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Soccer Team Owner Blocks Tottenham Transfer From Prison
Tottenham Hotspur had a deal in place to transfer center back Vlad Chiriches from Romanian club Steaua Bucuresti to the Premier League. But then Steaua Bucuresti owner Gigi Becali was granted his one-a-day phone call from jail, and everything went to shit....
Adam Jones Got A Popeye's Chicken-Themed Cake For His Birthday
Goddammit, Adam Jones. Now I'm just hungry for Popeye's. And also cake....
Russia: Tourists, Athletes Subject To Anti-Gay Laws At Winter Olympics
Russia has a problem: Gay people exist. They're ghastly and gross and bad, and they could destroy the traditional family and rip apart the very fabric of the nation. Even the idea of homosexuality represents a danger to the country, which is why this summer, Vladimir Putin signed wide-sweeping anti-...
Always Do The Right Thing
From the July-August 1991 issue of Film Comment, here's a portion of Gavin Smith's interview with Danny Aiello. They talk Spike, Woody and Fort Apache, the Bronx....
The Master
I like to go to the Matisse room at the Modern and just sit in front of this picture for a good while....
Mystery Solved: Drew Brees Is Not A Rotten Tipper
With training camps firing up, it's time to get all the NFL silly season business out of the way. This will go a long way toward putting to rest one of the dumber stories consuming New Orleans and the larger football world over the last few days—confirmation that Drew Brees did not leave a four perc...
Batting Practice Has Been A Menace During This Orioles-Astros Series
Before Wednesday's game against the Astros, Manny Machado was hit by a batted ball during batting practice. He was fielding grounders at third base when Adam Jones hit a ball that struck Machado's elbow. He was helped off the field as a precaution, though later played in the game, going 0-3 with a w...
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Blowjob In The Stands Livens Up Indoor Volleyball [NSFW]
Best as we can tell, this is from the Russia vs. Germany match at the FIVB World League tournament, held earlier this month in Argentina. But the video is only making the rounds after appearing on this Brazilian blog....
Morgan Freeman Takes Off: A Day With America's Greatest Actor, In 1988
Originally published in the March 14, 1988, issue of New York magazine. Reprinted here with permission of the author's widow, Laura Ross. Illustration by Sam Woolley. ...
CNBC Is Giving A Scam Artist Handicapper His Own Reality Show
The world of sports handicapping is dirty. That's begrudgingly accepted. But it's dirty enough without CNBC giving the sort of exposure money can't buy to a convicted felon operating under a fake name....
ESPN Clumsily Promotes Miguel Cabrera As Lefty With Botched Photoshop
Eagle-eyed reader Dan spotted this during last night's SportsCenter, during which the WWL promoted highlights of the Nats-Tigers game with this graphic of Stephen Strasburg and Miguel Cabrera. Notice anything wrong? ESPN magically turned the league's best hitter into a lefty....
Andy Dalton Meets Average Bengals Fan
When's the last time you saw a photo where your eye wasn't immediately drawn to the ginger?...
Red Sox Get Jake Peavy In Three-Team Deal
Late last night, we finally got some TRADE FUCKING DEADLINE action thanks to a three-team deal struck by the Red Sox, White Sox, and Tigers. Boston comes away from the deal with the most meaningful upgrade, nabbing Jake Peavy in exchange for shortstop Jose Iglesias and a bushel of prospects. ...
The Eli Experiment
If you've never read it, Michael Lewis' 2004 New York Times magazine story, "The Eli Experiment" is a good one:...
A History Of Violence
Dig Carlo Rotella’s 2008 Washtington Post Magazine profile of the novelist and screenwriter George Pelicanos:...
Down A Lazy River
From Supersonic Electronic, dig these realistically unreal water distortion paintings by Nuria Farre....
This Is Less Than Ingenious
From today's Pardon The Interruption. [ESPN]...
