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Last-Second 40-Yard Goal Sends HS Soccer Team To District Finals
With the score knotted at a goal apiece and the overtime clock dwindling, Aurora (Ohio) High School's Trever Wendel kicked a might-as-well prayer from about 40 yards out. Somehow it cleared the goalie and ducked the bar, and Aurora was off to the district finals....
You Guys, There Might Be A Secret Species Of Bear Roaming The Himalayas
Big bear news today, everyone!...
Mike Francesa And <em>Daily News</em> Reporter Battle To See Who Screams Louder
One of the Daily News's I-Team reporters who's been on the A-Rod beat, Michael O'Keeffe, went on WFAN and YES today to spar with Mike Francesa. The battle lines: Francesa thinks the News has been on a witch hunt against A-Rod, and the News thinks that's crap. The 40-minute or so interview broke Twit...
Here Are The New (Ridiculous) Creamsicle Orange Knicks Uniforms
Oh dear god. ...
New Looks At The New Falcons Stadium
WSB-TV in Atlanta has gotten a look at some of the newest renderings of the new Atlanta Falcons stadium, tentatively set to open for the 2017 season. Once again, be aware these designs will change somewhere, but the current plan is for an arena that looks like none other....
Bucs' Cannon Scares The Shit Out Of Cam Newton And Steve Mariucci
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers got trounced by the Carolina Panthers last night, but they did succeed at making Cam Newton and Steve Mariucci nearly die of fright. ...
Lightning Defensemen Combine For Humiliating Own Goal
The timing couldn't have been worse. With 1:49 left in regulation, just 40 seconds after the Lightning had taken the lead on the defending champ Blackhawks, Matt Carle inexplicably and forcefully fired a pass back at Radko Gudas. It deflected off a surprised Gudas's skate, skittering past Ben Bishop...
Off-Broadway Joe: The Song And Dance Of A Playboy Nearing Middle Age
Originally published in the July 1981 issue of Inside Sports. Reprinted here with the author's permission. For more on Namath, check out this reprint of a frank Playboy interview from 1969....
Vodka Samm: "I Didn't Come To College To Drink And Be Vodka Samm"
Vodka Samm has spoken....
Bill Murray Talks Vodka, Red Sox And Making Men Weep
...with Noah Charney over at Esquire.com....
Book Excerpt: Nicholas Dawidoff On The 2011 New York Jets
Over at Men's Journal check out this excerpt from Nicholas Dawidoff's new book, Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football:...
Greg Oden Has Been Sighted Playing Professional Basketball
Tonight perpetual pine-rider Greg Oden, who was picked ahead of Kevin Durant in the 2007 NBA Draft, logged his first minutes in an NBA game since 2009. The Heat put him on the floor for almost four solid minutes. Oden, who was picked ahead of a guy who has scored more than 12,000 points in 460 caree...
NBA Finals Will Return To Boring Ol' 2-2-1-1-1 Format
After almost 30 years of using the 2-3-2 schedule in the Finals — giving the team with the worse record three straight home games — the NBA voted today to return to a schedule that would alternate venues for the final four games of a seven-game Finals. The 2-2-1-1-1 format is more "fair," according ...
William Harrison, Author Of Sports Dystopia <em>Rollerball</em>, Has Died
William Harrison, the author and screenwriter whose 1975 classic Rollerball semi-accurately foretold how the future of sport would suck, died Tuesday, just shy of his 80th birthday....
That Time Mike Matheny Took A Fastball To The Face And Barely Flinched
The World Series begins tonight, which means it's as good an occasion as any to look back at one of the more memorable moments from Cardinals manager Mike Matheny's playing career: The night a 90-something-mph fastball hit him square in the face and he barely reacted....
John Tavares Would Like To Show You His Disgusting Tooth Implants
We all kind of cringed/wretched a little bit when Islanders captain John Tavares yanked out one his front teeth right there on the bench a few weeks ago. So (ugh) let's re-live (gulp) it by checking out (covers eyes) what his mouth looks like now (runs away from computer)....
Remembering Pat Summerall's Wonderful <em>Murder, She Wrote</em> Read
Yesterday's episode of A Football Life profiled longtime broadcaster Pat Summerall, who passed away earlier this year. It was loving without being hagiographical, devoting an entire segment to Summerall's alcoholism. But the most fun bit was this, noted and pulled out by Kissing Suzy Kolber....