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Goalkeeper Tries To Pretend He Didn't Do The Incredibly Dumb Thing He Just Did
To throw a ball into one’s own net is the single worst thing a goalkeeper can do. To throw the ball into one’s own net, and for that colossal boner to not be the biggest takeaway from the incident in question, takes some serious work. So we doff our cap to this Ethiopian keeper who managed just that...
Lawyer: Michael Bennett "Never Touched" Paraplegic Stadium Worker
Michael Bennett appeared in a Houston courtroom today and posted bail on his felony charge of injury of the elderly. The charge was filed last week when prosecutors said that, in a rush to get onto the field at Super Bowl 51, Bennett pushed through a crowd and hurt a paraplegic security worker. Toda...
Markelle Fultz Shooting Form Update: Never Mind, Shot Not Ready For Actual Game
After months of working on his completely broken shooting form—making it smoother, longer, better—Markelle Fultz was declared ready for game action and came off the bench tonight for the first time since October. Here’s how his six minutes of play in the first half went: ...
Four Idiots On The Field Invade Portugal Match; One Tries To Kiss Cristiano Ronaldo
At one point during today’s Portugal-Netherlands friendly match, there were three Idiots On The Field who tried to share a moment with Cristiano Ronaldo. One of them went so far as to attempt to lock lips with the Portugal captain:...
Markelle Fultz Shooting Form Update: Shot Ready For An Actual Game
Over the past month, Sixers first overall pick Markelle Fultz has improved his busted-ass shooting form, not only making his shot smoother but also longer. The culmination of all that hard work came today, when the team announced Fultz will play in tonight’s game against the Nuggets. Head coach Bret...
Tennis Players Squabble Over The Identity Of One Guy's Father: "That's My Fucking Dad"
The Miami Open’s feisty this year. A few days after Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas were entangled in some midmatch tennis toilet beef, Fernando Verdasco and Thanasi Kokkinakis generated some juicy dad beef....
<i>New York Times</i> Vows Column Includes Charming Anecdote About Groom Being Assaulted By FSU Fans
True love! It comes for all of us, if we’re lucky, and if we’re wise enough to recognize it when it does. Usually it’s identifiable only in hindsight. Go ask any happily married couple, and they’ll eagerly and wistfully tell you about the moment when they realized their partner was The One. Oh, that...
Report: Saints' Puritanical Policy Makes Cheerleaders Leave A Restaurant If Player Walks In
Former New Orleans Saints cheerleader Bailey Davis has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after she says she was fired in January for posting a photo on her personal Instagram account of herself in a one-piece swimsuit. That would seem like a pretty dumb reason to fir...
The NFL Coaches Have Once Again Posed For What Would Be The Worst Season Of <i>The Bachelorette</i>
The NFL coaches traveled to Orlando this year for their annual meeting, and posed for a photo that would also be the least satisfying dating show field in history. (Hi-res version here.) Andy Reid picked a powerhouse of a Hawaiian shirt to wear this time around, but what can’t be seen in the officia...
Geoffrey Kamworor Raced Ten Miles, Then Ran A 13:01 5K<em></em><em></em>
The first three quarters or so of this weekend’s IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia, Spain, were cagey and uneventful, as the runners hung out and watched each other while being buffeted by powerful gusts of wind. Then, with about six kilometers left to go, two-time defending world c...
MMA Guy Apologizes For Celebrating Bizarre KO With Front Flip Off Opponent's Body
The knockout you are about to watch was weird as hell, and yet somehow it was just a prelude to something significantly weirder. Here we have Irvins Ayala sweeping Drew Chatman to the mat, walloping his head with a hammer fist, then somehow accidentally knocking himself out after crashing his face i...
Jeff Fisher's Reason For Ignoring Vince Young's Apology Letter Is Just As Petty And Dumb As You'd Expect
Tucked into Vince Young’s bitter on-shitting of former head coach Jeff Fisher last summer was Young’s assertion that he’d once sent Fisher a letter “apologizing for his immaturity,” and that the letter had gone unanswered, which apparently indicated to Young that Fisher “doesn’t give two shits” abou...
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Stormy Daniels's Lawyer Once Handed Jerry Jones His Own Ass In Open Court
Last week Jack Dickey of Sports Illustrated published a neat look at the history of Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her suit against President Trump. I recommend reading it, as it’s been a strange route to this moment of sudden cultural prominence for Avenatt...
Should The Sixers Just Shut Markelle Fultz Down For The Rest Of This Season?
It is now March 25; the Philadelphia 76ers have 10 games left in what has been a smashing success of a regular season; and we are still getting vague, noncommittal updates on the playing status of young Markelle Fultz. This comes via the Associated Press:...
Leonard Hamilton Treats Dana Jacobson Like Shit For Asking Totally Legitimate Question [UPDATE]
Florida State allowed Michigan to walk away with tonight’s win, choosing not to foul despite being down only four points and multiple teams this month winning while facing similar game scenarios. CBS’s Dana Jacobson asked Seminoles head coach Leonard Hamilton after the game to explain his decision, ...
As Bad News Goes, Steph Curry's Injury Update Is Good News
The alternate headline for this blog is “As Good News Goes, Steph Curry’s Injury Update Is Bad News”—you can choose for yourself whether to be a glass-is-half-full sort on this. At any rate, the update on Steph’s busted knee is in:...
Nathan Chen Wins Men's Figure Skating World Title
By the time Nathan Chen skated to center ice to start his free skate at the 2018 world championships, he really only need to stay upright and hit one or two quad jumps in order to win his first ever world championship gold. Chen, who entered the men’s free skate in first place, skated last in the fi...
Johnny Manziel Offers Refreshingly Lucid Defense Of Colin Kaepernick
However you happen to feel about Colin Kaepernick, it is for sure interesting to observe that in the same month in which Johnny Manziel got a workout in front of a hearty handful of NFL scouts, Kaepernick was also out throwing the old pigskin, in front of roughly no one. This dynamic, and its associ...
Caroline Wozniacki Says Unruly Fans Threatened Her And Her Family During Miami Open
Monica Puig came roaring back after a dispiriting first set to beat Caroline Wozniacki, 0-6 6-4 6-4, in a Friday Round of 64 match at the Miami Open. Highlights make it seem like the crowd was broadly pro-Puig, which makes sense—Puig is American, by way of Puerto Rico, and lives in Miami, whereas Wo...