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AHL Mascot's Backstory Totally Includes A Dead Firefighter [Update]
Via Puck Daddy, this is Scorch. He's the newly revealed mascot of the AHL's Adirondack Flames. He was probably purchased a local Halloween superstore. But his shoddy construction and uninspiring photoshoot locations are probably the least problematic thing about him....
Sweet ESPN Martial Arts Broadcast A Throwback To Network's Early Days
If you're old enough to remember any of the 80's, you know that ESPN wasn't always the home to 24-hour jabbering analysts and NFL talk shows. In its more fledgling days, the WWL aired whatever content to which it could obtain rights; thus, Americans were introduced to wacky hat-wearing and fingerg...
High School Play Features Some Of The Worst Tackling You'll Ever See
This brief highlight is ostensibly supposed to show us what a talented high school wide receiver Angelo Wiggins is, and I suppose it does that, but what it really teaches us is that high school football players can't tackle for shit....
Pac-12 Officiating Coordinator Tony Corrente Resigns
The Pac-12 announced Wednesday night that Coordinator of Football Officiating Tony Corrente resigned. The official explanation is "personal and professional reasons," and San Jose Mercury News reporter Jon Wilner's source told him that Corrente was not forced out, and that the resignation caught...
Nancy Grace Is Still The Best At Twitter
Our pals over at automated-subdomain-generator-bot Gawker celebrated the incomparable Twitter brilliance of CNN's Nancy Grace awhile back, but last night's amazing #PervHouse tweet is as good a time as any to remind you: Nancy Grace is still out here in these streets (like #PervHouse guy!), twee...
Good Horse Dead
Cigar, who won Horse of the Year in 1995 and 1996, and at one point won 16 consecutive races, died last night due to complications from neck surgery. He was 24. Here he is setting a then-record at the '95 Breeders' Cup Classic. ...
Trinidad And Tobago Women's Soccer Team Could Use Help With Meal Money
Trinidad and Tobago just made it to the United States for the final round of qualifying for the 2015 Women's World Cup, a goal the island nation has never achieved in its 23 years of fielding a women's soccer team. It's not going to be easy: the "Soca Princesses" have arrived with, quite literally, ...
The Coyotes Were Damned Close To Moving To Seattle
In July 2013, the Glendale City Council voted—barely, by a 4-3 margin—to approve a complicated lease deal that was the last possible hope of keeping the Coyotes in Arizona. A new report from the Seattle Times reveals that the NHL had a contingency plan in place if the vote went the other way: moving...
Police Officer Levels Kid Running At Nick Saban After Ole Miss Win
Immediately after Ole Miss upset Alabama, officers escorted loser Nick Saban off the field to get him back to his lair. One jubilant Rebels fan ran too close to Saban. He was dealt with....
Angry Alabama Fan Is Back With More Burns For Colin Cowherd
The last time we heard from Phyllis, she was smarting from Alabama's Iron Bowl loss to Auburn, and called into Paul Finebaum's radio show to let off some steam by calling Colin Cowherd mean names, like "Cow-Turd." Alabama lost last weekend, and Cowherd once again drew Phyllis's ire with his comments...
Cardinals Fans Get Ugly In Clash With Ferguson Protesters
This guy right here, the one with "I am Darren Wilson" taped onto the back of his Cardinals jersey—an homage to the Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot an unarmed teenager named Mike Brown to death in August—was at the Cardinals game last night. He, along with many other Cardinals fans, clashed...
You Like Bacon Because <em>They</em> Told You To
You are a North American, and probably a male, and so you like bacon. Bacon good, you say, making that Tim Allen caveman face: Me like bacon. Me not want to eat unbacon food. Bacon make food better. Me put bacon on burger, in chocolate, around scallop. Me brush teeth with bacon toothpaste. Me make l...
It Took 36 Browns QBs 28 Seasons To Match Peyton Manning's 500 TDs
Peyton Manning reached 500 touchdown passes yesterday. Five hundred is an arbitrary number. (A nice, round number that enshrines him in the elite company of one, but arbitrary nonetheless.) How can you truly grasp the weight of an arbitrary number? Set it as the constant, and see how extreme the oth...
'Baseball's Bolshevik': Why The Martyrdom Of Curt Flood Still Matters
You’re probably familiar with the story of Curt Flood, the ballplayer whose refusal in 1969 to accept a trade was the first major skirmish in the fight for free agency. You’re certainly familiar with his legacy, which today alone hangs over the news of the NBA’s media megadeal. Retro Report, via The...
Jaguars Apologize For Mascot's Ebola Joke
Put that headline in a time capsule, so future generations can recall the brief period of time Ebola was in the news and the Jaguars were an NFL team....
EverBank Field Pool Features Woman Wearing Jeans & A Sweatshirt
When the Jaguars announced they were adding swimming pools to EverBank Field, we all prepared for the inevitable bottomless moon shot on TV. Little did we know, the opposite of nudity was in store for the sad souls watching a game from Jacksonville....
Alabama Fan Throws Cup At Crowd, Is Promptly Taken Out
This Bama fan was sour after the Crimson Tide lost to Ole Miss, so he threw a cup at the jeering crowd. Bad idea. An overeager security guard took him down, because tossing a cup is apparently an offense worthy of a takedown on concrete steps. Everyone should take a lesson from the unfazed guy in th...
Couple Makes Out On Field After Ole Miss Upsets Alabama
Two Ole Miss fans in search of something real find love on the turf at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. This fall: Rebels On The Field. Based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks....
Ole Miss Rally Takes Down The Mighty Crimson Tide
The biggest football day in the history of the Magnolia state has ended triumphantly for both the Bulldogs and the Rebels, now that the Rebs just chopped down the Alabama Crimson Tide. Mississippi is now the football capital of the world....