NFL Preview: Baltimore Ravens

(To get us all ready for a new season of football, oddsnark is previewing all 32 NFL teams with the help of some good friends and experts. Here to preview the Baltimore Ravens is filmmaker John Waters.)

I’ve seen Baltimorons go gaga over a lot of tacky things in my time: The Block, seafood sticks, beehive […]

NFL Preview: Cleveland Browns

(To get us all ready for a new season of football, oddsnark is previewing all 32 NFL teams with the help of some good friends and experts. Here to preview the Cleveland Browns is the quintessential Browns fan, John “Big Dawg” Thompson.)

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NFL Preview: New York Giants

(To get us all ready for a new season of football, oddsnark is previewing all 32 NFL teams with the help of some good friends and experts. Here to preview the New York Giants is 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney.)

Have you ever noticed that football is becoming more popular these days? In other countries they […]

All the News that Fits

It’s the dog days of summer. As you are no doubt aware, today is one of only two on the calendar (Monday was the other) when none of the four major sports has a game scheduled. But that doesn’t mean that your intrepid reporters at oddsnark have been ignoring the rainbow of other colors […]

Clash of the Titans

Major League Baseball powerhouses and bitter rivals, the Pittsburgh Pirates and Kansas City Royals staged a riveting, back-and-forth contest Tuesday night.
With both teams jockeying for postseason positioning, the Royals overcame an early four-run deficit against Pirate ace Kip Wells thanks to a thrilling fourth-inning single by slugger Angel Berroa and a bases-loaded walk to the […]

Arrivederci, USA

The United States likes to think it’s the cock of the walk. But, despite its lofty #5 ranking going into the World Cup, the team has cemented its status among the Serbia and Montenegros of the world in soccer’s pecking order.
The Americans’ 1-1 tie with Italy today proved to be a rowdy match […]

And This Bird You Cannot Change

The Carolina Hurricanes won game one of the Stanley Cup Finals. The Duke men’s lacrosse team was given permission to resume doing whatever it is they do. NASCAR races, our sources say, continue to be staged every weekend. In general, it probably feels good to be a Son of the South. Unless […]

Break up the Buccos

Realizing that nothing less than the fate of humanity was at stake, umpire Jerry Meals overturned what would have been a game-winning home run in an attempt to thwart a Pittsburgh Pirates four-game winning streak and, indeed, the end of the world as we know it.
In the bottom of the ninth today against the […]

Greatest American Hero

Believe it or not, Joey Chestnut is walking on air. It’s surprising he’s even walking at all.
The 22-year-old college student has shattered his sport’s equivalent of the four-minute mile. Last night in Vegas, he became the first American to consume 50 hot dogs (including buns) in 12 minutes. Chestnut now advances to the […]

Conference Finals Set

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was shocked and dismayed to learn that the league he has overseen for more than a decade has franchises in Edmonton and Buffalo.
“I thought we abandoned Edmonton in the nineties,” Mr. Bettman said while sipping a brightly colored drink at a resort in the Bahamas. “And Buffalo? That’s news to […]