All Around Losing - Trailer

We made associate editor Harry Cheadle, the most awkward person we know, try new things, just to find out that he's terrible at all of them. New episodes of 'All Around Losing' start on Tuesday, November 20. Full story

Nothing Stops Syrian Basketball

Coaching a youth sports team is a tough task as it is, but it gets much, much harder when the families of the players are dying in a civil war. Full story

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Offensive Lineman Dreams

Why would you want to be an offensive lineman? Who still wears Zubaz? Do people have sex with dolphins? What happens when a kicker has to poop? Does anything good happen at two in the morning? We answer these questions and pick NFL games. Full story

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Elected

None of the political memes mattered—but they were something to talk about, to share with your like-minded social media buddies, to spread through Tumblr and argue about on political blogs desperate for clicks. Following the gaffes and the spin and the bullshit-slinging was a fin… Full story

This Election, Vote for Whatever You Want

In 2008, over 100,000 folks chose to exercise their franchise by picking “none of the above” and writing in votes for Donald Duck, Vermin Supreme, Jesus, and Bill Clinton, among others. Why not join them this time around? After all, being the only person to vote for “Poop Comes O… Full story

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Keep It Simple, Stupid Football Guys

In our weekly NFL picks column, we predict the outcome of the games, as well as the presidential election, and Tim Tebow's political career. We also discover a song about the Tennessee Titans and talk about the evolution, or devolution, of NFL offenses. Full story

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The Children Are Our Future… Quarterbacks

Are we going to give preschoolers with promising hand-eye coordination specially-designed steroids so that one day they can earn millions while trying to decapitate each other for our entertainment? Will we grow quarterbacks in vats and assign them numbers instead of names so we Full story

Atheism - Sexism = Atheism +

Sometimes being a lady atheist can put you in close proximity with “enlightened” male unbelievers who make rape jokes because, well, there’s no God to punish them. Atheist blogger Jennifer McCreight set up an online forum that fights that kind of ignorance called “Atheism+.”… Full story

See the History and Future of the Gif in Six Minutes

When Motherboard chatted with .gif artists Jason Lazarus and Eric Fleischauer a few months ago, they were keeping every frame of their film twohundredfiftysixcolors under wraps, but now they’ve decided to give us an exclusive excerpt. Take a six-minute break and check it out. Full story

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There Aren’t Any Good NFL Teams This Year

“How about parity in the NFL?” a man says to another man as they sit on a park bench and watch the traffic in the distance. “Yes, parity,” the second man says. How can he put the love he feels for his friend into words? He can't. So he talks instead about how every team in the AF… Full story