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Everything You Never Really Wanted To Know About Cauliflower Ear

Today’s column is about fucked-up ears....

Al Michaels Is Out Here Cracking Harvey Weinstein Jokes [Update]

“And let’s face it: the Giants are coming off a worse week than Harvey Weinstein, and they’re up by 14 points!” ...

Japanese Playoff Baseball Game Turns Into A Mud Bowl

In the first round of the Nippon Professional Baseball playoffs in Japan, the Hanshin Tigers and Yokohama DeNA Baystars battled through absolutely absurd conditions to play an entire baseball game in the mud. The result was unlike any baseball game I’ve ever seen. To watch the highlights with the fu...

The Jets Got Screwed Out Of A Touchdown

As the Jets were trying to make a comeback against the Patriots, it appeared that Austin Seferian-Jenkins had scored a hard-fought touchdown when he crossed the goal line with the ball to cut New York’s deficit. However, a confusing ruling that claimed Seferian-Jenkins had fumbled the ball out of th...

Oh My God In Heaven

Lovely Act Of Kindness And Sportsmanship Marred By Bullcrap Football Game

Tennessee and South Carolina played an ugly, low-wattage football game today, combining for one touchdown, six field goals, and a botched extra point, in a contest that didn’t even have the decency to include a couple goddamn turnovers. The Gamecocks came out on top after scoring 12 unanswered secon...

Trump Voters Say They Choose Trump Over The NFL

Vox journalist Dylan Scott, you will get no argument here: that chart, showing the reported opinions of Trump voters on the NFL, is indeed pretty nuts! The data, compiled by an online survey company called Morning Consult and laid out at the New York Times’s Upshot blog, tells the story of how the o...

NESN Suspends Anchor For Unleashing Stream Of Insults At Woman Who Told Him No [Updated]

Alyssa Labrie first posted on Facebook privately over the weekend, saying New England Sports Network anchor Marc James exploded at her in a string of angry text messages after she said she didn’t want to get drinks with him. Labrie told me that after she heard from people saying it needed to be kno...

"This Is An Utter Embarrassment" 

“WHAT ARE WE DOING? WHAT ARE WE DOING!???”...

Harvey Weinstein Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer<em></em>

In an audio recording released today by the New Yorker, you can hear the true, common-as-all-hell approach Harvey Weinstein used against the women who say he assaulted them: Wear them down....

Falling From High Places Might Be Shane McMahon's Best Skill

You know what’s not fun? Watching a pro wrestling match in 2017 with a genuine fear that someone is about to be maimed....

Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: What Is Jay Cutler Even Doing Here?

Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....

Western Michigan Tight End Doesn't Blame Sister For Prematurely Running Onto Field To Celebrate

A good sibling supports their kin when they achieve their goals. Maybe Western Michigan tight end Donnie Ernsberger’s sister Shalene shouldn’t have invaded the field after her little brother scored a touchdown in overtime, since the game wasn’t actually over, but her instinct was understandable....

This Man's Father Is A Billionaire

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The Eagles Pulled Off A Ridiculously Elaborate Baseball-Themed TD Celebration

Famous South Jersey native and baseball player Mike Trout is at the Eagles game today, so the team’s offense performed an impressively elaborate baseball celebration to honor him (and possibly recruit him for the Phillies, who knows)....

Outdoor Adventurer Thabo Sefolosha Saved A Woman From Drowning

Hey, what’d you do this summer? I built half a porch onto my house, badly, and now have to climb over a construction zone in order to enter my home, with no end in sight. Probably you did something a lot cooler than this. If you’re Thabo Sefolosha, some of what you did this summer is save a woman fr...

It's The Rare Double-Clutch Extra Point Attempt

Utah lost anyway, but at least they made things interesting in the process....

UFC Dickhead Allowed To Pull Off Unscrupulous Weigh-In Shenanigans

Kevin Lee, a dickhead, is scheduled to fight Tony Ferguson for the UFC’s interim lightweight title tomorrow. (The interim belt is only available because Conor McGregor is off looking at boats and pretending to be a boxer while Khabib Nurmagomedov can’t figure out his own physiology, which really say...

Demetrious Johnson Is Still The Perfect Champion, And It Still Doesn't Matter To The UFC<em></em>

The best fighter on Earth is a diminutive video-game enthusiast. He hasn’t lost a fight in six years. Along with Anderson Silva, he currently holds the record for consecutive title defenses in the UFC: 10 consecutive opponents have tried and failed to take his belt. Slick kickboxers, gritty grinders...

The World Series National Anthem That Infuriated America

The current crop of athletes protesting during the national anthem has roots at the 1968 Olympics, with the Black Power salute of Tommie Smith and John Carlos after they finished first and third, respectively, in the 200 meters. John Dominis’s famous photograph of the two U.S. sprinters on the medal...