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Fan Douses Tour de France Cyclist With Piss
Multiple outlets are reporting that a spectator threw piss at Britain's Mark Cavendish during the Tour de France's 11th stage today. There are neither photos nor video of the pissbombing (at least not yet!), which came one day after Cavendish was involved in this collision near the finish line with ...
Reporter Gets Run Over By Football Player While Conducting Interview
Here's Fox Sports Next reporter Amy Campbell conducting a run-of-the-mill interview while at a showcase for the nation's top high school football recruits. Everything is going fine until HOLY SHIT AMY LOOK OUT!...
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Competitive Wii Bowling Leagues Exist, And These Seniors Are Undefeated
Bowling leagues' popularity hit its zenith sometime in Ronald Reagan's first term, but they appear to be making a comeback among the elderly in competitive leagues played on Nintendo's Wii console....
David Booth Is Studying Theology At Oxford This Offseason
When last we checked in with the Canucks winger, he had freed the Kootenays from the terrible reign of the Goatbeast. Booth's offseason activities this year swing to the other end of the spectrum—that of the mind and of the soul....
An Interview With That Guy Who Ruined Serena's Wimbledon And Wrote A Book About Navy Pilots With Call Signs Like Crapper and Steamer
Stephen Rodrick is one of our finest magazine writers and this spring he published a compelling memoir about this father, The Magical Stranger. Check out book excerpts in the New York Times; Slate, and a nice long one in Men's Journal. And visit The Magical Stranger website. ...
Ian Desmond Shaved His Goatee Between Innings
Sure, that's a totally normal thing for a professional athlete to do in the middle of game....
Metta World Peace Reacts Wonderfully To Reports Of His Pending Release
Now that it looks like the cap-strapped Lakers are going to amnesty Metta World Peace sometime in the next week to save $14.8 million, Metta World Peace has reacted on Twitter in the most Metta World Peace way imaginable....
Radio Host: Vandy FB Player “Allowed” Teammates To Rape His Girlfriend
While Nashville police have yet to release details of a sex crimes investigation that led to the dismissal of four Vanderbilt football players, allegations are starting to emerge through other channels. Former Volunteers quarterback Erik Ainge disclosed some of those details this morning on his Tenn...
Redskins Survey Fans On Team Name, Favorite Marketing Buzzwords
The Redskins appear poised to be competitive for the first time in a long while. But aside from the obvious (PUT RG3 EVERYWHERE), rebranding a franchise is a long and complicated process. Frank Luntz focus groups and fake Indian chiefs were just the beginning. Now the team is polling fans, and some ...
To Confuse and Confound: Understanding Stengelese
Check out the letter that Howard Cosell sent to Bill Heinz in 1962....
Ever wonder how women play sports with their boobs always getting in the way? Thankfully, writer Amanda Hess has wondered the same thing, and she's written a legitimately fascinating article for ESPN The Mag's Body Issue about the many ways breasts inconvenience their bearers while on the field of p...
Hey The Cubs, Heads Up!
Alberto Callaspo popped a foul ball toward the Cubs' bullpen in the top of the ninth. Things got a little chaotic. The ball was not caught....
Mets Try To Honor American Indian Culture, Upset American Indians
The New York Mets, a baseball team that does not possess a cartoonish mascot named Chief Wahoo or a fanbase that likes to do the Tomahawk Chop during games, has somehow managed to piss off an American Indian nonprofit organization. And it all went down in the Metsiest way possible....
Do NFL Front Offices Have A Thug Problem?
It emerged last night that Tom Heckert—Broncos director of pro personnel and former Browns GM—was arrested last month on DUI charges. This comes days after Matt Russell, Denver's director of player personnel, was arrested for his own alleged DUI. Russell crashed into two different cars, one of them ...
Picture This: Do the Bucs Stop Here?
This summer in Pittsburgh, the Pirates are messing with peoples' hearts again. After countless seasons of sub-.500 finishes, occasional spurts of excellence followed by long stretches of crappy play and, saints preserve us, a decades-long slog of mediocrity unmatched in the majors since ... well, ev...