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Sports: Hater: Tiger Woods Is Now An Extra In Oz

Annie Leibovitz: Have you ever seen Oz? Great, so what we're going for here is grey, raw, prison-yard weight-lifting grittiness. So just put on this knit cap, take off your shirt, hold these dumbells,...

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Sports: Interview: Ann Wolfe scares the crap out of us

Female boxers rarely achieve the same level of fame as do their male counterparts (and even they have lately struggled to achieve the same name-recognition as mixed martial arts fighters), but there...

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Sports: Interview: The League Live

When The League debuted on FX last year, few could have predicted it would spawn a live tour that would sell out Chicago’s House of Blues. Now in its second season, The League has transformed into a...

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Sports: Inventory: "why you say I shoulda went to school": 14 awful...

1. 50 Cent (@50CENT) Sample tweet by the Twitter account @50CENT from August 2: “Thanks to my lovely ladies of the Today show @hodakotb @sarahaines @klgandhoda for having me!” Now one from August 27:...

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Sports: Interview: Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk

As Girl Talk, Gregg Gillis is responsible for some of music’s most memorable mashups. On his latest record, All Day, he twists and tweaks tracks by everyone from Black Sabbath to Jane’s Addiction to...

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City Life: Interview: Southpaw

It might be a hard pill for Cubs fans to swallow, but it’s the truth: Southpaw, the White Sox mascot, is pretty darn cool. The lime green monster has boundless energy come gametime, but also maintains...

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Sports: Great Job, Internet!: Taylor Lautner saves football in Field Of...

Apparently, if Taylor Lautner builds a football field during the NFL lockout, a bunch of players and Rich Eisen will come. Funny Or Die assembled an all-star (literally, in sports terms) cast of...

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Sports: Interview: Chikara’s Mike Quackenbush

To the general public, Vince McMahon’s WWE is professional wrestling, and professional wrestling is the demented love child of NASCAR and Days Of Our Lives. Both assumptions are wrong, though. There...

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Sports: Interview: A tale of mystery, mayhem: the birth of the Indy 500 

In 1911, on the eve of the first-ever Indianapolis 500 stock car race, the Indianapolis Star wrote, “The stranger who visits Indianapolis may well imagine that the city is wrapped in the throes of...

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Sports: Great Job, Internet!: Celebrate the Olympics with this 8-bit montage

We're just a few days into the Summer Olympics in London with a dozen days of competition still left, but one thing has become clear: NBC's coverage has left a lot to be desired, as TV Club has noted....

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Sports: Great Job, Internet!: Become a world class runner with the Paul Ryan...

It’s been a busy two weeks of pomp, circumstance, and fact-checking as the country's two major political parties have been holding their conventions. One of the most hotly contested speeches of the...

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Sports: Newswire: R.I.P. Steve Sabol, driving creative force behind NFL Films 

Steve Sabol, who helped change the perception of the National Football League, and revolutionized the sports highlight package along the way, died today of brain cancer at the age of 69. Sabol’s...

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