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Clay Matthews Takes Comebacker To The Face In Charity Softball Game

Clay Matthews was pitching in a charity softball game in Wisconsin Saturday when a sharply hit comebacker nailed him directly in his face, in front of the mound:...

Annual Also-Ran Buffalo Bills File Trademark For "Respect The Process"

The Buffalo Bills recently pushed reset after a 9-7 season and poured resources into moving around in the draft to select huge quarterback Josh Allen and even huger middle linebacker Tremaine Edmunds, figuring the moves point them towards a future in which they might actually someday win their divis...

UFC Fighter Somehow Accidentally Knocks Himself Out

Jarred “The Monkey God” Brooks lost his second UFC fight tonight because, well, he picked his opponent up and then fell on his head. Brooks was giving UFC debutante Jose Torres the business until the bizarre end to the fight. It was scored as a TKO win for Torres, who explained afterwards that he wa...

NFL Players Are Preparing For A Fight After All

Here’s an interesting item about the NFLPA tucked deep into Albert Breer’s latest weekly column over at Sports Illustrated:...

Bogus NCAA Rule Limits Reporters To One Tweet Per Inning For Baseball Playoffs [Update]

College baseball writers better be prepared to be succinct as hell for the next four weeks....

The Week That Twitter Wrecked Everyone

During this week, which is only about half over, some extremely overstated acts of Twitter-based idiocy have already led to the cancellation of ABC’s hit reboot of Roseanne, thanks to the latest extremely racist flare-up of star Roseanne Barr’s longstanding and apparently incurable case of Internet ...

Alex Honnold And Tommy Caldwell Smashed Another El Capitan Climbing Record

This morning, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell ascended El Capitan’s most famous route, the Nose, in 2 hours, 10 minutes, and 15 seconds. The pair broke the previous speed record of 2:19:44. Honnold, of course, once climbed El Capitan without ropes, while Caldwell was the first person to free climb E...

Report: NFL Owners Admit Donald Trump Squeezed Them On Anthem Protests

In the wake of the NFL owners’ decision to cook up a national anthem policy even as the issue appeared to be dying down, it was easy to see how much the fear of Donald Trump had influenced their thinking. Several owners and executives even alluded to this after the policy was approved. But now there...

Nick Saban Doesn't Want You To Blame Him For Restricting His Players' Transfers

Alabama offensive lineman Brandon Kennedy, who graduated in December but still has three years of eligibility remaining, was hoping to go to Auburn or Tennessee as a grad transfer next season. But so far, he’s been blocked by his now-alma mater from transferring to any SEC schools or future Alabama ...

David Cronenberg Makes The Unfilmable His Own

This feature on David Cronenberg’s movie adaptation of William Burroughs’s beat classic, The Naked Lunch, was first published in the February 1992 issue of Premiere, and appears here with the author’s permission....

"I'm Having A Ball Right Now!": How The Sports Men Did On The Premiere Of <i>The Bachelorette</i>

Well, here I am, team. Despite what I told myself about not being able to put my body through another season, what with the countless pep talks and endless late nights and the cold Gatorade showers, I’m back. Team, I don’t know how, I don’t know why (well, to be very frank, I do know why: that $$$ c...

Here's An Anecdote That Perfectly Encapsulates The Stupid Marriage Of Silicon Valley And The Rest Of Corporate America

Throughout Bad Blood, John Carreyrou’s excellent new book about fraudulent blood-testing company Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes, the $9 billion company keeps running into the same problem: would-be investors or retailers want to see a demonstration of its technology. This is an issue for ...

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Idiot On The Field Caps Off Perfect Champions League Final

Real Madrid claimed the Champions League trophy with a 3-1 win thanks to Liverpool keeper Loris Karius becoming some kind of player who puts the ball into his own net instead of keeping it out. More importantly, an Idiot On The Field interrupted play and prevented Cristiano Ronaldo from his own scor...

The First Woman To Do A Triple Axel Is Still Skating

This week, Tonya Harding placed third in the Dancing With The Stars final. As we were reminded throughout the (blessedly) brief season, Harding was the first American woman to land a triple axel in competition, which she did in 1991. But Harding was not the first woman ever to do this jump—that dis...

Auburn Cuts Recruit Over NCAA Ban On His CBD Epilepsy Medicine

C.J. Harris was supposed to be standing on the sidelines in an Auburn uniform come this fall. Now, thanks to the NCAA’s outdated guidelines on medicinal marijuana, he’ll watch his lifelong favorite team from the stands....

Let's Remember Some Guys, Early '80s Fleer Mustache Dudes Edition

The Rememberer’s art is, for the most part, a lonely one. That is kind of portentous and serious-sounding, but it also seemed like a better way to begin this post than the thought it was intended to convey, which is “if you are someone who remembers a lot of rando middle reliever dudes from your you...

The NBA Shouldn't Get Credit Just For Not Being The NFL

Ahead of his team’s Game 5 matchup with the Rockets tonight, Warriors coach Steve Kerr took time to blast the NFL for its new rule banning players from kneeling during the national anthem. Kerr called the policy, which compels all NFL players to stand for the anthem or stay in the locker room while ...

The NFL Can't Stop Shooting Itself In The Dick

The NFL’s owners got everything they wanted with the anthem rules they approved yesterday, but now they get this:...

Report: NFL Owners Didn't Actually Vote On The New Anthem Policy

Yesterday, Roger Goodell proudly unveiled the NFL’s new policy regarding players and the national anthem. A lot of people hated it and President Donald Trump loved it, but the league made sure to note that the policy passed with a “unanimous” vote by the owners. That’s what mattered, that the obscen...