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Doug Baldwin Reveals Football-Pooping Celebration Was For Darrelle Revis
Doug Baldwin commemorated his Super Bowl lead-extending touchdown catch by pretending either to poop out the football, or on it. (It's not clear which, but no one saw it anyway; NBC's director cut away in time, warned by the voice of his vigilant dead mother. Thankfully, it was filmed from the stand...
West Virginia Knocks Off Kansas With Last Second Spin Move And Layup
Twenty third-ranked West Virginia knocked off eighth-ranked Kansas in Morgantown tonight, in a crazed ending that saw Juwan Staten pull off a nice spin move to get free for a layup, before Kansas missed their last second attempt. Just look at those West Virginians storm the court!...
Patrick Kane Turns Marc-Andre Fleury Into A Pile Of Limbs In Shootout
Fine, shootouts are bad at determining the outcomes of games, but let's shelf that argument for another time and instead watch Patrick Kane punk Marc-Andre Fleury with the same effort required to put together a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Actually, you probably exert more effort making a peanu...
Darryl Dawkins Is A Stevie Wonder Truther
Darryl Dawkins was on Highly Questionable yesterday, where he told the story of how Stevie Wonder gave him one of the greatest nicknames in sports, Chocolate Thunder. But Stevie-Wonder-Is-Not-Blind Truther-in-Chief Bomani Jones wanted to know how Wonder knew Dawkins was black. Dawkins gives an expla...
Ex-Teammate: Marshawn Lynch Mulling Retirement
NFL.com's Michael Robinson, who was teammates with Marshawn Lynch for four seasons in Seattle, went on Seattle sports radio yesterday and said that Lynch hasn't yet decided if he will play next season or retire....
And Now, Russell Wilson Reviews <i>Fifty Shades Of Grey</i>
Russell Wilson saw Fifty Shades of Grey last night, and he has some thoughts....
Brian Shaw Just Can't Relate To These Darn Kids
Last week Brian Shaw said that he suspected his players were trying to lose games on purpose. Ever industrious, Shaw refuses to consider this season or his players lost. Instead, as Rachel Nichols described during the first quarter of tonight's games against the Lakers, he's ... reading books on h...
How Players Manage To Scalp Their Super Bowl Tickets
The MMQB's Robert Klemko has a great story about a ticket broker hustling his way through the crazy, somewhat-shady secondary ticket market that sprung up at this year's Super Bowl. There's a lot of good stuff in here, including an answer to the question we've all found ourselves asking: Do players ...
The Blackhawks Somehow Managed To Not Score Here
Major weirdness in the closing seconds of overtime in what would turn out a 3-2 shootout win for the Coyotes in Chicago, as the Blackhawks had two sterling chances—one of which I'm still not convinced wasn't in—get waved off, one of them even surviving a video review....
Dominique Wilkins Tells A Solid Larry Bird Trash-Talk Story
It's not news that Larry Bird was an arrogant jerk in his NBA days. He got away with most of his shit-talk because when he said he was about to shoot a three in your eye, he actually did that. He and Dominique Wilkins famously went at each other in Game 7 of the 1988 Eastern Conference Semifinals, b...
High School Basketball Game Derailed By Brawl Involving Fans And Players
A high school basketball game in Indiana had to be called off midway through the first quarter after an ugly foul sparked a brawl that involved both players and fans....
Don't You Dare Ask Fran McCaffery About His Eye-Poking Player
Iowa's Adam Woodbury poked another guy in the eye yesterday, a thing that he's been doing far too often this season. After the game, a few reporters tried to ask Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery about all the eye poking. He was not having it....
The Face Of A Person Who's Just Been Told AC/DC Is Opening The Grammys
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Kanye Invades Stage Again In Beyoncé's Honor; Watch Her Reaction
A strangely self-aware Kanye West rushed the stage tonight after the announcement of Beck's win over Beyoncé in the Best Album category, a replay of the 2009 VMAs when the rap artist interrupted Taylor Swift with "I'mma let you finish." West "thought better of it" this time, but watch the angle th...
Iso-Cam On Paul McCartney & Beyoncé Reveal Why They're Music Royalty
Tonight's Grammys performance by "Jeff Lynne's ELO" (which is basically Jeff Lynne backed by the English pop group Take That) didn't get much of a rise from the audience at Staples Center. Two spectators who did manage to stand for the medley of "Evil Woman" and "Mr. Blue Sky"? Paul McCartney and Be...
Man In Vince Wilfork Jersey Meets Vince Wilfork, Doesn't Recognize Him
This video, shot in the Bahamas by Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork's wife, is a gentle reminder that if you are going to wear someone's jersey in public, you should always be ready for that person to sneak up on you....
Iowa's Adam Woodbury Can't Stop Poking People In The Eye
Okay, man, this is starting to get a little ridiculous....
BBC Report On '67 Merseyside Derby Gets Unexpected Guest
In the run-up to today's Merseyside Derby between Everton and Liverpool, the BBC sent their roving man on the streets to interview people about historic matches between the "friendly" rivals. The reporter hoped this old man would be able to remember an FA Cup match from 48 years ago, but little did ...
Listen To Patriots' And Seahawks' Reactions To Game-Ending Interception
We saw pieces of this yesterday—Pete Carroll's dismay and Tom Brady's screeching—but here's a fuller picture of the on-field reactions to Malcolm Butler's Super Bowl-winning interception, captured by NFL Films' microphones for "SoundFX."...