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The Kitchen Essentials Bracket
Did you know that there are more than 475 trillion different kinds of kitchen items? These are 64 of the most common. Some are good, some are bad, fill 'em out, find out you're wrong.
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The 35 best sports tweets in Twitter history: A painfully subjective roundup
Here, we pay tribute to some tweets from athletes, writers, and everyone else that have made Sports Twitter great.Editor's note:Twitter turned 10 years old on March 21. It celebrated that fact,...
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It's New York Time: A collection of poems by Jon
Jon has been pretty quiet in 2016, and for good reason. He's been working on a second collection of poems about his beloved New York City. And today, we're proud to publish them.Jon's first collection...
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Pretty Good, episode 7: 'I Wish Everyone Else Was Dead'
The Bush administration loved 24, the saddest, most violent show network television had ever seen. Jack Bauer was their guy. Jack Bauer was the most miserable human being who has ever lived. This is...
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Why you should never vote: an explainer
Everyone knows that voting is an terrible thing to do. But have you ever wondered what makes it so awful? Beltway insider Jon Bois, who is me, is here to explain.Have you ever been to politics? Sound...
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I made some Fled pogs
There were never any promotional pogs released for the 1996 action-comedy film Fled, starring Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin. So I decided it would be nice to make a 12-pog set. I have never...
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Pretty Good, episode 8: 'WHY DO I CHOOSE THIS FOR A LIVING?'
High-stakes poker is terrifying. If you're dumb and easily frightened, like Jon, it's even more terrifying. Welcome to the eighth episode of Pretty Good, a show about stories that are pretty good....
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Chart Party: We decided to erase the three-point line forever
Nah, yeah, we did it. We went back and re-scored the entire NBA season as though three-pointers didn't exist. Along the way we learned a lot of things, none of which are at all important.Chart Party is...
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Rat poison and brandy: The 1904 St. Louis Olympic marathon
The 1904 Olympic marathon was a story of fraud, thievery, raw eggs, rat poison, food poisoning, liquor, feral dogs, and at least three separate incidents of near-death. It was the stupidest sporting...
View ArticleRanking all 129 FBS mascots by weight, from lightest to heaviest
The only power rankings to measure pure mascot power.
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Chart Party: Jeff Francoeur, my favorite worst baseball player
Jeff Francoeur's start was historically great, and the rest of his career has been historically not. But through it all, he remains. He is my favorite baseball player.Chart Party is researched,...
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GEORGIA TECH 222, CUMBERLAND 0
"Beatdown" isn't the word. Neither are "rout" or "clobbering." The word to describe what Georgia Tech's football team did to Cumberland does not exist, because we've never had to invent it, because...
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Chart Party: Scorigami, or the story of every NFL final score that has ever...
A few times every NFL season, you see final scores that have never happened in the history of the league. This is the 95-year history of this fine art.Scorigami is a word I made up. It is the art of...
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Pretty Good, episode 11: Baron Davis from 89 feet
Baron Davis stood 89 feet from the basket, called for the ball, and guaranteed he would hit the longest bucket in NBA history. He did. This is the 11th episode of Pretty Good, a show about stories that...
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The 5 people you meet at every Super Bowl Party
The Super Bowl is like every other holiday, in that it's rife with cliché and its participants are entirely predictable. Here is a guide to the five people who will be at every Super Bowl party in...
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What the heck is a catch in the NFL, anyway? An explainer
The NFL can't ever seem to decide what a catch is and isn't. So how are we as fans supposed to know, anyway? Here's an explainer to help explain the rule book once and for all.
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The Bill Belichick Offseason Simulator
This must be emphasized from the outset: The Bill Belichick Offseason Simulator is a tool, and not a toy. It does not exist to amuse you. It is meant to train prospective football coaches in the art...
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Troy State 253, DeVry 141: Pretty Good, Episode 12
Troy State 253, DeVry 141. This mammoth achievement is printed in all the record books with the wrong score, and nobody realized it. Until now.This is the longest and strangest episode of Pretty Good I...
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Troy State vs. DeVry is the highest-scoring game in NCAA history, and the...
Part of me still cannot believe it. The highest-scoring basketball game of all time was played in front of three referees, an official scorer, two announcers, a camera, and a reported crowd of 2,000...
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Chart Party: What if Barry Bonds had played without a bat?
In the boldest Chart Party yet, we relive every plate appearance of Barry Bonds' 2004 season without a bat. The only thing crazier than this experiment is the way it turned out.This was a fun one....
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