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Instagram User Thrilled By Brian McCann Home Run Leaves X-Rated Comment
Seriously, Antoniocaquias, that is no way to behave on a public forum....
Ichiro Hits First Home Run Of The Season, Jeter Gives Him The Business
Ichiro Suzuki hit his first home run of the season last night, a three-run homer that put the Yankees on top of the Blue Jays 6-4. It was Ichiro's first home run in almost a full calendar year, and as he approached the dugout, Jeter gave him the who are you and what have you done with Ichiro? look. ...
Who Really Runs New York Sports? These Terrible Lists Won't Tell You.
According to the readers of the New York Daily News, these are the 15 (actually 17) most powerful people in New York sports:...
Bulldog Mascots Are Doomed, Flatulent, And Beloved
Excerpted from Travels With Casey: My Journey Through Our Dog-Crazy Country....
Johnny Damon, At 40 Years Old, Is Rather Sad
Johnny Damon's 40 years old and hasn't played an MLB game in two years. He still doesn't consider himself retired, however....
Police: Texas Football Players Sexually Assaulted Woman, Took Picture
Two Texas football players, Kendall Sanders and Montrel Meander, are charged with felony sexual assault for an attack that police say happened last month in a university dorm room. They have since been suspended from the team. ...
How Frequently Does <em>The New York Times</em> Use "Fart," "Poop," And "Butt"?
This here is a tool that looks up the frequency of words used in the New York Times, both in the percentage of and how many total articles the word appeared in. We put it to terrible use. ...
Asshole Cannot Find Pen, Writes Entire <em>NYT</em> Trend Piece About It
Even by the standards of fake trend pieces in the The New York Times, today's column in about "The Demise of the Pen" in—where else?—the fashion and style section is exceptionally breathtaking in its presumptuousness. Join me now and marvel as writerer Nick Bilton turns a moment of sheer banality i...
Yankees Ground Crew Struggles To Get Tarp On Field During Driving Rain
After some very nearby flashes of lightning, the skies opened and dumped a whole mess of rain on the Bronx tonight. The Yankees ground crew struggled mightily to get the tarp on the field as the rain kept pouring and accumulating on the tarp, and the wind kept whipping. This wasn't a momentary del...
Ruben Tejada Leaves Game After Taking Fastball To The Skull
Ruben Tejada left today's Mets-Mariners game in Seattle after being hit in the head by a 93 mph fastball from Taijuan Walker. ...
Chase Headley Meets New Team Mid-Game, Hits Walk-Off Single In 14th
That's newly-acquired Yankees third baseman Chase Headley meeting his new coaches and teammates for the first time since he was traded from the Padres earlier in the day. He had to catch a flight from Chicago, where San Diego was set to play the Cubs, so he was not expected to get to the stadium o...
Jets Fans Can Earn Rewards Points For Not Being Assholes
The Jets have announced a new rewards program for its season-ticket holders, in which they can win things like Super Bowl tickets and a ride on the team's charter flight. All it'll take to accrue points is to show up, and not to be ejected from MetLife Stadium for being a drunken, belligerent mess. ...
What's Karl Marx Doing In These Arguments Against College Athlete Pay?
Bob Bowlsby is a man with a very influential job. He is the commissioner of the Big 12 conference, one of the so-called power conferences that helps set policy for major college football. He also harbors a belief that is most commonly associated with pre-20th-century economics, and has really on...
Dustin Ackley Unmoved By His Own Home Run-Robbing Catch
Dustin Ackley was kicked out of second base when Robinson Cano signed with the Seattle Mariners, but last night against the Mets, he proved to be a fine left fielder....
Yankees Pitcher Shane Greene Can't Throw To First To Save His Life
Shane Greene made his third career start and first ever at Yankee Stadium tonight against the Texas Rangers. He had three errors on the night, two throwing to first base. It was not pretty....
Watch Arsenal Players Try And Fail To Talk Like New Yorkers
We've all had one too many drinks and suddenly decided it was a great time to impress people with our spot-on English accent. Right? Right?!? ...
Wife Of Ravens Player Ponders Drake, Michael Sam, And Hitler
Lauren Cox is married to Ravens long snapper Morgan Cox, and she maintains a personal blog where she shares her thoughts on all manner of topics. This isn't something that is really worth pointing out under normal circumstances, but she just wrote something about Drake's "Side Pieces" ESPYs perfor...
Predators Site Redirects To Sex Offenders Site Because Of Troll Ex-Owner
It seems that Orlando's Arena Football team has been the subject of some out-going regime hijinks. The franchise was recently sold to David Siegel, CEO of Westgate Resorts, and around the same time as the sale was announced, the team's website began redirecting to Florida's website for tracking sex ...
Titus Young's Sad Spiral Continues
Yes, unfortunately, it can get worse for Titus Young....
The Mystery Of The Vanishing Screwball
Nice story by Bruce Schoenfeld in the New York Times Magazine on a pitch we don't see anymore—the screwball:...