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David Wilson Ticked Off The Wrong Hardass Coach
Take a good look at this photo. It might be the last time you see David Wilson carrying the ball for a while. It damn well will be the last time you see Wilson carrying the ball with one hand, or Tom Coughlin will eat his heart....
Audiobooks Are For Communists And Charles Bronson Villains
We welcome September into our lives and all it has to offer: sweet weather, the NFL, meaningful baseball games and two months before I have to run 13.1 consecutive miles. It's a pretty decent time to be alive; let's talk about why it's not. Here's your Spotify playlist....
Worker's Comp Could Cost The NFL More Than The Concussion Settlement
The headline on and main talking point from this L.A. Times article is almost distracting, but it's fun: It turns out that moron and/or hypocrite Deion Sanders, who criticized former players are just "trying to make money" off of concussion lawsuits against the NFL, filed his own worker's compensati...
Who Will Host The 2020 Olympics?
Tomorrow at 4 p.m. EDT, the IOC will announce the host city for the 2020 Olympic Games. Though that seems like so far away and you will be old and incontinent by then, it seems worth handicapping the three candidates....
Why Do Tennis Players Say "Come On!" So Much?
On Tuesday, in front of a small crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, the inconsistent Serbian Ana Ivanoivc had an early lead on Victoria Azarenka in the fourth round at the U.S. Open. At the end of a 14-shot rally late in the first set, Ivanovic slapped a weak forehand into the net. ...
The Main Ingredient
Check out this piece about the importance of authenticity by Sara Jenkins in the Atlantic:...
Even After Seven TDs, Peyton Manning Can't Escape John Elway's Shadow
According to the Columbus Dispatch, it was ol' No. 7 who put a historic hurting on the Baltimore Ravens last night. There's never really a good excuse for mistaking John Elway for Peyton Manning, but this definitely shouldn't happen the morning after a record-setting performance like the one Manning...
Lamar Odom Reportedly Checks Into Rehab
Like all right-thinking human beings, we like Lamar Odom and are rooting for him. So today's news ought to be viewed as a good thing, a sign things can only get better from here....
Reds Run Suicide Squeeze With Two Outs In The 15th Inning
Dusty Baker called for a suicide squeeze with two on and two out in the 15th inning and guess what? It didn't work. The Cardinals took the lead the following inning on a Matt Adams home run and defeated the Reds 5-4....
The 16 Fall Movies You Should Be Excited About: A Guide
Labor Day is the signpost every year that the sugary summer junk is behind us and that the nutritious square meal of awards season has finally arrived. That's the theory, anyway: In actuality, summer movies like Before Midnight and Fruitvale Station will be as well-received as any Oscar bait, and th...
Costa Rica Is Trolling The Shit Out Of The USMNT
On Friday, the U.S. national team takes the pitch in Costa Rica for a World Cup qualifying match. The Costa Ricans are making it as difficult as possible, denying them training grounds and even going so far as to refuse them game balls for practice....
Western Michigan Coach Demonstrates "New Traditions" In Hilarious Video
Look out Kliff Kingsbury, there's another college football coach out there who's aiming for the title of Swaggiest Bro-Coach to Have Ever Swagged. Meet Western Michigan head coach P.J. Fleck. He's here to walk you through the new game-day traditions that will be taking place at Bronco games this ye...
Here Is @Vodka_Samm's .341 BAC Mug Shot
Samantha Goudie, the University of Iowa college student who had a wild, drunken Saturday at the Hawkeyes football game—to put it mildly—looks like the saddest Ke$ha ever in her mug shot photo....
Brandon Marshall Is Better Than Drew Brees, And Other Fantasy Truths
Fantasy football may not have all the blood and sweat and violence and trauma of the game as it's played on the field, but there's at least one way in which it's just like the real thing: as John Madden put it, "usually the team that scores the most points wins." How you get those points may be ver...
Cool Fat City Poster
We've raved about Fat City here before—Leonard Gardner's novel and John Huston's movie. I ran across the Polish poster for the movie at the dope tumblr site, The Wanderlustr. ...
Brutus The Buckeye Showed Up At A Wedding In Columbus
After pumping up Ohio State fans on Saturday, Brutus the Buckeye certainly deserves a me-day. The mascot apparently chose to spend Sunday partying at a wedding in Columbus, and it looks like everyone involved had a grand time....
The Raiders Have Already Cut Their 2013 Fourth-Round Pick
As the deadline for 53-man rosters came to a close, the Oakland Raiders made unique decisions while cutting players. In this case, "unique" doesn't necessarily mean "good."...
When The Treadmill Makes You Hate What You Once Loved
I discovered something this week on the treadmill. God, the treadmill is just the worst. The absolute worst. That's not the discovery. Calling that a discovery is like saying Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. What I'm saying is: the Vikings were somehow involved in the manufacturing of a...
Oklahoma City Thunder Player Arrested On Domestic Abuse Charge
Shooting guard DeAndre Liggins of the Oklahoma City Thunder was jailed Saturday night after reportedly getting into an altercation with a woman that police believed to be his girlfriend....
Politics Is Dirtier Than Usual In Virginia
This is a delicious bit of political gamesmanship in the race for Virginia governor. The University of Virginia hosts BYU today at 3:30 p.m. and at 5:30 p.m. Virginia Tech and Alabama will kickoff at the Georgia Dome. Naturally, both games provide large, captive audiences for the candidates to infl...