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Tuesday Night Fights: Some Notes On Cabbie Violence, From An Atlantic City Jitney Driver
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Mass Fight TAXI Driver Punches Passenger." Tonight's commentator: Atlantic City's @JitneyGuy, who cruises the seaside resort with a motto of "You Drink, I Drive! For A...
Rockets GM Daryl Morey Has A Counterintuitive And Analytic Reason For Giving Money To Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney is not a really popular guy, except in the Cayman Islands. Lots of people like him because he's not Barack Obama, and lots of people like him because his party's platform aligns with their personal views, but no one really seems to like Mitt for his essential Mittness. But Daryl Morey, t...
Tuesday Night Fights: The Dead Milkmen's Rodney Anonymous Learns Who Kenny Chesney Is From Watching A Concert Brawl
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Brawl at Concert 2012." Tonight's commentator: Rodney Anonymous, frontman of The Dead Milkman and semi-regular TNF review artist....
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Bull Gores The Shit Out Of Matador [Possibly NSFW]
This is the moment Fernando Cruz took a horn halfway through his abdomen, at a Madrid bull ring on Wednesday. Cruz received a couple of gores, to his stomach and abdomen, with both horns. If you're not a fan of killing animals for sport, maybe you're applauding this news. We're not about to call you...
Soccer Player Hits Referee, Match Abandoned After Referee Flops To The Ground
Benfica defender Luisão (wearing number four in black) punched or shoved or hit referee Christian Fischer during a match between Fortuna Dusseldorf and Benfica which resulted in the match being abandoned. Sure, the officials should never be physically battered, or assaulted for that matter, but th...
Hungary Forced Overtime In Women's Water Polo With A Buzzer-Beating Sneak Attack
It was all over, and then it wasn't. In the women's water polo bronze medal game, Australia looked like it had everything sewn up when goalkeeper Alicia McCormack stopped Rita Keszthelyi's long-range shot with about 10 seconds to go. The celebration began, since all the Aussies had to do was run ou...
Hop On Back Of The Bobby Petrino Apology Tour, Which Begins Today
It's been just under four months since Arkansas fired Bobby Petrino for hiring his young girlfriend to an athletics department position, paying her extra under the table, and lying about it. Four months is barely enough time to break in a new hairstyle, but, naturally, Petrino has found the time to ...
MLB Speeds Up Games By Sending Strongly Worded Letters To Slow Pitchers
Over at Baseball Prospectus, Adam Sobsey got hold of a letter from MLB disciplinarian Joe Garagiola Jr. to Colorado Rockies pitcher Mike Ekstrom. (Click to enlarge.) In two consecutive appearances against the Phillies, Ekstrom took more than his allotted 2:25 to warm up—going over by nearly a full m...
Chris Kluwe Revels In Watching Ladies Kick The Snot Out Of A "Jizz-Gargling Brosef"
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Girls Whoop Dude Ass." Tonight's commentator: friend of Deadspin and Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe....
Vin Scully's Bowdlerized Translation Of Jim Tracy's Meltdown Tonight Is One Of Broadcasting's Great Moments
Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully is a national treasure for myriad reasons, but we saw just one facet of his abilities tonight, when umpires declared a liner off Shane Victorino's bat to have been trapped by Rockies center fielder Dexter Fowler. It would have been the third out of the inning, and it ...
These Fans At Last Night's Cardinals-Rockies Game Might Still Be Chasing This Foul Ball
This is what happens to a foul ball that gets hit into the stands at Coors Field in the late innings when no one's there to grab it. That announced crowd of 29,547 really hung around till the end to see if the Rockies could battle back after falling behind in the seventh. As a result, the ball ......
Jim Everett Talks About A Fight On Jordanian TV, Middle Eastern History, Plaxico, Taxes And, Yes, Jim Rome
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Jordanian Politician Pulls A Gun On Critic On T.V.." (Action starts about 25 seconds in.) Tonight's commentator: former NFL Pro Bowl quarterback (and current assets ma...
Somebody Please Tell The Colorado Rockies The Inning Is Over
When a team is nearly 30 games under .500 and in the midst of getting swept at home for the sixth time this season, it can feel like the misery never ends. So it was on Sunday afternoon in Denver. The Reds scored three runs in the fifth inning, which made it the 10th time in 14 games Colorado has yi...
Drew Magary Breathes Some Common Sense Into A Stand-Your-Ground Courthouse Brawl
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Old man got KO power. Osceola, FL Courthouse Brawl Breaks Out." Tonight's commentator: Deadspin columnist Drew Magary....
Rockies Fans Aren't Even Allowed To Wear Paper Bags On Their Heads
There are teams you want to see lose. Franchises that give you some sort of sick joy from their struggles, fanbases you eagerly wish August mathematical elimination upon. The Colorado Rockies are not one of those teams....
Doping, Cheating, And Insta-Celebrity: The Story Behind The First Great Sports Action Photograph, Taken In 1908
I grew up in a home without a television. When my parents’ TV went on the fritz, the story goes, they didn’t bother to get it fixed. So my earliest visual sports memories came not from watching television, but from gawking at the photographs in oversized books like The Wonderful World of Sport....
Tuesday Night Fights: A Model Bloodied The Face Of "Godzilla" Outside A Detroit Club
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Girl fight. Me against godzilla," brought to you by "Ms Dawtas." Tonight's commentator: Windsor, a professional model, actress and "The Blonde One In The Blue Dress."...
Minor League Football Organization Bans Two Players For Life After On-Field Brawl
The Northern Elite Football League (not to be confused with minor league football competitor New England Football League) banned two players for life after a nasty brawl broke out in Eau Claire, Wisconsin between the Lake Superior Rage and Eau Claire Crush....
The Moral Of This Fight Video, According To A Dead Milkman: "Rastas Can Be Pretty Badass When The Need Arises"
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Rastafarian War (Real Hot Head Rasta)," brought to you by "Jamaican War heads." Tonight's commentator: Back for an unprecedented third video-review slot: Rodney Anonym...
A Lady Street Brawl, As Critiqued By Twitter Legend ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "girl fight at club after she gets banned." Tonight's commentator: Twitter's ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER, aka @Zodiac_MF, who offers a very special review of footage shared wit...