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How (And Why) To Poach Eggs: A Guide For The Haggard
Poaching eggs is a bit more complicated and delicate—these are nice ways of saying annoying—than frying them or scrambling them or hard-boiling them or throwing them at Rick Reilly, and so the question of how to poach them kinda naturally goes with the question of why to poach them. The true answer...

Terrible Person Grabs Foul Ball Away From Young Boy At Fenway
While much of the focus on last night's Yankees-Red Sox game landed on the Fenway faithful's treatment of A-Rod, the true villain in attendance was this gent who celebrated the achievement of grabbing a foul ball away from a little kid....
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Fox Sports 1 Is Already Ignoring Hockey [UPDATE]
Despite claims to the contrary and hiring two of Canada's most beloved sports personalities, today's launch of Fox Sports 1 doesn't bring glad tidings of coverage for North America's most-ignored major sport....

SPEED Is Dead, Fox Sports 1 Is Alive, And Here's The Sad Transition
Nearly 18 years of motorsports tradition ended this morning, when at 6:00 Eastern Time Fox pulled the plug on SPEED in the United States and started its new ESPN competitor, Fox Sports 1....

Jerry Remy To Take Time Off From Red Sox Broadcasts
Red Sox color commentator Jerry Remy, whose son Jared has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, will be replaced in the booth by Dennis Eckersley for tonight's home game against the Yankees and for next week's west coast trip, NESN announced....

Man Trolls Paul Bissonnette. Bissonnette Posts Man's Arrest Record.
Coyotes tough guy Paul Bissonnette is also a Twitter tough guy. His very active life on social media gives fans an extra incentive to be jackasses: If they talk shit about him, they know he'll see it. Sometimes that's a bad thing....

Source: Remy's Mom Begged Girlfriend Not To Extend Restraining Order
After Jared Remy was arrested Tuesday and charged with beating his girlfriend, his mother contacted the girlfriend and begged her not to extend the emergency temporary restraining order she had been granted because it would "ruin his life," a neighbor who asked to remain anonymous told us....

Prosecutors: Jared Remy Assaulted Girlfriend Days Before Killing Her
Jared Remy was arrested for beating his girlfriend on Tuesday and released with no bail the next day. Jennifer Martel returned to their house to retrieve her belongings last night, her mother says, and that's when Remy allegedly stabbed her to death....

You Will Not Be Paying Much For Fox Sports 1
Fox Sports 1 goes on the air tomorrow morning, but it was almost the softest opening ever: until yesterday, barely any cable provider or satellite service had agreed to carry it. Now there's good news and bad for the Fox brass—it'll be in almost every home, but it won't be particularly profitable....

Fox Sports 1's Debut Will Be Headlined By Terrible Fights
Past the public rhetoric about jockularity and fun and providing an alternative to the tweedy intellectualism of ESPN (no really), Fox Sports 1's strategy is simple and sensible: air sports people want to watch. You're not going to conquer America with Champions League soccer, Major League Baseball,...

Flyers Captain Hurt While Golfing Is A Metaphor For Something
Claude Giroux had to have sudden surgery on his right index finger yesterday in Ottawa. The GM of the Flyers said it's going to take him five to six weeks to recover, though Giroux told the Philadelphia Daily News he should be good to go much sooner. So what happened?...

Phoenix Suns Unveil New Uniforms
Last night, the Suns revealed their three new uniforms for the upcoming season. They did it at a "fashion show" at a Scottsdale mall, because Arizona....

Erin Andrews And Charissa Thompson Star In Painfully Bad Video
Fox Sports 1's Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson posed for a magazine. This is The Hollywood Reporter's fault but still. This video is unspeakably horrible. Thanks for sending along, anonymous ESPN person....

Here, Queer: Canned
This here's a good one, case you've never read it. Pamela Colloff's 2005 Texas Monthly profile of basketball coach Merry Stephens:...

Son Of Red Sox Broadcaster Jerry Remy Arrested After Girlfriend's Murder
Jared Remy, a former Red Sox security staffer and the son of NESN commentator Jerry Remy, has been arrested in connection with the stabbing death of his girlfriend and will be arraigned for murder later today....

Report: A-Rod's Camp Leaked Biogenesis Docs With Braun's Name
According to a report from 60 Minutes, Biogenesis documents showing the names of three previously unidentified players were leaked to Yahoo Sports earlier this year by Alex Rodriguez's "inner circle." Why would A-Rod narc out his fellow players?...

Boxer Proposes To His Boyfriend On Facebook
Boxer Orlando Cruz proposed to his boyfriend today on Facebook. "The Phenomenon," left, went the DJ Khaled route, and popped José Manuel the question by uploading a video. According to the Latin Times, Cruz, who's Puerto Rican, spoke in Spanish:...

What Does It Mean To Be "Damn Good In The Kitchen"?
Welcome to the Feedbag, where all the dumb questions about food, drink, cooking, eating, and accidental finger removal you've been embarrassed to ask can finally receive the berating they goddamn deserve. Also: answers. Send all your even-vaguely-food-related questions to [email protected] wit...

Atlanta Braves Batboy Uses Actual Bat In Cruel Hoax
A real, winged bat flew onto the field in the middle of last night's Phillies-Braves game. If you've seen this story by now, you probably think that the batboy scooped the bat from shortstop Paul Janish's glove and then ran, cradling it, to the Braves dugout. You may have read or incorrectly invoked...