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The NBA Misplaced A Point For 20 Years
Occasionally, from week to week, a league will go back and adjust the statline in a game. Yu Darvish gives up a hit, or LeBron loses a rebound, or Jamaal Charles loses three yards and everyone in your fantasy league ends up in last place. This is more or less like that, except 20 years after the fac...

Luis Suárez Bites A Guy And Gamblers Rejoice
A reputation is firmly in place when you can place a bet based on it. Luis Suárez is now a more notorious biter than Mike Tyson, and before he was even able to snack on Giorgio Chiellini, people with serious gambling problems could wager whether or not he would bite someone in this World Cup. Severa...

Jackass Cubs Fan Throws Back Ball Tossed To Him By Billy Hamilton
Ahh, the Wrigley bleachers. Home to the shiftless, the drunk, and the "I'm gonna ruin somebody's game before the second inning even starts."...

Evan Turner's Ferrari Ran Out Of Gas On The Highway
The only thing funnier than Evan Turner running out of gas for his Ferrari on the highway is hearing former Ohio State teammate P.J. Hill razz him for it as tries to figure out how gas cans work. ...

Melo has officially opted out of his option for 2014-15. The Knicks can still pay him the most—about $129 million over five years to four years $96 million for everyone else—which means at least something since Anthony is 30 now. The Bulls, who have not scored a regulation field goal in two years, a...

Georgia Man Shoots Himself In The Dick, Doesn't Notice
Here is a parable for our age. It involves a gun-wielding man shooting himself in the dick and apparently failing to notice....

Report: Melo Will Opt Out Of Knicks Contract, Become Free Agent
We have a Sunday Wojbomb. Carmelo Anthony will reportedly opt out of his contract with the Knicks and test free agency....

Hunter Pence And His Goofy Swing Crush A Ball Into The Upper Deck
Hunter Pence's goofy-ass swing shouldn't work, and yet sometimes, everything in his hitting motion connects, and a baseball visits the upper deck of Chase Field....

Report On Drunks At Luke Bryan Concert Features Really, Really Drunk Guy
You are probably not going to see anyone as drunk as the guy featured in this report on a Luke Bryan concert tonight in Pittsburgh, as aired on WPXI's 11pm news....

Wrigley Field Idiot Runs Onto Field During Rain Delay
We're told this Idiot On The Field is a streaker, though it's difficult to tell if he's wearing shorts or not. Regardless, he's an Idiot. Everybody knows you run onto the field during the game for maximum disruptive power....

Idiot On The Field Delays Germany-Ghana, Is Ignored By Security
An Idiot On The Field had unfettered access to the pitch just after Germany's goal to take a short-lived lead today in Fortaleza, as he was completely ignored by stadium security and a Ghana player was forced to escort the hooligan off the pitch....

Motorcycle Bro Loses Control Of Bike, Wheelies It Into Pool
Not being a gearhead myself, I don't really see the appeal of a pool party where motorcycles are close enough to the pool that this could even happen, but that's just me; I'm not a dude who typically likes to get radical. Just give me a drink and some tunes—loud enough to hear, but not loud enough t...

Rare Video Of Tony Parker And Boris Diaw Training Together As Teens
Here's some very cool, never-before-seen (by me) footage of Tony Parker and Boris Diaw balling together at Paris training center INSEP in 1999, when both were just 17 years old....

How "Seven Nation Army" Became Soccer's Favorite Chant
Three World Cups later, the riff from the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" remains the soccer world's most prolific chant. It's possible to pinpoint the exact time and place the wordless chant was born: Oct. 22, 2003, in a bar in Milan....

Gavin Floyd Leaves Braves-Nats Game With A Very Gross Elbow Injury
Do you see that bump on Gavin Floyd's elbow? That's not supposed to be there. ...

Celebrating Spurs Fan Falls Out Of His Moving Truck And Onto His Face
The face plant is funny, but it's the momentary daze, followed by the hurried waddle that carries our hero out of the frame that really makes this. That is the gait of a man who is convinced that if he just keeps moving, the massive amount of pain that awaits him will never come....

Santiago Is Partying After Chile's Victory Over Spain
After Chile upset Spain 2-0 today to seal La Furia Roja's flame-out, Chile fans swarmed downtown Santiago to celebrate and make tons of noise, because that's what a country does when it takes out the defending World Cup champions....

Why Your World Cup Stadium Sucks: Arena Pantanal, Cuiabá
Arena Pantanal in Cuiabá might as well been built with soybeans and political skullduggery....

There's Something Off About This <em>Sports Illustrated</em> Cover
Above is the cover of this week's issue of Sports Illustrated, showing Kawhi Leonard skying through the air, his arm cocked back and ready to spike a dunk on poor Chris Andersen's head. There's a slight problem with this image, though....