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A Billionaire Makes Everyone Uncomfortable On Twitter

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Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is a 53-year-old billionaire. But you wouldn't know it from the photo he just tweeted.

Jim Irsay's Indianapolis Colts made the playoffs and play their first game this week. Any fan would be excited, so you can't blame the team's owner for getting pumped on Twitter. You can, however, blame him for the way he went about it...

Jim Irsay's Indianapolis Colts made the playoffs and play their first game this week. Any fan would be excited, so you can't blame the team's owner for getting pumped on Twitter. You can, however, blame him for the way he went about it...

Source: @JimIrsay

The Hat/Facial Expression:

The Hat/Facial Expression:

Irsay's hat is in full CC Sabathia mode while his eyes appear totally stoned. This pic (not technically a selfie, though it has all the hallmarks of one) is more befitting that guy you went to college with who dropped out to become an entrepreneur, only you're pretty sure he lives in his mom's basement, than it is for the owner of a National Football League team.

The Outfit:

The Outfit:

Jim Irsay is dressed like he's auditioning for a new season of Jersey Shore. He's a billionaire. It's unclear why these things are both true at the same time.


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The Best Fan-Created New Orleans Pelicans Logo

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Last week we brought you our favorite fan-created logos for the NBA's newly christened New Orleans Pelicans. Well now there's a winner.

99designs.com, a community-based design website, held a contest for users to try to design a logo for the NBA's newly renamed New Orleans Pelicans. It inspired some really wonderful designs.

Like "The Cool Guy" Pelican.

Like "The Cool Guy" Pelican.

Submitted by a user named pixelmatters.

Or The "Awesome Color Scheme, Hyper-Realistic" Pelican.

Or The "Awesome Color Scheme, Hyper-Realistic" Pelican.

Submitted by a user named damichi.

See all of our favorite submissions here.


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The Early Favorite For The Best Sports Photo Of 2013

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Florida's consolation for blowing the Sugar Bowl.

Last night in the Sugar Bowl, Big East champion Louisville pulled off the biggest upset in BCS Bowl history, according to ESPN. The No. 21 Cardinals, 14.5 point underdogs before the game, shocked No. 3 Florida 33-23, which is great for them, but the Florida did win the battle of "Coolest Sports Photo" when Florida linebacker completely destroyed Louisville quarterback Teddy Bridgewater. This is the current leader in the clubhouse for the best shot of 2013.

Image by Bill Haber / AP

Bostic's hit was in no way legal, and he was penalized for roughing the passer. Bridgewater was okay, and proceeded to throw for 266 yards and two touchdowns. But DAMN. Associated Press photographer Bill Haber should win awards for this one, even if it's just made up "Photo of the Year" awards on BuzzFeed Sports.


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How To Blatantly Cheat In The NBA

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Amir Johnson got away with something that junior high refs would catch.

Step 1: Be an NBA player. In this case, be power forward Amir Johnson, whose Toronto Raptors hosted the Portland Trail Blazers Wednesday night.

Step 1: Be an NBA player. In this case, be power forward Amir Johnson, whose Toronto Raptors hosted the Portland Trail Blazers Wednesday night.

He's smiling because... well, you'll see.

Step 2: Get the ball. Dribble. Stop dribbling.

Step 2: Get the ball. Dribble. Stop dribbling.

Step 3: Stand there for a bit. PIVOT. (Good pivot.) PUMP-FAKE. (Good pump-fake.)

Step 3: Stand there for a bit. PIVOT. (Good pivot.) PUMP-FAKE. (Good pump-fake.)

Step 4: Start dribbling again, in what is commonly known as a double-dribble and is the kind of thing basketball players stop doing sometime around 5th grade.

Step 4: Start dribbling again, in what is commonly known as a double-dribble and is the kind of thing basketball players stop doing sometime around 5th grade.


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The Evolution Of An Epic Minor League Hockey Brawl

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An old fashioned donnybrook broke out in the Southern Professional Hockey League.

There's still no professional hockey to watch in North America, but the minor league teams scattered across the country are soldiering on, providing a few well-placed die-hards with entertainment while the rest of us grumble and bitch about Gary Bettman. One particular recent game in the Southern Professional Hockey League (which exists!) featured a bench-clearing slobberknocker worthy of the NHL, resulting in 129 combined penalty minutes for fighting, throwing equipment AND spearing. Here's a frame-by-frame breakdown of the brouhaha.

