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A Crowd Marched Up Manhattan To Yell At A Big Ugly Building<em></em>
The protestors were mostly gone by the time I arrived at Union Square on Wednesday night. They had begun to march towards Trump Tower, stalling traffic as they held signs, phones, and contempt for the next president of the United States....
Terrelle Pryor Is The Only Good Thing About The Browns
The Cleveland Browns are improbably awful, and they’re careening face-first toward a winless season. Tonight, the Browns face the Ravens in Baltimore, their one national television appearance of the year. Ordinarily, this would be an invitation to do literally anything else with your time. But the B...
New York Basketball Is Perfect And Pristine
We’ve been blessed with a few sequences of perfect basketball already this season, and last night the Knicks and Nets served up a hot slice of authentic “Big Apple” hoops. This encapsulates everything you need to know about the state of basketball in this city, whose crown prince is Brandon Jennings...
Here's How (Some) <i>New York Times</i> Staffers Are Voting
Like many major news organizations, the New York Times has a policy that forbids its writers and editors from publicly endorsing any candidate. Ancient journalism folklore states that ideally one shouldn’t have opinions—doing so would anger our one true god, Objectivity—but given that this isn’t pos...
How Long Can You Wear Championship Gear?<em></em>
Hey, it’s Election Day! You should go vote. Unless you forgot to register, in which case it’s probably too late, in which case you are utterly powerless to control the country’s destiny, in which case we may all burn forever as a result of your negligence, in which case you should hide when we come ...
Report: Mo Wilkerson Was Benched For Missing His Own Birthday Party
Yesterday against the Dolphins, Jets coach Todd Bowles benched two of his best players, Mo Wilkerson and Sheldon Richardson, for the first quarter. Bowles declined to reveal to the press why he sat two of the team’s only indispensable players during a quarter in which the Dolphins put up two touchdo...
Trump Surrogate Criticizes Hillary Backer Jay Z For Video Featuring "Mazel Tov Cocktail"
Scottie Nell Hughes is still promoting Donald Trump on CNN despite her having been verbally assassinated on-air by Ana Navarro last month. Tonight, she stood up for her candidate after Trump attacked Beyoncé and Jay Z, who appeared with Clinton at a rally this weekend—but got one slight detail wrong...
Rudy Gobert Gives Kristaps Porzingis Some Harsh Life Lessons
The New York Knicks’ Sunday afternoon started off pretty well. A 30-20 lead over the Utah Jazz at the end of the first quarter, 14 points from sweet franchise guiding light Kristaps Porzingis, this gorgeous assist from Derrick Rose, all was looking good....
Shkëlzen Gashi Rocket Goal Puts Colorado Up 1-0<em></em>
Shkëlzen Gashi’s 40-yard screamer gave Colorado a 1-0 match lead and drew the Rapids even on aggregate with the L.A. Galaxy in their MLS playoff match today in Denver. We like MLS highlights!...
The Cubs Were Built For That
When a championship is decided under circumstances as historic as those that saw the Chicago Cubs claim their first World Series title in 108 years, the impossible becomes overdetermined. The evaporation of a 3-1 series lead leaves behind chokers, miraculous individual feats, and moments of immense ...
Bill Murray Douses Reporters With Champagne
The ever-incorrigible Bill Murray dropped by the Cubs’ clubhouse tonight to celebrate with his favorite team, and gave reporters standing by a taste of victory champagne—whether they wanted it or not....
¡Los Cubs Son Campeones! The Final Out Of The World Series, As Called By Announcers Around The Globe [Update]
The Chicago Cubs are World Series champions after a wait of 108 years, and one very tense extra inning. Here’s how the final out of tonight’s Game 7 sounded on TV and radio around the globe, starting up top with Chicago’s flagship radio broadcaster WSCR. ...
Holy Fucking Shit, Chicago Cubs Actually Win World Series
The longest and most fabled of all championship droughts is over after an insane, interminable Game 7. The Chicago Cubs came back from a 3-1 deficit in the World Series to win in seven, and they capped off the comeback with a 8-7 win tonight in 10 innings....
Rajai Davis Homers To Tie Up Game 7; Here's How It Sounded On Russian and Korean TV
The Indians’ shocking eighth-inning comeback tied things up against the Cubs, thanks to Rajai Davis homering off Aroldis Chapman. Up top is how it sounded on Korean broadcaster MBC Sports; below is how it sounded on Russian TV. ...
J.R. Smith Rips Shirt Off To Try And Inspire An Indians Rally
J.R. Smith, a man with a tempestuous relationship with wearing a shirt, went and popped that bad boy off on the video board at the Indians’ stadium tonight in an attempt to inspire a late rally....
David Ross Celebrates Dinger By Slapping Dongers<em></em>
Old Man David Ross is playing in the final major-league game of his career tonight, and he smacked a big solo home run off Andrew Miller in the sixth inning to give the Cubs a three-run lead....
Anthony Rizzo Is A Self-Proclaimed Emotional Wreck
The Cubs were up 3-1 when Anthony Rizzo turned to grizzled elder David Ross for some emotional support. “I’m in a glass case of emotion,” he told Ross...
Dexter Fowler Starts Game 7 With A Leadoff Donger
Corey Kluber is starting for the third time in the past nine days, and he gave up a dinger to Dexter Fowler on his fourth pitch of the evening. Fowler wasn’t sure it’d clear the fence but he rounded second and yelled backwards at the Cubs dugout after the dinger fell....