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FYI: Tackling A Streaker May Result In A Face Full Of Balls And Ass
And we all have Ruben Wiki, a trainer for the New Zealand Warriors and a former rugby player, to thank for the helpful demonstration, captured here by the Otago Daily Times of Dunedin, NZ. A naked man had dashed across the pitch during halftime of Saturday's National Rugby League trial game between ...
Gareth Bale's Last-Minute Goal Is One Of This Season's Best
It is the age of golazos. Gareth Bale, no stranger to outstanding strikes in this Premiership season, had one of his most important as a last-minute goal seized three points for Tottenham Hotspur and third place in the league standings at the end of today's bout at West Ham. His sheer nerve to att...
J.J. Redick Shed Some Tears After Being Traded By Orlando
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Redick was Magic for seven years....
Photoshop Contest: Desmond Bryant's Derpy Mug Shot
Raiders DT Desmond Bryant was arrested Sunday morning, and charged with criminal mischief. Details are sparse, but the Chronicle reports he was booked for "allegedly going to a neighbor's house inebriated and causing a commotion."...
Here's Old Footage Of Bill Russell Going Coast To Coast And Jumping Over A Guy
This clip popped up on YouTube two days ago. According to the uploader, that's a young Bill Russell—playing for the University of San Francisco—grabbing a defensive rebound, streaking down the court on a one-man fast break, and jumping over some poor sap while gracefully laying the ball in. Accord...
The NHL Appears Ready For Radical Four-Conference Realignment
A year ago, the NHL introduced a major realignment plan. Gone were the six divisions, and two conferences. In were four geographic conference, with the winners of each thrown into a final four for the Stanley Cup. The Board of Governor's approved the plan, but it was essentially scuttled by the lock...
The Sports Fan: What I Learned From Three Days Of Watching Baseball With Bill Murray
In 1990, Peter Richmond spent three days with Bill Murray in Chicago, eating and drinking and watching ballgames at Wrigley Field. He wrote about the experience for The National Sports Daily. His story was recently republished on Bronx Banter and appears here with permission....
NFL GMs Want To Know If Manti Te'o Is Gay
The NFL scouting combine is an utterly useless event that exists for the sole purpose of maintaining the league's grip on the consciousness of the American sports fan as far into the offseason as possible. We only pay attention to it because we are told to pay attention to it. It's like the Valenti...
Third Grader Hits "Half-Court" Game-Winner At The Buzzer
It's official, Bob's Blitz must have every buzzer-beater ever, from every level of play. Today's goes young, with a third grader from Dubuque, Iowa, named Mason Kunkel....
The Chinese Slam Dunk Contest Was A Pit Of Sadness
The CBA held its all-star game in Guangzhou last night, and like in past years, it was kind of a mess. (The festivities took place between the end of the regular season and the beginning of the playoffs, so anyone who took part had either mentally checked out for the year or had much more important ...
Sandra Bullock Should Take Up Weightlifting
Sandra Bullock had some trouble opening the envelope for Best Editing last night, and perhaps she might avoid such embarrassing circumstances in the future if she starts a weightlifting regimen. After all, she's already got the liftface down pat....
Seth MacFarlane Wasn't The Worst Oscar Host Ever: In Defense Of A Boob
For Seth MacFarlane's critics, Sunday night was supposed to be the moment we finally got to see the guy get his comeuppance. A "billion" viewers around the world, one of the most prestigious gigs in all of entertainment: As Oscar host, this was his chance to justify his swiftly, perhaps inexplicably...
Derrick Rose Made A Sad Dunk
Here is Derrick Rose, warming up by himself before last night's Bulls-Thunder game, gingerly dunking a basketball just to prove that he can. The Bulls lost by 30. This has been your Sad Derrick Rose update....
Will Bynum Suspended One Game For Punching Tyler Hansbrough
What do you do when you want to take a swing at a guy nine inches taller? Do what Will Bynum did and slug Tyler Hansbrough in the gut. Pow. Not so tall now, is he?...
Alex Smith Trade Is "All But Done," But To Where?
It's hard not to feel bad for Alex Smith. After years of underachieving in a miserable 49ers offense, San Francisco turned things around. And it looked like Smith had figured things out too—he was on pace for one of the all-time most accurate passing years in NFL history when he was felled by a conc...
Carmelo Anthony Slaps Spencer Hawes, In That Special Carmelo Anthony Way
Last night as most of us were watching Renee Zellweger maybe overdosing onstage at the Oscars, the New York Knicks defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in a semi-important game, since it put an end to New York's four-game skid. The most notable thing that happened, though, was midway through the third q...
Your 100 Percent Bile-Filled Oscars Live Blog
It's finally here! Oscar Night! Speeches! Safe wardrobe choices! Four million references to "old Hollywood glamour"! Diet Pepsi commercials! Tap dance montages! THE WHOLE SHEBANG. I can't wait. I hope you've had as much Chardonnay as I've had, because I am feeling BITCHAY. ...
This Is The Most Virgil Picture Ever Taken
That you can't be totally sure that it actually is Virgil but you just know it is, is part of it. That he is in the center of the frame, but your eye is drawn anywhere but, is part of it. That a former professional wrestler's picture was taken outside the gaudy Madame Tussauds in chintzy Times Squa...
Oscar Pistorius's Brother Facing Charges Of "Culpable Homicide"
Oscar Pistorius's brother, Carl, was charged with culpable homicide in 2010 (or 2008, according to the AP) stemming from a car accident south of Johannesburg, in Vanderbijlpark. The charge was initially dropped and then recently reinstated. The news comes just days after it was uncovered that lead i...
Jimmie Johnson Wins Daytona 500; Danica Patrick First Woman To Place In Top 10
NASCAR elected to go on with the Dayton 500 today after Kyle Larson's wreck at the same track yesterday, when his car's engine flew through the protective fence and into the crowd before debris injured 28 spectators. Jimmie Johnson won the race for his second career victory at the Daytona 500, but ...