VICE SPORTS
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Meet the Nieratkos
Skateboarding's Most Violent Team Manager Has Mellowed Out
Deluxe Distribution's Mic-e Reyes has never kicked anyone off his team for smoking pot, but he has kicked a lot of ass over the years. Full story
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Joe Johnson Is Very Big in China: A Love Story
By day, Yonsan Johnson is an electrical engineer who ekes out the equivalent of $2,400 a year in a factory in northern China. By night, though, he manages the Chinese Joe Johnson Fan Club, and he has accumulated and edited what is likely the world’s largest cache of Joe Johnson-r… Full story
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Fightland Show
Fightland Meets - Ottavia Bourdain
We followed MMA lover, writer, and dedicated Brazilian jiu-jitsu student Ottavia Bourdain for a while to see what life is like when you have a fighter in the family. Her husband, Anthony, is that funny-talking, cigarette-smoking food guy from TV, and he was around for all this to… Full story
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Jason Collins Proves Coming Out Is a Great Career Move
Even if no NBA team picks up Jason Collins for next season, he has a golden career as a public homosexual ahead of him, if he wants it, which shows just how different being gay in 2013 is from being black in 1947—back then, no one was talking about how much money Jackie Robinson… Full story
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Horse Racing Is Totally Depressing When You're Blind
Up in the grandstand you don’t feel anything unless you’re gambling—particularly for me, so visually impaired I could hardly see the legs move on the horses in front of us. I sat there for the first few races trying to appreciate what was going on, but without bets, the whole sce… Full story
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The Mercy Rule
The Last Kings of Sacramento
On Monday, the Maloofs will find out which of two potential buyers will pay them for the privilege of taking over the Kings, one of the NBA's worst franchises. So let's say goodbye, finally, to this family of avaricious, spray-tanned ghouls. Full story
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The Church of Type
Inside the Church of Type, Kevin Bradley’s new studio in Santa Monica, posters cover the walls. Sardonic advertisements. Political pieces. Old-school fight and wrestling bills—and it’s these, in particular, that drew my interest. Full story
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Gay Wrestling
When we first heard about a gay wrestling club in San Francisco we were like, those San Franciscans. Of course you have a special club where dudes wear spandex and roll around trying to dominate each other with their powerful thighs. Full story
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Ottavia Bourdain Goes Vegan
My husband has been famously bashing vegetarians and vegans for years. Date night is steak night or yakitori or Korean BBQ. Our refrigerator is stocked with all kinds of delicious animal protein. So it may come as a surprise that I went vegan for a week to prepare for a Brazilian… Full story
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Stop Freaking out About the Luis Suarez Bite
Even though Americans typically don't give a shit about soccer, when Luis Suarez tried to take a chunk out of Branislav Ivanovic's arm yesterday, the zombie bite drew national attention. It was bizarre and very funny, but it was also an embarrassing reminder for many that we have… Full story
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Manny Is Being Manny in Taiwan
As he came to the plate with a runner on third with two outs in the first inning, the atmosphere in Taipei was electric. Fans screamed and chanted his name (“MANN-EEEEE”) while banging on unnecessarily loud cone-shaped noisemakers. Despite stranding the runner with a slow grounde… Full story
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The Mercy Rule
Why Sports Help
There is nothing out there on the internet, nothing useful to learn about the Boston bombings, only more of the guilty inertia that leads us to put this shit on in the background in the first place. There’s nothing here for us, at the moment. So I’m going to a baseball game tonig… Full story
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Fightland Show
Fightland Meets - Liz Carmouche
Fightland went to San Diego to meet Liz Carmouche, the woman who made it through the Marine Corps, the Iraq War, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell to get her history-making shot at Ronda Rousey and the UFC women's bantamweight belt. Full story
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Fightland Show
Fightland Meets - Daniel Cormier
Fightland travels to the American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, California, to meet the two-time Olympian as he prepares for his long-awaited UFC debut this weekend. Full story
The Wizard of the Saddle Rides Again
The Dark Specter of History in Memphis
Hung Like a Gastropod
The Rigors of a Snail-Genital Illustrator
Austerity's Drug of Choice
Sisa Is Nasty Shit
This Is What Winning Looks Like
Chaos and Corruption in Afghanistan
The Fat Farms of Mauritania
Pack on Those Pounds, Ladies
Jerks Are Exploiting Cambodia's Orphans
Get It Together, People