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Albert Haynesworth Accused Of Sexual Assault
Haynesworth, who was charged with assault in a road rage incident on Feb. 2, has been accused of sexually assaulting a waitress at the W Hotel last weekend. Haynesworth's agent says there is "no truth to these allegations." [WRC-4]...
Nine Chinese Figure Skaters May Not Be The Age China Said They Were
After the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the IOC launched an investigation into the ages of China's women's gymnastics team, because it seemed very possible that a few members were not women at all, but actually pre-adolescent girls. The '08 gymnasts were eventually cleared, but it came out that a '00 Olymp...
Peter Forsberg Completes Two-Game Comeback For The Ages
Peter Forsberg, he of 885 career NHL points and a former winner of the Calder and Hart trophies, began his comeback by suiting up for the Colorado Avalanche on Friday night. It was his first NHL game since 2008, and Swedes were as excited as they could be. Unless Bjorn and Agnetha remarried....
Now Even Soccer Goalies Are Making Impressive Trick Shot Videos
Lassi Hurskainen, the junior goalkeeper at D-I UNC-Ashville, made a nice highlight video. You may remember him as the Finnish keeper who scored on an 80-yard free kick last summer....
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Now Even Soccer Goalies Are Making Impressive Trick Shot Videos | Lassi Hurskainen, the junior goalkeeper at D-I UNC-Ashville, made a nice highlight video. You may remember him as the Finnish keeper who scored on an 80-yard free kick last summer. (Emma Carmichael)...
Treat Yourself To The Motherlode Of Historic Shot Videos
Remember Hoopism's on-demand visualization of every slam dunk contest attempt? Well, they've done it again, this time for 65 of the greatest shots in NBA history. More like Hoopgasm, am I right? [Hoopism]...
Tiger Woods Spits On The Green, Golf Gets All Offended
Disgusted with his Sunday collapse in Dubai, Tiger hocked up a loogie on the 12th green. That was all announcer Ewen Murray needed to label Woods "arrogant and petulant," and the European Tour fined him an undisclosed amount....
My Audi was turned into an icicle and all I got was this free car
Manhattanite Peter Helfer found his Audi covered in ice from a broken water main. His car was on newspaper covers, on morning news shows, and all over the internet. Here's how it happened, in his own words. [Jalopnik]...
Big Baby Davis Would Like To Have This Fast Break Back
Your morning roundup for Feb. 14, the day A.J. stole Philadelphia's heart forever....
Croatian Soccer Fans Turn The Sky Red For Their Team
Croatia's oldest football club, Hajduk Split, turned 100 this weekend. So, fans appeared to storm the castle and torch everything in sight. Or something like that....
Big Yankees Fan Reports For Spring Training
Should've seen this one coming. With pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training in Florida and Arizona, Big Yankees Fan Michael LaPayower figured it was as good a time as any to break out the camera and start galavanting about....
Samuel Eto'o Saw Wayne Rooney's Excellent Goal And Did The Opposite
Inter Milan's Samuel Eto'o managed to hit the crossbar from about four yards away from the wide-open goal, with just a few moments left in the match. His team trailed Juventus 1-0. That's how it ended....
We Are All Dave McKenna X
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit gets disappeared. Today's topic: money-hungry nannies....
Gilbert Arenas Talks About His "Bum" Of A Baby Mama And Dead Pet Sharks
In the wake of getting served with child-support papers at halftime of a Magic/Wizards game, Gilbert Arenas is rather perturbed about his baby mama Laura Govan's approach to public shaming. So says a source in the D.C. media, who was kind enough to share straight-from-the-mouth-of-Arenas thoughts o...
Your Heat vs. Celtics Open Thread
Both the Celtics and the Heat have 14 losses on the season. When they get done playing this afternoon, one will be in sole possession of first place in the Eastern Conference and the other will have sole possession of second place....
NBA Rookie DeMarcus Cousins Removed From Plane, Suspended, Wants Respect
Sacramento Kings rookie DeMarcus Cousins was asked to leave the team plane bound for a game with the Phoenix Suns after getting into a dust-up with teammate Donte Green, per NBA Fanhouse....
St. Louis Wonders Whether Albert Pujols Is Worth 1.3 Million Common Folk
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch asks an interesting question in today's paper: Is Albert Pujols worth the biggest contract in baseball history?...
The NHL Doesn't Seem To Think The Islanders Can Control Their Players
Your morning roundup for Feb. 13, a day in which a Supreme Court justice prepares to celebrate five years of playing mum at work....
This Was The Day Snow Dong Evolved Into Snow Tits
Here's the subject line of an email sent by tipster Kadinsky of Milwaukee: "I see your snow dong..." The point comes into focus after the ellipsis: "and raise you a pair of snow tits. with sculpted bush." That's all you had to say, MF....