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Soccer Player Throws Dog Into Fence, Gets Red Carded, Is Horrible
Enzo Jose Jimenez, a player for Bella Vista in an Argentinian lower league, wasn't happy when a stray dog interrupted play with his team down a goal. So he picked up the poor thing by it's neck and hurled it off the pitch, right into a fence....
Nationals Fans Are Not Paying Attention
Just this season, we've seen a Nats fan doing his calculus homework at the game, a Nats fan doing his taxes at the game, a Nats fan knitting a scarf at the game. Now, three more examples, all from a single day, of Washington fans reading at the ballpark....
Fuck You, Bill Belichick
I was close, Bill Belichick. I was thissss close to spending an entire NFL season free of Tebowmania, or Tebow Time, or whatever fucking brand stamp ESPN decides to put on all its coverage of the Jesusback. I was really looking forward to it, too. I was gonna watch every game safe in the knowledg...
Royal Flushed
Here's Michael Mooney's 2008 story about poker for the New Times:...
Judge Who Wants Chad Johnson In Jail Is Legally Blind
The story out of Florida domestic court this morning was that Chad Johnson was this close to entering his plea deal when, for some reason, judge Katie McHugh asked him if he was happy with his attorney's performance. Johnson said yes and slapped his ass. When Judge McHugh saw this she rescinded the...
Kobe Bryant Got His Parents To Apologize To Him In Writing
Every kid's dream, right? Minus the whole ugly-lawsuit-over-personal-belongings part, anyway....
Custody Battle Over Baby Orphaned By Jovan Belcher's Murder-Suicide
When Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher murdered his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, before killing himself last December, the saddest consequence was that little Zoey Michelle Belcher would be left without parents. Relatives of both Belcher and Perkins have staked custody claims, and they can't agree on...
Here Is Video Of The Latest Pacman Jones Incident
ESPN radio in Cincinnati got hold of the security footage that shows Bengals cornerback Pacman Jones hitting a woman after the woman first came toward him with what looks like a bottle. The altercation, which happened last week outside a Cincinnati bar, begins around the 1-minute mark of the video b...
Tim Donaghy On Game 2: Trying To Keep A Blowout Interesting
As he has done for us in years past, Tim Donaghy, the owner and operator of RefPicks.com and a former NBA referee who spent 11 months in prison for relaying inside information to gamblers, will review the performance of his former colleagues during the NBA Finals. Here's a quarter-by-quarter breakdo...
Pacman Jones Tweets News Of His Latest Arrest—For Hitting A Woman
Has it really been a year-and-a-half since Pacman Jones was last sentenced by a judge for something or other? It's been so long that Pacman no longer wants to be called Pacman, never mind that Pacman is still the name that's on Pacman's Twitter handle. But look! Pacman's Twitter has news of an arres...
Forgive Some Sinner
With Father's Day coming up on Sunday we'll feature stories about Dads this week. This here is as good as it gets—Mark Kram Jr.'s piercing 2007 memoir piece on his father:...
Basically Everyone Related To An MLB Player Was Drafted
We've gone over this before, but there's no sport that can match baseball for pure draft nepotism....
Why, Yes, We Have Jim Ross Calling LeBron's Block On Tiago Splitter
We aim to please....
LeBron's Latest Stunner Was This Demolition Of Tiago Splitter
The Heat made easy work of San Antonio tonight, taking advantage of an off-night by the Spurs' stars to cruise to a Game 2 victory. Yet all anybody wants to talk about is this apocalyptic block by LeBron James....
The People's Cherce
A book you should have: Muhammad Ali: A Portrait in Words and Pictures. The words are by the late Wilfrid Sheed, the photographs by Neil Leifer. It's out-of-print but worth tracking down. ...
Adonis Stevenson Knocks Out Chad Dawson In One Minute With One Punch
Last night, Adonis "Superman" Stevenson fought Chad Dawson in Montreal for the WBC light heavyweight title. The fight was over after 75 seconds and a single jaw-dropping punch....
Tennis for Savages
Nice piece by Corey Kilgannon in the Times today on Joseph Durso, handball champion:...