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38-Year-Old White Chocolate Still Has Some Game In Him
Jason Williams hasn't played in an NBA game since 2011, but from the looks of this highlight reel from the Orlando Pro Am, he's still got a lot of the skills that earned him the nickname "White Chocolate" in the first place....
Adrian Peterson Shows His Dumb Talking Points To The World
Adrian Peterson took to his Twitter account Tuesday night. This was a really bad idea. ...
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How Much Charity Did Adrian Peterson's All Day Foundation Do? [UPDATE]
Adrian Peterson's All Day Foundation has been described as focusing on at-risk children, particularly girls. But there's an interesting tidbit buried within a lengthy Star Tribune takeout on the indefinitely suspended running back that's worth a lot more attention than his sex life, which is the foc...
Louisiana Tech Loses To FCS Team; Also Gravity
The Skip Holtz era is in full force at Louisiana Tech, as the Bulldogs turned the ball over five times to FCS squad Northwestern State and lost 30-27 by allowing two scores in the final 65 seconds. (It's Northwestern State's first win over an FBS team in more than nine years.) But is that really so ...
Georgia Tech Wins On Last-Second FG, Swallows Own Kicker
Fellas! There's a person under there! Watch yourselves....
Huge Brawl Breaks Out In Tailgating Area Before Texas Tech-UTEP Game
Video has surfaced of a brawl that went down before Saturday's football game between Texas Tech and UTEP. This is a mother brawl. It's a brawl that spawns other brawls, and several people are knocked out in the process. It's a mess....
The 49ers' New Stadium Is Probably The Future Of Concessions
Yesterday saw the 49ers' very first game at their new home, Levi's Stadium, and if you had to pick one quote from a fan to summarize the tens of thousands of opinions out there, it'd be the one the Chronicle got from one season-ticket holder: "I live in San Francisco, so it's a little far. But t...
Why Kids Today Are So Much Better With Computers Than You Were
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How To Ditch The Pillsbury Dough-Log And Make Your Own Cookies
Ah, the chocolate-chip cookie. Many a confectionery addiction kicked off the moment an impressionable youngster watched a vulgar blue puppet shovel platefuls of these things into his gaping, vacant mouth-hole. This obsession probably also explains why the Sexy Cookie Monster costume exists. (Relate...
Kliff Kingsbury's Swaggy And Expensive-Looking Watch Is Probably Fake
Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury, the man who has gone to great lengths to craft a "James Bond coaches football" image for himself, showed up at Big 12 media days sporting a very expensive-looking watch. People on Twitter were taken aback by the watch, a Breitling Mulliner Tourbillon model that...
Grand Jury Clears Texas Tech Recruit Of Charges For Pick-Up Hoops Punch [Update]
Nigel Bethel II was dismissed from the Texas Tech football team on June 29, a day after a scuffle with women's hoops leading scorer Amber Battle in a rec-center basketball game. Now he's been cleared of charges, and after viewing surveillance video that shows Battle punching Bethel first, the grand ...
Ex-NFLer Suffering Memory Loss Writes A Song For His Daughters
Former Colts and Bengals TE Ben Utecht retired in 2009 after suffering a concussion, his fifth officially diagnosed one in six seasons. At age 33, he says he's already suffering from memory loss. So he wrote a his daughters a song now, before it's too late....
Nigeria Just Cleared A Certain France Goal Off The Goal-Line
Nigeria are giving France everything they can handle, but it looked like les Bleus would finally take the lead with this partially-saved Karim Benzema shot, until Victor Moses came storming back to clear it off the line....
Texas Tech Recruit Punches Women's Hoops Star In Pickup Game
Incoming freshman cornerback Nigel Bethel II was dismissed from the Texas Tech football team yesterday, a day after punching Amber Battle, the Lady Raiders basketball team's leading scorer, in the face during a pickup game. Rec center hoops are serious fucking business....
Was That A Goal? The World Cup Tech That Calls The Close Ones
Last weekend, along with some really obvious, glorious and not so glorious goals, we saw one that was a little trickier. French striker Karim Benzema's shot hit the upright and then bounced off Honduran goalkeeper Noel Valladares toward the goal line. Vallardes thought he had saved it, Benzema thoug...
France Score Thanks To First Important Use Of Goal-Line Technology
France made quick work of Honduras today, mostly thanks to a first half foul in the box that resulted in a French penalty and a second yellow for Honduras's Wilson Palacios. The game was put out of reach in the 48th minute when Karim Benzema's shot caromed off the post, deflected off the goalkeeper'...
Player-Tracking Technology Is Coming To Hockey. It'll Change Everything.
Nothing happens quickly in the NHL. Fighting still exists. Visors were only mandated for incoming players last year. But the league is reportedly preparing to test player-tracking technology, and if it takes, we're not far away from a complete and sudden revolution in how we understand the sport....
Fitness Is Not A Computer
Here is what you need in order to work out: your own body, something to wear, at least 64 cubic feet of space (though less will do in a pinch). Here is what you do not need: a computer on your wrist. Particularly not if that computer is trying to snitch on you. ...
ThinkProgress and others take issue with Roger Pielke, Jr., a new contributing science writer at FiveThirtyEight, who was last seen on the receiving end of a six-page thumper of a White House response about his positions on the California drought. Give this some time, but it hasn't gone great out of...