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What Might Happen If A Football Coach Coached Soccer
This skit features Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso, an American football coach hired to manage Tottenham Hotspur in England. Look at all the differences! It's a dumb premise, but the jokes are legitimately funny. Who knew so many football clubs were just like the Dallas Cowboys?...
Red Sox Owner John Henry Buys <em>Boston Globe</em>
John Henry, one of the principal owners of the Red Sox, has agreed to purchase the Boston Globe from the Times Co. for $70 million....
MLB Rookie's Rap Video Has Bedazzled Jockstrap, Pro-Abstinence Message
The Atlanta Braves called up outfielder prospect Todd Cunningham earlier this week, and Cunningham pinch-hit and recorded his first career hit—a single—on Tuesday. This isn't the interesting part, though; Cunningham's rap video from 2011 advocating abstinence is a much more important subject....
Alabama Fan's Dumb Tattoo Has Terrible Typo
Roll Tide. Roll. Motherfucking. Tide....
Photoshop Contest: A-Rod Out On The Town
If you happened to see A-Rod dawdling around Florida in recent weeks, we still want your submissions. But it's a summer Friday, and while we all wait for MLB to decide on A-Rod's punishment, let's see what other kinds of situations we can put him in....
Moto X Competitor Spices Up His Tricks With A Little Air-Humping
This is one of Blake Williams's runs from last night's Moto X Freestyle competition at the X Games. Williams pulls off some pretty Xtreme tricks here, but we would like to draw your attention to the two he pulls off at the 1:03- and 1:26-marks of the video....
The House That Thurman Munson Built
Originally published in the September 1999 issue of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author’s permission....
Melky Cabrera Tries To Throw A Baseball. It Does Not Go Well
Here's the GIF that pretty much sums up your season, Blue Jays fans....
Fair Play?
Robert Lipsyte, ESPN's Ombudsman looks at why the first-rate documentary, Let Them Wear Towels, was seemingly buried when it was aired on the same night as the All-Star Game. ...
Riley Cooper Has Defenders, And They're Saying Stupid Shit
Whose fault is it Riley Cooper said he wanted to "fight every nigger" at a Kenny Chesney concert? Riley Cooper's, of course. But if you're a stupid person on the Internet, you cast plenty of blame for "blacks" and "the media."...
Live Fast, Love Hard, And Don't Let Nobody Borrow Your Comb
Here's a little more Kornheiser, from when he was at the Times (’76-79). He worked at Newsday and then the New York Times before joining the Washington Post....
Woodpeckers Can't Get Concussions, Will Muschamp Says (And He's Right)
Florida coach Will Muschamp is not known for his learnedness, but he dropped a little science during a press conference today, telling the assembled reporters a strange-but-true fact: Woodpeckers can't get concussions....
Alfredo Aceves Has A Son, And His Name Is Awesome
It's not like the kid is ever going to be called The First, but it's still a great name....
Pac-12 Commissioner Combines Good Idea With Dumb Suggestion
Caporegime Larry Scott, who runs the NCAA's west coast crew as the commissioner of the Pac-12, wants to arrange some kind of sit-down with the heads of all of the NCAA's families. He has a beef with basketball's so-called one-and-done rule, which requires athletes to spend one year pretending to be ...
How A Stoned Canadian Changed Sports History
Ross Rebagliati was happy to piss into a cup. He was proud to do it. The Canadian snowboarder had just completed an epic Olympic gold medal-clinching giant slalom run, and he welcomed the drug screening. It made things official, in a way. After all, this was early 1998. His still-fringe sport was b...
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....