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Tom Selleck: Pretty Indecisive
Check out Pat Jordan's 1989 GQ profile on the TV star-turned-movie actor:...
Drake's New Song Is A Big Shout Out To Johnny Manziel
The Johnny Manziel-Drake bromance continues apace. "Draft day, Johnny Manziel / Five years later, how am I the man still?" begins Drizzy's newest song, giving rarely seen prominence to the athlete-shout-out portion of a rap song (poor Andrew Wiggins gets second billing). ...
Dumb Red Sox Fan With Misspelled Sign Is Just Too Perfect
Oh my. This is almost more than I can handle. The sign, the camouflage hat, the shit-eating grin. Look upon the face of Red Sox Nation, America, and weep....
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...
60 (Maybe) Surprising Player Projections From Baseball Prospectus
Two player projections for every team, from Baseball Prospectus 2014, edited by Sam Miller and Jason Wojciechowski. For much more, visit BaseballProspectus.com....
Rangers Apologize After Fan Memorial Used As Trash Can
Two years ago, the Rangers unveiled a memorial to Shannon Stone, the fan who fell to his death while trying to catch a ball during a 2011 game. Standing just outside the home plate entrance gate at Globe Life Park, it features Stone and his son, and is dedicated to all baseball fans. It's also a han...
Can Anyone Stop The Beliebers? Vote On The Bitchy Bracket Final 8
We're down to the regional finals of our survey of the most thin-skinned, defensive fanboys in America, and apparently you people aren't familiar enough with the lunatics at TEAM BREEZY because Chris Brown's virtual harem got spanked in the Sweet 16 by Beliebers, who make such obvious targets. Here...
Mexican Club Tries To Dick Over USMNT For USA-Mexico Friendly
The World Cup is—holy crap—just 10 weeks away. With the U.S.'s starting XI still in flux, every international friendly matters—especially for players on the cusp, like left back DaMarcus Beasley. Unfortunately for Beasley and Jurgen Klinsmann, one stubborn Mexican club is refusing to release its two...
Former Expos Announcer Loses His Mind On Melky Cabrera Home Run
My French is a little rusty, but I think former Montreal Expos announcer Rodger Brulotte just sang "I love baseball and this Melky Cabrera guy almost as much as I love sucking down a nice burgundy and five million cigarettes. Good night, it is gone." ...
How To Fry Brussels Sprouts, And Learn To Love Them At Last
You think of Brussels sprouts and you think of misery. When you were a kid, some damn do-gooder grownup nuked a frozen bag of them in the microwave , and scooped a bunch of them onto your plate next to your delicious SpaghettiOs, and laid some bullshit on you about how eating them would make you gro...
Canned Beer Is The Best Beer
Although I've recently moved into an apartment with three ceiling fans, seven windows, and a bedroom door, I do not consider myself a wealthy man. But every Thursday, my wife comes into a little bit of money, and if I time the transaction just right, I can occasionally buy something useful before sh...
I'm Jonah Keri, World Authority On The Expos. Any Questions For Me?
Jonah Keri, staff writer for Grantland and author of Up, Up, & Away, will be hanging out in the comments below for the next hour or so, ready to take your questions on the Montreal Expos, bagels, and whatever else comes to mind. Have at it....
Everything About This Crossover Is Perfect
We've seen some great Vines featuring devastating crossovers in the past, but this is the best one yet....
Here Is A Really Great Photo Of Tommy Lasorda And Some Spaghetti
There are many things about this picture that are unsettling, but I cannot stop giggling at it....
We're Down To The Mean 16: Round 3 Of The Bitchy Bracket
So you, the public, have pared down the Bitchy Bracket to a lean and mean 16. And like real NCAA brackets, this is where the big boys start clobbering at each with giant-sized Hulk fists....
Blake Bailey Speaks
Nice conversation between Blake Bailey and Jason McBride over at Hazlit:...
Georgia Men's Basketball Has Policies Against Orgies And Gangbangs
Thanks to a few University of Maryland journalism students' public records requests, we know what one collegiate athletic program expects from its players' fucking habits, among other activities....
Skyline Figures You'd Like Blue Noodles Under Your Diarrhea Sludge
Would you get a load of that horror. I mean lean on in here and get a nice big load of it. That is a pair of tubs of pasta, dyed red and blue by Louisville's Skyline Chili locations as a... what? celebration? like hell! ...of the upcoming Louisville-Kentucky Sweet 16 matchup. Because Skyline Chil...