It all starts late in the third period of a 3-2 game between the Mississippi Surge (in blue), and the Huntsville Havoc (in white).

It all starts late in the third period of a 3-2 game between the Mississippi Surge (in blue), and the Huntsville Havoc (in white).

Via: pointstreaksites.com

After the referees let some spearing go unpenalized, the players engage in vigilante justice. No. 44 Corey Fulton is engaged, and pushes a Surge player into the wall...and beyond.

After the referees let some spearing go unpenalized, the players engage in vigilante justice. No. 44 Corey Fulton is engaged, and pushes a Surge player into the wall...and beyond.

Fulton has made a grave tactical error. He's pushed a Surge player into the Surge bench, and he's soon surrounded by Surge, presumably getting punched in the face a lot.

Fulton has made a grave tactical error. He's pushed a Surge player into the Surge bench, and he's soon surrounded by Surge, presumably getting punched in the face a lot.


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Andrew McCutchen Is The Most Charming Baseball Player On Instagram

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Andrew McCutchen of the Pittsburgh Pirates is a very, very good baseball player. And, if his Instagram is any indication, he's also a real chill dude.

This is Andrew McCutchen.

This is Andrew McCutchen.

McCutchen, 26, finished last season with a .327 batting average (the second best in the National League) and 194 hits (the most in the NL). He also had 31 home runs, 96 RBIs, and 20 stolen bases (his fourth consecutive season of >20 SBs), and led the entire National League in Offensive Wins Above Replacement (7.5).

Source: instagram.com

Cutch has the coolest hair in the sport.

Cutch has the coolest hair in the sport.

Source: instagram.com

This is where he grew up.

This is where he grew up.

Fort Meade, Florida.

Source: instagram.com

And this is the car he drives now.

And this is the car he drives now.

Source: instagram.com


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Four Must-Read Rules For Anyone Thinking About Firing A Football Coach

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The Jets are a cosmic joke, but they made the right decision to keep Rex Ryan. And here's why!

Image by Doug Benz / Reuters

After going 6-10, including three straight losses to close out the 2012 season; after turning Tim Tebow into the most expensively pointless player in football; after missing the playoffs for the second straight year and turning his team into the most calamitously backbiting franchise in professional sports; after doing all these things and more, Rex Ryan has not been fired as head coach of the New York Jets. And this is a good thing.

The situation in Jetsland — a mythical crater that simultaneously exists in both New Jersey and Queens, filled completely with Natty Ice — is far from perfect, and Ryan's played a big role in that imperfection. He's boisterous to the point of parody and overly loyal, with massive blind spots when it comes to the offensive side of the game. But in the pro-con-weighing exercise that is choosing whether or not to fire your coach, Ryan doesn't deserve to lose his job. Actually, that's the wrong way to put it: there's no such thing as "deserving" to be fired, in the abstract. There's only the question of whether a different coach would be better-equipped to win the Super Bowl with your franchise.

But that's not how a lot of people in the NFL see it. If you ask the owners and multi-headed ownership conglomerates who/that run the NFL's 32 teams, they'll happily tell you that there's few things they enjoy more, aside from inheriting money and inventing new types of financial derivatives, than firing head coaches. It's soothing, it's cleansing, and it gives you at least a year where you can tell yourself, "Hey, we're rebuilding — going 3-13 and kicking 15 field goals for every touchdown is just part of the process." But firing a coach is often like using a flamethrower to melt the ice on the windshield of your Subaru: effective and super-awesome. Er, sorry: briefly effective but ultimately destructive. A proper coach-firing should ensue only if at least one of these criteria is met:

You don't believe the coach can win a championship.

You don't believe the coach can win a championship.

Image by Bill Wippert / AP

In his first two years with the Jets, Rex Ryan's team reached the AFC Championship twice. The second time, they lost by only five points; in football, five points is a bad bounce, a dropped pass. Ryan's Jets were an infinitesimal distance from the Super Bowl. And those Jets teams weren't even all that great, either, with fantastic offensive lines and the presence of all-world corner Darelle Revis counterbalanced by young, ineffective skill-position players on offense. They succeeded exactly how Ryan said they would — through innovative, suffocating defenses. Ryan's approach worked, quite recently.


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Jose Canseco And Dane Cook Bring You The Greatest Tweet Of 2013

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It's just…perfect.

This is crazy person/former baseball player Jose Canseco.

This is crazy person/former baseball player Jose Canseco.

Of course the most recent photo of him on the wire is from the red carpet of the porn awards. Of course.

