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Awkward Local Commercials With Athletes, Ranked
After sharing this Thursday night, many of you shared your favorite weird local commercials with athletes. We've ranked some of them....
Chris Kaman Injured His Finger While Tobogganing In China
Chris Kaman hurt his finger while tobogganing at the Great Wall of China with Lakers teammates. Shawne Williams is technically responsible....
Report: Patriots Think Gronk Should Rub Some Dirt On It
The backlash of Rob Gronkowski's absence due to injury has begun. And it involves "multiple sources."...
Canucks Score Shorthanded Goal On Themselves
The Vancouver Canucks accomplished quite a feat Saturday night, not only scoring an own goal, but scoring a shorthanded own goal. It was so stupid....
Top-Ranked College Hockey Team Loses First Game To Scrubs
It only took one game for the UMass Lowell River Hawks to screw up their No. 1 ranking, and boy, did they screw it up in a stupid way....
Report: Gronk's Return Could Have Come Sooner Without Arm Surgery
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski has had four surgeries on the arm that he broke last November and hasn't played yet this season. According to one report, though, he could have returned earlier if the Patriots had allowed the break to heal on its own....
So Many Manningfaces: Your Giants-Bears Roundup
Bears 27, Giants 21: A game on short rest was the least helpful thing to the Giants' 0-5 woes. New York actually held it together for the most part, though, and their defense gave the team a chance. Unfortunately, Eli Manning's turnovers severely hindered the offense. Matt Schaub knows how you're ...
This TBS Graphic Typo Isn't Even Close
The bottom line should say "If Necessary," but someone apparently typed this with their butt, because that is so far from "If Necessary."...
Rodney Stuckey Out Indefinitely After Breaking Thumb In Car Door
Rodney Stuckey is out for an undetermined amount of time after breaking his right thumb in a car door....
Rick Reilly Feels That He Quoted His Father-In-Law Correctly
Bob Burns, Rick Reilly's American Indian father-in-law, wrote an essay saying that Reilly had inaccurately represented Burns's stance on the Washington Redskins' name in his ESPN column. Reilly has now released a statement, feeling he "accurately quoted" Burns and his thoughts on the Redskins' moni...
How Those Painfully Awkward Local Commercials With Athletes Are Made
You've probably seen a local commercial with one of your area's athletes, and it was most likely awful and unnatural. For me, nothing will beat Dustin Pedroia's cringe-worthy Sullivan Tire ad. ("I don't believe it. It's Jim Rice.") This funny video featuring Scott Hartnell proves that there's a scie...
Koji Uehara And David Ortiz Dry Hump After Beating The Rays
Does this count as dry humping or wet humping, factoring in the champagne? Either way, David Ortiz was clearly elated after the Red Sox beat the Rays in four games in the ALDS, and Koji Uehara looks happy too. Everybody's having a good time! [@CJZero]...
Hockey Player Banned 47 Games, Then Cut, For Fighting, Eye-Gouging
Derek Campbell of the Hull Stingrays was nailed with a 47-game ban and subsequently released from his team for reacting violently after being hit against the boards by a Dundee Stars player....
The NFL Has A New Shutdown Corner
Cool name? Check. Surprisingly competitive team? Check. The league's top cornerback this year? Might be. So why isn't Alterraun Verner a household name yet?...
Look At These Bleak Photos Of North Korea's First Ski Resort
The Masik Pass ski resort is North Korea's latest white elephant. The project took 10 months of labor and will officially open this Thursday for the public, even though most of the citizens can't afford to visit it....
D.J. Fluker Picked Up A Linebacker And Body-Slammed Him
This happened somewhere around 2 a.m. EDT this morning, so maybe you missed it. This is rookie lineman D.J. Fluker doing all he could—and then some—to make sure Raiders linebacker Sio Moore doesn't get to Philip Rivers on this play. Unsurprisingly, Fluker was flagged for a personal foul, but holy s...