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Lukas Podolski Scores Goal Six Seconds Into Match Against Ecuador
The German national team traveled to Boca Raton, Fla., today to take on Ecuador in an international friendly, and the Ecuadorians wasted no time in serving up a big bucket of suck. Ecuador unwisely played the opening kick toward its own goal, and it took only six seconds for German striker Lukas Po...

Mike Francesa Breaks John Tortorella's Firing In Very Mike Francesa Way
Take note, reporters. This is how you announce breaking news:...

Rob Gronkowski Needs Another Goddamned Surgery
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski will have yet another surgery, this time on his back, and is expected to miss part of training camp. That's the best-case scenario....

Rays Suspend Prospect Who Bragged About Throwing Change At Strippers
Yesterday, we drew your attention to former first-round pick and über-brah Joshua Sale's Facebook page, which included a recent a status update about throwing loose change at strippers. Now it's being reported that the Tampa Bay Rays have suspended Sale indefinitely for "conduct detrimental to the o...

Feedbag: Are Bay Leaves The Shane Battier Of Foodstuffs?
Welcome to the Feedbag, where all the dumb questions about food, drink, cooking, eating, and accidental finger removal you've been embarrassed to ask can finally receive the berating they goddamn deserve. Also: answers. Send all your even-vaguely-food-related questions to [email protected]. Al...

Panthers Lineman Hits Cam Newton With A Fantastic Videobomb
Usually, the mark of a good videobomb is its subtlety, but Panthers lineman Jordan Gross is proof that the art form can also be deployed with a more overt sensibility. Gross's frantic jig was enough to get Cam Newton to forget the question that he had just been asked, so we'll call this videobomb a...

An Angels Reliever Is Throwing A Pitch No One Has Seen In A Long Time
Robert Coello, a 28-year-old righty in the Angels' pen, has appeared in but eight games this season. Yet what games they were! He has faced 38 batters and struck out 18 of them, with only six hits and one walk allowed. What's to credit? A pitch that might be magic....

OF Trips On Bullpen Mound, Fails To Make Catch, Plays For Marlins
Poor Marcell Ozuna just can't catch a break. The Marlins rightfielder actually saw where this fly ball was going off the bat of Evan Longoria, and he probably would have caught it if not for that bullpen mound. That stupid, reckless, what-the-fuck-is-that-doing-there bullpen mound....

Shane Victorino Said "You Know" 72 Times In One Three-Minute Interview
NESN's Red Sox pregame show regularly features a Geico-sponsored Quote Of The Day. Last night's quote, from outfielder Shane Victorino, was "you know." ...

The Rangers Have Fired John Tortorella
After four and a half seasons of halfway decent hockey (which included a Eastern Conference No. 1 seed in 2012 and a 19-25 playoff record overall), the New York Rangers have canned head coach John Tortorella....

Rutgers Really Did Close To No Vetting Of Its New AD
The bunker mentality has arrived in earnest at Rutgers: The embattled RU president Robert Barchi is standing behind even-more-embattled AD Julie Hermann and New Jersey governor Chris Christie is trying to stay as far away from the mess as humanly possible....

Former Division II Quarterback Found Dead In Michigan Woods
Cullen Finnerty, a former quarterback for Grand Valley State University and a three-time Division II national champion who was briefly a member of the Baltimore Ravens, was found dead Tuesday night by rescue workers who had been looking for him since he went missing on Sunday. Finnerty's body was fo...


Saints Receiver Joe Morgan Busted For Alleged DWI
The Earhart Expressway is a pretty damned busy highway. It's three lanes in either direction, and runs from New Orleans to the suburbs, and sometimes a Saints receiver passes out in his car in the middle of the road on a Saturday night....

Nobody Can Hijack A Playoff Game Quite Like An NBA Referee Can
With 1:20 left to play in last night's Heat-Pacers game, LeBron James received the ball on the left wing, stared down his defender, and then casually dropped a 28-foot three-pointer. It was a heroic shot, the kind of shot that NBA fans live to see in the playoffs, and it set the tone for what should...

Let's Watch LeBron's Block In Super-Slow-Motion
Goddamn, that was just absurd. When you consider just how routine and expected LeBron James's displays of dominance of have become, it's really a wonder that he can still surprise us with plays like this....

When The Yankees Face The Mets, It's Duckface Supreme
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Everything Went Wrong For The Heat, And The Pacers Won By Only Seven
The Indiana Pacers beat the Miami Heat tonight, 99-92. But before everyone pulls out the André Extra Dry and talks about how Indiana is going to do it and how the Heat might have finally met their match and how much of a clinic in hustle stats and team cohesion and bench spirit the Spurs-Pacers seri...

LeBron James Blocks The Absolute Shit Out Of George Hill's Layup
That's not fair, man. ...
