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Manny Machado Flings Bat Onto Field, Benches Clear Again
For the second time in three days, an angry Manny Machado caused the benches to clear between the Orioles and Athletics....
Benches Clear Because Manny Machado Did Not Like Josh Donaldson's Tag
That is a headline you just read. Sometimes baseball is just the worst. ...
Here's Michael Wilbon Telling Jürgen Klinsmann To "Get Out Of America"
Goddammit, Michael Wilbon....
Philip Rivers Wears A Mullet Wig While Secretly Playing Softball
If you've ever wanted to see Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers in short shorts, high socks, and a wig, well, drink it all in....
Danny Amendola Draws Ire Of Insufferable Boston Media
Boston sports media sucks, and a good way to make it worse is to toss it some mildly controversial chum while the boredom of the NFL offseason has it itching for something to be shitty and annoying about. That's what Patriots wide receiver Danny Amendola did on Tuesday when he hung up in the middle ...
Jürgen Klinsmann Says U.S. Players Can Have World Cup Sex
It's Jürgen Klinsmann Week, and you have your choice of profiles of the USMNT manager. There's the New Yorker ("Klinsmann is a hippie pseudo-Buddhist flake"), the Times ("Klinsmann plans to make U.S. soccer less American"), the WSJ (Klinsmann wants to make U.S. soccer more American"), and many other...
NFL Not Into "Super Bowl L," Will Abandon Roman Numerals For One Year
The NFL has announced that the 2016 Super Bowl, the fiftieth Super Bowl, will be branded as "Super Bowl 50" instead of the extremely dumb-looking "Super Bowl L." This is the first time that the NFL will abandon gladiatorial, perpetually-confusing Roman numerals since they were first used for Super B...
Just Shirtless Tyrann Mathieu Singin' And Drinkin' Some Rosé
Here we have Cardinals free safety Tyrann Mathieu and Nichols State wide receiver Terry Lucas, Jr. singing and waving around a bottle of some Belaire rosé....
Luis Montes Scores Spectacular Goal, Immediately Suffers Horrific Injury
Mexico will be missing one of its midfielders in Brazil after Luis Montes suffered what looks like a compound leg fracture during today's friendly against Ecuador—just moments after scoring a spectacular golazo....
EA Sports And CLC Finalize Video Game Settlement With Former Players
Four class-action suits brought by former NCAA players against EA Sports and the Collegiate Licensing Company were settled back in September 2013 for $40 million, but aside from the amount, most of the other terms needed ironing out. On Friday night, the parties filed a settlement with the U.S. Dist...
Johnny Damon Gets Payback, Cuts Off Manny Ramirez's First Pitch
The Boston Red Sox held a 10th-anniversary reunion for players from the 2004 championship team before tonight's game. New Iowa Cubs player-coach Manny Ramirez tossed out the first pitch, until Johnny Damon came out of nowhere to snag it for justice, ten years later....
Where Jürgen Klinsmann Comes From
Before Jürgen Klinsmann snubbed Landon Donovan, before he coached Bayern Munich or the U.S. and German national teams, before he won the UEFA Cup as a player with Internazionale and again with Bayern, before winning the World Cup and captaining the German team to the European Championship, he lived ...
Danny MacAskill's Balls-Out Biking Begins In The Gym
In 2009, Danny MacAskill lit up overnight with the YouTube release of his Inspired Bicycles part. At 23, he'd emerged as the face of street trials riding, a blend of BMX and mountain bike in urban environments. It was visionary and it was bone-breaking, and he'd just broken himself pretty badly....
Manny Ramirez Is Back In Baseball As A Player-Coach
The Chicago Cubs have hired Manny Ramirez as a player-coach for their Triple-A affiliate, the Iowa Cubs. Yes, really....
BBC Announcer Goes Bonkers As QPR Scores 90th-Minute Winner In Play-Off
Queens Park Rangers is returning to the Premiership after Bobby Zamora's last-minute goal dashed Derby County dreams and sent BBC Radio London announcer Phil Parry into heart palpitations....
Hey, It's 5 Years (And A Day) Since LeBron's Game 2 Game Winner
We don't talk about it too much anymore, given the acrimony left behind in Ohio and LeBron's eventual success in Miami, but on May 22, 2009, his Game 2 winner tied the Eastern Conference Finals at 1-1, and shook off his rep of shying away from the big shots for good, or at least until whatever the h...
<em>Hannibal</em> Finally Lets Hannibal Lecter Be The Villain
It was somewhere around the time that Hannibal Lecter was thin-slicing a dogged and likable FBI agent into his own gory-artful re-imagination of Bodies: The Exhibition that it sank in: He's the bad guy....
Jürgen Klinsmann Explains Why He Left Landon Donovan Off The U.S. Team
Calling it "the toughest decision in my coaching career," manager Jürgen Klinsmann took a stab at justifying his decision to leave Landon Donovan off the USMNT's 23-man World Cup roster....