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Lentil Ricochets Six Feet, Easy, Off Of An Abdomen
I know there will be six kinds of naysayers, and while there is no notary public involved, I have photo documentation of a French green lentil falling from mouth-height, ...
Astros Acknowledge Leak Of Trade Talk; FBI On The Case
Just now, the Astros have issued a statement regarding the release of internal trade chatter from the front office's intranet:...
Marlins Deny Giancarlo Stanton Trade Talks
In today's leak of the Astros' internal trade chatter, the biggest bombshell was mention of Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton. Here's how it was worded in the Astros' system:...
Gambling Addict/Airport Scammer Spills His Life Story On Message Board
There is a fascinating thread over at the Two Plus Two poker forums that starts off as an everyday tale of an attempted scam at Las Vegas's McCarran Airport, but spirals into something else entirely....
Nigeria Just Cleared A Certain France Goal Off The Goal-Line
Nigeria are giving France everything they can handle, but it looked like les Bleus would finally take the lead with this partially-saved Karim Benzema shot, until Victor Moses came storming back to clear it off the line....
Jason Kidd Has Been Traded To The Bucks
Well, that escalated quickly. Over the weekend, reports about Brooklyn Nets head coach Jason Kidd's unhappiness with his employers began to surface, along with talk that the first-year head coach was looking to escape to Milwaukee. Now it's being reported that Kidd has gotten his wish....
Texas Tech Recruit Punches Women's Hoops Star In Pickup Game
Incoming freshman cornerback Nigel Bethel II was dismissed from the Texas Tech football team yesterday, a day after punching Amber Battle, the Lady Raiders basketball team's leading scorer, in the face during a pickup game. Rec center hoops are serious fucking business....
Arjen Robben Apologizes For His Dive (But Not <em>That</em> Dive)
Arjen Robben blatantly dove multiple times in the Netherlands' comeback win over Mexico. He was also fouled multiple times. These happenings were not necessarily concurrent, though on certain plays they were, and they appeared to be on the final, fatal penalty call in the box. That's an unsatisfying...
A Misspelled Name Is The Greatest Honor
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Mike Tirico Thinks Costa Rica Is An Island Nation
ESPN's Mike Tirico described Costa Rica during today's pre-game show as an "island nation." No, that's not right....
Let's Watch Bartolo Colon Swing Poorly In Slow-Mo
Earlier this season, Bartolo Colon recorded his first hit since 2005. (He now has two on the season!) But in the fourth inning of today's Mets-Pirates game, he wasn't Bartolo the Slugger. He was Bartolo the Whiffer....
Netherlands Break Mexico Hearts With Late Goal, Penalty
Mexico were minutes from advancing to the quarterfinals before Wesley Sneijder hammered home a corner rebound and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar converted a stoppage-time penalty to beat El Tri 2-1....
Jason Kidd Could Already Be Leaving The Brooklyn Nets
After just one season, Jason Kidd might be done as head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and possibly head to Milwaukee....
Mexico-Netherlands: Did Australia Lay The Blueprint For An Upset?
I remain unconvinced by Netherlands. It's madness, I know. ...
No One Wants To Play Colombia, Because James Rodríguez Is Unstoppable
The World Cup has always been a tournament of superstars. What separates the fates of these hodge-podge collections of countrymen wrangled together a couple dozen times per year to form some semblance of chemistry and playing coherence ahead of the Big Shebang is very often one particular player's a...
Brazil's Goalkeeper And Goal Frame Keep Them From Falling To Chile
The sport of soccer being what it is—a game of players, whose fates are judged on the last moments they leave us with—Brazil's goalkeeper Júlio César will go down as today's hero when his team outlasted Chile to win on penalties. But even as strong a performance as his should not overshadow the impa...
Trout Go Boom
Mike Trout murdered a baseball last night. They found it bobbing in some water, like a dead...fish, but it did not drown; it was bludgeoned to death. ...
Swaggy P Juked Out Of The Gym By Little Kid
This little kid had Swaggy P on tilt. The crossover and behind-the-back dribble really seemed to catch Nick Young off guard and he never recovered. Once the time came for the pump fake, the eager Swaggy P was flying off the court. ...
Julius Randle Made Everyone Feel Very Old After He Got Drafted
Julius Randle was pretty damn excited when the Los Angeles Lakers drafted him with the seventh overall pick last night. After the draft, he took to Instagram to let everyone know that he's always been a Lakers fan, and in the process he inadvertently made a whole bunch of basketball fans feel super,...
How Muslim Athletes Deal With Ramadan
For the first time since 1986, the World Cup and Ramadan will overlap. Ramadan's a month in the Islamic calendar—a lunar calendar—in which Muslims, among other things, abstain from food and water during the day, breaking fast at sundown. The fasting will start Saturday. There's a substantial number ...