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Florida State's "Ask Jameis" Hashtag Was A Predictable Mess
Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston is famous for a lot things. He won the Heisman trophy and the BCS title game last season, for instance. He's also been accused of rape in a case bungled by the Tallahassee police department and got busted for stealing crab legs. So, when FSU inexplicably ...
FSU Paid For Jameis Winston's Insurance Policy On His Draft Stock
Florida State QB Jameis Winston is eligible for the NFL draft after this season, and barring catastrophe, will go very high and will make a lot of money. But what if something catastrophic does happen? There's insurance for that, and it emerged yesterday that Winston won't be footing the bill alone—...
Phil Hughes Spazzes Out, Tries To Catch Invisible Liner
This happened on Wednesday night, but it's worth pointing out today because LOL, Phil Hughes, what are you even doing right now?...
The Twins Have Apparently Found The Real-Life Sidd Finch
One of the weirdest baseball stories of the year is about Brandon Poulson, a 24-year-old pitching prospect whom the Twins just plucked from the void for the price of $250,000. Nobody's ever heard of Poulson until now, but if the early stories about him are to be believed, he's basically the non-ho...
There Is No Explanation For Blowing This Call
This was a trapped ball. It was pretty clear, and indisputably so on replay. Yet umpires upheld their initial ruling of a catch, even after Ron Gardenhire's challenge. My headline up there isn't some huffy hyperbole on just how baffling the call was—it's about how umpires literally didn't give an ...
Underrated Baseball Thing: A Good Bat Snap
There are few things more satisfying than seeing a player snap his bat over his knee after a strikeout. Minnesota's Oswaldo Arcia came yesterday through with a good, solid break, with plenty of shrapnel, a sumptuous audible crack, and plenty of replay angles. ...
Chuck Knoblauch Charged With Assaulting Ex; HOF Induction Called Off
Chuck Knoblauch's induction into the Twins Hall of Fame has been canceled—not just postponed, but canceled, as in, he simply won't be put into the Twins Hall of Fame—after the former player was arrested and accused of beating up his ex-wife....
We Have Another Minnesota Twins Back-Hair Jersey
It's hard to say if it's the same guy who sported the Joe Mauer hir-suit a few years back, but we have a few clues. Our first clue is: a dude with enough hair to legibly shave words and numbers into his back hair. Our second clue is: similar male pattern baldness on both men. Our third clue is: a wi...
Target Field Now Has Self-Serve Beer Machines
Here's some good news for Twins fans who want to get drunk at baseball games but really hate having to engage with human beings when purchasing beer: Target Field has just installed a self-serve beer machine, the first to ever exist in a major-league stadium....
Yankees' Zelous Wheeler Makes Terrific But Meaningless Catch In Dugout
OK, this catch by Yankees rookie Zelous Wheeler—who's got a quality name—didn't count as an out, but it was still pretty wild....
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Twins Fan Gives Finger To Little Girl Who Won't Throw Back HR Ball [Update]
This is from Wednesday's game, a David Ortiz home run that was retrieved by a girl in the first row. When the girl made it clear she had no intentions of tossing the ball back onto the field, the woman in red let the girl know to her face what she thought of that decision....
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....
Who Does Jameis Winston Think He Is—Joe Namath?
A story about the other famous shoplifting quarterback, excerpted from the book Rising Tide: Bear Bryant, Joe Namath and Dixie's Last Quarter....
FSU Artist Behind Jameis Winston Fellatio Painting Explains Inspiration
For those who wanted an explanation for the colorful painting of Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston getting blown by a Pi Kappa Alpha brother, we received an email from Lena NW, the FSU art major who created it. She elucidated her inspiration behind the work....
FSU Art Student Creates Painting Of Frat Bro Blowing Jameis Winston
A Florida State art major has made a piece involving the school's starting quarterback Jameis Winston in some, uh, interesting positions....
Police Report: Jameis Winston Avoided Store Security
Surveillance video shows Jameis Winston appearing to go out of his way to avoid walking past store security with his 30-odd dollars worth of crab legs, perhaps putting the lie to his claim to officers that he had forgotten to pay. ...
Jameis Winston Crab Legs Now Available In Alabama
From Jack's Foodland in Eva, Al., comes this find, just a day after Jameis Winston was busted for shoplifting crab legs. In the future, all college football rivalries will be played out in the seafood aisles of the South....
The Top 10 Items Worth Stealing From Publix
When news broke this morning that Heisman winner Jameis Winston may have been busted for lifting some crab legs from a Tallahassee-area Publix supermarket, we felt a bit sad. There are way better things to shoplift from the store Where Shopping Is A Pleasure™, after all. Here are ten of those things...
Report: Jameis Winston Cited For Allegedly Stealing Crab Legs
According to Tomahawk Nation, Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston was recently cited for attempting to steal crab legs from a Publix grocery store. ...
Twins Player Hits Homer While His Mom Is Interviewed On TV
It was the best sequence of events. Silvana Colabello, mother of Twins player Chris Colabello, was being interviewed by Fox Sports North in the fourth inning of tonight's Twins-Rays game while her son was at the plate. Then, Chris hit a two-run home run. To top it all off, today was her birthday. Si...