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Yasiel Puig Made Quite An Impression In His MLB Debut
22-year-old Cuban defector Yasiel Puig made his debut for the Dodgers last night, and what a debut it was. His entry in the box score—two singles in four at-bats—may not look very impressive, but the rocket he threw from the right-field warning track to first base for a game-ending double play certa...
Top Recruit Says Coach Promised Him A Meeting With Michael Jackson
Da'Shawn Hand is the No. 1 ranked high school football player in the country, and he recently sat down with CBS Sports' Bruce Feldman to talk about what life as the prize of the Division I recruiting circuit has been like. It sounds like he's been meeting some pretty dumb people....
Dwight Howard Loses Free-Throw Contest To Troll Columnist's Daughter
OK, Howard was shooting with his left hand, so this doesn't really count. In fact, the biggest takeaway from this contest isn't that Dwight Howard is a bad free-throw shooter, but that T.J. Simers is and will always be the worst....
Miracle Of Coogan's Bluff: Red Smith On The Shot Heard ‘Round The World
Red Smith is the most respected sports columnist we've ever had. In his prime, Jimmy Cannon, Smith's friendly rival, was certainly as well-known. Cannon, the Voice of New York, was an emotional, colloquial writer whose reputation, unfortunately, has faded. But Smith endures. What is it about his wri...
College Baseball Player Takes A Slider Right To The Dick
Cal State Fullerton's Austin Kingsolver only got two plate appearances in yesterday's game against Arizona State, and he probably wishes that he could have skipped the first one. In the top of the seventh inning, Arizona State pitcher Josh McAlister let a 3-2 slider get away from him and sent the p...
Domonic Brown Is Your New Favorite Slugger
If you haven't been paying attention to what Phillies left fielder Domonic Brown has been doing this season, now is the time to start. In the first inning of yesterday's game against the Brewers, Brown hit the absolute bejesus out of a Mike Fiers pitch, depositing the ball into the second deck in ri...
Reporter Gets In A "Tongue Twat" Trying To Congratulate Cliff Lee
Cliff Lee recorded career strikeout number 1600 yesterday, and Philadelphia reporter Sigourney McCreaf wanted to relay some fans' congratulations to Lee on the Phillies postgame show. Unfortunately, she got her tongue all twatted up. ...
Roundup: What You Missed The Weekend Roy Hibbert Said Something Dumb
Roy Hibbert Had A Bizarre Post-Game Press Conference...
Watch This Russian Bear Do Tricks, Because Russian Bears Are The Best
This video has been popping up all over the internet the last few days, so if you haven't seen it yet consider this your chance to amend that mistake. Nobody should go through life without having seen a Russian bear play the trumpet, use a hula hoop, and sit in a chair like a human being. There are...
The Marlins Are Responsible For 40 Percent Of MLB's Attendance Drop
Today's Tom Verducci column in Sports Illustrated contains a very sad bit of information about everyone's favorite laughingstock of a franchise: the Miami Marlins....
Donald Sterling May Yet Fuck Up This Clippers Team
These should be happy times for the Los Angeles Clippers. After making two straight playoff appearances and supplanting the Lakers as L.A.'s best team, the Clips are poised to find continued success in the coming years. Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan, and Eric Bledsoe make up a promising young core, ...
Mario Balotelli Denies Thing
According to an Italian mob informant, AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli once sold drugs to an addict "as a joke." Because that's a totally normal thing that happens all the time....
Minnesota Baseball Players Videobomb Coach During In-Game Interview
College baseball is quickly becoming a hotbed of goofy videobombs. Taking a page out of Cincinnati's book, two University of Minneosta players decided to treat one of their teammates to a nice shave while their coach tried to give an in-game interview just a few feet away. ...
The SEC Might Get A Uniform Drug-Testing Policy, Which Is Dumb
Some SEC school officials have been pushing for the implementation of a conference-wide substance-abuse policy, a move that would regulate the testing and punishment policies for every school in the conference. Why are they doing this? Because they are sore losers....
Want To Buy Doug Flutie's House? It Has A White Piano And Pink Carpet
Former Boston College and NFL quarterback/folk hero Doug Flutie and his wife just put their Natick, Mass., estate on the market for $1.7 million. The house was built in 1995, and hoo boy does its age show....
This Gallery Of Adrian Beltre GIFs Will Make Your Day
GIF maestro Drew Sheppard went and did us all a huge favor by creating a gallery of Texas Rangers-era Adrian Beltre GIFs. The gallery is full of all the things that make Beltre so damn GIFable: From-the-knees homers, slick defensive plays, and plenty of Beltre's patented don't-touch-my-head freakou...
Bear Gets Hit By Moving Car, Gets Up Like It's No Big Deal
Here's a little something to help you get your morning started right, courtesy of yet another Russian with a dashboard camera and an indestructible bear....