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European Golfer Jumps Into Lake To Escape Hornet Attack
Pablo Larrazabal was just minding his own business, playing through his second round at the Malaysian Open on Friday, when all of a sudden—HORNET ATTACK!...
The #AskEmmert Q&A Is Going Poorly
Mark Emmert is on Mike & Mike this morning, and the show asked listeners to submit questions for the NCAA president on Twitter, tagged #AskEmmert. It has, predictably, turned into a mini-revolt against the NCAA....
Rare Video Of People Actually Riding Action Park's Infamous Water Slide
No theme park has generated more urban legends—and more confusion about the line between myth and actual, horrible reality—than Action Park, the late, lamented (and since semi-resurrected) water park in northern New Jersey. And no ride has been the subject of more rumors than the Cannonball Loop....
Why I Fixed Fights
I fixed a lot of fights over the years. In two I didn't fix but should have, people paid heavily for my carelessness. Even though I set up Mitch "Blood" Green and Leon Spinks cushion-soft in their comeback fights, I managed to get one embarrassed and the other nearly killed. There had been opportuni...
Presenting Your 2014 Name Of The Year
Shamus Beaglehole has prevailed. Here's to you, Shamus....
This Looks Painful
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Nik Cohn On The Beatles
"If the Beatles meant a lot in England, they meant very much more in America," wrote Nik Cohnin his brisk, entertaining history of Rock n Roll, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: Pop from the Beginning. "They changed everything. They happened at a time when American pop was bossed by trash, by dance crazes...
Lawyer Who Aided NCAA's Miami Investigation Faces Ethics Charges
Yesterday, the Florida Bar formally filed ethics charges against Maria Elena Perez, the attorney who represented booster Nevin Shapiro and helped the NCAA illegally obtain evidence against the University of Miami. Perez is accused of 15 separate violations of Bar rules, in providing help for the inv...
ESPN Deportes Baseball Analysts: Slightly More Attractive Than ESPN's
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The Masters Is Better As Minigolf
This is a remarkably well-done reimagining of The Masters in an infinitely more entertaining, putt-putt form. I would watch this. I would play this. I would wreck this....
Revising A Miracle: What if the Mets Had Drafted Reggie?
Dig the 3-part series by Chris and Jon DeRosa. ...
Is This The Saddest Mascot?
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Bubba Watson Went To Waffle House To Celebrate His Masters Win
Bubba Watson, everyone's favorite Southern chillbro golfer, won his second Masters in three years yesterday, and he celebrated the achievement exactly as you would expect him to. After claiming his second green jacket, Watson and his crew made a late-night Waffle House run, because Waffle House is a...
Wake Up, Yankeefan
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Luke Donald Was Ratted Out By Masters Spectators
Englishman Luke Donald had a rough first round at the Masters, carding a 77 even before being notified of a two-stroke penalty for a bunker shot on nine. It seems Donald grounded his club with the ball still in the sand, and nobody would have noticed—if not for a couple of eagle-eyed fans who tattle...
Our Pimento Cheese Is Better Than Augusta National's
The Masters Tournament started yesterday (Go Tiger! ...oh, never mind.), and Bon Appétit's Adam Rapoport is chatting about Masters foods, and dammit, that's a perfectly good excuse to remind you that our pimento cheese karate-chops the shriveled, linen-suit-clad nards off the orange sludge they're ...
I'm <em>Bon Appétit</em>'s Adam Rapoport. Let's Talk About Masters Food.
Adam Rapoport is the editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit; before that, he was GQ's style editor, and before that he was the editor of the restaurant section at Time Out New York and worked as an editor and writer for the James Beard Foundation's Publications Office. He also happens to be a sports fan, a...
Inside Major League Baseball's Dominican Sweatshop System
Ian Gordon's compelling 2013 feature for Mother Jones:...