Roundup: Dog Infects Owner with Plague in Colorado; Plaxico Burress Indicted For Failing to Pay Taxes; What is a Dadbod?
By Mike Cardillo
Clippers 102, Spurs 96; Game 7 on Saturday. [FoxSports]
Q&A with David Simon on Baltimore, the war on drugs and police. [Marshall Project]
Excerpt from Pedro Martinez’s forthcoming book. [SI]
83-year-old man still uses dial-up modem, gets $23,000 bill from AT&T. [LA Times]
“What (Buck) Showalter nailed in one phrase might be called the “empathy gap.”” [Mic]
Time magazine’s striking cover this photo this week was taken by an amateur. [Washington Post]
Billy Donovan’s jump to the NBA is loss for college basketball. [Yahoo!]
Adidas commemorated Andrew Wiggins’ ROY award with special sneakers. [Slam]
As a fan of low-level wordplay, the Sun-Sentinel using the FloriDUH tag for stuff like meth head surfing on a car is delightful. [Sun-Sentinel]
Sepp Blatter and FIFA are horribly, willfully corrupt, Vol. 976. [Bloomberg]
“What Is the ‘Dadbod’? What Does It Mean?” (shrugs) [Ny Mag]
Someones list of the 44 best restaurant’s in America. [Business Insider]
Titus Andronicus is a good band (imho) and it has a rock opera coming out. Fun! [Grantland]
An interesting look back at when ESPN tried to launch its own phone and what it actually helped to create. [Vice]
You can now play old MS-Dos games like Oregon Trail right inside a tweet. [Daily Dot]
Somebody made(and drank) a bunch of fake cocktails, such as the Flaming Moe, for science or something. [Cracked]
“Everything about running is stupid.” [700 Level]
The Capitals took a 1-0 series lead on the Rangers via a Joel Ward goal with under two seconds left.
Checking in with Scott Weiland … [via]
Rebecca Romijn throwback video.
A lacrosse fight and selfie all in one video. What a time to be alive.
Fastball … which offered the world two very radio-friendly songs (The Way, Out of My Head) and then were never heard from again. Guess that’s better than most bands can say.