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Chorizo Sausage Eats It During Sausage Race
A reader sends in this front-row view of the Chorizo Sausage eating it during tonight's Sausage Race at Miller Park. ...
This Oilers Fan Is Fed Up With Everything
The Oilers missed the playoffs for the eighth consecutive year. They finished dead last in the Pacific and only the Panthers and Sabres had fewer points in the entire league. This is what being a sports fan can do to a person. It can make you throw a personal item at a building. ...
Braves-Phillies Turned Into A Home Run Party
The Braves outlasted the Phillies 9-6 in what turned out to be a surprise slugfest. The game was a 2-1 snoozer until the eighth inning, when Evan Gattis, Dan Uggla, and Andrelton Simmons went back-to-back-to-back for the Braves. Between the two teams, there were five home runs in the final two innin...
Andrew Bogut Has A Fractured Rib Dangerously Close To His Lungs
Andrew Bogut is out indefinitely following this injury from the closing minutes of regulation of Sunday's wild Golden State-Portland game. With around 24 seconds left in the fourth, LaMarcus Aldridge and Bogut collided and Bogut went sprawling to the court. He immediately clutched his pectoral area...
This Is The Worst Baseball Column
This has to be a joke, it just has to be. Either it's a joke, or the The Batavia Daily News mistakenly published a Scott DeSmit article on sabermetrics from 2003. There can be no other explanation for this lede: "[c]omputers have ruined baseball and 'Sports Illustrated.'" ...
Storrs Is Rioting After UConn Win
Well, here we are again. Another victorious college, another burning college. The kids in Storrs have gone crazy after UConn beat Kentucky Monday night and they've ripped down a lamp post and thrown it through a school building's window. There are fires, flipped cars, and people climbing things they...
Kemba Walker Made Michael Kidd-Gilchrist Wear A UConn Shirt
Walker and Kidd-Gilchrist are Bobcats teammates, but tonight they were adversaries. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was one of Coach Cal's one-and-doners and Kemba Walker is a UConn guy. So they got together to watch the game and apparently made a friendly wager that Kidd-Gilchrist clearly lost. That's Walke...
Shabazz Napier On Winning: "This Is What Happens When You Ban Us"
Shabazz Napier had some parting shots for the NCAA following his MVP-esque performance in defeat of the Kentucky Wildcats for the NCAA Championship. Before his interview with Jim Nantz even began, Napier asked for everyone's attention and introduced the "Hungry Huskies" and told the world how pisse...
UConn Wins NCAA Championship
Shabazz Napier had 22 points on 8-16 shooting and was named the most outstanding player of the Final Four after UConn's 60-54 win over Kentucky in the NCAA title game. The Huskies became the first No. 7 seed to win the NCAA Tournament. ...
James Young Dunks Over Everything
Kentucky's James Young powered over most of the UConn Huskies for this dunk, but that's only a moral victory. UConn beat Kentucky 60-54 in the NCAA Championship....
A Rogues Gallery At The NCAA Championship Game
[Bill Clinton, George Bush, Tony Romo, Jason Garrett, and (we're almost positive) Papa John himself take in the NCAA title game between Kentucky and UConn in the Jerrydome. Tom Pennington/Getty Images] ...
SuperCALifragilisticexpialidocious
That's a Mary Poppins reference during your NCAA Championship coverage. You're welcome....
Alex Poythress Shows No Ill Effects From Leg Injured In Celebration
Following Kentucky's win over Wisconsin Saturday night, Alex Poythress looked to suffer a pretty painful leg injury. He got himself stuck at the bottom of a celebratory pile-up on the court, and twisted his leg and was in obvious pain. By the look of things tonight, all seems to be OK. ...
Alabama Athletics Earn More Than All 30 NHL Teams
The Alabama Crimson Tide athletics department earns revenues of $143 million dollars. According to Marc Edelman, a professor of sports and antitrust law at CUNY, that is more than all 30 NHL teams and 25 NBA teams. While not the craziest thing you've ever heard, it does crystallize something you've ...
Brazilian Soccer Match Devolves Into Flying-Kickpalooza
This is just a brief clip of a game played in Brazil on Sunday. There are approximately 157 attempted flying kicks....
Alex Poythress Gets Leg Tangled Up In Post-Game Celebration
Alex Poythress got his leg caught at the bottom of the post-game celebration on the court following Kentucky's win over Wisconsin. It looked kind of scary, what with him being stuck under his entire team, but hopefully it's a case of things looking worse than they actually are. ...
Drake Celebrates In Kentucky Locker Room, Says He's "Always" Been A Fan
For whatever reason, Drake was in the Kentucky locker room after the Aaron Harrison show kept rolling tonight over Wisconsin. After his appearance in the locker room, Matt Porter of the Palm Beach Post asked him how long he had been a Kentucky fan. His answer? "Always."...
Aaron Harrison Strikes Again; Kentucky Goes To Final
Holy shit, Aaron Harrison. With about five seconds left, Harrison buried another huge three-pointer to give Kentucky a 74-73 lead and a spot in the NCAA title game. ...
Here Is A Cubs Mascot Punching A Dude For Taking His Head Off
This is not the degenerate Cubs mascot whose pantsless existence we've all come to know and struggle to comprehend. This is just some bootleg, pantsless, degenerate Cubs mascot who does not enjoy it at all when people remove his head. ...
Killers Lead Singer Wears Sweet UNLV-Themed Jacket
The Killers, who are from Las Vegas, played whatever the concert at the Final Four is called and, at some point, lead Singer Brandon Flowers turned around and showed this pretty awesome tribute to UNLV on the back of his jacket. ...