
Pro tip for anyone trying to make sense of a scandal. If the person at the center of it starts claiming that "the…
The Wall Street Journal asked a question with an obvious answer this week under the headline "How Could a Sweet…
Twitter says this obscenely adorable pup has been dognapped. If you live in LA, maybe you can help find "the fuckers who took Walter." [@TriciaOKelly] Read more
During its short 25 years in the NBA, the Hornets moniker has proven to be the league's Johnny Cash — it's been…
Oklahoma City is looking suspiciously like a team that is going to lose a second-round series. Kevin Durant posted…
Jack Butler, who was a star defensive back for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the '50s and who was inducted into the Pro…
"Bunch of perverts! You are slowing down our economy." MoJo has a nice roundup of passengers' pissed-off comments to the TSA about body scanners. [Mother Jones] Read more
You might've wondered at some point in the past umpteen seasons of watching NFL football, Hey, who pays for the…
Because you enjoy a good read, here is Michael Deacon certainly not spinning parody at the expense of renowned author Dan Brown. [The Telegraph] Read more
Twenty years ago The Ring magazine asked the question, after Mike Tyson's rape conviction, "What If Mike Tyson Had…
Last you saw Jeff Bauman, he was mangled, with a complexion reminiscent of Beetlejuice. Pushing Bauman's stretcher…
We can’t say with certainty that Ryan Howard a home run Friday for a little boy who is blind. What we can say for…
Reports are swarming that LeBron James will be named the NBA’s MVP for the fourth time in the past five seasons.…
For a competing theory as to why Comcast SportsNews Chicago fired Susannah Collins, we turn to Paul M. Banks: "I don't think Comcast is as much to blame here. I think it's the Blackhawks." [ChicagoNow] And a letter obtained by the Chicago Tribune from the Blackhawks chairman appears to bolster that notion. Read more
In the only Kentucky Derby I covered, as a 19-year-old intern for the Lexington Herald-Leader, I got lucky on a $3…
Last week Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma introduced an amendment to a bill called the Marketplace…
As we noted a couple of times (Nate Robinson scuffling! Nate Robinson banking in a 20-foot runner!) this afternoon…
Looks like Jack Black and Will Ferrell will be making a movie about tag, based on these yahoos who have been playing hardcore cross-country tag for more than 20 years. [Wall Street Journal] Read more
Belly-up pro athletes are among the world's saddest washouts, in part because you can't blame them for their own…