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The Cowboys Are Going To Lead The League In Geometry Exam Scores
College boy Jason Garrett wants his team to spend some time in training camp brushing up on the Pythagorean theorem. His explanation is remarkably logical!...
Declawed. <em>The Wolverine</em>, Reviewed.
The Wolverine feels less like a blockbuster than a well-turned piece of brand management. Everything in the film has been made with care, a certain amount of taste and intelligence, and such bland competence that what's most striking about it is how safe it is. The filmmakers have taken one of the m...
Donovan McNabb Is Still Asking Questions
Earlier: Someone Needs To Take Away The Keys To Donovan McNabb's Twitter...
Even Dwight Howard And Hakeem Olajuwon Look Small Next To Yao Ming
We've marveled at pictures of Yao Ming standing next to baby elephants and pint-sized waitresses, but the photo above—brought to us by Lang Whitaker's NBA.com blog—illustrates just how gigantic Yao Ming is like no other photo has before. He looks like he could eat Dwight Howard....
Heaven Ain't What It Used to Be: Dick Young Goes To Hell
New York sportswriting legend Dick Young was a lot of different things. Among them, for reasons laid out in this classic Ross Wetzsteon profile, he was a man one could easily imagine having a great time filing his column from the depths of Hell. Warren Leight and Charlie Rubin ran with the conceit i...
Keep on Joustin’ in the Free World
It lasted roughly a thousand years (give or take a few centuries). It generated mind-boggling advances in science, technology and medicine. It saw magnificent cathedrals rise at Chartres, Salisbury and scores of other cities and towns. It witnessed the first rumblings of a kind of proto-democracy in...
Yinzer Watches A Drunken Fist Fest That Would Disappoint Don Cherry
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Two Drunk man - Funny Street Fight for ugly Girls." Tonight's commentator: Pittsburgh Penguins blogger Rich Miller. (Coming next week: Pearlman, on the Strong Island Ch...
J.J. Redick And His Ex-Girlfriend Had An Abortion Contract
The muckrakers at MediaTakeOut have done it again, this time uncovering a very odd legal document that was drawn up in 2007 by lawyers representing NBA player J.J. Redick and his then-pregnant ex-girlfriend, model Vanessa Lopez. The document is essentially a contract that seems to be the result of R...
This Montage Properly Immortalizes The Beltre-Andrus Friendship
♥Adrian & Elvis Forever.♥...
The Art of Storytelling: John Hersey's Writing Seminar
Our man Peter Richmond wrote a wonderful piece over at the Nieman storyboard about John Hersey's senior-year writing seminar at Yale. ...
Jason Heyward Makes Diving Catch To Save Game Against Mets
With two outs and two men on base in the bottom of the ninth of a 2-1 game, Mets pinch hitter Justin Turner hit a tailing line drive to left-center. By the time the ball makes its way into the outfield, Andrew Brown is rounding third and Omar Quintanilla is already at second. If Heyward—who began t...
Guy Lets Jeremy Roenick Punch Him In The Face
Reader David sends along this video, from the Tahoe celebrity golf tournament, and this note:...
The Cast Of <em>The Sandlot</em> Had A Reunion
You want to feel old? Like, really freaking old? This photo should do. Top row, left to right: that's Yeah-Yeah, Ham, Squints, and Timmy Timmons....
Dennis Farina In Most Chicago Beer Ad Ever
Millions of people like me are convinced that Chicago remains, despite rampant gun violence, a collapsing public school system, and gangs of hoodlums menacing bewildered tourists downtown, the very best place to live, or at least drink beer, in the United States. No one ever spoke more effectively f...
Von Miller Faces A Drug Suspension For Something Or Other
Broncos all-pro linebacker Von Miller faces a four-game suspension for violation of the league's drug policy. Except: it might be for a test he failed two years ago?...
