NurPhotoI've lived in New York City for going on seven years and I've never once been to Staten Island, partly because you have to take a boat (or a car, which is even less practical than a boat) and partly because Law & Order tells me its mostly populated by people like John “Porky” Zancocchio, the 60-year-old consigliere of the Bonnano crime family who has been spending his golden years on house arrest following a racketeering conviction in January.
Porky loves twisting arms and bleeding local business owners dry. He loves his family and threatening to kill said family if they ever cross him. Perhaps more than anything else, however, Porky—co-owner of Bella Mama Rosa family restaurant/money laundering front—loves food. Sweet or savory. Red sauce or white. It doesn't much matter to Porky, and, according to SI Live, that's exactly why he's headed back to prison.
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Rocky Widner(Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)When a celebrity pens their autobiography, a ghost writer is usually brought in to make the prose coherent. In some instances, they might ghostwrite a fair amount of the material. Or, in the case of Steven Adams, they pen the entire damn book.
Adams, the center for the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder, has an autobiography coming out later this year, and on Monday was asked about the forthcoming epic. The 24-year-old didn't exactly give it a ringing endorsement: “It’s about myself…that’s pretty much it.” He continued the book wasn't even his idea, clearly not wanting to discuss the matter further.
One problem: the surrounding media — pesky group, that media — was missing this cue and prodded Adams further. To which the New Zealand big man replied, “I don’t write…I can barely read, mate. I’m gonna write a book? Jesus.”
Oh. Never has Demetri Martin's joke — “Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book..

VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) Five female golfers will compete in a men’s European Tour event in May as part of more innovations to the GolfSixes tournament.

Suzann Pettersen and Mel Reid will form a European Women’s team and Georgia Hall and Charley Hull will combine for an England Women’s team in the six-hole match-play tournament at Centurion Club, England, on May 5-6.

In another team, Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn will join forces with Solheim Cup captain Catriona Matthew.

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”It is hugely important to try and break down the barriers that have existed in golf between the men’s and women’s games,” Bjorn said.

The female players will play off forward�tees.

It is not the first time women have been included in a European Tour field, however.

American golfer Michelle Wie played in the European Masters in 2006, missing the cut at 15 over. From 1988-91, the Benson and Hedges Trophy was a mixed strokeplay event on the tour.

It was announced last year that L..

The European Tour's two-player team event—complete with shot clock—will expand to include wildcard duo and women's teams

As far as Mondays go, Noah Syndergaard had himself a pretty good one. Returning to ace status for first time since tearing his lat last April, Thor—God of Thunder, Son of Odin—took to the mound in Port St. Lucie on Monday afternoon for two perfect innings of seam-searing insanity, including a first inning that clocked in like this…
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a 100-mph heater that put George Springer on 15-second lip-reader delay…
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and this steeee-rike that sent reigning AL MVP Jose Altuve to the showers pondering the meaning of life.
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For Mets fans, fantasy owners, and self-professed fans of capital-P Pitching (you know who they are, because they never shut the f—k up about it), this is all very good news. For everyone else, Syndergaard saved the best for last, reportedl..

The 2018 Winter Olympics just ended, but while the festivities were wrapping up in PyeongChang, a potential new sport was thrust into the limelight. Introducing skateboarding pole vault. And yes, it's as awesome as it sounds.
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Thanks to Deadspin for unearthing this gem from this weekend's All-Star Perch pole vaulting competition. Admittedly, we were unaware of such a competition. In fact, we were unaware that there were even specialized pole vault competitions. Rock on, pole vaulting. Anyway, enjoy:
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As you can see, French pole vaulter Baptiste Boirie (easily) cleared the bar at 5.9 meters. That's 19.357 feet to us dumb Americans who haven't converted to the Metric System yet. And that's pretty close to the actual pole vault world record of 6.16 meters, which is h..

The latest Golf Digest Podcast discusses the reasons this time is different for Tiger Woods

Icon Sportswire(Photo by Steven King/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)It's been a tough few weeks for our nation. One glance at the news or Twitter will confirm. So here's the rare item that delivers hope.
With his team nursing an eight-point lead against Northwestern this weekend with two minutes remaining, Iowa guard Jordan Bohannon missed a free throw, one that would have given him the school record for most consecutive shots made from the charity stripe. However, after his miss, Bohannon pointed to the sky. For he had missed the foul shot on purpose in order to preserve the mark of Chris Street, who died in a car accident in 1993 while the streak was ongoing.
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“Obviously, that's not my record to have; that record deserves to stay in his name,” Bohannon told the Big Ten Network. “I've heard a lot (about Street); I've been really close with his family these past couple years and gotten to know them a ..

David CannonBy the time Sunday's final pairing of Justin Thomas and Luke List reached the 18th hole at PGA National, a huge crowd had gathered to watch the finish. But thanks to a 14-time major champ playing a few groups ahead, the two leaders hadn't been the main focus of fans attending the Honda Classic. Not that Thomas minded. Or was surprised in the least.
“To be honest, I don't care. I'm sitting with the trophy, so I'm fine with it,” Thomas said. “I did say that to Jimmy, it's so weird, it was a good gallery, good crowd, but it wasn't obviously anything big. It wasn't anything remotely close to Tiger's. But he fully deserves that and he is the needle. He moves the needle. He's the reason probably why the attendance this week was as high as it was, and you know, they weren't coming out here to watch Luke List and Justin Thomas. They were coming out here to watch Tiger, so I don't blame them. I'd go watch him, too, ins..

Three Billboards Outside Cleveland, Ohio. No, that's not the porn parody of this year's Oscar-nominated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, it's what commuters on I-480 just outside Believeland woke up to on Monday morning…
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A mysterious trio of advertisements designed to lure LeBron James to the City of Brotherly Love, the billboards—a back-handed power move by Pennsylvania's Power Home Remodeling—make their case with three simple selling points:
A new (literally) Big Three of Lebron/Simmons/Embiid.
The sultry allure of completing a process started by their fired GM who now teaches classes in Silicon Valley.
A hashtag, because this is 2018 and you have to have a hashtag.
When tracked down by ESPN's Darren Rovell, PHR co-CEO Asher Raphael had only this to say about the experimental use of company marketing funds:
“We're passionate about Philadelphia. We have an amazing city, it's
the b..