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It's Time To Simulate The Super Bowl In <i>Tecmo Super Bowl</i>
You know the rules: Tecmo Super Bowl, updated rosters, NES version, CPU vs CPU. Let’s do this, LIVE: ...
28 Russian Athletes Get Their Olympic Doping Bans Overturned
With the Olympics a week away from kicking off in South Korea, a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport has thrown the entire matter of retribution against Russian doping into further disarray. Last year, the IOC issued lifetime bans to 43 Russian athletes from the Sochi Olympics for partici...
There Seems To Be A Problem With Those "Unopenable" Olympic Piss Test Bottles
When you pee into a drug tester’s cup at the Olympics, you don’t just pee into a plastic cup labeled “ATHLETE PISS,” you pee into state-of-the-art BEREG-KIT Geneva bottles made by Swiss manufacturer Berlinger. They have a locking top that can only be opened by a machine that destroys them, which wou...
The Very Real Daniel Cormier-Stipe Miocic Heavyweight Superfight Is Going To Rule So Hard
Daniel Cormier and Stipe Miocic both enjoy such dominance over their divisions (light heavyweight and heavyweight, respectively) that there aren’t really that many interesting opponents for either man to fight. Both won their UFC 220 title fights against overhyped power punchers with comical ease, a...
Raw 25 Proved That No, WWE Doesn't Care About Its Biggest Fans
On Monday night, WWE celebrated the 25th anniversary of its Monday Night Raw flagship television show by splitting the telecast between Barclays Center in Brooklyn and the Manhattan Center’s Grand Ballroom, which was Raw’s original home. Based on the limited history of pro wrestling cards from multi...
Bob Costas: Actually, I Didn’t Want To Host The Super Bowl Broadcast
Bob Costas won’t be at the Super Bowl this year....
Team USA's Gloves For The Olympic Opening Ceremony Look Like Lumberjack-Themed Oven Mitts
It’s currently -5 degrees Fahrenheit in Pyeongchang, where the Winter Olympics will kick off in just over two weeks. Even if it’s not quite that cold at the Opening Ceremony (although it probably will be) I wouldn’t begrudge the American athletes any sartorial compromises made to stay as warm as pos...
Aaron Pico's Body Punch KO Was Audible And Absolutely Brutal
Aaron Pico is immune to boring fights. He’s fought three times, and each time, someone was getting peeled off the mat to the collective horror of the audience. (The first time, it was him.) Pico is one of the biggest prospects in the sport, owing largely to his impressive showing at the 2016 Olympic...
Philadelphia Eagles Earn Super Bowl Trip On Back Of Superstar Nick Foles
One week after Doug Pederson game-planned his way to a defensive struggle win over the Atlanta Falcons, his Eagles routed the favored Minnesota Vikings 38-7 and earned Philadelphia its first NFC championship since 2004. ...
Shirtless Tongan, Now A Skier, Qualifies For Winter Olympics
Pita Taufatofua stole the heart of the world back in 2016 went he spent the Rio Olympic Opening Ceremonies oiled up and shirtless while repping Tonga. He competed in taekwondo at those games, but this year, he’ll be back in a much different capacity—a cross-country skier....
25 Years Ago, Monday Night Raw Made A Splash As A New Type Of Wrestling Show
This Monday night, about two weeks after the actual anniversary, WWE will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its flagship Monday Night Raw TV show with a live show from two different locations in New York City. While the show will be based out of Barclays Center in Brooklyn, additional action will be...
Adam Rippon Shreds Lead Olympic Delegate Mike Pence Over Homophobic Policies
Vice President Mike Pence, an anti-gay zealot and restaurant freak, will lead the United States’ Olympic delegation in Pyeongchang next month, which has irked figure skating star Adam Rippon. After winning the 2016 figure skating national championships and finishing fourth at last month’s nationals,...
North Korea And South Korea Agree To Form Joint Olympic Hockey Team
North Korea and South Korea have agreed to form a joint Olympic women’s hockey team and march together during the opening ceremonies next month in Pyeongchang, according to the Associated Press. ...
Thirty Years After <i>Cool Runnings</i>, Jamaican Women Qualify For Olympic Bobsled
Thirty years after a team of Jamaican bobsledders inspired a Disney movie with their unlikely appearance at the Calgary Winter Olympics, the country will send its first female bobsled team to compete in Pyeongchang....
Mikaela Shiffrin Has Never Been Better, And Neither Has Anyone Else
Writing about Mikaela Shiffrin’s success would be getting boring—if her narrative arc weren’t continually getting more dramatic. Back at the Sochi Olympics, the story was how the then-18-year-old kept her nerve after flubbing a turn and won slalom gold. Later that year, it was how she’d mastered sla...
What The World's Most Famous Amateur Can Teach Pro Runners
At just 30 years old, Yuki Kawauchi is in a distance running category of his own. As of January 1, he has run the most sub-2:20 marathons of anyone, ever—76. He’s also run the most sub-2:12 marathons of anyone, ever—25. Kawauchi—one guy—has run more sub-2:10 marathons since 2011 than the whole Unite...
North Korea Strikes Deal To Send Athletes To Pyeongchang Olympics
North Korea and South Korea just wrapped up their first official diplomatic talks in two years, and the two sides agreed to provisions that will see the DPRK participate in their first Winter Olympics since 2010. After negotiating in the Demilitarized Zone, the countries decided to reopen a military...
Nathan Chen, Adam Rippon, And Vincent Zhou Selected To Represent U.S. Figure Skating At The 2018 Olympics
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Less than twelve hours after the men’s competition at the 2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships was over, the president of U.S. Figure Skating, Sam Auxier announced the three members of the 2018 Olympic team at a press conference at the SAP Center. The three man team is Nathan Chen...
Is Adam Rippon’s Track Record Enough To Earn Him A Trip To The Olympics?
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Ross Miner had the crowd at the SAP Center on their feet at the end of his long program at the 2018 National Figure Skating Championships. The 26-year-old Boston native had performed to a medley of Queen songs and landed a clean quadruple salchow jump (and several other jumps, too)....