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The Earl of Baltimore
Based on the available evidence, it is easy to assume that Earl Weaver perfected managerial sin. After all, the profane potentate of the Orioles has spent the past thirteen seasons kicking dirt on home plate, tearing up rule books under umpires' noses, and generally behaving as if he were renting hi...
Andrea Bargnani Is Still Terrible At Defense In 2014
In case you were wondering if anything had changed with Andrea "Broken Controller" Bargnani's defense in the new year, here is video evidence that no, nothing has changed....
Here's How Completely And Utterly Fucked The Challenge System Is
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. ...
Three Of Four NFL Playoff Games Could Be Blacked Out
The NFL maintains the largest live-to-televised enjoyment disparity of any major sport, but that ought to dissipate come the postseason. Yet three playoff games still have thousands of unsold tickets remaining, and broadcasts in those areas could be blacked out this weekend. The deadlines are just h...
Geno Smith Undergoes Jets Rite Of Passage: A Cock-Shot Scandal
As Geno Smith heads into his first NFL offseason, he's unwittingly starred in a valuable PSA: If you come to the Jets, think long and hard before sending pictures of your penis to women, because the world will see it....
A Very Knicks New Year's Eve, In Three Acts
God bless the holidays....
New Year's Eve: America's Biggest And Ugliest Bender
Originally published in 1951 and anthologized in Nobody Asked Me, But ...: The World of Jimmy Cannon....
The Jets Find Out Rex Ryan Isn't Fired, Are Overcome With Joy
Football is a brutal sport that more often than not makes you feel kind of shitty for caring so much about it. But sometimes it produces moments that make you smile, like the one in this GIF. This is how Rex Ryan's players reacted when owner Woody Johnson told them that Ryan would be back to coach t...
Chart: All 64 Potential NFC Seeding Outcomes
There's been a lot of talk about the injustice of an 11-5 Arizona Cardinals team not making the playoffs—a distinct possibility!—but we could also have a 12-4 team as the 5 seed and an 11-5 team as the 6 in the NFC....
Photoshop Contest: New York Knick Carmelo Anthony
The Knicks had a wholly shit Christmas, and Carmelo let us see exactly how he felt about it, which was... Sleepy? Disdainful? The defeated yet removed seething of a man who has an opt-out clause coming up? (Maybe he was simply peeing his pants.)...
Eli Manning At A Restaurant, Looking At Something
In most photos, Eli Manning is a perpetual seven-year-old. But in this covert photo taken at a restaurant with his presumed daughter, Manning—nah, he still looks like he's seven years old....
Hellmann's Mayo Is 100 Years Old, And People Like It A Lot
Many fun things will catch your eye in this celebration of Hellmann's mayonnaise from Slate, on the occasion of the product's centennial. A professional chef referring to the stuff as a "gateway mayonnaise," which inevitably conjures forth imagery of shifty-eyed condiment dealers stalking schoolyar...
A Christmas Tradition
Terry Lyons gives us a little Shelby Strother:...
Even Carmelo Wanted To Sleep Instead Of Watch The Knicks Yesterday
Yesterday's slate of NBA games sucked. The sleeved jerseys had everyone looking like rec league handball players, and we had to watch the the Derrick Rose-less Chicago Bulls squat and take a dump on the collective chest of the Brooklyn Nets. And then we had to watch the New York Knicks....
Seven Uninterrupted Minutes Of Mike Woodson Making Faces
If you had no idea who Mike Woodson was, you would only need to watch this video to think, "This is a man who has coached J.R. Smith." ...
Anatomy Of A Con: How The Public Was Scammed To Build Candlestick Park
While everyone's free to be as nostalgic as they like about Candlestick Park now that it's probably seen the end of its useful life, it's worth remembering that it wasn't only a miserable place to watch a game, but also a forerunner of the modern public financing con. The piece below, which original...
Is Carmelo Secretly A Great Passer? (No.)
There was a stat making its way around basketball twitter yesterday afternoon that cited SportVU data showing that Carmelo Anthony actually racks up 6.8 assist opportunities per game. Compared with his 2.8 assists per game average, this seems like an encouraging number! Except, it isn't really. ...
College Hockey Player And Coach Suspended For Not Filling Out Form
Here's a heartwarming story for the holiday season about a college hockey coach who did the right thing, a player who did nothing wrong, and the insipid bureaucracy that suspended them both, apparently just for the hell of it....
Sabres Win In OT On Bizarre Sudden-Death Buttgoal
Coyotes goalie Mike Smith handed the Buffalo Sabres an overtime win tonight when he carried the puck into his own goal. He didn't know he was doing it at the time, because the puck was in his pants....
Today In LOLJets
Today in LOLJets, the New York Jets attempt a fake punt. Here's how it went:...