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Work Hard, Blot: Lipstick And The Fifth-Fastest Indoor Mile Ever
Dammit people, put down the fatty and pay attention to women's middle distance track. U.S. women are killing it on a global scale. Take Shannon Rowbury, above: Already a two-time Olympian and lotta-time World Championship finalist, she broke from the gate this year and laid down a 4:22.66 mile at ...
20 Years Ago Today, Sparky Anderson Said No To Scab Players
After calling off the 1994 World Series because of a work stoppage, and failing to reach an agreement over the winter, MLB owners were determined not to lose another season of profits—even if they had to bring in the strikebreakers. A handful of managers, and even one owner, spoke out against the us...
Goodbye To Old-Ass Jason Giambi, Who Refused To Go Down A Villain
Jason Giambi is retiring. At age 44, the slugger announced yesterday that his gradual disappearance from the game—one that began all the way back in 2009, when Giambi remade himself into a grizzled pinch-hitter and nominal player-coach—has reached its terminus. His career probably should have ende...
Cops: Brennan Clay Threw, Dragged, Choked His Wife
Police arrested Brennan Clay—the former Oklahoma running back involved in a triangle of chaos with his wife Gina D'Agostini and Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray—on the night of Jan. 27 for allegedly assaulting D'Agostini at her University Park, Texas home....
The Yankees Will Sell Their Past Until There's Nothing Left Of It
The Yankees announced yesterday that they will retire the numbers of Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, and Bernie Williams, and that all three—along with Willie Randolph—will receive plaques in Monument Park in four different ceremonies spread across the season. No American sports team has made such an...
Nice Russian Man Feeds A Hungry Bear Through His Window
This Russian bear was hungry as hell and looking for some late-night eats, so he came to a kind man's window to check out the snack situation. Luckily for this bear, it is Russian tradition (it might even be a law, in fact) to keep a bowl of raw meat near every window in one's house, just in case a ...
Doug Baldwin Reveals Football-Pooping Celebration Was For Darrelle Revis
Doug Baldwin commemorated his Super Bowl lead-extending touchdown catch by pretending either to poop out the football, or on it. (It's not clear which, but no one saw it anyway; NBC's director cut away in time, warned by the voice of his vigilant dead mother. Thankfully, it was filmed from the stand...
McFarland Cross Country: They Built It And Hollywood Came
Given how Hollywood likes to tart up the truth (see American Sniper, Frozen, et al.) you probably have a very good sense of what's going on with Disney's soon-to-be released McFarland USA. The Kevin Costner vehicle is based, as they say, on the true story of a boys' cross country team from McFarland...
The Two Best (And Only) Sixth-Grade Football Prospects
The class of 2021 is shaping up to be a big one, according to recruiting site Rivals. There are already two sixth-grade football prospects with profiles. Meanwhile, the class of 2020 has no one. Those seventh-graders are going to be huge duds....
After The Fall: Sympathy For The Devil
What do Dave Pell, Don Van Natta Jr, and Longform all have in common? They all singled out Brin-Jonathan Butler's stellar SB Nation Longform piece on Mike Tyson and Cus D'Amato:...
<i>Last Week Tonight</i> Clowns The Increasingly Desperate <i>SI</i> Swimsuit Issue
Last night's episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver featured a segment which addressed a question that everyone who is not a 56-year-old dad who still masturbates to magazines in the bathroom has asked: How is the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue still a thing?...
Watch Justin Timberlake & Jimmy Fallon Rap 40 Years Of <i>SNL</i> Memories
Tonight's 40th anniversary celebration of Saturday Night Live on NBC opened with a musical tribute to the variety show's most memorable moments, starring former cast member Jimmy Fallon and oft-host Justin Timberlake—who briefly brought back "Dick In A Box." (Uncensored, even, in prime time!) This s...
<i></i>French Soccer Fans Rep Their Club With Stunning Colored Dust Cloud
Hey, this is really cool. Girondins de Bordeaux hosted AS Saint-Étienne today, and Bordeaux's fans thought of a cool new way to support their squad: dust....
Delanie Walker's Girlfriend Blows Up His Life From His Own Instagram
Titans tight end Delanie Walker likely had a terrible Valentine's Day. From the looks of things, his girlfriend Racine Lewin posted a photo of the couple from Walker's Instagram Saturday, along with a big wall of text that accused Walker of frequently cheating, and announced that Lewin's pregnant wi...
MMA Fighter Suffers Seizure After Getting Viciously Knocked Out
At an Oplot fight card held in (we believe) Russia earlier today, a fighter went into a seizure after being knocked out with a kick to the head. The footage, as seen above—it starts at about the 56:30 mark—is difficult to watch, not least because of a seemingly confused response from the referee, ...
How To Cook Valentine's Day Dinner, Like You Damn Well Should
The first thing to know about cooking for Valentine's Day is that the list of occasion-appropriate food preparations you'll find below was made in consultation with a woman, the only blemish on whose otherwise immaculate record of good taste and judgment is her baffling and indefensible decision to ...
A Way-Too-Serious Scouting Report On The NBA All-Star Celebrity Game
The Celebrity Game is without question the crown jewel of NBA All-Star Weekend, an event that provides the too-rare opportunity to see the TV and movie and music stars (and in some case, "stars") the world worships be extremely terrible at something, and for however brief a second, be able to say ...