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Adam Vinatieri Stands Alone As The NFL's All-Time Leader In Field Goals
Adam Vinatieri continues to cement his legacy as a Hall of Famer and build towards becoming the greatest kicker in NFL history, if he isn’t there already. In the second quarter against the Texans, the 45-year-old Colts kicker hit a 42-yard field goal with ease to pass Morten Andersen as the league’s...
Report: The NBA Will Fine J.R. Smith If He Doesn't Cover Up His "Supreme" Logo Tattoo Next Season
Wait a minute, this isn’t the NFL....
Daniel Sturridge Scores Incredible Goal To Keep Liverpool's Undefeated Record Alive
For a majority of Saturday’s match between Liverpool and Chelsea, it looked as though the Blues were going to beat Jürgen Klopp’s side for the second time this week after ousting them from the League Cup on Wednesday. Thankfully for the Reds, Daniel Sturridge was around to save the day just three mi...
Person In Chicken Mask Celebrates Engagement Between Penn State Fans
The cool crisp air that signals the beginning of fall also signals the beginning of another important time of the year: cuffing season. On ESPN’s College Gameday broadcast from Happy Valley, one Penn State fan decided to take advantage of the reason for the season and proposed to his significant oth...
Tulane Defensive End Can Eat An Entire Apple In 90 Seconds
There aren’t many reasons for someone to tune into a Friday night college football broadcast of Memphis vs. Tulane, but thankfully the crew at ESPN2 understand this and try to spice things up in the lulls between plays. In a segment called “Hidden Talents,” the broadcast team showed an amazing video...
No Man Under 30 Has Won A Tennis Major<em></em>
Happy birthday to Marin Cilic, who turns 30 today, and thanks for making tennis history. As of Sept. 28, no men’s tennis player under the age of 30 has won a major. This has never occurred before in the sport. Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka, Juan Martin Del P...
Jon Jones And Daniel Cormier Are Destined To Beef Forever
Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones have maintained one of the longest-lasting and most high-profile rivalries in the UFC. There have been press conference fights, insane amounts of shit-talking, the fights that Cormier never managed to win, and a slew of failed drug tests by Jones. But with Cormier becomi...
The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is This Very Determined Rat At Wrigley Field
Wrigley Rat made his late-season case for NL MVP in Wednesday night’s game. Photographer Will Byington was filming as the tenacious, indefatigable little rodent tried repeatedly to make the leap from the fencing above the ivy to berm in center field....
Adam Thielen Blows Up Over Medical Timeout, Passes Concussion Protocol, Scores Touchdown
Adam Thielen got pretty well smashed on an incomplete pass from Kirk Cousins in the third quarter of Thursday night’s Vikings-Rams game. Thielen had the ball, but Cory Littleton’s forearm and then Cory Littleton’s knee crashed into Thielen’s head and jarred the ball loose, and Thielen seemed like he...
Amazon's Thursday Night Football Language Options: English, Spanish, Women
It was announced this week that Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer would become the first duo of women to call an NFL game during tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the Vikings and the Rams. Joe Buck and Troy Aikman would work the television broadcast, and Storm and Kremer would work the Ama...
David Beckham Avoids Speeding Ticket Thanks To "Mr. Loophole" Lawyer<em></em>
Instead of paying a speeding ticket like a normal person might, David Beckham opted to plead not guilty and take this thing to court. There, his slick lawyer—known by British media as “Mr. Loophole”—got him off on a technicality, the BBC reported. ...
Fiancée Of White Sox Pitcher Jace Fry Appears To Nuke Their Engagement Via Instagram
White Sox pitcher Jace Fry got his first career start Wednesday, against the Indians. It wasn’t a real start—the White Sox tabbed this one as a bullpen game, and Fry only pitched one inning—but, hey, a career first! Meanwhile, while he and his teammates were out there getting pounded by the Indians,...
Kelly Bryant Decides To Transfer From Clemson, Calls Benching "A Slap In The Face"
Clemson senior quarterback Kelly Bryant announced Wednesday morning that he plans to transfer after recently being benched. He will depart the program after one full season of being the starter, though not without a bevy of weird comments to take with him from head coach Dabo Swinney. ...
The Mets Are Somehow Screwing Up David Wright's Farewell
Ask a group of Mets fans what they want and you will get a variety of different answers. Some, maybe many, will say “hard drugs, the hardest you’ve got” and others will start talking about signing Manny Machado before trailing off and just staring into the middle distance. Bring the focus in some w...
These Photos Of Tony Parker In A Hornets Uniform Do Not Look Right
For a part of the NBA season that is not strictly a part of the NBA season, this is a pretty entertaining part of the NBA season. Teams don’t begin training camp in earnest until today, but Monday was media day, which meant players wearing their uniforms around team practice facilities, getting phot...
Khris Davis Made His MVP Case
This wasn’t supposed to happen. The Astros were the reigning World Series champions, the Mariners were considered a real contender. The A’s, meanwhile, were “rebuilding.” They weren’t supposed to be good even when they had a Major League–caliber pitching rotation, and then projected Opening Day star...
Ryan Fitzpatrick Is Finally Ryan Fitzpatricking
Oh boy. Last weekend Ryan Fitzpatrick was strutting around like a Times Square Conor McGregor impersonator, looking very secure as Tampa Bay’s starting quarterback after consecutive 400-yard performances. It’s now halftime of his team’s Monday Night Football matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and...
Vance McDonald Buries Chris Conte With Devastating Stiff-Arm
The longest walk back to the sideline of Chris Conte’s life had to come after this 75-yard Vance McDonald touchdown catch-and-run. Bring in the Eternal Sunshine machine to wipe this moment out of Conte’s memory forever:...
Luka Modrić Wins FIFA's Dumb Little "The Best" Award
Individual awards in soccer are inherently silly and effectively meaningless. FIFA’s premier individual award has been rendered even sillier and less meaningful recently after soccer mag France Football regained ownership of the actually prestigious Ballon d’Or, causing FIFA to invent their own “The...