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The End Of Georges St-Pierre
A few thoughts, in no particular order, on the Georges St-Pierre vs. Johny Hendricks welterweight title bout from Saturday:...
VMI Sophomore Pulls Off Flawless Dunk-Mean Mug Combination
Jordan Weethee of the Virginia Military Academy just did this during the All-Military Classic against the Citadel. The dunk is spectacular, but so is Weethee's I'm-feeling-myself-so-hard-right-now stare into the camera. ...
NBA Shit List: Andrew Bogut, The Honky Messiah
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
Richie Incognito Was Never An Honorary Black Guy
We know that Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Richie Incognito called his teammate Jonathan Martin a "half-nigger." Today, Warren Sapp told Dan Patrick that Incognito called him "a nigger" when the two lined up years ago, when they were still in the league. At first glance, that Richie sounds like a...
Riley Cooper Hasn't "Been Through" Anything
Nick Foles, a quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, gave an interesting quote to Peter King after a seven-touchdown performance today. One of the day's storylines was that Riley Cooper, one of Foles's receivers—you may recall that he made headlines over the summer for calling someone a "nigger"—...
Kevin Love Wins White Guy Award From NBA Executives
The NBA season is right around the corner, and you know what that means: Time for another preseason survey in which the league's 30 general managers answer various questions of varying degrees of inanity. You'll note that, way down at the bottom, the NBA asks an especially weird one:...
"Redskins": A Native's Guide To Debating An Inglorious Word
Nigga say nigga we cool but/Cracker say nigga, nigga knocked the fuck up ... —NWA, "Niggaz 4 Life"...
The Year In Hawk Harrelson Being Awful
First, start playing this video put together by Awful Announcing, containing nearly 10 minutes of baseball's biggest homer being audibly sad and frustrated when things don't go the White Sox's way. Then leave it on in the background and go read the best thing you'll see all day....
The Wit And Wisdom Of The White Rat
Pat Jordan's 1992 L.A. Times story on Whitey Herzog:...
How A White Couple Stuck Up For Black Ballplayers In Jim Crow Florida
Excerpted from From Black Sox to Three-Peats: A Century of Chicago's Best Sports Writing (University of Chicago Press), edited by Ron Rapoport and featuring stories from the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, among other papers. It's an excellen...
Meaningless, Meaningful September Baseball Is Great Baseball
A few thoughts, in no special order, on a lousy ballgame from the other night:...
Long Jump to Glory
Dig Pat Jordan's 1975 Sports Illustrated profile of Willye White:...
Tweet Your Whitest Thought About The Anniversary Of MLK's Speech
Leave it in the discussion below. Go nuts. It still won't measure up to this morning's (since deleted) offering from the Golf Channel....
Chris Sale Goes Berserk On Cooler After Bad Outing
The Texas Rangers battered White Sox starter Chris Sale for eight earned runs in seven innings Friday night. After leaving the game, Sale did not take things well....
Confused Hawk Harrelson Gives His Best Home Run Call
In the 12th inning of last night's White Sox-Royals game, White Sox third baseman Connor Gillaspie sent a shot deep into right field. After watching the ball clear the fence but carom back onto the field of play, White Sox play-by-play man Hawk Harrelson was unsure about unleashing his signature hom...
Sports Twitter In Vancouver Is Cutthroat
The Vancouver Canucks Twitter account was just doing its usual Wednesday fan-interaction/brand-optimization-through-social-media thing earlier today when the Whitecaps (MLS) account came over and took a big piss all over the place. ...
Paul Konerko Scores Because Wall At Kauffman Stadium Eats Baseball
The White Sox are last in the AL Central, and last in the AL in runs scored. Perhaps they should have thought of this strategy sooner....
Behold, The Ultimate White Sox Fan
Dude's pretty much got all the bases covered here....
Sky Sports Reporter Standup Becomes Sky Sports Reporter Falldown
Sky Sports correspondent Nick Collins was reporting from Wembley Stadium ahead of today's friendly soccer match between England and Scotland when midway through the broadcast, he fell off a ladder and out of the screen to what appeared to be certain death. And holy shit, it is awesome....