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Fred Smoot Has A New Disgusting Term To Explain The Love Boat
Former NFL cornerback Fred Smoot, late of double-donging two hookers while on the Vikings sex boat, is trying to make it big in the D.C. sports-talk-radio biz now, and accordingly he's spilling everywhere he can. Spilling his stories. Jeez. You're gross. He did an ask me anything on Reddit today, wi...
How Dr. J Blackified Pro Ball, Found Himself, And Stayed Eternally Cool
Originally published in Esquire in February 1985 and anthologized in Teenage Hipster in the Modern World, a stellar collection of Mark Jacobson's non-fiction. Reprinted here with the author's permission....
There's No Limit To The Ways In Which LeBron Can Hurt His Opponents
If there was ever a moment to be afraid that the moronic lowing of "LeBron isn't clutch!" was going to be heard once again, it was during the first half of Game 2 between the Spurs and Heat. James played tentatively throughout the half, finishing with four points, four assists, and one rebound on 2-...
When Mike Tyson Is Performing At The Tony Awards, It's Time To Give Up
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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....
I Can't Stop Looking At This Then-And-Now GIF Of The Spurs
Game 2 of the NBA Finals starts in about one hour; let's look at how old the Spurs have gotten!...
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. ...
Joe Crawford To Ref First Spurs Final Since Trying To Fight Tim Duncan
Earlier today, the NBA announced the officials for Game 2 of the NBA Finals tonight. They are, in order of importance, Joey Crawford and two other guys you won't know are on the court....
The Half-Naked French Open Flare Guys Were Protesting Gay Marriage
So you remember earlier when the shirtless men in opera masks and salmon pants stormed the court with lit flares in the French Open final? That whole scene felt kind of homoerotic, right? It wasn't just you; we felt it, too. Well, it turns out those guys were actually protesting gay marriage....
The Dodgers And Yankees Need New Mascots
Old-Timer's day at Dodger Stadium is like a who's who of Dodgers royalty and people who are named Billy Crystal and Larry King....
Not Content Merely To Win, The Bruins Are Traumatizing Franchises
The Boston Bruins will welcome the winner of the Chicago-L.A. series to the Stanley Cup Final because of their utter dismantling of the Pittsburgh Penguins. In that series, the Bruins were able to stonewall a Pittsburgh team that won 75 percent of its regular season games and led the league in scori...
Here's Jason Collins Marching At Boston's Gay Pride Parade
NBA center Jason Collins wore a pretty cool shirt to Boston's gay pride parade today. ...
No One Notices The Spurs Because No One Notices San Antonio
Here's a working barstool-grade theory as to why, during its dynastic run to four (perhaps soon five) titles since 1999, America still embraces the San Antonio Spurs with a yawn and a why are you still here? squint. This phenomenon has flustered if not baffled sports cognoscenti for years. But they ...
How To Make A Peach Cobbler So Good You'll Cry
Maybe you don't think of yourself as someone who makes dessert. Maybe you think of dessert as a spoon and a tub of Ben & Jerry's, or a bowl of fruit, or maybe you just don't eat dessert at all because it makes more "sense" to just "eat dinner until you're not hungry anymore" and you "don't want dia...
Legendary Homer Jack Edwards Compares One Bruin's Shot-Block To D-Day
So Gregory Campbell blocked a shot, broke his leg, and finished a shift. It was courageous, in the way these things are, and—to state the obvious—unworthy of this hallowed analogy, which Edwards presented (naturally) on WEEI. There will forever be a great gulf between the sacrifices of soldiers and...
Tim Donaghy On Game 1: The Make-Up Call That Sealed A Spurs Win
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 break d...
My Dinner With Ali
Adapted from the original, which was published in 1989 in the Louisville Courier-Journal Magazine. Footnotes from the author (as told to Tommy Craggs) are included throughout the story, and a postscript from Glenn Stout, editor of Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Sports Writing series, follows. The ...