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This Astros Fan Is Cooler Than You Will Ever Be
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"Nice Going, Boyfriend!" Perfect Gentleman Runs Away From Home Run Ball, Lets It Hit Female Companion In The Face
This is why it is perfectly acceptable to bring a glove to a baseball game....

Why Your Children's Television Program Sucks: <i>Dora The Explorer</i>
A look at the awful children’s programming you’re forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight hours. Illustration by Jim Cooke....

She Don't Use Jelly, She Uses Tim Tebow And Dwyane Wade And LeBron Jam
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Referee Bill Kennedy Takes An Elbow To The Face
This happened right off the tip-off of tonight's Bucks-Bobcats game. Larry Sanders won the jump ball cleanly and on his way down, his elbow/forearm makes solid contact with Bill Kennedy's face....

Doctors Say Kevin Ware's Injury May Have Been Exacerbated By Undetected Stress Fractures
After getting over the initial shock and horror that came from watching Kevin Ware snap his leg in half last night, many people were left wondering how suffering an injury as gruesome as Ware's on such a seemingly innocuous play was even possible. Yes, he landed awkwardly, but it's hard to imagine h...

"God Said Yes To Michigan": We Called Every Tourney Team's Local Applebee's To Find Out What Happened In The Game
For the tournament, we're calling Applebee's franchises in different cities across the country immediately after the local institution has completed its game, win or lose. We'll pretend to be oblivious about what just happened in order to get a detailed game description from someone in the restauran...

Cardinals Skipper Flips The Bird
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What Really Makes Us Sick About The Kevin Ware Injury
There isn't a lot known about the details surrounding Kevin Ware's injury, but there's already been a rush to discuss its place in the grander scheme of NCAA athletics. In short: college athletics is a scam....

The Eight Most Groan-Worthy Lines In <em>GI Joe: Retaliation</em>
GI Joe: Retaliation is pretty bad. You don't need me to tell you that. It's not completely horrible: There's a cool sequence involving ninjas fighting each other during an avalanche, one special effects scene has London blowing up real awesome-like, and The Rock continues to be the one consistent ac...

Zombie John Harbaugh Couldn't Stand To See His Brother-In-Law's Season End
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<em>Around The Horn</em> Gets The <em>Game Of Thrones</em> Treatment
Here's Around the Horn's tribute to everyone's favorite television show about medieval politics, boobs, and dragons. We've seen this kind of thing before from Reali and the gang, and even though the music isn't exactly right, this is very well done. ...

The NCAA's Miami Investigation Didn't Actually Stop Using Unethical Methods When It Claimed It Did
The NCAA fucked up its investigation of Miami in oh so many ways. But the single largest fuck-up, the one that required a timeout in the case for an outside investigation of its practices, was the NCAA paying the lawyer of imprisoned booster Nevin Shapiro to help them gather evidence. The independen...

Enes Kanter's Dislocated Shoulder Looks Like It Feels Great
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An Epic That Stumbles. <em>The Place Beyond The Pines</em>, Reviewed.
Director Derek Cianfrance's last film, Blue Valentine, was a crushing study of a couple (played by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams) falling apart. It was beautifully made and well acted—I loved it—but the rawness of the emotions and the ambition of the structure (cycling between the present and t...

You Need To Watch Andrew "The Canadian Jordan" Wiggins's Latest Mixtape
Meet Andrew Wiggins. He's the 6-foot-8 superfreak in the video up there, making his fellow high school seniors look like 12-year-olds as he sails past them for dunk after electrifying dunk....

The U.S. Walking Away From Estadio Azteca With A Draw Is Out Of This World
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<em>Room 237</em> Will Make You Love <em>The Shining</em> All Over Again
One of the saddest things about the death of a favorite filmmaker is realizing that you'll probably never see any new movie from him ever again. When popular musicians die, they always leave material lying around that their estates can spruce up and put out for the fans. (Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, ...

