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An Interview With A Man Who Climbed A Street Pole After Villanova’s National Championship
Two years ago, Simon Pinela watched as the Villanova Wildcats win the national championship on a buzzer beater. He was a junior in high school, and it sparked an interest in Villanova as a college choice....
Guy Fails To Catch Foul Ball, Neighboring Beer Suffers Consequences
Tonight’s Mariners-Giants game was rough for quite a few people. There’s Felix Hernandez, who allowed eight runs in four innings on the way to a 10-1 loss; there’s all of the Seattle fans who had to watch that; and there’s this guy, who brought his glove to the game but completely whiffed on this fo...
Markelle Fultz Update: Hey, He Took A Three!
It’s been a little more than a week since Markelle Fultz was activated to begin play for the first time since October, after months of working on rehabbing his busted shot. Entering tonight’s game against the Pistons, he’d shot 17-of-39 from the field since his return, but not one of those shot atte...
What The Hell Is Herm Edwards Talking About?
Herm Edwards is already facing plenty of doubters, not to mention adversity, as he tries to coach at Arizona State in his first college season since 1989. Early moments from Herm on the job have been both bizarre and kind of adorably weird, and at a press conference yesterday where he talked about p...
Tony Finau Fucked Up His Ankle While Celebrating A Hole-In-One At The Masters Par-3 Contest
Tony Finau, ranked No. 34 in the world, showed out at the Masters Par-3 contest with a very slick hole-in-one, which he immediately followed up by suffering some sort of gross-looking ankle injury while celebrating. ...
Von Miller Says The Bloody Shark He's Holding Didn't Die
Broncos linebacker Von Miller is reportedly under investigation by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission after his boating trip last week off the coast of Miami resulted in a photo of Miller holding a bloody hammerhead shark. Harvesting hammerheads in Florida waters is a misdemeanor,...
Manchester City Arrives For Champions League Match In Post-Apocalyptic Liverpool
Manchester City had a crazy bus ride into Anfield today ahead of their Champions League match against Liverpool, as the soon-to-be English champions were greeted by passionate home supporters who happened also to be armed with projectiles and flares. Alternately, if you don’t know the context, the ...
Ravens Sign Former Browns QB
The Baltimore Ravens announced today that they have agreed to a one-year deal with a quarterback who is not Colin Kaepernick....
Johnny Manziel: The Browns Should Have Known I Had No Idea What I Was Doing
Johnny Manziel’s odd redemption tour continued today when he appeared on The Dan Patrick Show. During the segment he was asked what he would go back and change about his rookie season if he had the chance, and his response was further proof that absolutely no one is incapable of clowning the Browns:...
Native American Lacrosse Teams Reported Racial Abuse. Then Their League Expelled Them.<em></em>
Lacrosse was played by Native American nations across North America long before it was colonized by Europeans. But despite Native people’s historical and cultural connection to the game, they were periodically banned from playing before the 1973 American Indian Religious Freedom Act restored Native...
The Sixers Beat The Nets So Badly They Played The Sixers Victory Song With 11 Seconds Left
The Sixers do not have Joel Embiid for the foreseeable future. He’s out after surgery for a fractured orbital bone. So far, that has not mattered. ...
The Predators Got Hosed By Goalie Interference
In a game loaded with playoff and seeding implications, Predators-Panthers had an ending that should terrify everyone that a rough goaltender interference call could fuck over any team at any time. Isn’t hockey great?!...
Miguel Herrera Says Toronto Cops Assaulted His Players At Halftime<em></em>
Club América coach Miguel Herrera claimed that Toronto police assaulted his players—goalkeeper Agustín Marchesín and defender Bruno Valdez, along with assistant coach Giber Becerra—during halftime of the team’s 3-1 CONCACAF Champions League semifinal loss to Toronto FC tonight. Toronto coach Greg Va...
Shohei Ohtani Socks His First Major-League Dinger
In his first at-bat since earning a win in his first major-league start two days ago, two-way rookie phenom Shohei Ohtani smacked one back to center field for his first major-league home run:...
Yankees Fans Incessantly Boo Giancarlo Stanton After New Arrival Records Platinum Sombrero
Reigning National League MVP Giancarlo Stanton is already a persona non grata in the Bronx as Yankees fans reacted to the slugger’s five-strikeout day against the Rays with a chorus of boos....
Max Holloway Has Less Than A Week To Cut An Ungodly Amount Of Weight
Nobody will say for certain what Max Holloway weighed when he agreed to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223, but he has until Friday afternoon to get down to 155 pounds if he wants a shot at the UFC lightweight title. That’s 10 pounds heavier than his typical fighting weight, though he’s a big feat...
The Rams Get Richer, Trade For Brandin Cooks
The New England Patriots spent a first- and third-round pick to get Brandin Cooks from the Saints last offseason, and now they’ve dealt the receiver (along with a fourth-round pick) to the Rams in exchange for a first- and sixth-rounder. That was fast!...
Will No One Protect This Aspiring Martial Artist From Himself?<em></em><em></em>
Here are the facts: Sri Lanka recently became one of the latest countries to launch a show in Simon Cowell’s Got Talent! series, which is aptly called Sri Lanka’s Got Talent!; Sudarshana Deshappriya is someone who has Got Talent, martial arts talent to be specific; Deshappriya ran into some painful-...
Is Donald Trump Really "The Michael Jordan Of Political Nicknames?"
Chris Cillizza’s job isn’t as easy as it seems, although it also isn’t nearly difficult enough to justify the salary he receives for doing it. What that job is even supposed to be is kind of a moving target, to be honest, but much of what Cillizza does in his current position as a political reporter...