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Ian Poulter Endured Silly Rules Drama This Morning At The PGA Championship
Ian Poulter found himself bickering angrily with tour officials on the par-four eighth hole this morning at the PGA Championship, after rocketing his tee shot into the woods to the right of the fairway....
Emma Coburn Wins World Steeplechase Title With Kick At Final Water Jump
Emma Coburn kicked at just the right time....
Here Are Some Snapshots From John Daly's Last 24 Hours
Today was the first round of the PGA Championship, hosted this year at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C. It’s been an eventful one, to say the least, for John Daly. ...
Startup Basketball League Talks Big, Gets Big Investment From Fans, Fails To Start On Time<em></em>
For the first few months of 2017, sports fans were offered a unique opportunity: the chance to own a piece of the Gotham Ballers, a New York-based pro basketball team in the 16-team Champions Basketball League that was set to start its first season in July. The team’s roster is made up of recently r...
Brooks Koepka Tee Shot Bloodies Course Marshal
The PGA Championship begins today, and it will be a memorable one for one course marshal. A tee shot on the 16th from Brooks Koepka, the reigning U.S. Open champion, went into the gallery and hit a course marshal. Video feeds saw the man on the ground and bloodied....
Jason Day Is A Trailblazer, Makes "Uranus" Joke At PGA Tournament Press Conference
As children, generally, we receive plenty of chances to make jokes about Uranus. Science class! Planetarium field trip! Literally any time any one says anything about the solar system! As an adult? Not so much. If you are the type of adult who enjoys making Uranus jokes and you have the good fortune...
Norovirus Outbreak Craps Up Track And Field World Championships<em></em>
This afternoon in London, South Africa’s Olympic hero Wayde van Niekerk coasted in under 44 seconds to win the 400-meter world championship with ease, letting up before he reached the finish line and still coming within a second of his own world record. He barely celebrated after he won, partially b...
The PGA Championship Is Moving To May
The PGA Championship has been played in August every year save one since 1971, but this week’s Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte will be the next to last: Beginning in 2019, it’ll permanently move to May and become the year’s second major....
Jenny Simpson Celebrates Wildly After Taking Silver At World Championships
The women’s 1500 meters headlined the fourth day of the IAAF World Championships in track and field, and it was a worthy main event for the London crowd. Great Britain’s Laura Muir led the pack through the first 800 meters at 2:17, at which point the race turned into a sprint. ...
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Naked Idiot On The Field Is Very Pleased With Himself [NSFW]
The biggest thing to happen at the IAAF World Championships this weekend was Usain Bolt taking bronze in the final 100-meter race of his career. The second biggest thing to happen was a jolly streaker running the track and having a grand ol’ time. Watch him break right through a security guard’s arm...
American Justin Gatlin Rudely Spoils Usain Bolt's Final 100-Meter Race
Usurping American aggressor Justin Gatlin has vanquished the great champion Usain Bolt in Bolt’s last ever 100-meter race, at the IAAF World Track and Field Championships in London. ...
Daniel Cormier's Best Was Great, But Not Great Enough<em></em>
“I guess if you win both fights,” said Daniel Cormier, “there is no rivalry.”...
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Vs. Conor McGregor Is The Second-Biggest Possible Fuck-You
I’ve never seen Conor McGregor fight. I don’t watch or care about MMA. That’s not a statement about, or condemnation of, McGregor or MMA; it speaks only to my own preferences and biases....
Jordan Spieth Becomes Youngest American To Win The Open Championship
Jordan Spieth overcame an insane 25-minute odyssey on the 13th hole to shoot five under par over the last five holes and win the 146th Open Championship. Spieth, at just 23 years old, is the youngest American to ever win the tournament....
Wise Cornhole Man Has Delightfully Straightforward Recipe For Success
Here is a post-match interview with, uh, James? James had “a good win” at the 2017 Championship of Bags, a cornhole tournament of the American Cornhole League....
Larry The Snail Defies Humble Origins To Win World Snail Racing Championship
On Friday, Larry was an ordinary and unassuming garden snail wandering around a rural backyard. On Saturday, he defeated 134 other snails to be crowned king at the official World Snail Racing Championship in Congham, England....
Nick Kyrgios Retires From Match After A Nasty Slip On The Grass
Nick Kyrgios’s injury woes continued today in his first-round match at the Queen’s Club Championships, as the tour transitions to a new surface. During his first match on grass—which is well-suited to his ace-hungry game—he slipped and fell, tweaking his knee at an ugly angle. After a medical timeou...
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Is Fighting Conor McGregor. What The Fucking Fuck?
It’s really happening....
Two Dipshits Tried To Crash Real Madrid's Champions League Title Celebration
This video is in Spanish, but you don’t need much familiarity with the language to 1) cringe in vicarious embarrassment over the shamelessness of these two apparently random “fans” who snuck onto the pitch following Real Madrid’s Champions League final victory this weekend, and 2) appreciate the goo...
Real Madrid Won Everything And Don't Have Much To Show For It
Real Madrid, whose riches and fame and consistent, historic success as a club are unmatched in soccer’s long history, just capped off one of their greatest seasons ever—and it was just the latest of a string of triumphant years that by all rights should indelibly brand this era as their own. They pu...