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Holy Hell, Are Arsenal Really About To Buy Jamie Vardy?
Normally, we don’t like contributing to the transfer rumor-industrial complex, where newspapers and websites churn out story after story about hypothetical moves backed up with the thinnest evidentiary threads that almost never actually happen. This, however, is different. This is crazy....
ESPN Broadcasters: ESPN's Reporting Is Bad
On Tuesday, ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne dropped a big piece on New York Knicks team president Phil Jackson’s handling of the season. It mainly focused on Jackson’s relationships with Knicks coaches—first Derek Fisher and now Kurt Rambis. The Knicks have looked even worse under Jackson’s longtime friend ...
Just Barry Bonds Dancing On Stage With Earth, Wind & Fire
If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like when a retired person is living his or her best life, just head on over to Barry Bonds’s Instagram account....
Your January Transfer Window Roundup
Another January past, and another transfer window closes as the rumor mill, hype machine, and hope-mongering all come to screeching halts. For a little while, at least. But this window did have some fascinating moves, so let's take the opportunity to break down all the transfers that caught our eye...
How Real Are These Rumors About Gareth Bale To Manchester United?
The January transfer window is almost here, which means the rumor mill is just starting to rev up into the senseless, self-serving, outlandish, and dangerously addicting clusterfuck we've come to expect. And while some of the rumors can already be written off fairly easily—Barcelona to sell Busque...
Giants Ride Their First Big Inning of the NLCS To Extra-Innings Win
The Giants offense has struggled lately. In winning Game 1 of the NLCS, they scored three runs on a single, error, and sacrifice fly. In losing Game 2, they scored four runs on a ground out, single, single, and walk. Across the two games they left 19 men on base to the Cardinals 11, unable to turn...
Steve Ballmer Will Institute A No-Apple Policy For The Clippers
New Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is a Microsoft loyalist who joined the company in 1980 as its 30th employee. He's so loyal that he refuses to use anything created by Apple—he does not like Apple, man—and now it appears his personal policy is becoming his team's....
A Striker For You! Another For You!: Your Transfer Deadline Day Roundup
Another crazy transfer deadline has came and went, and after a couple tense hours of waiting, it appears most of the biggest moves, like Radamel Falcao to Manchester United, were squeezed under before the curtain fell. Here's a recap of the biggest moves completed yesterday:...
Report: Manchester City Join Arsenal, Real Madrid In Falcao Sweepstakes
We are in the final throes of what has already been a hectic summer transfer window, and it now looks likely that at least one more huge name will be on the move, with Falcao possibly strengthening an already way-too-good Man City attack....
Rejoice! Sriracha Triumphs Over Mucous Membranes Of Californians
Condiment news! After some spirited rounds of saber-ratting by both sides, the city of Irwindale, California, has agreed to drop its public nuisance lawsuit against Huy Fong Foods, makers of the best sriracha of all, judging jobs and corporate tax dollars to be more important than, uh, not having t...
Columnist Booted From Basketball Game; Commish Doesn't Like Coverage
Morris Dalla Costa, a columnist for the London Free Press, was ejected from the final game of a National Basketball League playoff series between the London Lightning and Windsor Express tonight because of what he reported about one team. The Canadian basketball league apparently contains some harsh...
OHL Goalie Takes His Stick To The Back Of His Opponent's Head
London Knights goalie Anthony Stolarz seemed to be fed up with pokes and prods after the whistle, because when the Windsor Spitfires' Josh Ho-Sang hit him with his stick on a dead puck, Stolarz reacted poorly....
Team's Pizza-Box Protest Halts 10-Year-Old Boys' Basketball Tournament
A boys' basketball tournament in Canada ended early when one team organized a protest on the court after being eliminated from the championship game for breaking a gameplay rule....
How The Transfer Window Makes Us Joyless <em>Football Manager</em> Drones
If you're still irrationally hoping, praying that one or two of those impossibly tantalizing rumors—David Luiz to Barça? Cavani to Chelsea?—comes true to legitimize the hours you spent throughout the month mashing the refresh button on The Daily Mail's transfer gossip page just as soon as you had fu...
Drunk Dude Sings Lil Jon's "Get Low" On D.C. Metro
This is fantastic. This hammered dude belts out a few lines from Lil Jon's "Get Low" while rocking back and forth in his Metro seat, setting off little impromptu sing-along in the car. After the initial flurry, he goes silent for a good two minutes. And then:...
Juan Mata Is Signed. What Will Manchester United Do With Him?
We knew something had to give at Manchester United, what with the team's huge mounds of money begging to fill the huge holes in the squad, but it's still a bit of a surprise that the deal in hand is for Chelsea's Juan Mata, bought for a reported £37M. A bona fide world-class number 10 is a nice addi...
Out My Window
Katerina Cizek’s Out My Window project is seriously dope. ...
He Punches like a Fucking Mule Kick
Here is a good story from "Second Wind: Memoirs of an Opinonated Man," by Bill Russell with the historian Taylor Branch (1979, Random House; currently out-of-print). It’s about Russell’s grandfather and his mule, Kate. Russell’s family was from Monroe, La., and he lived down there until he was about...
Renaldo Balkman Has Been Banned From Playing Basketball In The Philippines
After choking one of his teammates last Friday, Renaldo Balkman has been banned from the Philippine Basketball Association by commissioner Chito Salud. ...