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CFL Linebacker Talks Trash To Opponent During Halftime Interview

I'm not going to pretend to know anything about the CFL, but I will say that I am now a fan of BC Lions linebacker Solomon Elimimian. That's because during halftime of yesterday's game between the Lions and Calgary Stampeders, he did some great on-camera shit-talking....

Palmer Vs. Palmer

Over at the Daily Beast, I reprinted Tom Boswell's fine 1983 portrait of Jim Palmer:...

Can A Ref With No Red Card Send Someone Off? One Player Investigates

It’s an interesting question, one that Guingamp’s Benjamin Angoua tried valiantly to answer this weekend when, as the ref tried to show a red to a teammate, Angoua nipped and slapped at the card, hoping the ref would either listen to reason or get tired of trying to snatch the damn thing out of the ...

Wizards Owner Ted Leonsis Is An Insane Blogger

Ted Leonsis is a rich old guy who owns the Washington Wizards and also maintains a blog called Ted's Take. We've come across this blog before, but this morning's entry is really something. It seems that Leonsis has recently graduated from the Jack Torrance School of Blogging....

LeBron's Hair Is Gone Again. What The Hell?

Remember a week and a half ago when LeBron's hairline looked like it was migrating back south? Yeah, about that. ...

A's Get Into Playoffs; Josh Reddick Celebrates With His Sack Out [NSFW]

The Oakland Athletics are in the postseason, and the superhero underwear-clad Josh Reddick is very, very happy about it. (The full, sacktastic version is below.)...

Paul Konerko Leaves Final White Sox Game To A Standing Ovation

Paul Konerko didn't get a hit in his final MLB game, but the White Sox crowd still cheered for him one last time after Andy Wilkins replaced him at first base in the sixth inning today....

Steven Souza's Brilliant Catch Completes Jordan Zimmermann's No-Hitter

Nationals righty Jordan Zimmermann turned a 10-strikeout, one-walk no-hitter against the Marlins today, and Steven Souza capped it off with a thrilling catch in left field for the final out. It was the first no-hitter in Nationals history....

Report: Joe Girardi Called Out Yankees Before Jeter's Final Home Game

The Derek Jeter farewell tour is nice, but it's also serving as a distraction for a large concern in the Bronx: The Yankees have now missed the postseason for a second straight season. Excluding the 1994 season, which had no playoffs due to a strike, that hasn't happened since 1992-1993. Manager Joe...

UMass Video Board Falls Over During Third Quarter

UMass took on Bowling Green in its first game on-campus in three years today, and it would appear they haven't worked out all the kinks yet. Early in the third quarter, the video board fell over. Unfortunately, there's no video of the actual fall, but we can see the board hanging limp in the afterma...

Here Are Nine Full Yards Of Washington Huskies Defensive Failure

From the nine-yard-line to the goal line, Stanford receiver Ty Montgomery is in contact with Washington Huskies. And not just contact. He's pretty thoroughly wrapped up....

Razorbacks Punter Shows SEC Speed In Scoring On Fake Punt

Sam Irwin-Hill is Arkansas' "punter from down under," but the former Australian footy player showed a bit of his old skills during a 51-yard fake punt rush for touchdown that put the Razorbacks up on the highly-favored Texas A & M Aggies....

Arkansas Player Hit In Face By Errant Pass While Watching Jumbotron

The gigantic video board at Jerry World has claimed another victim: this Arkansas player, who while sitting on the bench was staring up at it while an errant (or, maybe, thrown away) pass headed directly toward his face....

Jacoby Brissett Refuses To Be Tackled; Puts FSU On Upset Alert

Would you look at that? Some quarterbacks can be dynamic and productive while not shouting profane reproductive advice in public settings....

Pass Attempt Blocked By Field Goal Post

If you had to guess which team in the TCU/SMU game was going to author an embarrassing highlight, you'd have guessed SMU, because they have been outscored this season 146-12....

The Kansas City Royals Are In The Playoffs For The First Time Since 1985

The Kansas City Royals are going to the playoffs! We'll ignore for now that they've only earned a spot in the Wild Card play-in and that the Tigers lead the division by a game. Either way, the Royals will be playing more than 162 games for the first time since Ronald Reagan was president....

Officials Botch Blocked Punt In UTEP-KSU, Spend 12 Minutes Not Fixing

This is one of the more bizarre plays you'll see today. Kansas State blocked its second UTEP punt of the first quarter, only to see the entire play called back due to an inadvertent whistle. And it took 12 minutes—12 minutes!—for officials to realize and then verify that they screwed up....

Baseball Player Tears ACL On Homer, Hops On One Foot Around Bases

York Revolution center fielder Sean Smith hit a game-tying home run in the eighth inning for his independent-league team last night, but slipped on first base and tore his ACL. Smith refused to get help from anyone, however; he got on one foot and hopped the rest of the way....

This Leopard Is Pretty Fucking Metal

Diamondbacks Fire Grit Lord Kirk Gibson

The Arizona Diamondbacks have done away with manager Kirk Gibson and bench coach Alan Trammel, just a few weeks after canning general manager Kevin Towers. And so ends the Era Of Grit in Arizona....