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Former Florida State OT Just Got His 2012 SEC Championship Ring
Conference realignment is definitely confusing these days, but we're pretty sure Florida State is still in the ACC. In fact, yes, Florida State is still in the ACC; the Seminoles beat Georgia Tech 21-15 last year to win the ACC for the first time in seven years. According to this ring FSU won the SE...

David Booth Is Studying Theology At Oxford This Offseason
When last we checked in with the Canucks winger, he had freed the Kootenays from the terrible reign of the Goatbeast. Booth's offseason activities this year swing to the other end of the spectrum—that of the mind and of the soul....

An Interview With That Guy Who Ruined Serena's Wimbledon And Wrote A Book About Navy Pilots With Call Signs Like Crapper and Steamer
Stephen Rodrick is one of our finest magazine writers and this spring he published a compelling memoir about this father, The Magical Stranger. Check out book excerpts in the New York Times; Slate, and a nice long one in Men's Journal. And visit The Magical Stranger website. ...

Metta World Peace Reacts Wonderfully To Reports Of His Pending Release
Now that it looks like the cap-strapped Lakers are going to amnesty Metta World Peace sometime in the next week to save $14.8 million, Metta World Peace has reacted on Twitter in the most Metta World Peace way imaginable....

To Confuse and Confound: Understanding Stengelese
Check out the letter that Howard Cosell sent to Bill Heinz in 1962....

Ever wonder how women play sports with their boobs always getting in the way? Thankfully, writer Amanda Hess has wondered the same thing, and she's written a legitimately fascinating article for ESPN The Mag's Body Issue about the many ways breasts inconvenience their bearers while on the field of p...

Do NFL Front Offices Have A Thug Problem?
It emerged last night that Tom Heckert—Broncos director of pro personnel and former Browns GM—was arrested last month on DUI charges. This comes days after Matt Russell, Denver's director of player personnel, was arrested for his own alleged DUI. Russell crashed into two different cars, one of them ...

Justin Bieber And The Stanley Cup, Just A Couple Of Swaggy Bros
Blackhawks marketing director Peter Hassen tweeted out this photo of the Biebs, in Chicago to play the United Center, and the Stanley Cup. You may commence being pissed off....

Houston Rockets Get Fined For Announcing Dwight Howard's Signing
So Dwight Howard will be a Houston Rocket next year. We know because Dwight Howard changed his Twitter avatar and apparently woke up James Harden in Houston to take late-night selfies, and because Kobe Bryant unfollowed Howard and published this vaguely heart-wrenching photo of himself with another ...

Report: Aaron Hernandez Told Friend He Shot Odin Lloyd
The Associated Press reports that one Aaron Hernandez friend, Carlos Ortiz, told investigators that Aaron Hernandez admitted shooting Odin Lloyd to fellow friend Ernest Wallace....

<em>Fruitvale Station</em> Will Make You Cry Like A Baby
Early in the morning on New Year's Day 2009, a 22-year-old man named Oscar Grant, on his way home with his girlfriend, was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) cop while at the Fruitvale BART stop in Oakland. The incident was captured by dozens of commuters on a stopped train, and the...

Justin Bieber Fans Are Interfering With The NHLPA Meetings
The NHL players' union is currently holding its annual meetings in Chicago, and they are being torpedoed by a horde of screaming Justin Bieber fans. Well, at least that's how Minnesota Wild center Zenon Konopka sees it....



Bob Nightengale Is An All-Star Of Pearl-Clutching
Poe's Law, PED edition—Take a look at this lede, and just try to convince me this is real outrage and not a parody of concern-trolling:...

I Wonder If I've Run Into The Person Who Killed Nicole
Case you've never read it, here’s Pat Jordan’s 2001 New Yorker profile of O.J. Simpson:...

The King Is Dead
From the essential site Kottke, here is a link to Lester Bang’s obit for Elvis:...

Ice Cube Had Some Not-So-Nice Things To Say About Dwight Howard
Ice Cube, a popular Coors Light pitchman and former member of NWA, is a big fan of the Lakers, so it's not surprising that he's not too fond of Dwight Howard right now. During a show on Sunday night, Ice Cube took some time out of his performance to talk some shit about Howard, and he did not hold ...
