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This Division III Basketball Team Has The Best Bench Celebrations
The Colby College basketball team is probably not a thing that the residents of Waterville, Maine, need to go out of their way to see in action. It's Division III basketball, after all. The team's bench, on the other hand, is worth the price of admission....

Giancarlo Stanton Crushed A Big-Ass Home Run Today
This happened in the seventh inning of today's spring training game between the Marlins and the Mets. Can anybody mash a tater as hard as Giancarlo Stanton can? No, nobody can mash a tater as hard as Giancarlo Stanton can....

Grappling Match Ends With Vomit-Inducing Fart
I haven't watched enough grappling competitions to know what the worst thing that could possibly happen to a grappler is, but I have to assume that getting blasted in the face with a fart so noxious that it immediately causes one to vomit and stop the match has to be near the top of the list....

Oscar Pistorius Vomits During Graphic Testimony At Murder Trial
Oscar Pistorius's murder trial turned graphic today when the pathologist who performed Reeva Steenkamp's autopsy was called to testify about the nature of Steenkamp's wounds. During the testimony, Pistorius, apparently overcome by the graphic details, began vomiting....

Finnish Women's Basketball Game Features Brutal Sucker Punch
Keep an eye on the woman in the No. 33 white jersey, who gets knocked down by her defender near the free-throw line at the start of the video. After getting up and running down to the other end of the court, she calmly turns toward her opponent and unleashes a vicious sucker punch....

Joakim Noah's Dad Stops An Interview To Cheer For His Son
Joakim Noah did his Joakim Noah thing against the Heat on Sunday, hitting the team he hates the most with 20 points, 12 rebounds, seven assists and an endless stream of shit-talking. But the highlight of the game was when Noah's father, Yannick, blew off an interview with Lisa Salters to cheer on h...

We Can All Relate To This Bear Stuck On A Tightrope
Mondays, am I right?...

Dave McKenna Returns To <em>WaPo</em> Sports After Being Run Out By Kornheiser
This Sunday's Washington Post Magazine cover story was written by Dave McKenna, and it is about sports. The fact that McKenna wrote a story about sports isn't momentous, he does that all the time, but as Poynter's Andrew Beaujon reminds us, this is the first time he's been allowed to write about spo...

Grantland Editor Not Sure If This Pullquote Is Sexy Enough
That's a pretty sexy pullquote, Grantland editor. Nothing gets people going like a well-placed semicolon....

Yasmani Grandal: Top-Notch Video Bomber
Everything about this video bomb is perfect—the framing, Grandal's complete lack of hesitation, the timing, Seth Smith's obliviousness, the interviewer's ability to keep asking questions with a straight face—it's all so good. ...

Soccer Analyst Calls Arsenal Player "The Big Fucking German" On Live TV
Here we have Chris Lymberopoulos talkin' some soccer on Sky Sports News early this morning. At one point, he started talking about Arsenal's 6-foot-6 center back, Per Mertesacker. Turns out, Mertesacker has a pretty great nickname....

Gerald Green Is The Gunner We Need
Suns swingman Gerald Green, who is putting the finishing touches on the best season of his career, blitzed the Oklahoma City Thunder with a career-high 41 points last night, the better part of them coming from eight made three-pointers. This topped a previous career high set just last month, when h...

Want To Watch A Hawk Attack A Water Balloon In Super Slow Motion?
Of course you do!...

Frank Martin To Player: "Answer The Fucking Question, Asshole!"
Frank Martin, the scariest college basketball coach in the world, has been suspended for one game by the University of South Carolina after being caught cursing out one of his own players during Tuesday's game against Florida. ...

Tiny Person Tim Lincecum And Large Person Kameron Loe Traded Uniforms
Here's some fun spring training shenanigans courtesy of the San Francisco Giants, who understand that people wearing comically ill-fitting clothes is always funny. Tim Lincecum, who is just 5-foot-11, traded uniforms with Kameron Loe, who is 6-foot-8. Much fun was had....

Eli Manning Awkwardly Grooves On Stage With Better Than Ezra
Eli Manning hopped on stage at a recent Better Than Ezra show, and he quickly found himself facing the same problem that every person in human history who's ever been on stage with a band has faced: he had no damn idea what to do with his hands....

Bill Simmons's Dad Helped Recruit Nate Silver To ESPN
Time.com's Jack Dickey, writing for Time, has a profile of Nate Silver, the data maven who will be bringing his number-crunching digital publication, FiveThirtyEight, to ESPN later this month. There's plenty of good stuff in there (for subscribers) about ESPN's courtship of Silver. ...

Pittsburgh Defense Attorney Has The Most Honest Ad Ever
Daniel Muessig doesn't have a flaming sledgehammer or a big advertising budget, but he's got something just as important: honesty....

