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TV Chef Fucks Up Grilled-Cheese Sandwich
Listen. Alton Brown is a goddamn hero. He's funny and smart and silly and endlessly curious, and he knows five trillion times as much about food as I ever will. He's turned bazillions of people onto cooking, and onto trying ingredients and techniques they otherwise wouldn't, and his commendable w...
Damn, Andrew Wiggins Can Jump
Here's Andrew Wiggins jumping really, really high during a workout. Blah, blah, basketball is more than jumping, Rudy Gay Harrison Barnes, whatever. Just look at this shit. ...
Golf Fan Wrecks Motorized Wheelchair Into Tree At Byron Nelson Classic
Some poor old man wrecked his Rascal into a tree today at the HP Byron Nelson Championship, and we can't stop laughing about it because it was all captured live on Golf Channel and we are horrible people....
Michael Sam Is Doing A Reality Show, And That Sucks
So Michael Sam has a reality show now, and I'm just gonna go ahead and align myself with the HOT TAKES crowd and say that Sam just pissed away a whole lot of the goodwill he'd built up for himself these past few months. They can class up the announcement all they like. They can call it a "document...
Non-African Wins Race
Good news and bad news, white people. Good news is, for the first time ever, a non-African (ok, he is a New Zealander) won a 5K race over a field of Kenyan runners on Kenyan soil. No literally, it was a dirt track....
Alex And Harpo
Great job by Longform reprinting Ned Stuckey-French's 1999 story on the relationship between Alexander Woollcott and Harpo Marx:...
ESPN's Darren Rovell Is A Humorless Robot, Part 3,792
ESPN sports business reporter Darren Rovell is best known for being a sensitive penis who lacks a human brain and will believe literally anything. This morning, he once again did his part to solidify that reputation....
Are you excited for the World Cup? Do you live in New York? Then swing by tonight's Varsity Letters reading series, presented by Gelf Magazine. Soccer writers Greg Lalas, Graham Parker, and Alexander Abnos will be there to break down the World Cup field and talk soccer. Click here for more details. ...
We Made Some Improvements To The Knicks' New D-League Team's Logo
Remember when the Knicks announced that they would be taking fan suggestions for the name of their new D-League team? Yesterday, they finally revealed the name and logo of the new team. Drum roll please......
Steve Kerr Turns Down The Knicks Because They're The Knicks
After choosing the Warriors over the Knicks, Steve Kerr went out of his way to insist that his decision had everything to do with family:...
Kawhi Leonard, Who Is The Future, Ran The Blazers Off The Floor
If you didn't catch any of the Spurs' series-clinching win over the Blazers last night—yet another perfectly orchestrated, Spursian blowout—the only highlight you really need to watch is the one above....
Fried Chicken Sandwich Smackdown: Wendy's Vs. KFC
Fried chicken is the best. The main reason I had to stop reading about death row inmates' last meals is that every single thing about this sentence so far is ghastly; I was also secondarily appalled by how many of them forgot to request fried chicken. I understand that if they were good decision-mak...
Milan Lucic Gets Heated In The Handshake Line After Game 7 Loss
We're not sure what Milan Lucic said to Dale Weise and Alexei Emelin in the handshake line after Boston's Game 7 loss to Montreal, but the conversation didn't look pleasant....
Whatever Happened To Roller Skating?
Over at the Atlantic Tanya Basu asks: Whatever Happened to Roller Skating?...
The Empty-Seat Game: Japanese Soccer's Non-Solution To A Racism Scandal
First it was a tall woman in bright clothing with a microphone. Then her cameraman. Then a short man in a coat and tie with a notepad. Then another man with a smaller camera that was already rolling....
Qatari Government: Qatari Migrant Workers Dying In Droves
It's getting harder and harder to deny that Qatari migrant workers are dying at an alarming rate. One report, published by ITUC in March, estimated that World Cup construction will eventually kill more people than 9/11. (That report didn't sit well with Qatar's Supreme Committee of Delivery & Legacy...
Moron Takes Selfie With Carlsbad Wildfire
It's been a bad week for idiots and selfies, so here's a guy in San Diego grabbing a selfie with a wildfire—one that's forced tens of thousands of evacuations....
Lacrosse Gets The "Bad British Commentary" Treatment
There may come a day when these videos are no longer funny, but this is not that day. ...
Twilight Of An Enforcer
Another good one. Dig the latest from SB Nation's Longform page, a hockey story by Kevin Koczwara:...
Donald Sterling Is Master Shake From <em>Aqua Teen Hunger Force</em>
From the moment the initial tapes emerged, people have remarked on the similarity between Clippers owner Donald Sterling's voice and that of the character Master Shake on Aqua Teen Hunger Force. We did some searching through old ATHF episodes, and discovered these similarities are more than uncanny....