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Boxer Tries To Smooch Her Opponent During Faceoff
Boxers Mikaela Lauren and Cecilia Braekhus were performing the obligatory staredown at a press event Monday when Lauren went in for a kiss. It’s surprising that more boxing faceoffs don’t end like this. They get so close to each other!...
Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: The Browns Scrape Up Kevin Hogan
Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....
LeBron James Still Thinks About Dan Gilbert's Insane Letter
GQ has a big LeBron James feature out today, and in it the Cavs superstar is asked about the crazy letter Cavs owner Dan Gilbert wrote after James left Cleveland for Miami in 2010. Specifically, he’s asked if he believes Gilbert’s letter had racial overtones:...
Report: Handsome Man Not Interested In Managing Mets
Recently ousted Tigers manager Brad Ausmus is looking for another team. Just, uh, not one as messy as the Mets—the man has standards, you know....
Orlando Woman Sues Miguel Cabrera Over Reduced Child Support Payments
Earlier this year, Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera was sued in Orange County (Fla.) Superior Court for not providing sufficient child support for the two children he allegedly fathered with Orlando woman Belkis Rodriguez. The Detroit News first reported on the lawsuit this morning....
Apparently DeShone Kizer Just Needed One Week Off
When Browns head coach Hue Jackson announced that he was benching rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer last week, it seemed like he had a decent plan in mind. The Browns, already 0-5 at that point, had three more games against the Texans, Titans, and Vikings before their bye week. Here was a chance for ...
A Pirates Fan Talks To Francisco Cabrera, 25 Years After The Worst Game Ever
The idea, or part of it, was to tell Francisco Cabrera what he did to me. I wanted to let him know that the greatest moment of his otherwise anonymous big-league career was such a gut-punch in my life. I wanted to relate to him how funereal things were for me the next day at school, and how long tha...
Martavis Bryant Wants Out Of Pittsburgh
Sure, it took an enormous fluke, but the schizophrenic Steelers topped the previously unbeaten Chiefs and are right back in the thick of the AFC chase. They’re there without much success from No. 2 receiver Martavis Bryant, and his frustrations have reached the point where he’s requested a trade....
Antonio Brown Somehow Scored On This Play
Check out the still image above: Steelers receiver Antonio Brown is at about the Chiefs’ 35-yard line and is flanked by two defenders. Kansas City cornerback Phillip Gaines has just tipped the pass; safety Daniel Sorensen is there to make the tackle. And yet, Brown scored a 51-yard TD. ...
Redskins Defenders Celebrate Win By Simulating A Stop And Frisk
Redskins cornerback Kendall Fuller picked off 49ers QB C.J. Beathard’s pass with three seconds left to seal today’s 26-24 win over San Francisco. Fuller’s teammates celebrated in a way that has to be a first....
Golden Tate Scored And Dropped The People’s Elbow On The Football
Golden Tate caught a long pass from Matthew Stafford, broke a few weak tackles by the Saints, and flipped into the end zone. It was pretty cool....
These 24 Seconds Are Filled With More Terror Than Whatever Scary Movie You Plan On Watching
Star North Carolina State defensive end Bradley Chubb suffered a finger injury during the Wolfpack’s game at Pitt today, but his grotesquely misshapen digit is only the start of this horrifying half-minute of video. Gah!...
Steph Curry Is Apparently Into The Feet
Here’s Ayesha Curry, acclaimed Twitter user, on today’s episode of The Real discussing Steph Curry’s desire to see the feet. “My husband really loves my feet,” she explained, “So, when he says to send nudes, he gets a picture of my bare feet!” Aww!...
N.C. State Freshman Braxton Beverly Ruled Ineligible For Going To School
After Thad Matta abruptly left Ohio State this summer, incoming freshman Braxton Beverly was granted his release by the Buckeyes and he transferred to N.C. State. The four-star point guard recruit (who once scored 70 points in a single high school game) hadn’t played for the Buckeyes or anything, an...
Bruce Arena, Who Should Have Been Fired And Sent To The Woods, Allowed To Resign
Bruce Arena, the U.S. men’s national soccer team coach who never should have been “in” in the first place, is now out. U.S. Soccer allowed him to tender his resignation, three days after the the U.S. team failed to qualify for the World Cup after losing to Trinidad and Tobago in the country’s bigges...
Luke Kuechly Is In Concussion Protocol Again
Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly, who has missed parts of each of the last two seasons after suffering concussions, left last night’s game against the Eagles in the second quarter. The hit that knocked Kuechly out of the game looked like it may have hurt his shoulder, but afterwards it was revealed ...
Two Colleges Follow The NFL's Lead In Erasing Athlete Protests
Though the majority of the national coverage regarding athlete protests was dominated by the responses of NFL owners and the president this past weekend, several small colleges followed the blueprint set forth by Roger Goodell and Jerry Jones and took steps to silence athletes under the guise of pro...
Brett Gardner Works
For the length of 26 batters, from the moment the Indians chased CC Sabathia from the game in the fifth and got the Cleveland crowd back into things, until the moment Brett Gardner worked—and there is no better word than worked—an epic at-bat in the ninth, Game 5 of the ALDS was about as tense as g...
Politician Delights In America's Failure
Hot soccer commentary coming in from Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA):...