Image by Ethan Miller / Getty Images

This is comedian, accused joke thief, and dude-bro extraordinaire Dane Cook. Last night, Cook decided to follow Canseco on Twitter.

This is comedian, accused joke thief, and dude-bro extraordinaire Dane Cook. Last night, Cook decided to follow Canseco on Twitter.

Image by Frazer Harrison / Getty Images

And thank God he did, because it gave us the greatest tweet you can ever imagine.

And thank God he did, because it gave us the greatest tweet you can ever imagine.

Let's look at that again.

Let's look at that again.


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Jadeveon Clowney Obliterated The State Of Michigan, According To Wikipedia

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It's not entirely inaccurate.

A few days ago South Carolina defensive stud Jadeveon Clowney made one of the most mind-shatteringly awesome defensive plays of the season when he steamrolled Michigan back Vincent Smith in the Outback Bowl.

Someone on the internet then made a mischievous change to Clowney's Wikipedia page, and @RickMuscles spotted it. Under the 2012 section, it temporarily read: "In the Outback Bowl, Clowney obliterated the entire state of Michigan when he hit Wolverines' running back Vincent Smith and forced a fumble. There are now only 49 states in the United States and Roger Goodell has suspended Clowney for the first game of his NFL career."


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Definitive Financial Proof That Tim Tebow Was A Disaster In 2012

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Per yard, per carry, per pass — no matter how you look at it, Tim Tebow was not an efficient use of the New York Jets' money.

Image by Jonathan Bachman / Reuters

At this point, it's no secret that Tim Tebow, who "played" his last game as a New York Jet last Sunday — 0 carries, 0 passes — was a complete disaster this season. But it still might surprise you to see how much he cost the Jets relative to how little he produced. The salaries of most backup quarterbacks can be reconciled by the fact that their coaches trust them to take over in the case of the starter's injury; because the Jets' staff showed that they did not trust Tebow to do that, you have to judge the situation based on what he did when he did appear briefly for the Jets in special circumstances. It is, apparently, all they were paying him for. (Tebow cost New York $3.6 million this year: $1.6 million paid to Tebow, $2 million payout to the Broncos.)

$300,000 per game.

$300,000 per game.

Tebow played in 12 games this season.

Image by Doug Benz / Reuters

$25,531.91 per yard gained.

$25,531.91 per yard gained.

141 total yards.

Image by Gary Wiepert / AP


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Chicago Sports Fans Show Off Their "Love Of The Game" (In The Nude)

An Adorable 3-Year-Old Girl Breaks Down A Terrible College Football Call

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Can we go back in time and overturn the call just to satisfy this girl?

Referee Jeff Maconaghy made one of the biggest officiating blunders of the decade in the Outback Bowl when he awarded Michigan a first down, despite the obvious evidence to the contrary.

Referee Jeff Maconaghy made one of the biggest officiating blunders of the decade in the Outback Bowl when he awarded Michigan a first down, despite the obvious evidence to the contrary.

Via: lostlettermen.com

The call was so obvious that this 3-year-old can break it down better than most analysts. Somebody get these girls a telestrator.

Via Lost Letterman

JR Smith Just Pulled Off The Dunk Of The Season

27 Photos Of People Losing Their Damn Minds

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With each new year comes the “Polar Bear Plunge,” where people go swimming in freezing cold water, and with each “Polar Bear Plunge” comes a whole bunch of people who will get hypothermia.

The "Yeah I'm a goat boxer. Deal with it." Face

The "Yeah I'm a goat boxer. Deal with it." Face

Image by Ben Nelms / Reuters

The "I'm the real most interesting man in the world." Face

The "I'm the real most interesting man in the world." Face

Image by Ben Nelms / Reuters

The "This is the worst wedding ever." Face

The "This is the worst wedding ever." Face

Image by Ben Nelms / Reuters


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High School Girl Makes The Shot Of A Lifetime

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I bet a million dollars she couldn't do this again. But I also bet a million dollars I couldn't do it once.

McCutcheon High's Gabrielle Gray of Indiana couldn't just let a ball bounce out of bounds. She went to save it, and she did way more than just that.

McCutcheon High's Gabrielle Gray of Indiana couldn't just let a ball bounce out of bounds. She went to save it, and she did way more than just that.

Source: youtube.com

The crowd's reaction was something like this:

The crowd's reaction was something like this:


Rex Ryan Has A Tattoo Of His Wife Wearing Nothing But A Mark Sanchez Jersey

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Who knew the Jets coach could somehow get even weirder?

