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Purdue redesigned its mascot—the last one made babies cry—and the new version was booed wildly at its unveiling.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame will be preserved at the Library of Congress. (But then, so will Steely Dan's Aja, so take that for what it's worth.)

Probably not what suffragettes had in mind: The Nathan's hot-dog-eating contest is adding a ladies' division in July.

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Theawl.com's exhaustive ranking (with audio files) of every NHL goal horn. BWAAAAAH!

David Beckham's wacko insistence that the viral video of him kicking soccer balls into garbage cans at least 50 yards away is real. It's not. End of discussion.

Pretty much everything about Khloe and Lamar, but particularly the scene where Odom calls his agent to, you know, see if there's any chance he made the All-Star team.

Fox's T-Painification of Tim McCarver in an auto-tuned Saturday Baseball commercial.

Clay Bennett—the guy who bought the Sonics, promised not to move them to Oklahoma City and then moved them—was named head of the NBA Relocation Committee.