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Tuesday's PM Hot Clicks: Kate Grigorieva; Army's hype video
The Army is Allowed to Have Fun
Midshipmen should handle the 2–9 Cadets, Army definitely has won the pregame hype video contest.
LeBron's on the Cover, Again
LeBron James is on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week, yet again. Check out the rest of his SI covers in the gallery below.
LeBron James’s SI Covers
February 18, 2002
October 27, 2003
February 21, 2005
April 24, 2006
October 23, 2006
June 11, 2007
October 27, 2008
February 2, 2009
May 25, 2009
October 26, 2009
December 28, 2009
July 19, 2010
May 30, 2011
April 30, 2012
June 18, 2012
June 25, 2012
July 2, 2012
December 10, 2012
June 3, 2013
July 1, 2013
July 21, 2014
October 27, 2014
June 1, 2015
June 22, 2015
December 7, 2015
June 27, 2016
August 8, 2016
December 19, 2016
June 5, 2017
October 2, 2017
July 16, 2018
October 22, 2018
December 15, 2020
October 2022
Buy Bug Spray, Joba
Joba Chamberlain, who is bad now, signed a minor-league deal with the Indians Tuesday. Cleveland, you may remember, is where Chamberlain was famously bombarded by tiny bugs during a playoff game.
Now that he’s a member of the team, the franchise made sure to apologize for the infestation.
We apologize sincerely, @Joba_44, about the bugs. They won't be back, we promise.
— Cleveland Guardians (@CleGuardians) December 1, 2015
@Indians @Joba_44 Oh, NOW you take care of the bugs …
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) December 1, 2015
Lovely Lady of the Day
,” Wikipedia says. Sounds nice. (
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This Game is Boring. End it.
The president of Mauritania, a troubled desert nation in Western Africa, is accused of ordering a championship match to end in a penalty shootout almost 30 minutes early because he was upset with the pace of the game. Saturday’s game between FC Tevragh-Zeina and ACS Ksar in Mauritania’s Ligue 1 was tied 1–1 when the ref ordered the players to stop. The country’s football federation denies it was at the president’s request.
What if NFL QBs had bad tattoos?
In honor of Brock Osweiler’s terrible tattoo, we decided to imagine what regrettable marks other pro quarterbacks might be hiding under their sleeves.
Johnny Cueto's Auditory Assault
Here’s a video Johnny Cueto posted on Instagram. Be grateful he doesn’t live in your neighborhood.
Odds & Ends
North Korean fishing boats full of dead bodies keep washing up in Japan. ... This is the 51st anniversary of the Houston Colt .45s changing their name to the Houston Astros. ... Andy McCullough, one of the best baseball beat writers out there, is joining the L.A. Times to cover the Dodgers. ... Barry Bonds could be close to an MLB return (as a coach). ... Former St. Louis and Utah basketball coach Rick Majerus died three years ago today. ... Here’s some rare footage of Siberian tigers in the wild. ... Here’s a short documentary on the disappearance of New York’s payphones. ... Would NFL games be better with guns? A police union thinks so! ... This old Pepperdine media guide is pretty cool.
This is Where the 2022 Olympics Are
Lunchtime view from the Beijing bureau, with sun almost wholly blotted out #airpocalypse pic.twitter.com/9KKikzaspC
— Te-Ping Chen (@tepingchen) December 1, 2015
The Heir to Gangnam Style
This is the newest music video from PSY, the Korean singer behind the Gangnam Style sensation.
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Dan Gartland is the writer and editor of Sports Illustrated’s flagship daily newsletter, SI:AM, covering everything an educated sports fan needs to know. He joined the SI staff in 2014, having previously been published on Deadspin and Slate. Gartland, a graduate of Fordham University, is a former Sports Jeopardy! champion (Season 1, Episode 5).