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Give The Field Hockey Guys Longer Sticks
I’ve been watching Olympic field hockey all morning, and I have discovered that I quite enjoy the sport. I like how they whack the ball really hard and that there are corner kicks, er, slaps. I do have one critique: The dang sticks are too short!...
Brandon Crawford Would Not Stop Hitting Baseballs Last Night
On Monday night, the Giants’ Brandon Crawford accomplished something rarer than hitting for the cycle or throwing a no-hitter: He became the first player since 1975 (and just the fifth player since 1913) to get seven hits in a game. ...
Fall In Love, Get Married, Grow Old Together, And Then Cry
One of the most terrifying things about love is that it’s supposed to last forever. “I want someone that I can grow old with,” is an allegedly romantic thing that people write on dating sites to show that they are not afraid of commitment. (“I want someone to take care of/take care of me” is its cre...
Tim Tebow Wants To Play In MLB, Will Fail At That Too
What fresh hell is this, where Alex Rodriguez is hanging up the cleats and Tim Tebow is trying to put them on? According to an Adam Schefter report that forced you to double-check and make sure it wasn’t a fake account, TV personality Tim Tebow will hold a workout for scouts later this month in the ...
Buster Posey Invents Cool New Way To Slide Into Base
With the game tied 7-7 in the 11th inning, Buster Posey made it from first to third on a Brandon Crawford single. He also tried to eat third base in the process....
Diamondbacks Try To Squeeze More Money From Taxpayers; County Supervisor Tells Team To Screw Themselves<em></em>
The Diamondbacks have been playing in their current ballpark since 1998. Their stadium cost $364 million to build, and Maricopa County picked up $238 million of the tab. Eighteen years later, it is need of some repairs, and the fight over who is going to pay for them has gotten ugly....
That Time We Got Jason Whitlock To Say That <i>Mein Kampf</i> "Isn't Bad"
Before he was the sleepy co-host of All Takes Matter, and after he was the failed editor-in-chief of The Undefeated, Jason Whitlock was just a dude with a blog. Despite our best efforts, though, Whitlock never published an excerpt of Mein Kampf on that blog....
KHL Game Canceled After Player Tries To Beat Up Entire Other Team
A KHL preseason game between Barys Astana and HC Kunlun Red Star was canceled today after Barys defenseman Damir Ryspayev delivered a cheap shot to a Kunlun player and fought several others....
Watch A Pro Pitching Tutorial, Including Steven Wright Teaching Us His Knuckleball<em></em>
You probably know how to throw a ball, and maybe even how to do so with some force, accuracy, and/or intention. Maybe you played baseball as a kid, or in college, or once a week this very summer with a ragtag group of friends and coworkers....
ESPN Dipshit To English-Speaking Ichiro: Speak English!!!
ESPN SportsCenter anchor and former WWE commentator Todd Grisham, who fancies himself a tough man, has a tough message for True Hit King Ichiro: This is America, learn some English!...
Mike Trout Gets Way Up To Rob A Grand Slam
Hello, it’s time once again for a check-in with Mike Trout, that guy who continues to be the best player in baseball despite wasting away on a crap-ass Angels roster....
Report: Another Olympic Boxer Has Been Arrested For Alleged Sexual Assault
Last week, Moroccan Olympic boxer Hassan Saada was arrested in Rio after he allegedly sexually assaulted two waitresses working in the Olympic Village. Al Jazeera correspondent Gabriel Elizondo is now reporting that another Olympic boxer, Namibia’s Jonas Junius, has been arrested for allegedly assau...
Croatia Stuns Spain After Dario Šarić Blocks Attempted Buzzer-Beater
Croatia stunned Spain 72-70 in basketball, coming back from a 14-point third quarter deficit to win their Olympic opener. The win was sealed by soon-to-be 76er Dario Šarić, who swatted Pau Gasol at the buzzer, and set off celebrations as if they had won gold....
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NFL Hall Of Fame Game Cancelled Due To Terrible Playing Surface [Update]
Tonight, after six months of bleak NFL news and training camp reports about how football is not sleeping (it never does), football is back! Rather, it would have been, if terrible turf conditions in Canton didn’t force the NFL to cancel the Hall of Fame Game preseason opener between the Colts and Pa...
Ichiro Joins 3,000 Hit Club With Triple
Ichiro Suzuki, the true Hit King, joined Paul Molitor as the only member of the 3,000 Hit Club to do so with a triple when he did so in the top of the seventh inning today in Denver....
Miguel Sano Pop-Up Hits Roof, Gets Caught
Twins third baseman Miguel Sano earned a dubious honor today, becoming the first player to ever hit the roof of the Tampa Bay Rays stadium in fair territory:...
Road Race Leader Crashes Just Miles From Finish [Updates]
Dutch rider Annemiek Van Vleuten crashed on the descent with less than seven miles remaining in the 85-mile road race. While the course was different from the one we illustrated as being difficult-to-dangerous, much of it did follow the men’s course. ...
Sobbing A-Rod Announces The Yankees Are Ending His Career<em></em><em></em>
The New York Yankees called a press conference this morning to announce that Alex Rodriguez’s career as a Yankee will end next week. His final game will be on Friday against the Rays, after which the Yankees will release him, and he will retire and become a “special advisor and instructor” to the cl...
Giancarlo Stanton Just Jerked The Mightiest Dong Of The Season
Are you sitting down? Okay....
Florida Gulf Coast Somehow Wins Game Despite Finishing With Three Players
Florida Gulf Coast University, aka Dunk City, defeated the Providence Storm this afternoon down in the Bahamas. As you’ll notice the box score below, FGCU picked up the 92-89 comeback win despite five of their eight players fouling out. The Eagles finished the game with just three players, coming in...