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Former Tampa Bay Bucs Cheerleader Sues Team For Wage Theft
Former Buccaneers cheerleader Manouchcar Pierre-Val has just made Tampa Bay the fifth NFL team to get served with a lawsuit from its cheerleaders. ...

Wil Myers Hit An Inside-The-Park Home Run
Wil Myers took his time going to first on his assumed homer, but when the ball didn't leave the park, he still reacted quickly enough to earn an inside-the-park home run against the Yankees....

Steven Gerrard Slips, Allows Demba Ba To Score Easy Goal
In stoppage time at the end of the first half of Chelsea-Liverpool, Steven Gerrard slipped on a nothing play and allowed Demba Ba to coast right in on goal, with only the keeper to beat. Ba scored and Chelsea have a 1-0 lead in a game that could decide the Premier League title. Naturally, we added ...

Umpires Use Replay To Check Count, Get It Wrong Anyway
Yunel Escobar struck out on a 4-2 pitch, which is a good sign that something went horribly wrong....

Josh Lueke Is A Rapist, You Say? Keep Saying It.
Late Saturday night, during the Yankees-Rays game, I stumbled onto an online conversation among baseball writers and fans regarding the propriety of tweeting about Rays pitcher Josh Lueke's criminal history every time he's on the mound....

European Golfer Jumps Into Lake To Escape Hornet Attack
Pablo Larrazabal was just minding his own business, playing through his second round at the Malaysian Open on Friday, when all of a sudden—HORNET ATTACK!...

Lightning Fan Takes Selfie With Scrum
Those are damned expensive seats to be turning away from the ice, and the curmudgeon in me wants to yell at the guy to look at the damn scrum that's going on a few feet away with your own eyes. But then I realize that if that photo comes out well, it's going to be fantastic....

Canadiens Take First Game In OT, Spoil Steven Stamkos's Stellar Night
On the first night of playoff hockey, we had free playoff hockey, and it was good....

Tampa Bay Lightning's Ryan Malone Charged With DUI, Cocaine Possession
Tampa Bay Lightning winger Ryan Malone was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and cocaine possession early Saturday morning....

<em>The Daily Show</em> Takes Down The NCAA
With the NCAA tournament at a close, and the recent decision allowing Northwestern football players to vote on forming a union, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show decided to tackle an issue near and dear to our hearts. Never has the exploitation of teenagers been funnier. ...

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...

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 ...

Rays Groundskeeper Fond Of His Huge, Spurting Hose
Sun Sports had some fancy high-speed cameras on hand for their broadcasts from the Rangers-Rays series in St. Petersburg this weekend, and took every opportunity to use them—including during yesterday's pregame. We took their slow-mo coverage of this Tropicana Field groundskeeper and made it extra s...

Brendon Ayanbadejo Implies Miami Traded Him For Taking Paternity Leave
The fuss about Daniel Murphy missing two games to be there for the birth of his son seemed like a total nontroversy—the Mets were OK with it, and their fans were OK with it. (Seriously. It's two games. And Daniel Murphy. And the 2014 Mets.) The only people upset were New York radio hosts. But the de...

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Fast-Acting Soccer Player Saves Opponent's Life During Match
A player's injury in a Ukrainian Premier League match today could have ended in a much worse way if his opponent didn't act as quickly as he did....

Steven Stamkos Scores On His Own Empty Net During Delayed Penalty
Though the Tampa Bay Lightning were on a delayed penalty, they still somehow surrendered a goal last night. Steven Stamkos is a scoring machine that doesn't have time to distinguish nets, dammit....

His Own Path
Pat Jordan's latest for Sports on Earth is a profile of Rays' pitcher, Chris Archer:...