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Nike Joins The Quest For A Sub Two-Hour Marathon
In a brilliant height-of-the-Christmas-sales-season marketing move, Nike announced via two breathless press releases, in Runner’s World and Wired, that they are entering the sub two-hour marathon game. ...
WMU Basketball Player Charged With Murdering Fellow Student
At around 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 8, Kalamazoo police responded to a report of a shooting near the campus of Western Michigan University. They arrived to find 19-year-old WMU student Jacob Ryan Jones dead, and a day later they arrested 20-year-old WMU basketball player Joeviair Kennedy as part of a felon...
Tell Us About Your Fantasy Football Playoffs
The fantasy football playoffs have arrived, which means that the bonings hurt even more....
My Combo Of The Year
It’s time to announce my combo of the year. ...
Report: Two Louisville Football Players, One Student Shot At Heisman Party
Two Louisville football players, James Hearns and and Henry Famurewa, and an unidentified female student were shot early Sunday morning at an off-campus party celebrating Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson’s Heisman Trophy victory. The shooting took place around 2:00 a.m. in the Retreat apartment ...
Jaguars Junction: Week 14
What makes a “world class city?” Let’s check the list. ...
Pacman Jones On Terrelle Pryor: "Pryor Suck"
For the second straight game, Browns receiver Terrelle Pryor was razzed by the opposing defense after his team lost. Giants cornerback Janoris Jenkins tweeted “u really sucks” at Pryor after Cleveland’s Week 12 loss, and today, Bengals defensive back Pacman Jones teed off on the WR....
Harry Douglas And Aqib Talib Scrap After Douglas Goes Low On Chris Harris Jr.
Tennessee Titans receiver Harry Douglas delivered a low block to Denver Broncos defensive back Chris Harris Jr. in the second quarter of today’s game, and Harris’s teammate Aqib Talib stuck up for him by picking a fight with Douglas....
Why The Browns Might Win A Game Today
The Cleveland Browns have lost all 12 of their games so far this season, but don’t count them out today. Here’s why their luck might turn around against the Cincinnati Bengals:...
Kansas Forward Carlton Bragg Jr. Charged With Battery For Allegedly Striking Girlfriend, Pushing Her Down Stairs
Kansas Jayhawks sophomore forward Carlton Bragg Jr. was charged today with one count of misdemeanor battery after prosecutors said his girlfriend called 911, saying he struck her and pushed her down the stairs. Bragg was initially arrested on suspicion of domestic battery, but the Douglas County Dis...
This <i>Seinfeld</i> Reboot Sucks
Donald Trump, who will be spending the next four years traveling around the country doing stand-up, took some time today to give his hungry constituents what they crave: good, clean observational humor. ...
The Restoration Hardware Catalog Intro Letter Is Lofty And Insane
We already goofed on this year’s Williams-Sonoma catalog, but plenty of readers have alerted me to the fact that, on an annual basis, the Restoration Hardware catalog is a far more insane enterprise. And they’re right. It’s bigger, more pretentious, more expensive, and has way more useless crap. Thi...
Johnny Hekker Is The Punter Every Punter Wants To Be
The best thing about the Los Angeles Rams isn’t Aaron Donald and the defensive line, or laughing at Jeff Fisher and his endless quest to perfect mediocrity. Nope. The best thing about the Rams is their punter....
Hero Defender Refuses To Give Up, Somehow Thwarts Certain Goal
Sure, the striker in this Greek lower-league match who somehow didn’t score despite having nearly all the time in the world is the easy scapegoat here, but let’s appreciate the defender’s hustle and never-say-die attitude in the face of impossible odds. He is the true star here....
Never Forget That Every Financial Forecast Is 100 Percent Worthless
Hey, how are the markets looking? How about them markets? Where do you think the markets will be going in the coming year? Let’s turn to the highly paid professionals, shall we?...
Nobody Seems To Want Andrew McCutchen
There might be a gas outage in Pittsburgh this week because the stove, my friends, appears to have gone freezing cold for Andrew McCutchen and the Pirates....
Let's Share Our Petty Stories About Famous People Acting Uncool
A very long time ago, during George W. Bush’s first term as president, Dick Cheney came into the Northern Virginia bookstore where I worked. Just surly old then-Vice President Dick Cheney and maybe a handful of (identifiable, visible) Secret Service dudes, coming into the bookstore on a weekend afte...
Odell Beckham, We Have Something You Should Read
Odell Beckham Jr. is still steamed about the officiating in the Giants’ loss to the Steelers, in which he believes (and is correct, incidentally) that Pittsburgh defenders got away with all kinds of uncalled penalties. So steamed that he’s making nonsensical jokes:...
The More We Learn About The Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association, The Shadier It Seems
As pretty much everybody saw coming, things aren’t going so well with the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association—the latest attempt at forming a sort of fighters union—and former Bellator founder and CEO Bjorn Rebney’s presence in the group is already threatening to ruin it....