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“We Gave You The Beatles And This Is How You Repay Us:” Liverpool Fans Begin...
(if they wanna get nitpicky about it, we gave them Chrissie Hynde and Rich Hall, too) I don’t get a lot of emails from readers of the Wall Street Journal’s Daily Fix — the freelance gig at which I...
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Dept. of No Thanks: Cal Ripken Jr. Insists His Meat Will “Melt In Your Mouth”
For Cal Ripken Jr., retirement isn’t all about being rumored to be a Republican candidate for Senate every few. That’s a part of it, of course, but entrepreneurship is a part of it, too. To wit, from...
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Dear Collector Scum (And Other Nice People)
This would be filed under the “Dubious eBay Auctions” category, except in this instance, the cause is too great to mock. And I’m not talking about the charities meant to benefit, I mean CLEARING MY...
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Jose and Ozzie Canseco Remake “The Parent Trap,” In Purgatory
It’s worth pointing out, just off the top, that nothing that could conceivably have occurred at the recent celebrity boxing event held in the Passion nightclub at the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood,...
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SB Nation’s Bois on Andy Van Slyke’s Author Photo and Other Cardboard Highlights
With the exception of investment banking and high-end financial services and maybe the macro-scale music business, it’s difficult to think of an industry that had less idea what it was doing during the...
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Who Knew Alan Partridge Was Such A Big NWOBMH Fan?
On the bright side, all the T’pau rarities at this weekend’s Austin Record Convention were very reasonably priced.
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Dispatch Scribe : We Didn’t Invent OSU, Tressel Lapses
With each passing day more details emerge regarding the Ohio State football program and unique methods of rewarding their student-athletes (and/or Jim Tressel’s efforts to keep the lid on such). The...
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For Sale : Customized Greetings From All-Around Awesome Guy Rick Pitino
For only $3.99, Rick Pitino will excuse himself from his demanding duties fucking housewives at shitty spaghetti & meatballs emporiums coaching the University Of Louisville Men’s basketball squad...
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Oklahomans Deeply Offended By Confusing, Gratuitous Photoshoppery
Given that #2 Alabama was very likely to have secured a spot in the BCS National Championship, facing #1 LSU in a rematch of their boring as fuck titanic defensive struggle earlier this season, I...
View ArticlePhil Knight, Foot Locker – Doing Their Best To Ensure Mushnick Can...
….to say nothing of my efforts to remain the laziest pseudo-sports blogger in North America. I know it’s easy to sneer at younger folks waiting outside shopping malls for overpriced sneakers, but if...
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Our Most Contentious Guest Contributor Proves Yet Again, YOU CAN’T STOP...
The once and future Scourge Of Yelp is BACK.
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Who Knew Alan Partridge Was Such A Big NWOBMH Fan?
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Dispatch Scribe : We Didn’t Invent OSU, Tressel Lapses
With each passing day more details emerge regarding the Ohio State football program and unique methods of rewarding their student-athletes (and/or Jim Tressel’s efforts to keep the lid on such). The...
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For Sale : Customized Greetings From All-Around Awesome Guy Rick Pitino
For only $3.99, Rick Pitino will excuse himself from his demanding duties fucking housewives at shitty spaghetti & meatballs emporiums coaching the University Of Louisville Men’s basketball squad...
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Oklahomans Deeply Offended By Confusing, Gratuitous Photoshoppery
Given that #2 Alabama was very likely to have secured a spot in the BCS National Championship, facing #1 LSU in a rematch of their boring as fuck titanic defensive struggle earlier this season, I...
View ArticlePhil Knight, Foot Locker – Doing Their Best To Ensure Mushnick Can...
….to say nothing of my efforts to remain the laziest pseudo-sports blogger in North America. I know it’s easy to sneer at younger folks waiting outside shopping malls for overpriced sneakers, but if...
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Our Most Contentious Guest Contributor Proves Yet Again, YOU CAN’T STOP...
The once and future Scourge Of Yelp is BACK. [ | | | | ]
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History’s Most Questionable eBay Auctions, Pt. XXXI
1)Designed to fit standardized bath tubs 2)Prevent water from splashing out of the shower stall 3)Environmentally friendly 4)Soft and comfortable handing feeling 5)Machine wash cold. Do not bleach or...
View Article10/20/21 Show 73 : The Celebrity Accountant
this week’s episode tackles the thorny subject of Volkswagon’s 2020 three-part series of television commercials for the Atlas Cross Sport (21 mpg city, 24 mpg highway). The ad agency tapped Paul...
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The Year In Prerecorded (And Live) Entertainment : CSTB’s Best Of 2021 (In...
(Editor’s Note : A panel of exactly one person under inhuman degreees of pressure was convened to compile the list shown below ; CSTB’s former contributors are either working on their new careers as...
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