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Rockets Blow Out Clippers, Win Series After Going Down 3-1
Clippers-Rockets will go down as one of the stranger seven-game series in recent history....
Lionel Messi Goal Delivers Barcelona The La Liga Title
Barcelona’s win over Atlético Madrid returned Barça to the La Liga champion’s throne today, and it’s a shock to no one that Lionel Messi is the player who delivered them there....
Novak Djokovic Tops Roger Federer In Italian Open Final
Novak Djokovic will enter the French Open undefeated on clay this year after a 6-4, 6-3 win over Roger Federer in the Italian Open final on Sunday. Djokovic is now the winner of 19 of the last 41 Masters tournaments, and has won his last 22 matches. ...
Batter Hit By Pitch Catches Ball, Throws It Back To Pitcher
Pac-12 baseball action proved highlight-worthy when Arizona State outfielder Johnny Sewald snagged a pitch from Layne Bruner in his arm and casually tossed it back to the Washington State pitcher. It left the Pac-12 Network announcers delighted....
Rockies Strike Out Four Times In Same Inning For Second Night In A Row
One of baseball’s rarest feats took place for the second night in a row as a Dodgers pitcher struck out four Rockies batters in one inning, only the 75th time in history it’s happened....
Giancarlo Stanton's Moonshot Topped Only By The Fan Who Caught It
Giancarlo Stanton is a very good baseball man. When he hits the ball, often it leaps off of his bat approaching the speed of light, and goes much farther than any tightly wound lump of cork, yarn, and cowhide has any right to go. ...
Idiot On The Field Dressed Like Superman Gets Taken Down By Security
UFC is busy right now with Fight Night in the Philippines, but one security member at today’s rugby match between Grenoble and Toulouse showed he had the MMA moves as he does a somersault takedown of an Idiot On The Field dressed like Superman....
Kenley Jansen Strikes Out Four In One Inning During Season Debut
Holy crap, the Dodgers are even more terrifying. ...
Leroy Fer Rocket Goal Puts QPR Up 2-1
Disaster struck for relegation-fighting Newcastle as QPR’s Leroy Fer launched an intercontinental missile to put the Magpies down 2-1:...
Banned Manager Hires Cherry-Picker To Let Him Watch Match
Hamit Işık is banned from entering his team’s stadium for the next nine months, but that didn’t keep the Çorum Belediyespor manager from keeping an eye on his team’s playoff game. The Turkish league skipper is suspended for a recent interaction with a referee, and the stadium itself was closed to fa...
Under Armour Condemned Over Iwo Jima "Band Of Ballers" Basketball Shirt
A t-shirt that appropriates the imagery of raising the flag on Iwo Jima has apparel maker Under Armour under attack....
Sadio Mané Scores Hat Trick On Aston Villa In Less Than Three Minutes
In one of the most remarkable individual performances in professional soccer history, Southampton’s Sadio Mané managed to score three times on Aston Villa in less than three minutes. It’s still not the English league record, though. ...
Something Tells Us This Romney-Holyfield Fight Isn't On The Level
We feel this whole affair is better presented with a complete lack of context. (There’s some video below.)...
Stephen Curry Hits 65-Foot Buzzer-Beater
I mean seriously, come on. Is Steph Curry even human? Spanish-language call from ESPN Deportes below:...
We Have Another Addition To The Stephen Curry Highlight Reel
Not that anyone was really questioning whether Stephen Curry deserved to be the NBA MVP this season, but if you are still somehow a skeptic, he’s been showing some of the flash that earned him the league’s top honors—and one of those great moments happened in the first quarter tonight in Memphis....
Pittsburgh Pirates Lose In Hilarious Fashion
After the Cubs blew a chance to win when Starlin Castro was easily thrown out at the plate in the bottom of the 10th, Chicago made good when Gregory Polanco was unable to handle a similar short popup with the bases loaded in the 12th. In classic baseball scoring fashion, it was declared a single....
Bill Simmons's Goodbye Email: "I Am Done Being Involved With Grantland"
Since being fired by ESPN, Bill Simmons has sent multiple goodbye emails to members of the Grantland staff. Here is a portion of one of them:...
La'el Collins Nearly Didn't Make It Out Of The Draft
Former LSU offensive lineman La’el Collins had one of the most bizarre NFL draft sagas in recent memory. A surefire first- or second-round pick, Collins’s status was upended when he was named in connection with the murder of his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Brittney Mills. A paternity test for Collins ha...
Report: Bill Simmons Won't Be Appearing On Any ESPN Platforms
When ESPN president John Skipper announced that he would not be renewing Bill Simmons’s contract last week—four months ahead of his current contract’s expiration date—a lot of people were left wondering how Simmons would spend his last few months as a lame-duck employee. According to Sports Illustra...