Physics figures large in high jump. Converting horizontal energy into vertical energy, torque, angle, and center of mass. But the most important concept, the one that’s helped Chaunté Lowe make four Olympic teams and set the American record, is balance.

There are a lot of big dumb assholes involved in major league baseball. This guy, for example. For whatever reason, Padres executive chairman Ron Fowler, an old man nobody had ever heard of until a few months ago, has decided that 2016 is the year in which he attempts to become the biggest, dumbest asshole of them all.

Moroccan Olympic boxer Hassan Saada—due to compete in his first light heavyweight fight against Turkey’s Mehmet Nadir Ünal tomorrow—was arrested by police in Rio de Janeiro for allegedly sexually assaulting two women, reports the AP. The two women work as waitresses in the Olympic Village.

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Yoenis Cespedes really loves golf. Loves it. Plays on game days if he can. Has probably played 10 rounds in the last couple of weeks, according to one Mets official.

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I wish someone would prank me like this.

The International Olympic Committee waited until the day before the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics to make their ruling on how many Russian athletes would be allowed to compete in the Games. The protracted and diffuse process made for a logistical nightmare for some competitors, like cyclist Ilnur Zakarin, who…

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Ji-Man Choi has spent this evening’s game hitting the daylights out of the baseball. He dinged a solo dong to right center in the second inning, then followed it up with a three-run shot to the right field corner.

The Olympics are here again, which means it’s time for local NBC stations to come up with clever and unique ways to describe the Olympians NBCUniversal desperately needs you to care very, very deeply about.

Russian diplomat Marcos Cesar Feres Braga disarmed and shot to death a man who attempted to rob him while he waited in traffic after the Olympic torch relay today, according to Globo.

I don’t know how any of your lives are going at the moment, but I’m pretty confident in saying that, whatever’s happening, you’re doing better than this poor pathetic Dutch guy, 41-year-old Alexander Cirk, who almost died while waiting ten days in a Chinese airport to meet a girl he’d been talking to online. Alex,…

The United States has never won an Olympic handball medal, and neither the men’s or women’s team has even qualified since 1996, which means that NBC probably won’t cover the sport much over the next three weeks. This is a shame, because handball is the shit.

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