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Robert Griffin III Carted Off After Left Leg Injury

Skins quarterback Robert Griffin III left today's game on a cart after hurting his left leg on a non-contact play. The team's calling it a left ankle injury, and Griffin's out for the day....

Is Manchester United's Newest Savior A Fraud?

Last summer, Colombian striker Radamel Falcao arrived in Monte Carlo as AS Monaco's new signing and savior from Atlético Madrid, wearing a jacket and shirt combination that all but summed up his brief time on the Côte d'Azur. With the beautiful French Riviera in the background, the salmon jacket, ...

Texas Botched The Coin Toss, Has To Kick Off To UCLA Both Halves

Managing the opening coin toss of a football game's pretty simple: if you win, defer. If you lose, take the ball. Texas somehow screwed this up tonight, and UCLA will get the ball to start both halves....

Iowa Loses In Miserable Fashion As Freeze-The-Kicker Move Backfires

That is a gif of pure misery. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz tried to pull the ol' "freeze the kicker" trick in the final seconds of the Hawkeyes' game against Iowa State this afternoon. The Cyclones missed the first kick, but had another attempt because of Ferentz's timeout. On the second try, Ferentz's w...

This Hug Of The UMass Kicker Is Just Mean

UMass — the University of Massachusetts football team — blew a 31-20 lead on the road at Vanderbilt, and then missed this 22-yard field goal that could've sent it to overtime....

Red Sox AAA Affiliate Is Into Big Boobs On Twitter [NSFW]

Reader Charlie spotted this very interesting item while browsing the Pawtucket Red Sox Twitter favorites: a tweet from "Sloppy Cock Gagger" featuring a huge pair of breasts. Read on for the uncensored and very NSFW screen shot:...

That's Not How You Football

How To Make A Baked Egg--Yes, Goddammit, A <em>Baked</em> Egg

You say "baked egg" and people look at you like they're concerned for your wellbeing and go, "... baked egg?" And you go, "Yeah, y'know, like a shirred egg, only more Italian," and they go, "What in the damn hell is a 'shirred egg'?" And then you say, "Oh, goddammit, now I'm gonna have to write ...

That's A Bad Look, Fargo

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Yahoo! Won't Let You Cut Adrian Peterson From A Fantasy Team [UPDATE]

Disgruntled fantasy football players are flooding Yahoo!'s forums with complaints that the company won't allow them to cut Adrian Peterson after his arrest on charges he beat his son....

Soccer Player Suspended Two Games For Retweeting Insult To Club Prez

Felipe Melo now knows just how thin-skinned Galatasaray's higher-ups are after he was suspended for two games for retweeting a tweet that implored the club president to consume his own testicles. The tweet's been deleted, but here's a picture of it:...

Wall Street: Olive Garden Makes Bad Food Badly

A fight for control over Olive Garden's parent company, Darden Restaurants, has shed light on some of the Italianish restaurant chain's less-than-ideal kitchen practices. For example: Olive Garden kitchens do not salt their pasta water. For another example: Olive Garden kitchens exclusively prepar...

Huge Red Wine Counterfeiting Scheme Busted In Italy

Italian cops have foiled what the Siena police chief calls "the biggest fraud ever carried out in the agricultural and food sector": a wine expert's attempt to pass off nearly a quarter-million bottles of fake Brunello di Montalcino wine....

Chase Headley Takes A Fastball To The Chin

Yankees designated hitter Chase Headley took a fastball to the chin from Rays reliever Jake McGee in the ninth inning of tonight's game....

It Looks Like A-Rod Has Gotten Himself A LinkedIn Page

Alex Rodriguez is 39 years old and likely done being a baseball player forever. So he's gone and done what every American who is preparing to transition into a new line of work does: he signed up for a LinkedIn profile....

Via reader Sean: This, from Grantland's Jonah Keri, is an astute and comprehensive piece of baseball analysis about the baffling collapse of the A's since the trade deadline. This, from the San Francisco Chronicle's Bruce Jenkins, is not. [Grantland | SF Chron]...

Barton-Winona 2007 D-II Championship

I hadn't seen this before. Unreal stuff. Sent in by TJ....

Goodell Was Wrong When He Said Casino Couldn't Have Given Up Rice Video

In his letter to owners yesterday, Roger Goodell addressed the question of why (in his version of events) the NFL never approached the Revel Casino about getting a copy of the surveillance tape....

Former Mets Exec Sues Team, Says She Was Fired For Being Pregnant

I'd say this story belongs in the LOLMets pantheon, but this is less "ha ha" funny than it is "wow, the Mets appear to be run by a tremendously scummy sexist" funny....

Stephen A. Smith Melts Down Over NOW's Call For Goodell To Resign

Yesterday, the National Organization for Women released a statement calling for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's resignation. "The NFL has lost its way. It doesn't have a Ray Rice problem; it has a violence against women problem," the statement read. ...