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Cyclist Hits Antelope, Antelope Wins
This week sees the Cape Epic, a 433-mile trek through western South Africa. During Monday's stage, Austrian Robert Mennen had a close encounter with a stupid, stupid antelope that darted out from the bush. His GoPro camera captured the carnage....
Soccer Ref Awards A Goal On What's Pretty Freaking Clearly Not A Goal
This botch comes to us from Tercera División, which, confusingly, is the fourth tier of Spanish soccer. Quintanar del Rey was awarded a phantom goal on this shot, which everyone on the pitch besides the ref saw bounce off the crossbar....
Former Titans Cheerleader Charged With Sexually Assaulting 12-Year-Old Boy
Her defense? She got the preteen mixed up with another (full-grown) man....
We're Still Murdering Sled Dogs
Earlier this month, in the middle of the 1000-mile Iditarod sled dog race across Alaska, a five-year-old husky mix named Dorado was left behind at a checkpoint. His musher, rookie Paige Drobny, decided he was suffering from sore muscles, and dropped him at Unalakleet, an Inupiat village on the Beri...
NFL Player Sues Rolando Blackman For Running An Alleged African Gold Scam
Hey, what's four-time all-star and Mavericks legend Rolando Blackman been up to? Well...it's complicated. Just don't send him any money until this thing gets sorted out....
Hanley Ramirez Is The Latest Star To Get Injured In The WBC
The Dominican Republic beat Puerto Rico 3-0 last night, to become the first non-Japanese team to win the World Baseball Classic. That's great for them (these fans sure were pleased), but the regular season is 11 days away, and yet another MLB star could find himself on the shelf come the games that ...
Ronald McDonald Inspires Hockey Team With Herb Brooks's <em>Miracle</em> Speech
Fresh from your condiment-colored nightmares, here's a corporate mascot firing up a minor league hockey team, and also you. Oh, and clown trigger warning....
Why Is This Ump Calling Pitches From Behind The Mound?
Spring training, breezy and noncompetitive, tends to present certain spectacles that would have no business in regular season baseball. Hooters ball girls. Life-sized Al Roker Yankees Weebles. The Royals in first place. But in yesterday's Angels-Brewers game, something happened that we've never eve...
The Leftover Big East Signs A TV Deal For Almost $1 Billion Less Than The One It Turned Down Two Years Ago
Realignment is a massive game of musical chairs, and the tone-deaf Big East didn't hear the music stop. The conference, under John Marinatto, was convinced only a few megapowers would be left standing. They were right. Their mistake was thinking they were one of them. That's why they lost every prog...
Joba Chamberlain's Mustache Is Coming In Nicely
We saw nascent stirrings of this on photo day, but it looks like Joba Chamberlain's mustache is officially going to be a thing....
For Once, Baseball Has The NFL By The Short Hairs
It's the rare occasion that MLB has any leverage over the NFL, the most powerful non-Illuminati organization in America. So with the Ravens and Roger Goodell begging, pleading, and cajoling the Orioles to move a September game so the Ravens can open up at home, it's hard to blame Peter Angelos and B...
ECHL Goalie Arrested After Allegedly Groping Waitress, Screaming Racial Slurs In A Bar
The night after tending goal in a 3-1 loss to Gwinnett (he was pulled after 25 minutes), Orlando Solar Bears netminder Zoltan Hetenyi hit the town to drown his sorrows. Sometime around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, Hetenyi caused a ruckus at the Arena Tavern in Duluth, Ga., leading us to create this totall...
Every Cold-Weather City Should Host The Super Bowl
Despite the objections of Joe Flacco, next year's Super Bowl will be played in lovely northern New Jersey. It might be windy. It might snow. But as long as no great disaster happens, like thousands of trapped fans at Seacaucus Junction going Donner Party on each other, the NFL will make a lot of mon...
Poor Dan Ellis Got Freight-Trained, Then Scored Upon
It's not supposed to work this way. Carolina goalie Dan Ellis was just minding his net and his own business, trying to wrest playing time from young Justin Peters in the wake of Cam Ward's MCL sprain. When—bam!—he gets bowled over by Ryan Callahan. Before he can collect himself, or scramble to his s...
The Bulls Got Screwed By A Correct Call
With 5.7 seconds left, down one in an OT thriller against the Nuggets (that no one was watching because Miami-Boston was mid-climax), the Bulls inbounded to Marco Belinelli. Belinelli drove left and put up a fallaway jumper that looked just short—but in swooped Joakim Noah to tip it in, and seemingl...
The 2013 NFL Head Coaches Posed For A Class Photo
The NFL's annual meeting kicked off in Phoenix yesterday, and to celebrate, 30 out of the 32 head coaches posed for this lovely photo. Can you figure out who's missing?...
Two Wingsuiters Fly Into Rio de Janeiro, Soar Between Skyscrapers
You'll want to put this video on full-screen, at 1080p. Jokke Sommer and Ludovic Woerth drop from gliders ultralights out of a cloudy Brazilian sky, taking the shortest path to the ground—between the 38-story Ventura Corporate Towers, landing in the Praça Tiradentes beyond....
Finally, Someone Has Created Spoiler-Free NHL Highlights
Hockey fans: do you go to sleep before the West Coast games end? Want to relive the action, the back-and-forth scoring, and the game-winner without ruining the drama? Do we have the site for you. ...
Why Does Steubenville's Football Coach Still Have His Job?
The Steubenville rape case is, for all legal purposes, over. The two defendants, both star players on the football team, will likely go to jail until their 21st birthdays for the crime of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl. There will be no repercussions for their teammates, who filmed and share...
Not Every Conference Tournament Had "Excitement" Or "Spectators"
You're looking at shots from the stands during the semifinal of the Great West tournament in Chicago, via Brian Sandalow of ChicagoSide. Usually, small programs can at least count on friends and family to make the hike to conference tourney games, but it seems even mom and dad preferred the Big Ten ...