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Mookie Betts Drove A Golf Cart Right Into A Lake
Red Sox center fielder Mookie Betts is an adept baseball man, as well as an extremely skilled bowler. What he’s not good at is driving a golf cart, apparently. He and Travis Shaw went golfing this afternoon, and they got a bit more amphibious than they wanted to....
Cricket Guy Somersaults In Mid-Air To Make Beautiful Catch
Corey Anderson is a bowler for New Zealand’s cricket team, and also apparently a future stunt double for action movies. This is like when pitchers catch line drives hit right back at them, only with an order of magnitude more swagger. I have to agree with our lovely-accented commentator here: that w...
Ankles Aren't Supposed To Bend This Way
Atletico Madrid’s feisty winger Yannick Carrasco left his team’s game at Getafe with this twisted ankle. After falling to the floor in pain, Carrasco tried to get helped to the tunnel, but he was eventually carried off the pitch....
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Just Go Ahead And Trip That Guy
Deliberate tripping in basketball is usually something done away from the play, out of sight from referees whose focus is on something else. This is not one of those examples. Here’s Winston Salem State guard C.J. Ford, whose frustration got the best of him during today’s blowout at the hands of Fay...
Ivan Johnson Got Banned For Life From Playing Basketball In Yet Another Country
Ivan Johnson, former Hawks power forward and one of the most intimidating NBA players in recent memory, was banned from the Phillipine Basketball Association for life this morning for, “addressing the Commissioner with profanities and showing utter disrespect for authority.” ...
Jay Bilas Jinxes Buddy Hield, Kansas Takes Down Oklahoma Again
If you’re not a superstitious person, or you don’t believe in the basketball gods, this here’s a good argument for conversion. ...
Shaq Goodwin T'd Up For Vince Carter Elbow Slam; Memphis Loses To Tulane In OT
Shaq Goodwin’s technical foul late in the first half led to three Tulane points after the Memphis forward drew referees’ ire by hanging on the rim by his elbow, 2000 Vince Carter-style. Those three points helped the Green Wave force overtime, and eventually beat the 14-11 Tigers 94-87. (Even more up...
"You're The Kind Of People I Want Eradicated From The Human Race." Watch NBA Refs Read Mean Tweets About Themselves
The NBA Referee’s Association dropped a pretty good video this morning, featuring a bunch of refs reading mean tweets about them sent to the @OfficialNBARefs account. Being an official certainly takes thick skin, so these guys took the burns in stride pretty well, including my favorite one, about To...
John Calipari Ejected In Under Three Minutes Against South Carolina
The #22 Kentucky Wildcats are on the road down in South Carolina this morning, and it took John Calipari mere minutes to get all riled up at officials and get himself tossed. Weirdly, it was after a foul was called against the Gamecocks....
Mets Pitcher Jenrry Mejia Becomes First Player To Receive Lifetime Ban For PED Use
Jenrry Mejia really likes taking steroids. He was suspended by MLB for 80 games when he tested positive for stanozolol last April, and was hit with a 162-game suspension three months later when he tested positive for stanozolol and boldenone. Today brings news that Mejia failed a third test, this ti...
Marquette Fan Makes Good On Promise To Pay Kris Dunn $10 To Miss A Free Throw
On the grand spectrum of things to yell at an athlete, “I will literally give you $10 if you miss this shot” falls squarely on the funny side. The only way to make that heckle even better is to follow through on the promise, which is exactly what Marquette fan Jamey Schilling did:...
Players Keep Complaining About Maryland's Under Armour Balls
Here’s a stupid fact about college basketball: The million-dollar sponsorship deals that schools sign with various apparel companies has created a sport in which there is no universal game ball. Nike schools use Nike balls, Adidas schools use Adidas balls, and so on....
Give Me An NBA One-On-One Tournament During The Boring, Low Energy All-Star Weekend, Or Give Me Death
The NBA’s All-Star Weekend isn’t very interesting anymore. Of the weekend’s three marquee events, only the Three-Point Contest is compelling. Creativity was drained from the Slam Dunk Contest years ago, and the All-Star Game is played with little more effort than I exert brushing my teeth. But there...
Conference Video Reveals Boise State-Colorado State Ending Botched By Bad Technology
Mountain West officials waved off James Webb’s would-be buzzer-beater because their replay technology counted time at double speed, a video released today by the conference reveals....
Report: The Rockets Are Shopping Dwight Howard
Not really a Woj bomb because it’s kind of obvious—the Rockets are a mess, interim coach J.B. Bickerstaff says they’re a “broken team,” Jason Terry says they don’t like each other—but Yahoo reports that Houston has started calling around the league to find a trade partner for Dwight Howard....
Stopwatch-Wielding Referees Blow It, Overturn Boise State Buzzer-Beater
Last night, Boise State looked to have beaten Colorado State University on an incredible shot by James Webb III with just 0.8 seconds left to play. Pretty amazing shot, right? It looks even better in slow motion:...
Wait, Did The Clippers Pretend To Stab Paul Pierce A Bunch Of Times?
The Clippers played in Boston last night, possibly marking former Celtics great Paul Pierce’s last chance to play in front of his old fans. Pierce received a warm welcome from the crowed when he was introduced, and then participated in a very strange skit with his teammates....