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No Costa Rica, You Should Not Get To Redo A World Cup Qualifier Against US Soccer Because It Was Snowing
The Costa Rican men's soccer team is going to FIFA to ask for a replay of Friday's World Cup qualifying 1-0 loss to the United States, because it was snowing really hard. ...
The NHL Is NHL 94-izing Highlights
This is Patrick Kane's spin-o-rama from Chicago's 8-1 thumping of the Stars last weekend, given the NHL 94 treatment....
This Is Literally The Greatest Florida Gulf Coast University Dunk City Rap Video Featuring Bambi You Will Ever See
That is a stone-cold fact....
The Selection Committee Really Boned This Tournament
Gonzaga, the first top seed: gone. Oregon a ridiculous No. 12 seed "upset" Saint Louis. Perennial-choke-artist Georgetown a No. 2 seed: out. Perennial-choke-artist Pitt even in the field of 60-whatever. The selection committee is totally screwing up the the bracket. ...
Wichita State Stuns, Overwhelms, Flabbergasts, Bewilders, Dumbfounds Top-Seeded Gonzaga
Wichita State became only the seventh 9-seed in history to defeat a 1-seed, knocking off Gonzaga 76-70 in a result only hacky headline writers would call "shocking."...
There Are Some Lakerbro Wannabes At The Cal-Syracuse Game
Give it up, bros. You'll never be as good as the original....
This Is The Face Of A Man Stricken With March Madness
Update! It's now a Photoshop contest. PNG below:...
Are You A Wash-Out Football Player Who Feels Like Going To Rio In 2016? Take Up Rugby
Maurice Clarett, 11 years ago a great running back for Ohio State and a cautionary tale for the last decade, feels like going to the Rio Olympics in 2016. By learning how to play rugby, he may be giving himself a legitimate shot at getting there. ...
Costa Rica Is Not Happy About This
Last night it was very cold in Colorado, and there also may have been some precipitation. Despite the inclement weather, Costa Rica played its World Cup qualifier against the U.S. Men's National Team, and lost (fair and square) 1-0. For some reason, they are piqued. From Reuters:...
A Conservative Estimate Says That The Average Indiana University Basketball Player Is Owed Around $156,000 For This Season
People that want to preserve amateur athletics often say that student-athletes are compensated, contrary to appearances, because just about everyone on a top tier sports team is getting an education on an athletic scholarship (even the kids at Harvard, these days). If they get a free ride, isn't tha...
Trent Richardson Is Being Sued For "Orchestrating A Physical Assault" After A Browns Win In December
Browns running back Trent Richardson, in the news lately as an example of how not to run, has been named in a lawsuit, along with his girlfriend and brother, by two women claiming that Richardson commanded three other women, his girlfriend among them, to assault them for disrespecting his home after...
How To Grill Chicken Breasts: A Guide For Heretics
The boneless, skinless chicken breast is the totemic foodstuff of the health-obsessed, because of the nutritional potency of chicken, because of the relatively low fat content of the boneless, skinless breast relative to other nutrient-dense animal proteins, and because in 99 percent of its preparat...
Here Are Some Photos Of Marshall Henderson Out Drinking After Yesterday's Win
Marshall Henderson had an exceedingly Marshall Henderson day yesterday. As you probably know by now, he started off Mississippi's upset win over Wisconsin one of 13, a ratio that would shatter the confidence of even the steadiest shooters. Of course, Henderson isn't "steady" so much as "cartoonishly...
Tree-Poisoner Harvey Updyke Will Spend Six Months In Jail And Five Years On Probation
Harvey Updyke, the Alabama football fan that, in 2010, poisoned two oak trees that figure prominently in Auburn athletic traditions, and then essentially confessed to the act (a Class-C felony in Alabama) unbidden on Paul Finebaum's radio show, accepted a plea deal on Friday. While Updyke will get c...
Those Plucky FGCU Basketball Players Live On An Actual Beach
You may think "Hollywood Upstairs Medical College" or "Ponzi scheme" when you hear "Florida Gulf Coast University," but that's not fair: FGCU—which looks like what you see above—is very much a real place, with documented students, and classes, and dorms and stuff. Indeed, that picture, provided by C...
Shabazz Muhammad Is Exactly One Year Older Than We All Thought
Yesterday, as UCLA was gearing up for its first tournament game (an upset loss to Minnesota), the Los Angeles Times published a profile of the father of Pac-12 freshman of the year Shabazz Muhammad. The piece revealed, among other odd things, that he had been lying about his son's age for some time—...