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Hockey Player's Feat To Eventually Be Used On Facebook As Reason Why LeBron James Is Actually A Baby
Columbus Blue Jackets winger Matt Calvert will likely find his bandaged head in poorly constructed image macros across Facebook after his effort in Friday’s game against the New York Rangers. The hockey player took a puck to the head, got fixed up, and scored the shorthanded game-winner in the team’...
Miami's Fox Station Aired An Infomercial For A Coffeemaker Instead Of This Match
Borussia Dortmund beat Bayern Munich 1-0 in today’s Bundesliga clash of titans, but despite Bayern’s helpful chart fans in Miami didn’t find the match on their local Fox station. WSVN, which regularly airs paid programming instead of Fox network coverage, decided more south Floridians wanted to watc...
Hot Fucking Stove: May I Interest You In News About The Houston Astros?
Folks, the Hot Stove is as cold as a popsicle being licked by Dick Cheney. There has been minimal baseball news to speak of this week, with the exception of one team. You heard about these Astros?...
An Incomplete Review Of Metallica's New Record: It Owns
Over at the Ringer, our pal Rob Harvilla has a good, funny, thorough review of the new Metallica record, Hardwired... to Self-Destruct. If you want the record placed thoughtfully in the broader context of Metallica’s career, and the 20-or-so years it has spent sorta flailing around and tripping over...
Houston Is Destroying Fifth-Ranked Louisville Thanks To Some Insane Plays
Louisville came into this evening’s game with Houston with a decent chance of making the playoff. Even if Alabama and Clemson win out, all they had to do was win out and inevitably leapfrog the loser of the Ohio State-Michigan game. Instead, they are in the process of getting turned into jelly by th...
Cobb County Plans To Bulldoze An Entire Neighborhood Next To New Braves Ballpark
The Braves’ new ballpark out in suburban Cobb County was built with $400 million in public money, even though the public had no say in negotiations. The politician who spearheaded the deal got voted out of office this summer, but the park is still scheduled to open next spring. Cobb County may have ...
Report: Prep School Football Coach Molested Students For Decades While Administration Looked The Other Way
In a massive, devastating feature up at Esquire, Eric Lewis writes about the sexual abuse carried out by football coach Philip Foglietta at Brooklyn’s Poly Prep Country Day School spanning from the 1960s through the 1980s. The details of the coverup, which ranges from incompetence to intimidation, m...
How The Titans Went Retro And Unleashed Marcus Mariota
Last year, the Tennessee Titans drafted quarterback Marcus Mariota No. 2 overall. This year, they opted to keep Mike Mularkey as their head coach, and Mularkey loudly and proudly signaled his intention to install a ground-and-pound offense that didn’t seem suited to Mariota’s spread-system skill set...
Sergey Kovalev Isn't A Gangster; He's Russian
As far as boxing ring entrances go, light-heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev keeps things simple. No Roman gladiator outfits or frilly fireman costumes á la Hector “Macho” Camacho. No five-minute, curtain-silhouetted dance routines like “Prince” Naseem Hamed. No live performances from Young Thug, w...
Government Employees On Trump: "Everything. Is. Fucked."
Across the federal government, career employees are reckoning with the prospect of working for a Donald Trump administration. Today, people from the CDC, NLRB, DOT, TSA, and other agencies speak very freely about their hopes and fears....
Ex-Player Fears James Rodríguez Has Become A Whiny Little Brat By Hanging Around Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is exalted for a great many reasons. He’s also reviled and/or ridiculed for a few others, like his arrogance, his lack of sportsmanship, and his self-centeredness. One retired Colombian player is worried that a compatriot of his, James Rodríguez, has picked up a few too many of Ron...
It's Not Your Imagination, Rent Is Less Affordable Now
The rent: is it too damn high? A new economic research paper finds: it is....
Russell Westbrook Dribbled Through Nenê's Legs And It Was So Smooth I'm Not Sure Anyone Noticed
Yeah, we already blogged a Russ highlight from last night’s 105-103 OKC win over Houston. But who’s going to complain about a second one? You? Nah....
Russell Westbrook Touches The Sky And Ends Clint Capela
All hail Russell Westbrook....
Oregon's Devon Allen Leaves Team To Focus On Professional Track And Field Career
Devon Allen is a receiver for Oregon who was an integral part of the 2014 Marcus Mariota-led squad that finished second in the nation, but he’s perhaps most famous for his star turn at the Rio Olympics, where he finished fifth in the finals of the 110 meter hurdles. Allen has struggled through a pai...
Kate Upton On Cy Young Vote: I Thought I Was The Only One Allowed To Fuck Justin Verlander
Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello won the American League Cy Young award this evening, beating out Tigers ace Justin Verlander despite finishing with six fewer first-place votes. Porcello won the voting 137-132, and two voters did not name Verlander on their ballots at all. Verlander’s fiancée, Kate Upt...
U.S. Soccer Still Needs Jurgen Klinsmann, But Maybe Not As Manager
We’ve been here before. Another disappointing USMNT loss, this time an especially egregious pants-shitting at Costa Rica, more tactical madness and puzzling formation choices, more hints of behind-the-scenes acrimony, and again, more calls for Jurgen Klinsmann’s job. None of that is new. What is dif...
The USMNT Got The Ass Whooping They Deserved
The United States Men’s National Team is in a bad place right now. A few days after losing the opening game of the final round of World Cup qualifying 2-1 to Mexico, they traveled down to Costa Rica and got played off the pitch by Los Ticos from the first whistle. Costa Rica are a perfectly fine tea...
Amar'e Stoudemire Gave The Ref His Glasses So He Could See Better
In August, Amar’e Stoudemire retired from the NBA and signed with Hapoel Jerusalem, an Israeli club he co-owns. “It’s also a spiritual journey as well. The next phase of my career—people have documented my journey with the Holy Land the last six years, the interest in playing in Israel. That dream ...