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The 200-Meter Butterfly Was Decided By An Incredibly Close Finish

That photo up there comes from the very end of the women’s 200-meter butterfly final. Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia, the swimmer on the right, took the gold medal from Australia’s Madeline Groves, on the left, by just 0.03 seconds, coming from behind in the final lap and out-touching her on the wal...

Armenian Weightlifter Suffers Horrifying Elbow Injury [Graphic]

Andranik Karapetyan is the reigning European champion in 77 kilogram weightlifting, but his hopes for an Olympic medal ended when he suffered a disgusting elbow dislocation while trying to lift 195 kilograms (430 pounds)....

Pirates Fan Leaps For Foul Ball, Comes Up With A Face Full Of Nacho Cheese

I understand that when you see a foul ball coming towards you, you can get a rush of blood to the head. Everyone wants to make a dope catch on a foul ball. “You did it!” they’ll say, “You made the big catch!” The Pirates will call you up and offer you a tryout because you made a sweet frickin’ baseb...

Team USA Had Some Trouble With Australia, But They'll Be Fine

Heading into the Olympics, the United States men’s basketball team was the overwhelming favorite to win the gold medal. After all, they’d won 68 straight games, and even with stars like Steph Curry skipping out on Rio, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, and most other players on the roster were still be...

Police Investigate Possible Rat Urine Poisoning By Crime Syndicate At Wimbledon

In a story I can’t believe is playing out somewhere besides the Olympics, Scotland Yard is investigating whether or not British tennis player Gabriella Taylor was poisoned with bacteria from rat urine by an organized crime syndicate at Wimbledon, per The Daily Telegraph. Taylor was the furthest-adva...

Olympic Athlete Out Of Dressage Competition After Insect Bite Leaves His Body<em></em> "Full Of Toxic Fever"

This is Parzival. He’s a very nice horse. I would give him a carrot. However, if you went to the dressage area at the Rio Olympics this afternoon to give him a carrot, you might not find him there, since he had to leave the dressage competition after a suspected bug bite left him with a “toxic fever...

Check Out This Italian Volleyball Guy's Insane Serve

Italy’s beach volleyball team has a secret weapon: Adrian Carambula can serve the volleyball so dang high in the air. Check out this spicy meatball....

What's Going On With Ryan Lochte's Hair?

Ryan Lochte is a very fast and skilled swimmer who just helped the United States win a gold medal tonight. He’s also kind of a dumbass who’s sporting some truly, uh, unique hair at these Rio Olympics....

Good Luck Trying To Tag Josh Harrison

Derek Norris had Josh Harrison more or less nailed down with this throw, but Harrison got creative and made a nifty-as-hell dodge to escape the tag. He was called out, but after a review, Harrison got the base he deserved. ...

Katie Ledecky Can Do It All

Katie Ledecky won the 200 meter freestyle final tonight to collect her third medal of the Rio Olympics. Ledecky won the 400 meter freestyle on Sunday, but her win tonight was much more impressive. The 19-year-old swimmer owns the world records in the 400, 800, and 1500 meter races, so she’s not nece...

Report: Grizzlies Fired PA Announcer After Accusations He Made Upskirt Videos In Church

Rick Trotter has been calling Memphis Grizzlies games since 2006, but the team announced they’d fired him this afternoon after the Shelby County Sheriff’s office put out a warrant for his arrest. The warrant lists three charges for photographing persons without consent, issued today....

Remember When Prince Fielder Slapped An Inside-The-Park Home Run?

According to Ken Rosenthal, the Rangers will announce tomorrow that Prince Fielder is going to retire. Fielder had neck surgery a few weeks ago, and it’s apparently going to keep him from playing again. He will retire with 319 dingers, exactly the same amount as his father Cecil had in his career....

Lilly King Says All Former Dopers, Including Justin Gatlin, Should Be Banned From The Olympics

American swimmer Lilly King won the gold medal in the 100 meter breaststroke this evening with an Olympic record-time of 1:04:93, beating Russian Yulia Efimova and putting a cap on the most entertaining rivalry of the Rio Olympics. Efimova was implicated in the massive Russian doping scandal that sa...

Buster Posey Invents Cool New Way To Slide Into Base

With the game tied 7-7 in the 11th inning, Buster Posey made it from first to third on a Brandon Crawford single. He also tried to eat third base in the process....

Olympic Officials Apologize For Using Knock-Off Chinese Flags In Medal Ceremony

After Ginny Thrasher won the first gold medal of the Rio Olympics over Du Li and Yi Siling of China, Olympic officials raised incorrect Chinese flags to the rafter during the medal ceremony. See those flags up there? Notice any differences between them and the real Chinese flag below? ...

French Fencer's Phone Pops Out Of His Uniform During Bout

French fencer Enzo Lefort crashed out in the round of 32 yesterday to Germany’s Peter Joppich. Also his phone crashed out of his uniform in the process. There is a lot of in-uniform technical equipment involved in fencing, but I’m pretty sure a loose smartphone isn’t part of it....

High-Speed Training Crash Sends Australian Track Cyclist To The Hospital

The Olympic road races were full of nasty crashes, including Samad Pourseyedi’s header into a concrete wall and Annemiek Van Vleuten’s head-over-heels tumble at speed. Thankfully, the Olympics are done with the treacherous descent of the Vista Chinesa. However, that doesn’t mean that there won’t be ...

This Isn't The NBA, Paul George

Hydration is important, but I’m not sure you want to drink the water in Rio anyway, my dude....

Diamondbacks Try To Squeeze More Money From Taxpayers; County Supervisor Tells Team To Screw Themselves<em></em>

The Diamondbacks have been playing in their current ballpark since 1998. Their stadium cost $364 million to build, and Maricopa County picked up $238 million of the tab. Eighteen years later, it is need of some repairs, and the fight over who is going to pay for them has gotten ugly....