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This Grizzly Bear's 11th Birthday Party Was Low-Key And Exclusive
This is Brutus the bear celebrating his 11th birthday. I won't offer any other details, because Brutus's b-day bash was a super intimate affair and it wouldn't be cool to gossip about it....
A Cleveland Browns Tailgate Featured A Beer-Drinkin' Toddler
We've said it before: Giving babies beer to drink is not necessarily the "responsible" thing to do. And the same goes for toddlers. But there was no stopping this kid. He came to party....
NHL Referee Accurately, If Unhelpfully, Explains Penalty
Getting sent to the penalty box because "you can't do that" is technically true, I guess. ...
Frat Bro Writes The Rapiest Email Ever: "Luring Your Rapebait"
Here's one more reason to never, ever, ever let your kids near anything in a fraternity: this godawful email from an active member of the Georgia Tech Phi Kappa Tau frat, titled "Luring your Rapebait". It goes downhill from there. ...
16 Adorable Animals React To BuzzFeeᴅ's Darren Rovell Story
Over the weekend, our pals at BuzzFeeᴅ published a long, insightful profile of sports business cyborg Darren Rovell. We felt compelled to share our thoughts on some of the choicer moments from the story....
Why People Hate Darren Rovell
This weekend, Steve Kandell at BuzzFeeᴅ took a brief respite from posting listicles of shit that makes you feel old to do a big #longread on ESPN sports business reporter and Boiler Room extra Darren Rovell. As usual, Rovell comes across as an unapologetic industry hack, someone who found his niche...
Hey, Everyone, Check Out Pete Prisco's Tim Tebow Impression
Here's Pete Prisco, odious football columnist and wearer of cargo jorts weird shorts, getting into a little tête-à-tête with some Jaguars fans at this month's "Sign Tim Tebow" rally. Prisco, who is staunchly anti-Tebow, can be seen giving his impression of Tebow's style of play. Nice moves, Pete....
Bill Leavy's Officiating Crew Blows Another Call
NFL referee Bill Leavy's season is off to a fantastic start....
"False Start, Everybody But The Center"
Walt Coleman Anderson's got jokes! Accurate too, if unfair—everyone besides center Jason Kelce knew the snap count....
Teens Throw Huge Party At Former NFL Lineman's House While He's Away
Former NFL offensive lineman Brian Holloway has a house and 200 acres of property in Stephentown, N.Y. Over Labor Day weekend, while Holloway was away, roughly 300 kids threw a gigantic rager at his house without his knowledge, trashed the place, and stole his stuff. Teens are the worst....
Meaningless, Meaningful September Baseball Is Great Baseball
A few thoughts, in no special order, on a lousy ballgame from the other night:...
Has Any Coach Ever Done Less With More Than Lane Kiffin?
Watch enough football for long enough, and eventually you'll see everything. I believe this: In this calendar year alone we've seen a one-point safety, a Heisman finalist cop to having an imaginary girlfriend, and a 300-pound left tackle score on a hook-and-lateral, among other improbable feats. And...
Cops Bust Late-Night Alcohol And Weed Party On Michigan Stadium Field
Party at The Big House!...
The Greatest Yankees Meltdown Ever Captured On Tape [NSFW]
Here's a cool old relic from the last great era of Yankees dysfunction. It's a clip of Hall of Fame reliever Goose Gossage losing his shit in front of the New York media in 1982—the beginning of a miserable, drawn-out decade for the organization, when all that '70s glory turned to pinstriped shit....
Breakfast of Champions: Showtime
Found, sitting on a table at Monroe Street Books in Vermont, just outside of Middlebury (one of my favorite places in the world). ...
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Jay Mariotti Has A Website And A Shitty Radio Show [CORRECTED]
Correction (4:04 p.m.): Turns out there are two Genesis Communications in the radio world. Jay Mariotti actually partnered with the one that owns and operates six stations in central Florida—not the one affiliated with Alex Jones and his ilk. Our bad. Fuck Mariotti anyway....
For The Latest On A-Rod, Here's Mike Lupica, Live From The Hamptons
He did manage to find a baseball field in East Hampton to use as a backdrop, so you know he's doing the legwork on this developing story....
Shake It
Speaking of The Third Man, man, you've got to check out this version of the movie's theme by the crazy-gifted Juan Garcia Esquivel. (Crank this one up, maybe put on headphones to get the full stereo effect.)...
Sucking In The Seventies
Over at the great site, In Focus, Alan Taylor takes a look at America in the 1970s. Check out what he's got so far......