You can watch it here.

Yes. That's a tattoo of Michelle Ryan wearing nothing but a Mark Sanchez jersey. This is insane. Not the fact that Ryan has a tattoo of his wife. That Rex is still so in love with Michelle is really a testament to what must be a great marriage. What's insane is that he chose to get Mark Sanchez's jersey on her. Why? If they say you shouldn't get tattoos of significant others, because you never know how long relationships will last, that should go double for quarterbacks. Getting a Drew Bledsoe tattoo in Boston in 1998 would have seemed like a good bet, but in hindsight it's a disaster. This is like that EXCEPT MARK SANCHEZ HAS NEVER BEEN THAT GOOD. No wonder Ryan stuck with the struggling quarterback as long as he did this year. It was a classic case of a coach putting his tattoo's best interest above that of his team.

Source: (ANDREW THEODORAKIS/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)

Regardless, let's admire this standing monument to what may be America's greatest marriage.

Regardless, let's admire this standing monument to what may be America's greatest marriage.


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Goalie Moonlights As Erotic Model

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Meet Stuart Tomlinson: A professional goalkeeper who also sheds his clothes as an aspiring “erotic model.”

During the day, Stuart Tomlinson is a goalkeeper for Burton Albion Football Club, a fourth-tier English team.

During the day, Stuart Tomlinson is a goalkeeper for Burton Albion Football Club, a fourth-tier English team.

Image by Pete Norton / Getty Images

When he's not on the field, he's an aspiring fitness model.

When he's not on the field, he's an aspiring fitness model.

Source: jasonharry.com

But also takes on "erotic assignments."

But also takes on "erotic assignments."

Source: i.huffpost.com  /  via: huffingtonpost.com

Where he goes by the alias "Rupert Paddington Gomez."

Where he goes by the alias "Rupert Paddington Gomez."

Source: 2.bp.blogspot.com


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Former NBA Players Discuss Government Conspiracies On Twitter

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This is what Twitter was made for.

This is Keith Closs (on the right). He played for the Los Angeles Clippers. Closs washed out of the NBA and battled with addiction. Recently he's most famous for going to a Clipper game as a fan and wearing his own jersey.

This is Keith Closs (on the right). He played for the Los Angeles Clippers. Closs washed out of the NBA and battled with addiction. Recently he's most famous for going to a Clipper game as a fan and wearing his own jersey.

(Photos of Closs wearing his own jersey to a game.)

Image by Tom Hauck / Getty Images

This is Pooh Jeter. Two years ago he played for the Sacramento Kings, but he currently plays professionally in China.

This is Pooh Jeter. Two years ago he played for the Sacramento Kings, but he currently plays professionally in China.

Image by Getty Images

Last night, Jeter tweeted out his general frustration about the lack of a cancer cure.

Last night, Jeter tweeted out his general frustration about the lack of a cancer cure.

But Keith Closs showed up to set Jeter straight. After all there IS a cure. The government just doesn't want us to get it.

But Keith Closs showed up to set Jeter straight. After all there IS a cure. The government just doesn't want us to get it.


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Protesting Racism, AC Milan Players Walk Off Pitch

Kobe Bryant Joined Twitter, Is Amazing

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#mambatweets for life.

Evil Genius, Basketball Dictator, NBA Judge Dredd Kobe Bryant has finally joined Twitter. And he did it in a crazy Kobe way.

Evil Genius, Basketball Dictator, NBA Judge Dredd Kobe Bryant has finally joined Twitter. And he did it in a crazy Kobe way.

First off, loving the #mambatweets hashtag. That is going to be a goldmine of jokes. In fact just bookmark a #mambatweets search now. I have a feeling that's going to pay comedy dividends.

Kobe is the perfect athlete for Twitter. So many pro athletes have to constantly worry about their "brand." Kobe has spent year's cultivating his brand to just be: big asshole. That's tremendous for us as fans. He doesn't care who he offends. He doesn't care what people think. And now he doesn't even have to bother talking to the media to make insane, controversial statements. It's just amazing.

Also amazing, Kobe's Twitter avatar. Which is the old Twitterific bird with a black mamba tongue. Just gloriously done, Kobe. Bravo.

Also amazing, Kobe's Twitter avatar. Which is the old Twitterific bird with a black mamba tongue. Just gloriously done, Kobe. Bravo.

I love you, Kobe.

I love you, Kobe.

Image by Ezra Shaw / Getty Images

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