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How Players Manage To Scalp Their Super Bowl Tickets
The MMQB's Robert Klemko has a great story about a ticket broker hustling his way through the crazy, somewhat-shady secondary ticket market that sprung up at this year's Super Bowl. There's a lot of good stuff in here, including an answer to the question we've all found ourselves asking: Do players ...
Virginia Fan Turns Into Furious Dancing Machine, Somehow Loses Dance-Off
There was a dance-off at a Virginia basketball game last week, and it was a travesty. The fan who gave it her all lost to some shuffling guy. Grammys voters just keep sucking....
Only Kevin Durant Can Make Dropping 40 Look This Easy
Before we get to the highlights of the hyper-efficient 19-shot, 40-point eruption Kevin Durant put on the Nuggets last night in Denver, let's make a deal. I'll grant that, yeah, it came against a terrible team whose own coach has accused it of tanking, if the sorts of readers who'd be inclined to d...
Jeremy Lamb's Pregame Handshake Is The Most Fun
Here we have Oklahoma City Thunder benchwarmer Jeremy Lamb demonstrating that being an end-of-the-rotation NBA player is one of the best gigs in America....
WWE Star Seth Rollins Learns To Keep Nude Photos To Himself (NSFW)
Some wacky stuff is going down in the wrestling world tonight, reminding everyone of the number one rule of social media: only bad can come from it....
Skeleton Slider Nails Broom Left On Track During Run
Skeleton is a very cool and insane sport where people go down icy tracks head first at a billion miles per hour with their arms tucked to their sides that you could never convince me to attempt. The sport is difficult enough on its own: there's no need for added obstacles. But that's just what Canad...
The Phoenix Suns Have Lost An Awful Lot Of Games On Buzzer Beaters
The Phoenix Suns are humming along okay, barely ahead of New Orleans and Oklahoma City for the final playoff spot in the West. But they would be in a much better position if they hadn't gotten punched in the gut at the buzzer approximately a million times this season. A Blake Griffin three? An o...
FSU's Phil Cofer Posterizes Jahlil Okafor
Duke's Jahlil Okafor may be a candidate for player of the year, but Florida State's Phil Cofer just made him look ridiculous. The Blue Devils have come our poorly so far tonight in Tallahassee, for sure....
Soft-Ass Dog Dunked On
Below is Trey Kerby, of New York Times fame, posterizing pathetic little Yams, who looked like she wanted to take a charge but cleared out of the lane at the first sniff of contact. You'll never cut it in the PLBA, Yams:...
How Harry Kane Owned The Best Weekend Of The Premier League Season
You want to know why the Premier League is the best league in the world? It's for weekends like this past one, which feature a handful of headliner games, a couple more you didn't think would be that competitive but end up going down to the wire, and even when the title race is all but decided alrea...
Tony Dorsett On CTE: I Didn't Know "The End Was Going To Be Like This"
In 2013, NFL hall of famer Tony Dorsett was among the first few living football players to be diagnosed with signs of the chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease that manifests as dementia and depression. It's gotten worse—by definition, it'll get worse until he dies—and in a r...
A Credible Saint: How Dean Smith Became North Carolina's Moral Compass
The following is excerpted from To Hate Like This is to Be Happy Forever, by Will Blythe. ...
High School Basketball Game Derailed By Brawl Involving Fans And Players
A high school basketball game in Indiana had to be called off midway through the first quarter after an ugly foul sparked a brawl that involved both players and fans....
Atlético Destroyed Real Madrid, Proving Their Continued Greatness
November 29, 2010 remains infamous for all who remember what took place in the soccer world that day. The date itself probably doesn't ring a bell, but if I showed you a picture of an elated, triumphant Gerard Piqué stabbing the air with his raised hand, each of his digits spread wide, it'd probab...
Don't You Dare Ask Fran McCaffery About His Eye-Poking Player
Iowa's Adam Woodbury poked another guy in the eye yesterday, a thing that he's been doing far too often this season. After the game, a few reporters tried to ask Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery about all the eye poking. He was not having it....
Bob Mould On Friday's <i>Letterman</i> Is Better Than Anything On The Grammys
Bob Mould played Late Show With David Letterman on Friday, and rocked so hard the studio started falling apart. It's superior to anything you'll see on the Grammy Awards tonight....
Iowa's Adam Woodbury Can't Stop Poking People In The Eye
Okay, man, this is starting to get a little ridiculous....
Somebody Spoiled The <i>50 Shades</i> Ending For Billy Donovan
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Blake Griffin To Have Surgery To Remove Staph Infection
The Clippers announced today that power forward Blake Griffin will be having surgery to remove a staph infection in his right elbow. Griffin is flying back to Los Angeles today, and should have the surgery on Monday....
ESPN's Dan Dakich Gets In Twitter Fight With Mayor Of Champaign
During yesterday's win over Michigan State, Illinois guard Jaylon Tate received a technical foul for aggressively boxing out Travis Trice right after Trice had shot a free-throw. ESPN broadcaster and talking head Dan Dakich tweeted his thoughts about the play:...