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Because sports and related fields (athletic gear and the like) are such big business, they often produce some of the coolest and funniest ads. At comedic end of the sports field, ESPN’s sports news show Sportscenter is probably the best. This makes Bleacher Report’s listicle of The 25 Funniest Sportscenter Commercials very entertaining. We especially [...]

Professional sports, much like Star Wars, are riddled with pros and cons that, when taken too far, can be disastrous, delightful, or both. Someone who knows the starting line-ups of The Chicago Bulls for every NBA season during the 1980s is, we think, kind of sad. Likewise, someone who knows by heart the ventilation systems [...]

Back for another edition of Listicles’ weekly sports column, this is freelance mascot and sports writer Onesie. With last week’s Thanksgiving-themed eating competitions list being a slight overdose of American competitiveness, we head North for a cleansing excursion.
The NHL’s Montreal Canadiens celebrate their 100th year this season, which (I’m guessing) might make them the oldest [...]

Those perpetual frat boys over at COED Magazine unleashed a list of their 8 favorite Tracy Morgan moments yesterday, covering just about every venue in which the prolific comedian’s work has featured. The better of their two nods to 30 Rock (the other being the “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah”) is this strange online feature of Tracy [...]

Basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal has always packed an oversized personality into an oversized frame, incurring a bit of mockery along the way (see: MadTV’s cross-eyed parody, every reference ever to Kazaam). So when a Shaq impostor joined the social networking service Twitter, Kathleen Hessert of consulting firm Sports Media Challenge helped the Phoenix Suns [...]