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Would A World-Class Sprinter Be The Best Baserunner In MLB?
Originally published on Baseball Prospectus. ...

World's Saddest Nets Fan Shits Into Urinal While Vomiting (NSFW)
The picture below the jump is not good. It is not good at all. It is probably something you don't really want to look at if you were planning on getting through the day without feeling queasy or generally disappointed in the current state of humanity....

Insane Person Endeavors To Poop The Rainbow
[stands in silence, agape, for many long minutes, as the wind blows]...

Chris "Birdman" Andersen Should Be A Guest On Every Postgame Show
Birdman was a guest on the Miami Heat postgame show after last night's victory over the Wizards, and he turned what could have been a very boring interview segment into a beautiful piece of performance art. ...

Knicks Try To Keep Season-Ticket Holders Away From Fan Protest
Fed-up Knicks fans plan to protest outside Madison Square Garden before the March 19 game against the Pacers. The visibility will be big—every person on their way into the Garden for that game will get a loud, ugly reminder that this team has gone and is going nowhere....

Justin Bieber's Latest Basketball Highlight Is A Sad Sham
Justin Bieber is back on the court, ballin' like only Justin Bieber can. Which is to say, he's forcing his poor manager, Scooter, to pretend like he just got juked out of his shoes by Justin Bieber's KraZy Dribbling Skillz. Seriously, look at this dive. You'd think he was some jobber selling for the...

There's No Meltdown Quite Like A Canucks Meltdown
I know it's hard to conceive of, but there will come a point when you actually feel sorry for Canucks fans. Yesterday's debacle, losing 7-4 to the Islanders after conceding seven goals in the third period, just hours after GM Mike Gillis wrote a letter to season-ticket holders stating the organizati...

This Division III Basketball Team Has The Best Bench Celebrations
The Colby College basketball team is probably not a thing that the residents of Waterville, Maine, need to go out of their way to see in action. It's Division III basketball, after all. The team's bench, on the other hand, is worth the price of admission....

How The Decision To Postpone Blue Jackets-Stars Was Made
When Rich Peverley collapsed, everyone—from the players who immediately summoned help, to the medical staff who treated him, to the officials who decided to postpone the game, to the league and in-arena personnel who kept fans informed—did their jobs perfectly and kept a scare from becoming a traged...

Dolphins Offer To Pay For Majority Of Sun Life Stadium Upgrades
Just nine months after trying—and failing—to get nearly $400 million in taxpayer dollars to pay for renovations to Sun Life Stadium, word comes out of Miami that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is willing to pay for the majority of the upgrades himself. This should be remembered every time a team tries ...

Is Sluggerrr Boning Mrs. Met?
Mr. Met joined Twitter today. He was immediately bullied by MLB's horniest mascot, the Royals' Sluggerrr....

Giancarlo Stanton Crushed A Big-Ass Home Run Today
This happened in the seventh inning of today's spring training game between the Marlins and the Mets. Can anybody mash a tater as hard as Giancarlo Stanton can? No, nobody can mash a tater as hard as Giancarlo Stanton can....

Marcin Gortat Wants The NBA To Allow Fighting
Kyle Weidie has a fun Q&A with Marcin Gortat (outtakes here), and the Polish center was asked about rule changes he'd like to see in the NBA. In the lighthearted spirit of the interview, he offered up that basketball could stand to be a little more like hockey....

The Astros Have A 315-Pound Player In Camp
Saturday saw the long-delayed, long-awaited spring training debut of Astros prospect Japhet Amador. At a listed 6'4", 315 pounds, should "el Gigante de Mulegé" make the club, he could very well be the heaviest major leaguer ever....

James Harden's Tomahawk Dunk Gets Animated
James Harden had himself a nice weekend. Yesterday, he went for 41 in an overtime victory against the Blazers, and on Friday he threw down this outstanding tomahawk dunk against the Pacers. His reaction was the icing on the cake. Enjoy the whole sequence, animated....

What Will The NHL Do About Shootouts?
The NHL's GMs kick off their annual meeting in Boca Raton today, and high on the agenda is what to do about the shootout—more specifically, how to stop it from happening so often....

Finnish Women's Basketball Game Features Brutal Sucker Punch
Keep an eye on the woman in the No. 33 white jersey, who gets knocked down by her defender near the free-throw line at the start of the video. After getting up and running down to the other end of the court, she calmly turns toward her opponent and unleashes a vicious sucker punch....

Money Earnin' Air Jordans
People still love their Jordans. ...

31 Buddy-Cop Clichés On <em>True Detective</em>
I really liked True Detective, and by the end of last night's wildly entertaining (and fucking terrifying) season finale, it became clear that the show is, at heart, your standard buddy-cop movie. It just happened to be brilliantly crafted, impeccably acted, stretched out to eight hours, and riddle...
