Nothing of monumental import here, but amusing nonetheless. GAWKER, the gossip merchant and flagship site of the blog empire that includes DEADSPIN, GIZMODO, etc., was sent this photo by a tipster, from Saturday’s Yankees-Red Sox game. Supposedly it shows MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, with a FOX logo superimposed on his head. Ha ha. The irony! One […]

UPDATE: Rio gets The Games.

UPDATE: Tokyo has been eliminated, Madrid (thanks Juan!), Rio remain as finalists.
UPDATE: Updated odds on Madrid: 3 to 1. Rio: 1 to 5. Brazilian Real rose 1/2 % against the Dollar in currency markets when Chicago was eliminated.
UPDATE: President expected back at White House in two hours, will likely meet […]

Total bullcrap journalistic practice that needs to die in an incinerator, #26345: The misleading headline/question mark combo. For whatever reason, writers are able to get away with some of the most absurd, heinous implications with the addition of uncertainty, via question mark. For example, if a headline said “[insert your favorite President] Routinely Murdered Grandmothers […]

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s starting off my Friday with a gruesome description of how lab workers played batting practice with the cryogenically frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams. That’s the claim in a new book by a former executive at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Yikes. The freezing of […]

For as feel-good a story as this whole Michael Vick thing might be (a relative interpretation of the term, that), let’s not lose sight of one fact: the man owes an unholy amount of money. Even the lawyers trying to figure out how much he owes in bankruptcy have requested $2.6 million of their own, […]

Say, remember how LeGarrette Blount crapped the bed harder than you’d ever seen anyone in college football ever crap a bed in your life? In the span of one game on awful blue turf (and one very eventful postgame), Blount went from a strong contender for first-team all-Pac-10, high draft choice and darkhorse Heisman candidate […]