el Page 2003 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Accuse Someone Of Diving In Greek Soccer And You May Get Pantsed Like This Guy Here Did
Olympiakos defender Francois "Modesto reacted angrily after he was lambasted for appearing to feign injury by AEK Athens centre-half Cala during a Greek Super League clash on Saturday. Cala looked totally bemused as he stood with his black shorts around his ankles, yanking them up as quickly as he...
Kickass Hot Wheels Track Goes Upstairs, Downstairs, Around The Freaking Block
It took a lot of time and effort to build this 2000-foot long Hot Wheels track—From The Marbles says that's equivalent to 24 miles in big people land—with only a three-minute video payoff. We say it was absolutely worth it. We found ourselves unaccountably rooting for the little plastic car, espec...
Olympic Sprinting Is Sexist Toward Men, Says Research Paper I Don't Fully Understand But Sounds Plausible
We knew that false starts in sprinting are triggered by a sensor in the starting block. What we did not know is that a false start can still be triggered if a runner breaks after the starting gun—anywhere up to a tenth of a second after. This is because, the thinking goes, the human nervous system c...
Bryant Gumbel Drops One Little Plantation Metaphor, And Everybody Loses Their Shit
You'll notice that Bryant Gumbel never once used the s-word in his criticism of David Stern last night. His extended analogy called the players "hired hands," which ought to put the lie to any suggestion that actual, literal slavery was being evoked. That hasn't stopped the usual backlash that comes...
Soccer Player Apparently Stabbed In Eyeball After Soft Slap To Neck
The business of cataloging awful (and sometimes admirable) injury performances in soccer games is an important one, and we do not take it lightly. Also not apparently taken lightly: Incidental contact to Lille's Aurélien Chedjou's neck. The contact somehow automatically transported to the Cameroon...
This Is Shaq Speaking Out Against Anti-Gay Bullies
First, Michael Irvin appeared on the cover of Out magazine this summer and acknowledged how he's come to accept his gay older brother. Now, here's Shaq teaming up with the folks from GLAAD to lend his own voice to the issue. Progress. [SLAM]...
Michael Crabtree Says He Missed A Flight Because He Got Pulled Over By A Cop Who's A Raiders Fan
Crabtree, a 49ers wide receiver, first tweeted this: "Just got pull over on highway 280 on my way to the airport. Police kept me for 30 mins....." He followed that with what you see above. No word on why Crabtree was pulled over, in what municipality the traffic stop took place, or why Raiders fans ...
Here's Video Of Bryant Gumbel Calling David Stern A "Modern Plantation Overseer" On HBO's Real Sports Last Night
"His moves are intended to do little more than show how he's the one keeping the hired hands in their place." [The Basketball Jones, via Pro Basketball Talk]...
Homemade Hockey Pads Offer Little Protection, It Turns Out
For a German TV show, the two hosts planned to strap on their homemade armor and face the wrath of a full-ice body check at intermission of a Eisbären Berlin game. After seeing what happened to the first test subject, the second host decided that one was enough....
Progress! Rick Reilly Is Now Ripping Off Writers Who Are Not Rick Reilly
"The Heart Of Football Beats In Aliquippa," by S.L. Price, Sports Illustrated, Jan. 31, 2011. "Aliquippa's Silver Lining," by Rick Reilly, ESPN.com, Oct. 17, 2011....
Mr. Congeniality Bill Belichick Has Some Thoughts On The Postgame Coach Handshake
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Bill says it's all the media's fault....
SprtsCntr: Herm Edwards Can't Stop Talking About Darrelle Revis's Hands
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....
Won't You Help The Man With The 100-Pound Scrotum?
The Las Vegas Review-Journal today brings us the heartbreaking story of one Wesley Warren Jr., who just three years ago possessed a scrotum as normally sized as yours or mine. (Click here for video.) But something happened, something doctors can't explain. Suffering from scrotal elephantiasis, Warr...
Bruce Hornsby's Son Has A Rangy Dunk Arsenal
Keith Hornsby, the son of noted piano man Bruce Hornsby, is a freshman guard at UNC-Asheville. This is his dunk from their sparsely attended Midnight Madness. Those are some ups, indeed. Hornsby men. That's just the way it is....
A.J. Hawk's Middle Finger To His Sideline Was An Inside Joke That No Other Packer Knows Anything About
After Packers linebacker AJ Hawk flipped off his own sideline in Sunday's game against the Rams, he said it was a running joke with a couple of his teammates. Thing is, none of his teammates has come forward to admit any familiarity with this running joke....
A List Of Places Where Brett Favre Is Also Not Going, Yet
There is a special moment in the news cycle during which outlets report on things that are not happening, but that maybe could happen, but that also could not not happen because it would be so interesting if they did happen. Do you follow?...
Dan Wheldon Spent His Last Night Talking To George Maloof And Getting His And Hers Tattoos With His Wife
Poor, poor Dan Wheldon. The IndyCar driver died in a miserable, fiery wreck yesterday, leaving behind a wife and two young sons. Awful stuff. And this was before we found out that he spent his last night alive in the company of a Maloof before getting some tattoos....
Ozzie Guillen Will Appear On <em>Baseball Tonight</em> Throughout The World Series
It dawns on me that we could play a game with two tentpoles of recent Chicago White Sox squads. We'll call the game "Guillen OR Pierzynski." Said the White Sox drink rally beer during games to get themselves going? (Pierzynski.) Went on a profane tirade after the White Sox lost to Bruce fucking Chen...
No, Marco Fabian, Celebrating A Goal By Mock-Executing A Teammate Will Not Go Over Well In Mexico
Marco Fabian, a midfielder for Mexican Premiera powerhouse Chivas de Guadalajara, scores a lot of goals. Accordingly, Marco Fabian needs to celebrate a lot of goals. On Saturday, for example, he scored a hat trick in Chivas's 5-2 win against Tecos, and had to celebrate three different goals. This,...
Strip-Search Demanded At World Scrabble Championship To Find Letter "G"
It may come as news to most of the universe that the World Scrabble Championships took place last week, and ended yesterday when Nigel Richards of New Zealand defeated Aussie Andrew Fisher, 3-2. Richards ended the five-day tournament with 95 points on the word "omnified"—which, as proof that humans ...