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GIF Seventeen years ago, extreme sports ambassador and titular Pro Skater Tony Hawk pulled off the 900 revolution at the 1999 X-Games. The trick involves rotating the board two and a half times while midair (and in normal gravity), and Hawk struggled with it back in his spry days. Now 48, he gives it the…
The football was predictable. Nil-nil at half time, little drama. The politics were a different story, shock still reverberating from the Brexit vote among fans of all stripes at an ex-pat pub in New York on Saturday. Related: Gareth McAuley’s own goal takes Wales past Northern Ireland at Euro 2016 Many had voted against type….
Today is Cleveland’s day, and I join with the rest of America in obnoxiously glomming onto the city’s moment even though I don’t deserve to. (In fact, I have spent much of the past decade joyously shitting on Cleveland for its miseries … but really, I’m so happy for you now!) Last night was one…
The Atlanta Braves are moving to a new ballpark next spring, and … and really, that’s it as far as the good news goes. The latest debacle to emerge from the team’s abrupt decision to abandon their 20-year-old downtown stadium and head for the ‘burbs occurred last weekend when it was reported that the…
Just past midnight on Saturday, Jimmy Glenn slumped into a small wooden chair in the back room of his bar in Times Square, his face aglow before a cable broadcast. The bar, a 45-year-old sanctum of boxing ephemera called Jimmy’s Corner, was packed with dozens of patrons in various stages of inebriation and celebration, but…
Photo: AP ESPN The Magazine’s Sam Alipour published a story about athletes using online dating today, and though the trend piece seems six months too late, the timeliness can be forgiven because of the anecdotes within. Athletes are just like us, in that they’re looking for people to hump. Unsurprisingly, the younger players are more…
Photo: AP The NHL convinced one more person to please like its sport last night. A man on Twitter tuned into Game 7 of Blackhawks-Blues, the first hockey game he had ever seen. He tweeted as he watched, and his enthusiasm was delightful. “Tony X.” started watching roughly an hour into the game, but immediately…
Most of the time, they live out nine-to-five routines as psychologists, accountants, mothers, hairdressers and kindergarten teachers. But on nights and weekends they become Bettie Rage, Cheerleader Melissa, Pink Flash Kira, Courtney Rush and Mistress Barbara. In arenas and dark church basements around the city, they put on their spandex costumes and climb into the ring. For…
“Throughout Lin’s six years in the N.B.A., we have continuously witnessed Lin as the recipient of numerous hard fouls with unnecessary and excessive force by other players,” the letter reads. “In these cases, the referees either didn’t make the calls or made incorrect calls.” The N.B.A. responded with a statement. It was a notable victory…
This week, NFL lawyers sent a letter to The New York Times demanding that the Times’s recent investigation into the league’s bogus concussion studies be retracted. It was so limp that it demanded a proper takedown. Thankfully, the Times was happy to oblige, via a response letter from their own lawyers. http://deadspin.com/nfl-demands-re… You can read…