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Fabrice Muamba Is Looking Damn Good
Just 13 days after his heart stopped on the pitch, Bolton's Fabrice Muamba had a friend send this photo out from his Twitter account. He's sitting up, he's smiling, and he's alive. "Fab wanted me to post this pic," the friend writes, "and to also say thank you for such overwhelming support." [Twitte...
Bolton Win One For Muamba
From now until the end of the season, we'll be posting a number of clips from the previous weekend's English Premier League games. If there's a goal, save, dive, lip-read profanity, or hocked sputum we should know about, drop us a line at [email protected]. (You might also enjoy our better-late-than...
Racist Tweets About Fabrice Muamba Get Student 56 Days In Jail
When Bolton's Fabrice Muamba collapsed and his heart stopped for more than an hour, onlookers could only pray. The professionals could do more, defibrillating his heart back into action and saving his life. Meanwhile, a 21-year-old Welsh asshole was merrily Tweeting away that he hoped Muamba was dea...
Fabrice Muamba Was Alive And Cracking Jokes After Being "Dead" For 78 Minutes
From now until the end of the season, we'll be posting a number of clips from the previous weekend's English Premier League games. If there's a goal, save, dive, lip-read profanity, or hocked sputum we should know about, drop us a line at [email protected]. (You might also enjoy our better-late-than...
Gary Cahill Paid Tribute To Fabrice Muamba After Scoring In Today's FA Cup Match
In a reminder that the English footballing community is a tight one, Chelsea defender Gary Cahill paid tribute to his former Bolton teammate Fabrice Muamba after scoring the opening goal of the Blues' FA Cup tie with Leicester City with a "Pray 4 Muamba" t-shirt under his jersey....
FA Cup Match Abandoned After Bolton's Fabrice Muamba Collapses Midgame [UPDATE]
Today's FA Cup clash between Tottenham Hotspur and Bolton Wanderers was suspended after Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba collapsed on the pitch and was given CPR in the first half of the match....
The Eddie Murphy You Love Is Dead
While suffering through this year's Oscars—ha ha, Billy Crystal kissed George Clooney, ha ha—it was hard not to think, "Geez, if Brett Ratner had kept his mouth shut, none of this would have happened and Eddie Murphy could have been the host." Indeed, the news last year that Murphy had agreed to hos...
Who Want To Confuse Mutombo?
Dikembe Mutombo's nephew Harouna nearly led his Western Carolina team to the NCAA tournament last night, only to lose in double overtime. It was an improbable run, and it gave us this Mutombian reaction that can only be described as pure gold....
Dikembe Mutombo And The Case Of The Missing Congolese Gold
Earlier this year, the Houston Chronicle reported that Kase Lawal, a rich Houston businessman appointed by Barack Obama to a FTC committee, had become enmeshed in an illicit scheme to smuggle several tons of gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2011. What caught the eye wasn't so much...
Former Virginia Lacrosse Player George Huguely Found Guilty Of Second-Degree Murder
Yeardley Love's murder occurred in May 2010, when a drunken Huguely, according to police, choked Love, his girlfriend, and slammed her head against the wall. He stole her computer (Huguely was also convicted of grand larceny) and left her there....
Turns Out That African Fellow Running A Gold-For-Sale Scam Was Dikembe Mutombo
WHO WANTS TO SEX BUY $10 MILLION WORTH OF CONFLICT MINERALS FROM MUTOMBO?...
Here's How To Snap Your Femur Playing Football
SMU's Jared Williams suffered a break of the largest bone in the human body in the fourth quarter of the Mustangs' BBVA Compass Bowl matchup against Pitt. The snap was loud enough to be heard on the sidelines (and, thus, ESPN's field mics) and left Pitt defender Andrew Taglianetti emotionally deva...
Watch A Canadian Junior Hockey Team Humiliate Team And Country With A Bieber Christmas Song
Ladies and germs, the Edmonton Oil Kings with "All I Want For Christmas" featuring Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber and bunch of fellows who want to grow up and be the next Tomas Vincour....
A Muppet Interfered On WWE Raw Last Night
Back in the early 90s, wrestling was criticized as being for kids. Characters were cartoonish, issues were black and white, storylines were g-rated. Then the Attitude Era came, and realism and edginess were prized. In 2011, Beaker helps an Italian stereotype win a match....
Kobe Bryant Makes A Cameo In UC Irvine Athletics's Horrendous "Love Shack" Video
When Ray Lewis worried about the societal ramifications of an NFL lockout, he said evil would result. While he didn't say so, it's not much of a stretch to think it similarly applies to an NBA lockout....
Nick Nolte Admits Late Night <em>Warrior</em> Boozing In Random Pittsburgh Apartment Was Bad Idea
Nick Nolte gave a candid interview to Movieline about the very Nick Nolte evening he got himself into while trapped in Pittsburgh on the set of the Tom Hardy brawl-fest Warrior. Amazingly, Nolte, age 70, straightened himself out in time before he ended up splashed all over The Smoking Gun again....
Maryland Football Players Will Dress In Whatever Clown Suit Under Armour Tells Them To
These new uniforms are the work of Under Armour. In their combinatoric ugliness, they are seemingly modeled on Nike's gear for Oregon, which is to say the uniforms are there to turn a bunch of under-compensated college kids into dress-up dollies modeling whatever hideous new breathable wear the comp...
Rugby Player Who Took An Axe To Three Guys Who Allegedly Gangraped His Daughter Didn't Have A Daughter After All
There are a couple of details to update about the whole "Alleged Gang Rape Of Daughter Drives Former Pro Rugby Player To Decapitating Axe Murder" story. For one thing, he's been identified as former Blue Bulls player Joseph Ntshongwana....
Redskins TE Chris Cooley Discusses Why He'd Want To Punish Snooki
The 2011 Washington Auto Show played the fame card in booking Redskins tight end Chris Cooley and Seaside Heights low center of gravity Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi to appear. This CSNWashington video indicates that the encounter lasted mere seconds....
How Sports And Indie Rock Finally Fell In Love
Kurt Cobain often spoke of being terrorized by jocks in high school, as if to certify his poetic loserdom. These days, anyone with a camera handy at Lollapalooza or Pitchfork can create his very own hipster version of Straight Cash Homey. What happened in between? Duh, the Internet. What ever happen...