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Strange Sports Stories Comics
From the excellent tumblr site, The Bristol Board, check out these Strange Sports Stories. ...
Up The Stairs With Cus D'Amato
From the Library of America's Story of the Week site, here's a gem—Pete Hamill's tribute to Cus D'Amato:...
Here Is The Dumbest Paragraph You'll Ever Read About A-Rod
It's taken some time, but we've finally gotten there: the single dumbest thing you've ever read about Alex Rodriguez and the Biogenesis case. Our captain is Christopher Gasper at The Boston Globe. Our vessel is this column crucifying the "Pinstripe Pariah" for being allowed to play while he appeals ...
Nick Faldo Crushes Rickie Fowler And Jonas Blixt With Orange Puns
Earlier on the Golf channel, Nick Faldo and Co. were calling action at the Barclays, where both Rickie Fowler and Jonas Blixt are decked out in head-to-toe orange. The two are paired together today and actually planned to wear similar colors, though the orange is Fowler's trademark....
Rex Ryan Melts Down In Press Conference
I'm not sure a preseason game can ever be described as good, but they can definitely be bad and the Jets performance Saturday night was about as bad as it gets. Look what they made Rex Ryan do....
Chris Sale Goes Berserk On Cooler After Bad Outing
The Texas Rangers battered White Sox starter Chris Sale for eight earned runs in seven innings Friday night. After leaving the game, Sale did not take things well....
Grocery Store Named After Alex Rodriguez Needs A New Name
Ricardo Rodriguez, the owner of A-Rod Grocery in New York City, wants to fix his store's public image in light of the downfall of Alex Rodriguez. So, he's trying to find a suitable new name....
Mike Tyson: "I'm On The Verge Of Dying...I'm A Vicious Alcoholic"
Mike Tyson revealed his current struggles with sobriety and desire to make up for his past sins Friday night at a press conference following his promotional debut on Friday Night Fights....
How To Cook Bivalves, The Life-Affirming Pain In The Ass
Listen. Life is hard. You're tired all the time, you're overworked and underpaid, you never have enough time for anything and no one loves you and your hair, seriously, what are you even going for with that look, because it is not working. Most evenings, it's all you can do to doze off into a bow...
Enjoy These Highlights Of A Fishing Show Featuring Rex And Rob Ryan
With time to kill during the NFL offseason, Rex and Rob Ryan guest-starred on a fishing show and appeared to have a hell of a time....
<em>Crowd Goes Wild</em> Has A Tebow Jar
How can Fox Sports 1 maintain its "the anti-ESPN" cred while still discussing a certain Patriots backup quarterback? By fining hosts a quarter every time they say Tebow's name....
Police Investigating Robbery Claim Over Home Run Ball At Giants Game
On Wednesday, in the seventh inning of the Red Sox' blowout win over the Giants, Stephen Drew hit a three-run homer. NESN's cameras showed a man who triumphantly came up with the baseball. But San Francisco police are currently looking for that dastardly individual. They say he's a villain who robbe...
How To Make A Decent Goddamn Margarita, For Once
People avoid all sorts of boozes for all sorts of reasons. Maybe you're too broke for Scotch or too smug for vodka. Maybe beer bloats and disappoints you. Perhaps the smell of bourbon reminds you of Grandpa's special beatin' shoe. Or maybe you're like I used to be, and you associate tequila with fr...
Lemonade Was A Popular Drink And It Still Is
Equal parts Gang Starr and Madlib gets you this:...
Don't Call It A Comeback
Dig Jan Reid's 1995 Texas Monthly story on George Foreman:...
Knock Out: Cutie And The Boxer
Cutie and the Boxer is a new documentary about two New York artists. ...
Confused Hawk Harrelson Gives His Best Home Run Call
In the 12th inning of last night's White Sox-Royals game, White Sox third baseman Connor Gillaspie sent a shot deep into right field. After watching the ball clear the fence but carom back onto the field of play, White Sox play-by-play man Hawk Harrelson was unsure about unleashing his signature hom...
Battle Of The Sexes
Next month, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of "The Battle of the Sexes," American Masters will premier their show on Billie Jean King. It's the first time in the program's history that a sports figure has been profiled. And this Sunday over at ESPN, Outside the Lines will feature a segment on Kin...
A&M Chancellor Blasts Darren Rovell, Declares Johnny Manziel Innocent
Big-time college football! Where a university system chancellor can be indistinguishable from a Paul Finebaum caller. Administrator John Sharp sent out a bizarre screed that decried the biased and untrustworthy media, and declared Johnny Manziel innocent of all the allegations against him, before ad...
MLB Still Can't Get The Biogenesis Documents It Wants
This week, Porter Fischer, the disgruntled Biogenesis employee responsible for the scandal first hitting the media, turned over company records to a federal grand jury. Records, it seems, that MLB investigators were unable to obtain, and may now never get....