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Kyle Flanagan Crushed On Open Ice Hit In The Swedish Hockey League
This huge hit comes to us from the Svenska hockeyligan, also known as the Swedish Hockey League. The guy doing the trucking is Jesper Jensen, a Danish forward who plays for Färjestad BK, and the guy getting trucked is Kyle Flanagan, an American and onetime Flyers signee who plays for Modo....
Royals Winning Blueprint Shredded Early By Giants
The Royals have concocted a simple formula for playoff success: solid starting pitching, lockdown relievers, and scratching out juuuust enough runs to win. With three relievers—Wade Davis, Kelvin Herrera, and Greg Holland—who had an ERA below 1.50 during the regular season, and one of the weakest-...
Giants Fan Custom Makes Bawdy T-Shirts
When your favorite team makes the World Series, it can be difficult to tell the true fans from the bandwagon ones. If you were to go, say, to a packed San Francisco bar like The Brick Yard to watch a game, you might be mistaken for a bandwagoner. Solution: screen print up some clever t-shirts for ...
Video Finally Surfaces Of Willis Reed Fighting The Entire Lakers Team
Everybody knows about Knicks center Willis Reed's legendary walk onto the court for warmups before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals, a game he wasn't supposed to play. Reed only made two shots in 27 minutes, but as Bob Ryan said in the linked SportsCentury documentary: "The spiritualism of the mome...
Reports: Aldon Smith's Suspension Could Be Terminated Shortly
Aldon Smith was suspended nine games by the NFL in August, after he was sentenced on weapons and DUI charges. But according to a report from Mike Florio and confirmed by Chris Mortensen, the NFL is considering reducing that suspension by one or two games. Since Smith has already sat out seven game...
Anonymous NBA Agents: Nobody Wants To Play With Kobe Bryant
ESPN has dropped a feature on Kobe Bryant in the latest issue of ESPN: The Magazine, and it's a doozy. The title "Is Kobe Bryant the reason for the Los Angeles Lakers' downfall?" seems misleadingly non-committal, as author Henry Abbott clearly believes that the answer is an unequivocal "yes." The ...
Paul George Recovering Quickly, Already Swishing Jumpers
After Paul George horrifically broke his leg on August 1st, all reports said that he was expected to miss the entirety of the upcoming season. Since that timeframe put George out for at least nine months, it was surprisingly to see him walking at the Pacers media day with only a small limp. Well thi...
MLB.com Now Featuring Weird, Nonsensical Home Videos
I mean, seriously, what the hell is this?...
Former MLS Reporter: Team Pushed To Get Me Fired
The Colorado Rapids are slouching toward the end of a dispiriting season, and because this is how sports work, fans are wondering whom should be blamed. Last week, one of them asked MLSsoccer.com Rapids beat reporter Chris Bianchi for his opinion. Here's how he responded:...
Mike Matheny Manages The Cardinals Straight Out Of The Playoffs
According to possibly apocryphal lore, Tommy Lasorda described baseball thusly:...
This Sure Looks Like Milan Lucic Making The Wanking Motion At Crowd
Is that an abbreviated "raise the roof" at the end, too? What a masterclass in non-verbal communication!...
Report: War Machine Attempted Jail Suicide
Former MMA fighter War Machine attempted to commit suicide in Clark County Detention Center Tuesday night, according to TMZ. A jailor went into War Machine's cell after he noticed him unresponsive, and found "a piece of linen around his neck which was tied to the leg of the bed." The jailor cut ...
Important NBA Voices Begin Agitating For A Shorter Season
The book on NBA Commissioner Adam Silver reads that he is an innovator, more open to radical change than expected from somebody whose most salient job responsibility is protecting a multibillion dollar industry. And now that Silver has kicked Donald Sterling to the curb and signed a new media rights...
Paul Rudd Invites Royals Fans To Kegger At His Mom's House
Paul Rudd is from Kansas City (actually Overland Park) and seems like a pretty fun and chill guy, so you can trust that he knows the sweetest place to celebrate the Royals winning the American League pennant. And that place isn't the Power & Light District, Westport, or some over-priced joint on T...
Adam Jones's Take On The Season: "Fucking Awesome"
The Orioles just lost four straight games to the Royals to get knocked out of the playoffs, but you won't see a morose Adam Jones moping around. His team had the second best record in the American League this season, and reached the ALCS for the first since Mike Mussina was pacing the mound. Jones...
Watch The Final Out As The Royals Advance To The World Series
This Royals team is incredible. Just two weeks ago, they were down a run in the bottom of the 12th inning of the AL Wild Card play-in game against the A's. But a furious rally advanced them to the ALDS, where they swept the Angels 3–0, and tonight they just completed the 4–0 sweep of the Orioles. Th...
Baseball Battle For Lorde's Approval Continues Unabated
Update: Apparently I'm an idiot/pop culture recluse, and the shirt actually references the hook from Chris Brown's song "Loyal" which goes "these hoes ain't loyal." In my defense I rarely listen to that women-beating moron, and I'm really annoyed by all of those Lorde cover songs. Anyways, look at t...
Derek Roy Makes Miraculous Goal Line Clearance
Flames forward Devin Setoguchi had to have thought, if only for a split second, that he scored. Ninety-five percent of the puck crossed the goal line on his shot, but before that final five percent could, Predators center Derek Roy backhanded it away. This is why we have goal line technology....
Rugby League Superstar Quits To Pursue NFL Dream
Jarryd Hayne is one of the very best rugby league players in Australia. He was just awarded the Dally M Medal, given to the "best and fairest" in the Australian National Rugby League, for the second time in his career. The Parramatta Eels fullback is one of the highest paid players in the NRL, makin...
Boxer Emanuel Augustus On Life Support After Being Shot
Journeyman boxer Emanuel Augustus was shot on the street in Baton Rouge Monday night, according to The Advocate, about a mile from a gym where he regularly sparred. The Baton Rouge police released very few details of the shooting—not even confirming that Augustus was the one shot—but did say they ha...