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$60 Million High School Football Stadium Deemed Unsafe
Two years ago, the football-mad suburb of Allen, Texas, sank $60 million into a state-of-the-art, 18,000-seat high school football stadium. Now, according to the Dallas Morning News, the stadium will be closed for the upcoming season because it has been deemed structurally unsafe. ...

I'm No Race-Baiting Troll, Explains Race-Baiting Troll Phil Mushnick
A week and a half ago, Phil Mushnick, a race-baiting troll who writes for the New York Post, published a column in which he compared the treatment of Donald Sterling to a lynching. ...

Tony La Russa Warns Grads About The Machines During Commencement Speech
Tony La Russa gave the commencement speech at Washington University last week. It was, like most commencement speeches, sort of rambly and boring. But there was one La Russian moment that caught our attention, in which the old manager started going on about Styx, the machines, and sabermetrics....

FSU Softball Players Need To Work On Their Videobombing Game
We admire the effort here—the ballplayer-tied-to-a-roasting-spit videobomb is one that comes with a high degree of difficulty, and these ladies' execution is solid—but a good videobomb is one that enters the frame unexpectedly and unannounced. The magic is lost when everyone at home can see the pre-...

Here's Cristiano Ronaldo Butt-Ass Naked On The Cover of <em>Vogue España</em>
It's World Cup time, which means that every single magazine and newspaper on this beautiful earth of ours, maybe, will be trying to somehow incorporate soccer onto its covers. Vogue España is no different and this year, they featured Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo with his model ladyfriend Irina...

MLB Network Puts Mitch Williams On Hiatus
MLB Network analyst Mitch Williams is on an indefinite leave of absence from the league-owned cable channel after a series of incidents at a youth baseball tournament that witnesses tell us included the former big-league hurler calling a ten-year-old "a pussy."...

Grown-Ass Men Fighting Over A Baseball Bat, In Extreme Slow Motion
Edwin Encarnación let a bat fly into the stands during the ninth inning Saturday in Texas, and some Rangers fans engaged in some epic and embarrassing struggle in an attempt to take home a very special souvenir. We slowed the footage down for your enjoyment of every participant's role in this true t...

Is Time For Timofey Mozgov In Crazy-Ass Photo Shoot
Timofey Mozgov did a fashion spread for Russian Esquire, and it is bewildering. The photos are described as "Basketball Timofey Mozgov (216 cm), who in 2010 played in NBA, tried to try shirt designed for the common man," but that doesn't even begin to do them justice....

The Tigers Will Not Turn Down For Anything
The Detroit Tigers capped off a series sweep with a 6-2 victory over the Red Sox yesterday, and they were clearly in a celebratory mood after the game. The tiger-striped zubaz sweatsuits are nice, but nothing beats Miguel Cabrera mean mugging in a TURN DOWN FOR WHAT shirt. ...

Michigan Outfielder Robs Would-Be Walkoff Homer In NCAA Tournament
Michigan outfielder Lindsay Doyle snagged a line drive at the wall to preserve a 5-4 Wolverines win over Arizona State last night at the NCAA softball regionals in Tempe....


Alex Ovechkin Injures Leg At World Championships, Carried Off Of Ice
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin was injured in today's IIHF World Championships match between Russia and Germany....

Saturday Afternoon Baseball Just Isn't The Same Without Blackouts
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Boy Pulls Off The Smoothest Foul Ball Trick To Impress Girl Behind Him
One kid at last night's Blue Jays-Rangers game got the best of both worlds: An MLB foul ball and the attention of a girl sitting in the row behind him....

Did An Iowa Basketball Player Punch A Guy In The Face Over A Tweet?
Iowa Hawkeyes basketball player Zach McCabe was arrested and charged Friday after allegedly punching a man in the face, knocking him to the ground, and blowing a kiss as he left. One report suggests that it may have been caused by an insulting tweet sent by the victim to McCabe....

Jungle Bird Jumps Nationals Wall, Runs Bases, Gets Sacked By Security
Jungle Bird showed up at tonight's New York-Washington game from Nationals Park, where the activist ran onto the field and successfully ran the bases in the ninth inning before being sacked by security. ...

France's Manager Sues Samir Nasri's Girlfriend For "Public Insult"
After Samir Nasri's girlfriend took to Twitter earlier this week to slam the French national team for leaving her man off the World Cup team, said France manager Didier Deschamps has brought a lawsuit against her for public insult. This is so French....

Guy Dressed As Superman Breaks Up Pathetic Fight At Cardinals Game
Two sad, possibly drunk guys just sort of lean on each other in the way that sad, possibly drunk guys tend to do when they start a fight that they don't necessarily want to finish, and the world cries out for a hero to stop this madness. In comes Superman, who defuses the situation, and pauses in fr...

Johnny Manziel Is So Damn Obnoxious You Should Love Him
By the usual measurements, this is one of those vapid, empty-calorie stories about a first round draft pick playing footsie with a team official on draft day: "Johnny Manziel texts coach 'come get me'." For anyone else, anyone just a fraction less punchable, whatever. For Manziel, though, god, how g...

The Lawyer Who Blocked Kevin Durant
Last week, Brice Plebani stopped by the Seat Pleasant Activity Center in Prince George's County, Md., to drop off a graduation invitation. ...