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What Is The Nae Nae? A Necessary Explainer
Friday afternoon, Mercer beat Duke in the NCAA Tournament. More importantly, Bears guard Kevin Canevari was so excited about beating Duke that he started dancing, brilliantly. Some people asked what the fuck he was doing. Others in the know and/or on Black Twitter recognized it immediately: Canevari...

Max Scherzer Rejects "Substantial" Offer; Tigers Play Greedy Card
This morning, the Tigers woke up and decided to call their reigning Cy Young winner greedy. Max Scherzer was apparently offered a long-term deal "that would have placed him among the highest paid pitchers in baseball" and he turned it down. So the Tigers put out a press release killing him for it an...

Columbus Crew Broadcast Features Soundtrack Of Woman Having Sex
Saturday's Columbus Crew vs. Philadelphia Union match broadcast on Time Warner Sports Channel featured a bonus, sexy interlude midway through the second half....

Alley-Oops Are Always Fun
Nik Stauskas and Glenn Robinson III (Big Dog's son) teamed up for this moment of eye candy late in the first half of Michigan-Texas. The second half is just about to get under way and Michigan leads 43-30....

How To Make Sausage Gravy, And Shave A Few Years Off Your Lifespan
Sausage gravy is deeply, deeply disreputable food. In its typical presentation, slopped across biscuits in some charmingly run-down roadside diner with Patsy Cline playing on the jukebox, it is, in essence, flour on flour, dressed up as actual sustenance by the inclusion of token quantities of butte...

Sorcery And Witchcraft: How To Fold A Fitted Sheet
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Check The Squalor Archive for assistance. Are you still dirty? Email her. ...

How To Organize Your Spices Without Driving Yourself Crazy
Before we do this thing, we need to do a bit of expectation management: Because Foodspin is a site about food, and not a site about design or style, the focus of these tips will be on function over form. If you want to achieve one of those picture-perfect spice displays, head to Pinterest for ideas....

University Of Tennessee Baseball Team Sprints To Clean Up Field
Tennessee's baseball team is 17-2 this season, which is nice, but it's not why we're here. We're here today because the Volunteers have an entertaining and simple method for cleaning up the field before a game: do it as quickly as possible. ...

Gerald Green's 41-Point Game Gets The <em>NBA Jam</em> Treatment
We like Gerald Green, because when his jumper is falling and he's springing up for huge dunks, he can make you feel like you're watching the real-life version of NBA Jam. So we fully endorse the Phoenix Suns turning his 41-point performance against the Thunder into a set of video game highlights. I...

Oh C'Mon, His Butt's Not That Big
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NMSU Forces Overtime With Long-Range Three After SDSU Turnover
A wild night of overtimes got longer after New Mexico State scored five points in the final 15 seconds to force overtime against San Diego State....

Texas Beats Arizona State With Cameron Ridley Buzzer-Beater
Texas big man Cameron Ridley was in the right place at the right time as he gathered in Jonathan Holmes's attempted buzzer-beater and laid in one of his own to down the Arizona State Sun Devils 87-85 and move the Longhorns into the round of 32....

Quit Bitchin', Start Voting: Round 1 Of The Bitchy Bracket Continues
Read the intro here and start voting below. You have until 11 a.m. EDT tomorrow. Vote for the other half of Round 1 here....

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...
