March Madness is upon us, which means many basketball fans are about to disappear for two weeks and return, blinking at the unfamiliar sunlight, only when a winner is crowned. So many men are apparently taking this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, by scheduling their vasectomies.
Last night in New York, the Knicks vs. Lakers game brought out celebrity fans — including one Ms. Meryl Streep and one Mr. Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent.
Clutching a badly frayed passport and a Nike duffel, former rebounding legend and Michael Jordan acquaintance Dennis Rodman entered a rehab facility in New Jersey. The trip to rehab comes after the latest of Rodman's slumber parties with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and an ugly meltdown in front of CNN reporter …
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This month's issue of Elle contains a profile of WNBA player Brittney Griner made me fall in love with her a little bit. And it will probably make you fall a little in love with her, too.
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I never intended to be an advocate. I never intended to be the person kids would come to when they felt suicidal. But somehow, somewhere along the line, that’s exactly what happened.
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Originally published in the April 1992 issue of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author's permission.
Stop everything you're doing (besides, what are you doing? It's Saturday) and watch this.
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Last month, Oakland University head women's basketball coach Beckie Francis was mysteriously fired after several years of leading what — from the outside, at least — seemed like a successful collegiate sports program. Now, more than a dozen former players have come forward to reveal that behind the scenes, Francis was…
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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 04: Rihanna attends the game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Chicago Bulls during Game Seven of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals of the 2013 NBA Playoffs on May 4, 2013 at the Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The Chicago Bulls defeated the Brooklyn Nets 99-93.(Photo by…
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22-year-old Brittney Griner, the number one pick in the WNBA draft this year, new Phoenix Mercury player and someone you will instantly like after seeing this picture, has become the first out-and-proud athlete to be signed to an endorsement deal by Nike.
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In an Onion story literally come to life, a Michigan high school is being sued because the principal allegedly told a teen girl who was sexually assaulted on campus to not report it because it'd ruin her attackers chance of recruitment by a top college team. Yep.
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Brittney Griner, the former basketball standout at Baylor who on Tuesday saw her amazing basketball skills validated when the Chicago Sky chose her first overall in the WNBA draft, sat down with Sports Illustrated’s Maggie Gray recently to discuss, among things like becoming super-famous and making armfuls of…
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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban caused a bit of a stir on Tuesday night when he said that he had "no problem whatsoever" with allowing Baylor University centre and women's college basketball's all-time leading shot-blocker Brittney Griner a chance to try out for a spot on Dallas' summer league team.
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Oh, it's nothing, I just have something in my eye. Something big. It's a basketball.
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Here's Anna Olson of Lewis-Palmer High School in Colorado pulling off what many are calling an impossible throw from three-quarters court. If they didn't end the game and declare a winner right then, that is just not right. In fact, they should've just ended the entire season and named Anna Olson the winning team in…
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Pat Summitt, the most victorious NCAA basketball coach of all time, said in an affidavit today that she was forced into retirement after being diagnosed with early-onset dementia. What's interesting is that it previously appeared she'd left the team of her own free will and on good terms — but according to Huffington…
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Since everyone thinks that the Lingerie Football League is such a wonderful, respectful, modern, spectacle, which is neither degrading, nor at all reminiscent of a gladiatorial sport Commodus would introduce to distract Romans from his wacky hijinks, America is getting the significantly more alliterative Bikini…
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A former girls varsity basketball coach and guidance counselor has been put on paid administrative leave for writing a book called It's Her Fault, which is basically a less cohesive version of The Game, ostensibly for women but filled with ramblings on the vaginas of the world and how to prey on women with low…
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Parents and grandparents usually embellish the achievements of their children or grandchildren in a misguided effort to reassure themselves that they've done an okay job making sure that the next generation can competently manage, or at least participate in, the world. Glowing praise, however, can make kids…
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When they're not criticizing Gabby Douglas's hair or wondering why all North Koreans look alike, the folks watching the Olympic Games are just innocuously rooting for their home team, right? Wrong: There's more racism afoot!
