Sports Staff
Saturday Night, No Cover
The NFL finally gets underway on Wednesday, college football is back in earnest, the Red Sox have had a rough 162 games, no more hockey, and other ball business.
Lance Angeles
What happened last week in sports? A lot of stuff, but the real question is whether Lance Armstrong still shaves his legs, or if they were smooth to begin with.
Kicking and Screening
Soccer is back, football is boring, hockey is staring a labor dispute in the eye, and some baseball player who was busted for testosterone made a fake website so everyone would think that the banned substance he took was some sort of supplement he...
Fortune Favors the Bolt
Women's soccer overtakes the Olympics and almost gets ruined by referee-beef, terrible preseason football ruins Twitter, Stephen Strasburg's innings ruins mid-Atlantic baseball, and more from this past week in sports. Plus, Dwight Howard is traded and...
Dwight Flight - Explaining the Howard Trade
Dwight Howard has gone to LA. Some stupid people don’t understand exactly what happened, so VICE explains how Dwight Howard went to LA. Not, like, how he got on the plane and who called who, but the other stuff involving basketball, and the future...
Wide World of Balls - So Phelps Is a Jock
Selected highlights from last week in balls: Michael Phelps went out in a blaze of glory, the US basketball team came close to getting whupped, Mike Trout is faster than a Slayer record, Missy Franklin did a dumb thing, the Phillies are no good and...
Interview with David Yow about Baseball and Movies
Jesus Lizard singer David Yow never dug Bad Brains, or baseball, but may be starring in a movie about one.
Statue of Limitations
Joe Paterno's statue was taken down, Jeremy Lin busted out of New York, and some baseball dude has a fake name.
Wide World of Balls - Penn State of Abuse
The biggest story of the week was the Freeh report, which are the findings written by some dude from the FBI, who did it at the behest of the Penn State board of trustees. The report found that Joe Paterno, the coach with the glasses, had an idea of...
Pitching Is Cruel and Unusual
Fuck, my arm. That has to be what every pitcher thinks, or says to their mom or wife, after a start.
Dickey on Fire
R.A. Dickey has the fastest knuckleball in baseball history and will be ruining the lives of hitters until they're eventually replaced with robots.
Colorado’s Wacky Pitching Woes
Will using four mediocre starting pitchers instead of five make the Rockies any good?