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Scary As Hell: Soccer Stand Collapses In India
Before the very first match at a new soccer ground in Bekal, India, on Sunday, an entire stand collapsed, injuring more than 100 people, six critically....
Report: The Mariners Are Done Spending
This is it! After years of losing, the Mariners are finally going for it! They signed one of baseball's best players to the third-largest contract in MLB history. And...that's about it, apparently....
LeBron Wanted To Kill Mario Chalmers Again
I get it. Sometimes we all want to yell at Mario Chalmers. He's the annoying little brother who means well, but doesn't think and often makes things worse. He's eminently shoveable. Little kids practice endless jumpers in their driveways, dreaming that someday they'll make the NBA and be able to pus...
Children Are The Stone Cold Cruelest Sports Fans
After printing letters from young Bengals and 49ers fans, we put out a call for your kids' messages to teams or players. (We still want them!) We expected cute. We got psychopathic....
Edgar Martinez Murdered Baseballs Forever
Having purchased a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series ca...
Worst-Case Scenario: Super Bowl Tuesday
Nearly everyone is rooting for snow at the Super Bowl, because snow football is awesome. A little bit of snow, anyway. Today was the "oh god, what if it snows really, really badly and everything is shut down" press conference, and officials revealed their contingency plan: just have the Super Bowl s...
The Problem With Riley Cooper's Redemption
There are two legitimately fascinating stories hiding in ESPN's "Hot Read" on the redemption of Riley Cooper, and neither of them are told. One is buried and glossed over, the other ignored altogether, in favor of a trite and vaguely insulting tale of overcoming self-inflicted adversity....
How Much Will Mike Trout Get Paid?
Any theoretical negotiation starts from this premise: He is 22 years old, and already the best player in baseball. (And if not for Miguel Cabrera's existence, he'd be the best by far.) We have already accepted that the economics of Mike Trout can't rely on past data, because there's nothing comparab...
Elf Gronk Is Playing Hospital Football
Yesterday, we saw the photo. Now there's video:...
NFL Says Hit On Bengals Punter Was Illegal
The NFL's VP of officiating Dean Blandino said last night that the hit by Steelers LB Terence Garvin on Bengals punter Kevin Huber should have been a penalty....
Six-Year-Old 49ers Fan Writes Threatening Letter To The Seahawks
After reading this, and a seven-year-old Bengals fan's letter to the injured Kevin Huber, I'm starting to think nobody appreciates sports quite like a small child....
SIU Coach Blasts "Mama's Boys" Players In Exquisite Rant
After Southern Illinois's 73-65 loss at Murray State last night, Salukis coach Barry Hinson tore into his team with a six-minute rant that's right up there with history's best. Give a listen:...
America's Olympic Delegation Is A Calculated Insult To Russia
For the last five Olympics, the U.S. delegation to the opening ceremonies has included either the President, Vice-President, or First Lady. Not this time, Russia. You get the President's assistant, and a few openly gay former athletes....
The <em>Highly Questionable</em> Crew Breaks Down A Cat Falling Off A Car
The upside of a slow news day is that Bomani Jones, Papi, and Dan Le Batard get to run down the viral videos of the moment. Poor kitty. Poor, stupid kitty....
Hall Of Fame Expert Predicts Only One Player Will Make It This Year
Bill Deane is a former senior research associate at the Baseball Hall of Fame. For more than three decades, he's been predicting who'll make it into the HOF, who won't, and what their vote percentages will be. On borderline cases—those within 10 percent of the 75-percent cutoff—he's batting .806. So...
Here Is A Lie
Raymond James Stadium will host the 2017 college football national championship game. Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan has a highly scientific prediction that it'll be the single greatest thing that's ever happened to Tampa's economy:...
Dan Patrick Soldiers Through A Brutal Interview With Alshon Jeffery
Alshon Jeffery: fantastic football player, horrible interview. But Dan Patrick's a pro, and he powered through four painful minutes with the Bears receiver on his show this morning, despite Jeffery's total lack of interest in answering questions beyond platitudes and one-word responses....