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Turkish League Goalkeeper Collapses After Rough Collision With Beşiktaş' Tyler BoydThere were scary scenes in Sivas, Turkey on Saturday when Demir Grup Sivasspor’s goalkeeper Mamadou Samassa was taken to the hospital after he fainted while he was being helped off of the pitch to deal with an injury he suffered just moments earlier. The injury in question came as a result of collid...

Fair And Balanced Referee Knocks Over Defender, Then Goes And Trips AttackerApparently they don’t teach referees in Turkey how to avoid standing right in the middle of the action so as not to bowl over a guy with the ball, though it looks like they do teach them how to remedy a situation like that by sneakily taking the legs out from under a player on the other team, so it ...

UEFA Rudely Fines Besiktas For Delightful Cat On PitchYesterday’s Champions League match between Bayern Munich and Besiktas experienced a brief interruption in the second half, courtesy of a friendly little kitty-cat scampering onto the pitch:...

Cyle Larin's Transfer Debacle Demonstrates Once Again How Absurd MLS Rules Are

The raw facts of the transfer of Orlando City’s Cyle Larin to Beşiktaş in Turkey were bizarre enough in their own right that you’d have to go to some lengths to avoid noticing that they pointed up one of the most obvious aspects of American soccer, which is somehow puzzlingly controversial when stat...

Europa League Match Delayed After Lyon Fans Run Onto Pitch To Escape Fireworks

Lyon beat Besiktas by a goal tonight in the home leg of their Europa League series, but the game was delayed about 45 minutes after Lyon fans ran onto the pitch just before the scheduled kickoff time. According to the club, Besiktas fans tossed “projectiles and fireworks” into the bleachers from up ...

Explosions Outside Turkish Soccer Stadium Kill 29 [Updated]

A pair of explosions outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul has killed 29 people and injured more than 150 others. Thought to be car bombs, the blast occurred two hours after a match between Besiktas and Bursaspor, two of Turkey’s top teams....

Keeper Gives Up Four Goals In The First Half, Starts Openly Crying

Sometimes soccer can be such a mean game that you can’t help but just sit there and cry. After seeing his team’s chances of making out of the Champions League group stage die in the form of one red card and four shots hitting the back of his net in the first half, Beşiktaş keeper Fabricio couldn’t h...

Wheelchair Basketball Game Abandoned After Fans Attack Each Other With Knives & Baseball Bats

Europe’s top wheelchair basketball tournament came to a violent halt in Zwickau, Germany Saturday as 60 fans attacked each other with knives and baseball bats during a game between Turkish rivals Galatasaray and Beşiktaş, according to Die Welt....