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Hitting The Note With The Allman Brothers Band
Last weekend I ran Grover Lewis' famous profile of the Allman brothers over at the Daily Beast....
Paul Ranger Stretchered Off After Being Boarded By Alex Killorn
Officials called an early end to the first period in Toronto tonight as Maple Leafs defenseman Paul Ranger had to be stretchered off the ice due to a crushing blow into the boards delivered by the Lightning's Alex Killorn....
Who Are The Bitchiest, Most Defensive Fans In America?
Not long ago, our Billy Haisley wrote a post shitting on Major League Soccer. When you rip on American soccer, you can rest assured that a tidal bore of American soccer fanboy defensiveness is headed your way. It's almost as if they're all huddled together outside your house, waiting behind the shr...
I don't know if I buy his conclusion, but it's always fun when Joe Posnanski goes rummaging through baseball's attic. Here he is on Louis Sockalexis—the legendary Penobscot ballplayer who once shredded his ankle jumping from a whorehouse's second-story window—and the naming of the Indians. [Hardball...
Bees Invade Red Sox-Yankees Game; America Roots For Bees
This was not the bee attack we have long feared. This was merely another test. They are probing us, assessing our defenses, noting our responses, learning our weaknesses. The Great Man-Bee War is coming, but not today....
A March Madness Pool Scoring System That Doesn't Suck
Before we get to today's Funbag, a quick bit of news: I'll be singing the U.S. and Canadian anthems tonight at the Raptors-Hawks game in Atlanta. I've also taken over the Hawks' official Twitter feed (@ATLHawks) for the day. Or at least until they kick me off. So join me today for MAXIMUM HAWKITU...
Gerald Green Gets Many Style Points For This Posterization
This is a bit of a different look for Gerald Green, whose dunks are usually marked by raw explosiveness and head-above-the-rim leaping ability, but don't sleep on the style present in this jam....
300-Pound Relay Racer Runs Like He Was Shot Out Of A Cannon
Freddie Booth-Lloyd is a 6-foot-1, 300 lbs. defensive lineman from Cocoa, Fla., who will be playing football for Temple University next year. For now, though, he's also a member of his high school's track and field team. This is what it looks like when he runs the second leg of the 4 x 100:...
The Old School Charm Of Harold Conrad
Last weekend over at the Stacks' Daily Beast home, I reprinted one of my favorite stories. Mark Jacobson's beautiful profile of Harold Conrad. Don't sleep:...
Tetris-Themed Paralympics Closing Ceremony Segment Just Unbelievable
The Sochi Winter Games closing ceremony was pretty boring. This Tetris-themed and inspirational moment from today's Paralympic Winter Games closing ceremony blows anything we saw three weeks ago out of the water. ...
ESPN: Living In The Past
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How To Make Linguine With Clams And Bid Farewell To This Goddamn Winter
Groundhog meteorologists notwithstanding, seasons are shapeless, poorly defined things. To wit: Traditionally, in North America, the "winter" season is regarded as beginning at some point in the back half of December (the solstice) and extending into the back half of the following March (the equino...
Brent Musburger Still Lusting After College Girls
Brent Musburger recently earned a demotion to the SEC Network, which is a shame. The legendary broadcaster is always saying something provocative, even if, as he did last night, it's "Ohhh yeah." Sexism, sure. Heteronormative? Usually. Interesting; always....
Omaha Cable System Cuts Away From Creighton Game To Show Pac-12 Action
Creighton and Xavier are locked up in a Big East semifinal thriller. Bluejays fans back home in Omaha can't watch, though, because we're told Cox Cable switched Fox Sports 1 feeds to the Pac-12 Stanford-UCLA game, which is what follows the one from Madison Square Garden. Fox Sports 1 tweeted quickly...
Belligerent Red Sox Prospect Arrested While "Looking To Get Some Pussy"
19-year-old Jon Denney was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the third round of last year's amateur draft. He does not appear to be a very smart dude....
Irish Beers, Ranked
St. Patrick's Day is tough on a civic-minded, humanist boozebag. I love New Year's Eve and Thanksgiving Morning and Arbor Weekend and all the other "amateur hours" that too many self-proclaimed sophisticates haughtily dismiss, but Paddy's Day comes soaked with complications beyond the rivers of glit...
America Hates Male Nipples: FCC Viewer Complaints About The Super Bowl
As we do every year, we submitted a FOIA request to the FCC for all viewer complaints about the Super Bowl. What would this year bring? Anti-Coke bigots? Richard Sherman haters? Nah. But some folks were really upset about the Red Hot Chili Peppers' nipples....
On His Back: The End Of Iron Mike?
I'm not especially fascinated by Mike Tyson but I love Mark Jacobson so when I ran across this story Mark wrote for the Voice back in 2002, well I just had to share:...
Gold In The Mud Behind Bars
Oh, man, head on over to SB Nation Longform and check out this fascinating story by the most-talented Brin-Jonathan Butler:...