The voting is over for the fate of Barry Bonds’ 756th home run ball. It will be officially branded with an asterisk and sent to Cooperstown (baseball hall of fame). Vote756 recorded over 10 million votes, 47 percent of which opted for branding the ball. Second place was the option to bestow it in tact [...]

Marc Ecko, the man behind the Ecko line of overly baggy shirts featuring rhinos and other random graffiti crap, purchased the Barry Bonds record-breaking home run ball for $750,000. He appeared on the Today show yesterday to inform the world what he was planning on doing with the ball.
Fashion designer Marc Ecko is allowing [...]

College Humor’s latest installment of “Prank War” was so unbelievably harsh I didn’t think it could be real, but Deadspin interviewed the prankster and he claims it’s the real deal. The send-up? A fifth-inning announcement a Yankee’s game indicates a man has proposed to his girlfriend. The problem is, he wasn’t the one who put [...]

Don’t forget, it’s still Dethroner’s ongoing quest to bring you lions. This case of lion-ry is a little more humiliating, but at least he takes it in stride.
[Via Home Run Derby]

On Aug. 31, 1987, Dave Bresnahan was the Michelangelo of potato sculpting. He sacrificed five fine tubers to the spud gods – death via peel – before settling on the correct shape. He drew red lines on the winner to simulate seams, only to see them erased by the potato’s weeping. He wielded that peeler [...]

Hey giant inflatable falcon mascot, chill the f out.
[Via Deadspin]

“Our research, which used the minimum leg-muscle mass T-rex required for movement, suggests that while not incredibly fast, this carnivore was certainly capable of running and would have little difficulty in chasing down footballer David Beckham, for instance,” said Phil Manning, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester, who worked on the study.
Mr. Manning (who [...]

TMZ is slowly becoming my new goto source for football news. They are reporting that Ryan Seacreast is in talks to take charge of the pre-game and half-time shows at the upcoming Super Bowl in January on Fox (obviously). Yes, Ryan Seacrest, American Idol’s one and only cupcake, who regularly crushes the souls of aspiring [...]

Sports Illustrated asked its writers to relate the single-most important or enjoyable round of sports play they’ve ever seen. In an age where corruption and cheating are the rule—an age that begin probably around the time we actually had the leisure to play sports—it’s inspiring to read the golden moments that each of these sports [...]

I mentioned to a friend last night that Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has been indicted on dog-fighting charges, and he sort of shrugged. “Don’t you eat meat? What’s wrong with letting animals kill each other?” The problem is, of course, that hunting animals or raising them for food doesn’t require—in theory—any unnecessary cruelty. I don’t [...]

Roller-skating used to be a big deal. In the ’80s, my small town had its own rink with a competitive speed skating team. It wasn’t something weird, either. People were actually proud when their kids did well.
When the roller-skating craze started in the late ’70s, Nike thought it could get on the fun train by [...]