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RASSLIN' IS REAL
In honor of Wrestlemania's approach, rasslin' writer Thomas Holzerman offers his defense of America's finest staged sport. LISTEN UP, BROTHER. You may read him here or follow him on Twitter. Why do I...
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THE DEEP SIGNIFICANCE OF A REFERENCE TO THE 1968 COTTON BOWL
Mad Men's season debut dropped a single, tiny reference to the 1968 Cotton Bowl last night. First, you really should watch the entire insane 1968 Cotton Bowl film to realize just how weird 1968 was,...
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OTHER SONGS BY BRAD PAISLEY AND LL COOL J
This----and now other songs of GREAT IMPORTANCE to the national dialogue about race and healing. (See also: Rembert on this giant hunk of musical glory. SHOUTS OUT TO ROBERT E. LEE.) They're about what...
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THE CURIOUS INDEX, 4/9/2013
CONGRATULATIONS, LOUISVILLE. Teddy Bridgewater scored 56 points, grabbed 24 rebounds, and dished out 34 assists as Louisville cruised to a victory over the Michigan Wolverines in last night's NCAA...
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THE CRYTERION COLLECTION: TEXAS A&M/OKLAHOMA 2003
Dennis Franchione is currently being paid to coach football at Texas State University, where per their website he has "a history of rebuilding struggling programs." This is mostly true: Franchione...
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THE CURIOUS INDEX, 4/10/2013
BURRTR PIZZAHHH. Haaaaayyyyyy. DISSS GOOOOOOOOD. Million Pizzaz. Noppez wait: TWO MILLION PIZZURZ. I been sellin' goat as beef for YEARSZZ. Secrut ah mah sukcessss. GO CARDDDDZZZZ. SYSTEM THAT HAPPENED...
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PROTO-SPURRIER: THE DELICIOUS FLORIDA ORANGE JUICE YEARS
Tom Keiser of the Classical (and other illustrious internet places) brings us the first part of a series on the young Steve Spurrier, whose development included a period as an orange juice-slangin'...
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THE NEW CAL LOGO IS SOMETHING
That's a pretty spankin' new alternate logo, Cal. There's a lot to like about it: it's fierce, it's ursine, it's got a giant, California-sized font befitting the flagship university of the state and...
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The most beautiful moment in American history
"America"Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old,Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,A...
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THE CURIOUS INDEX, 4/11/2013
DEE MILLINER IS A DICK.WHEN WILL JOHNNY MANZIEL STOP GLORYBOYING AROUND? A polo shirt and doing an interview? TYPICAL SPOILED HEISMAN BUST BEHAVIOR, JOHNNY MANZIEL. And talking to bloggers? FOR SHAME.*...
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Celebrating Masters announcer Jim Nantz, our nation's highest-paid tree
1. Jim Nantz opens every broadcast with "Hello, friends," and if you learn one thing by living in a sketchy large city, it is that someone who addresses you as "friend" isn't one and should be avoided....
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THE CURIOUS INDEX, 4/12/2013
ASS POWER. LSU keeps posting more Big Cat Drill videos, and we will keep reposting them as long as they keep showing large men demonstrating the raw power of properly charged glutes discharged in the...
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ON PANTS
Behold primitive man:He's doing so many fantastic things you cannot do: wearing his beard as long as he wants, carrying a flaming tree branch around wherever he goes, killing a wooly mammoth with a...
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A badgeless Masters: 'They just wanna drink'
Golf scalpers don't look right. The universal uniform of all scalpers never changes anywhere else but Augusta: athletic shorts, track pants, a t-shirt, some form of mojo around the neck, a baseball...
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Boston Marathon bombings: A timeline of Monday's tragic events
2:50 p.m.: With 4:09:43 showing on the race clock, an explosion goes off just short of the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon. Ten seconds or so later, a second explosion goes off 1500 yards away...
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THE CURIOUS INDEX, 4/16/2013
HI. We got tied up yesterday on this end because someone decided to leave bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Despicable shitheads are born every day, and when they are killed,...
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THE FANTHEON OPENS AND THIS MAN IS FIRST
We do not have a Hall of Fame for fans, and that is an error we plan to rectify right now. The Fantheon is open, and this man is the first nominee and inductee. You say you'd like to vote on that? Oh,...
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THE CURIOUS INDEX, 4/17/2013
FOLLOW BRENT PEASE. But only if the Florida offensive coordinator uses this (or at least a screencap) as his avatar. Florida hired Pease's buddy Jeff Choate as special teams coordinator for the Gators....
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FURTHER ETIQUETTE TIPS FOR FOOTBALL FANS
In light of the continuing lack of uptake on the whole "don't get married on Saturdays in the fall thing," let's review a few basic rules about living with or near college football fans. 1. Don't make...
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Tim Tebow is either a dinosaur or a hallucination
QB guru Steve Clarkson would like Tim Tebow to get a chance to play, preferably as a Jacksonville Jaguar. Clarkson is one of Tebow's QB tutors, so he should feel like Tebow deserves a chance, but what...
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