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Ken Starr Believes Art Briles Is The True Victim In Baylor's Sexual Assault Scandal
Former Baylor chancellor Ken Starr (yes, that Ken Starr) praised the character of ousted head football coach Art Briles, saying he felt Briles had been the object of a “grave injustice,” in a Saturday interview with the Texas Tribune....
Don't Have Opinions About Other People's Underwear
Are your underwear emitting an odor of feces or stale urine or stagnant crotch-and-ass sweat that I can smell from a normal, respectful distance? Are you wearing some form of outer garment between your underwear and the outside world? Are you someone with whose underwear I may interact directly in t...
Leonard Williams, We Know What Happened To Your Hookah Parts
Jets defensive lineman Leonard Williams recently ordered some parts for his hookah, but he never got them. Leonard, the cops have your hookah stuff....
Charlotte Protests: A Night In Photos
Protests in Charlotte built to a head tonight as one man was shot and several were injured in clashes between armed riot police and the protestors they were trying to dislodge from downtown Charlotte. Jalopnik’s Justin Westbrook was on the scene for us, and he captured a series of livestreams from t...
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Reports: One Shot, Several Injured As Protests In Charlotte Turn Violent [Updating]
Protests have swirled through Charlotte after Keith Scott, a father of seven, was shot and killed by Charlotte PD Tuesday. According to his family, he was armed with nothing more than a book. This evening, protests once again became violent, and reporters from the scene are reporting that someone ha...
Robert Swift Says He's Clean And Attempting A Professional Basketball Comeback
Last we checked in with former Seattle SuperSonics lottery pick Robert Swift, he was addicted to heroin, getting arrested for armed robbery, and having police raid a house in which he was living and finding, among other things, a grenade launcher. It’s been 20 months since then, and from the picture...
Saint Louis University's New Mascot Is Hungry For Your Soul
Saint Louis University’s mascot is the Billikens. No, a billiken is not a type of lake, an airplane, or an offbrand big cat. It’s a “mythical good-luck figure who represents ‘things as they ought to be’” according to the school’s website. Things apparently ought to be horrifying, because the updated...
Yaya Touré Won't Play For Man City Again Unless His Shit-Talking Agent Apologizes
After new Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola left Yaya Touré off City’s Champions League roster, Touré’s agent, Dimitri Seluk, said his client was humiliated:...
Donald Trump's Charity Golf Tournament Was Apparently Rigged, And He Used His Charity's Money To Settle The Lawsuit
If highlighting Donald Trump’s xenophobia, racism, sexism, fascism, ignorance, temper, hypocrisy, or overall derangement hasn’t dented his popularity, it’s not about to start. Instead, there appear to be two stories with staying power: Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns, and what sure as hel...
We're Going Backwards On Racial Economic Equality
America’s devastating racial wealth gap is the clearest possible evidence of our nation’s racist history. If we ever want to deal with it, we have another problem to deal with first: the wages of black people are inexcusably low. And it’s getting worse. ...
Crybaby Cops Threaten To Stop Dolphins' Police Escort, Claim Players Don't Have The Right To Free Speech
The Broward County sheriff’s union is calling for an end to police escorts that protect the Miami Dolphins in response to four players kneeling in protest during the national anthem last week....
George Washington Fires Men's Basketball Coach After Investigating Verbal Abuse Claims
Two months after the Washington Post reported verbal and emotional abuse in the men’s basketball program—and two weeks before the first practice of the season—George Washington University has fired head coach Mike Lonergan. ...
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Security Guard Breaks Leg Trying To Catch Idiot On The Field [WARNING: Gross] [Update]
A security guard who attempted to apprehend an Idiot On The Field last night in San Francisco during the Cardinals-Giants game suffered what appears to be a broken leg during the takedown attempt. ...
Food Blogger Apparently Sold Soul To Devil
Just like me and you, Mimi Thorisson is a food blogger. So why is her life so fucking crazy?...
Leicester City Aren't Done Yet
Leicester City won the Premier League last season, so this year they’re in the Champions League. Let me repeat that: Leicester City, a team that three seasons ago was happily dashing about in England’s second tier, somehow plucked up more points than Manchester United and Arsenal and Liverpool and C...
Oklahoma State Student Paper Demands CMU Give Back Hail-And-Lateral Victory
The editorial staff of Oklahoma State’s student newspaper, The O’Colly, is NOT happy about Central Michigan’s Hail Mary Lateral play this past Saturday, which was one of the greatest college football plays of all time but which also technically shouldn’t have been allowed by officials....
Don't Update Your Fucking iPhone!
Yesterday, Apple released its latest major software update with iOS 10. As far as I can tell, the iteration exists only to cut my battery life in half, make my Messages app unusable, and trick me into downloading hundreds of cartoon Biebers and one George R. R. Martin. Reader, don’t be like me. Don’...
Idiot On The Field Invades Ryan Lochte's <i>Dancing With The Stars</i> Segment [Updates]
Tonight’s Dancing With The Stars episode went to an emergency break when an apparent Idiot invaded the set while judges attempted to critique swimmer Ryan Lochte’s performance....
Thankfully, The Manchester Derby Wasn't All About José Mourinho And Pep Guardiola
It’s more than a little understandable that the narrative buildup coming into this weekend’s Manchester Derby was centered on the game as a managerial showdown. Yes, the two iconic managers of this generation—José Mourinho and Pep Guardiola, two legitimate soccer geniuses who famously and furiously ...