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Mississippi State defensive lineman Chris Jones had trouble staying upright as he finished his 40 attempt today at the NFL combine, and replays revealed why: his genitals came flying out of his shorts while trying to beat five seconds. Leave it up to the wisecracking Rich Eisen to note that “these guys fall down hard…
The combination of pudgy shrimp fingers, a new phone, and a reckless need for all-consuming attention means that Donald Trump’s Twitter is likely to veer off the rails at times. But amplifying the words of white supremacists to 6 million people is certainly a whole new category of mess. On Saturday, the GOP presidential frontrunner…
An activist challenged Hillary Clinton’s record on race Feb. 24, during a private fundraising event in Charleston, S.C. (YouTube/#NotASuperpredator) It happened rather quickly. Ashley Williams showed up Wednesday at a private fundraiser in Charleston, S.C., where former secretary of state Hillary Clinton was in the middle of delivering what may well have been the umpteenth…
At a private Charleston, South Carolina, residence, surrounded by around 100 supporters, Hillary Clinton was interrupted by a Black Lives Matter activist who unfurled a sign quoting the former first lady on so-called “Superpredators,” the widely prevailing 1990s junk-science criminology that the usually African-American juvenile offenders of the time were irredeemable and would undoubtedly grow to terrorize…
We’re just one month away from seeing Batman v. Superman, the long-awaited smackdown between the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel. But if things had turned out differently, we could have seen Batman fight Superman back in 2004. Here’s everything we know about Batman vs. Superman: Asylum, and how it would have been different…
Star Wars will be an inclusive franchise and its future will include gay characters, according to J.J. Abrams, speaking earlier this week at the Oscar Wilde awards at Bad Robot Productions. The Daily Beast noted that as The Force Awakens has been the first film in the franchise to utilize black and female leads, Abrams’…
In the everlasting quest to make sure we don’t all die from an antibiotic resistant ‘superbug,’ activists have managed another modest victory. Following a public letter addressed to In-N-Out Burger from consumer group CALPIRG, In-N-Out has affirmed a commitment to using meat from animals not treated with antibiotics, according to Reuters. “Our company is committed…
Donald TrumpDonald TrumpSanders ignores SC defeat, turns focus to beating Trump Trump tells Christie: ‘Get on the plane and go home’ Minnesota’s biggest newspaper backs Rubio MORE told Chris Christie to “go home” after the New Jersey governor introduced the billionaire at a campaign rally in Arkansas on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT “Get on the plane and…
Qualified and have five years experience? Have we got an unpaid job for you At the end of last year MTV copped some flack for posting a job ad for a ‘mid-level’ video producer who needed to be able to do almost everything, ever. Well it seems the good folk at Nine Entertainment Co have…
Some articles should be short. Some articles should be long. No articles, as Vox and its SB Nation demonstrated, should be longform. Greg Howard’s postmortem of SB Nation’s “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?” debacle offers lots of insights into how a story can go wrong, but the most concise may be his reporting that a freelancer…