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Redneck Lust
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Cam Newton Has Fractured Rib, Is Questionable For Week 1
An MRI exam yesterday revealed a hairline fracture in one of Panthers QB Cam Newton's ribs, putting him out next weeks' final preseason tune-up, and putting his availability for the start of the regular season in question....
High School Quarterback Goes Behind-The-Back On Fake Punt
This is a deceptively great move from Georgia high school football. Archer high school made like it was going to punt to Sandy Creek but then hit the backup quarterback, Will Bearden, with the direct snap. He took the ball and avoided pressure by going behind his back with the ball and dumping it of...
Phil Mickelson Hits Into Hospitality Area For Second Day In A Row
Phil Mickelson hit a shot into the hospitality area of the par-4 fifth hole at The Barclay's yesterday and he did it again today. Both times he actually hit a nearby cart path and the ball bounced up into the tent area. Both times he was able to hit it off the astroturfed section without taking a dr...
Apparently They Don't Have Water In Alabama
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More Gimmicks <em>The Simpsons</em> Should Consider
The longest marathon in TV history is just one of several stunts The Simpsons has launched following April's revelation of record-low ratings. For starters, there was the recent Lego episode; next season, we'll get a Family Guy crossover and an episode where a character will be killed off. But w...
This Is Painful: Floyd Mayweather Struggles To Read A Brief Radio Drop
So it looks like 50 Cent may have had good reason to challenge Floyd Mayweather to read a single page from one of the Harry Potter books. Above is a clip from this morning’s edition of The Breakfast Club on Power 105, in which co-host Charlamagne Tha God plays an unedited version of a drop Mayweathe...
The Life And Death OF Vaudeville
The Library of America's story of the week by the incomparable Fred Allen. ...
50 Cent Challenges Floyd Mayweather To Read For Charity
Floyd Mayweather has been beefing with numerous rappers of late. He fought T.I. at a Fatburger in Las Vegas in May. Nelly blasted Mayweather for being a high school dropout on ESPN, and he's also dating Mayweather's ex-fiancée. But no beef has been more entertaining than Mayweather's fallout wit...
<em>The Heroic Trio</em>: A Female-Superhero Classic For Stoners Everywhere
Recently, news circulated that we are finally getting a full movie about a female superhero. It's going to be a spinoff of the current not-great Spider-Man series, and we don't yet know if the female superhero in question is going to be Spider-Woman or Silver Sable or the Black Cat or what. It's a f...
Search For <em>MILF Island</em>: On Reality TV's Extreme-Matchmaking Revolution
According to IMDB, many people who like VH1's new self-explanatory reality show Dating Naked have also enjoyed a 2000 home video titled Totally Nude Aerobics. Which makes sense: Both titillate via strategic pixilation. What's different this time is the tantalizing prospect of watching real human...
Should Mo'ne Davis Cash In Now?
Mo'ne Davis is already the most famous player in Little League World Series history, save perhaps Danny Almonte. If she wins tonight, she'll have to answer a question Almonte was never asked: Cash in now?...
Crazy Racist Alaskan Lady Goes On Amazing Racist Roadrage Rant
Damn, lady, this is one fine-ass racist run you went on here. Started off strong with, "If I had a gun, I would shoot you dead. ... I'm going to kill your kids and your goddamn mother. I've got people who will do it," and rolled right into Muslims blowing up school bus children because they're athei...
Poll Results: What's A Sport And What's Not?
Here, visualized, the results of a poll that are as interesting as they are unscientific. Click expand and commence arguing over what makes something a sport as opposed to a game or an activity....
Texas Athletic Director Channels Donald Sterling
The millionaire administrators who prop up the NCAA often say deeply, deeply stupid things when defending their right to make millions of dollars off of the unpaid labor of athletes, but what University of Texas athletic director Steve Patterson said in this month's issue of Texas Monthly deserves...
Washington Players Paid Tribute To Michael Brown
Last night, Washington's defensive backs entered the field with their hands held high, a silent but striking tribute to Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old shot to death by police in Ferguson, Mo., earlier this month....
Johnny Manziel Is Number One
Johnny Manziel's middle finger to the Washington sideline was funny. It was meaningless, and petty, but above all else, it was fun to see and share and talk about and hear Manziel and his coach be forced to explain. There's going to be a lot Manziel overkill this year, a lot of stupid controvers...