aqua Teen Hunger Force</em>
From the moment the initial tapes emerged, people have remarked on the similarity between Clippers owner Donald Sterling's voice and that of the character Master Shake on Aqua Teen Hunger Force. We did some searching through old ATHF episodes, and discovered these similarities are more than uncanny....