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Lance Armstrong Dropped Out Of A Beer Mile
With the Beer Mile World Championships rapidly approaching on December 3, interest in the event is peaking. Lance Armstrong, who probably doesn't have a lot to do these days, decided to give it a try. Surprisingly, one of the world's greatest athletes can't drink and run for shit....
Shaun Smith: "Hope Your Sons Don't Turn Out Like Magic Johnson Son"
Former NFL defensive lineman Shaun Smith—who played for five different teams in an eight year career that ended in 2012—has been going off on people on Twitter for the past two hours. He began half combatively/half playfully interacting with the usual mess of questions, insults, and trolls all fam...
Stanford Ends UConn's 47-Game Winning Streak In OT
UConn versus Stanford has been one of women's college basketball's best rivalries over the past decade, and tonight's contest was no exception. Down ten at home with just six-and-a-half minutes remaining, Amber Orrange had nine of the Cardinal final 22 points—including a game-tying three with just t...
ESPN Randomly Cuts To Lisa Salters Shouting "WOOOO" At Le'Veon Bell
We'd love to know the context of this, but here's Lisa Salters "WOOOO"-ing at Le'Veon Bell, presumably after finishing her post-game interview with him; the shot randomly appeared in the middle of the opening segment of tonight's SportsCenter, and it's pretty funny to watch on repeat:...
Alex Len Committed The Dumbest Possible Foul
Ahead by four against the Boston Celtics with only 19 seconds to go, the Phoenix Suns had to feel pretty good about their chances. Some solid defense plus clutch free throwing was all that was needed to win the game. Then this Alex Len foul happened. ...
Kevin Love Has No Idea What He's Doing, Gets Rebound Anyway
You can thank Nate Robinson's lack of forethought for this one. But what is Kevin Love doing?...
Jose Canseco's Gross-Ass Detached Finger Might Be For Sale
It was probably inevitable that Jose Canseco—ever the opportunist—would try and find a way to profit from blowing off his own damn finger....
Sergio Brown Fires Back At Rob Gronkowski: "I Put Straps On That Boy"
The beef between Rob Gronkowski and Sergio Brown isn't through. Even after Gronkowski ran the Colts safety into a camera cart last night—and took a penalty for it—the tight end kept talking about the guy who broke his arm in 2012....
The Feds Are Very Interested In The NFL's Painkiller Problem
Yesterday, federal drug agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration conducted surprise inspections of the medical staffs of multiple NFL teams. Bags were searched, doctors were questioned, all in the DEA's ongoing probe into claims that football has a major issue with prescription drugs....
Sour Beer: The San Francisco Treat
Is beer food? That's a deceptively complex question. At first, you're like, "Of course beer is food, because it's made of barley and wheat and other edible plants," but then you realize that you don't chew beer, and food is something strongly associated with chewing. But wait, soup! Soup is definite...
Times Of Day To Have Some Damn Peace And Quiet Around Here, Ranked
When you are a Sad Dad, one of the things you spend the most time pining for—after, like, an actual grown-up date with your spouse, a window of more than five minutes in which to take a shower, and relief from the constant background awareness of your own bottomless inadequacy—is some damn peace and...
Police: Drunk Jaguars Player Tried To Use Bubble Gum As Money
Dwayne Gratz had a weird Saturday night. Or maybe Sunday morning. At 5:53 a.m. on Sunday, Miami beach police arrested the Jaguars cornerback and cited him for disorderly intoxication and trespassing after trying to pay for items at a store with bubble gum....
Report: Kickboxer Died After Bout Due To Cheap Promoter, Inept Doctors
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel went long this weekend on the death of Dennis Munson, a 24-year-old kickboxer who in March collapsed in the ring following his first amateur bout and died hours later. It's a harrowing read that catalogues a litany of errors that started well before the fight and ...
Two Tennessee Football Players Being Investigated On Rape Charges
Senior All-SEC linebacker A.J. Johnson and sophomore defensive back Michael Williams are under investigation by Knoxville police for two alleged sexual assaults that happened after this weekend's home game against Kentucky, according to the Tennessean....
Desperation Lateral Wins High School Playoff Game
The scene: overtime of Saturday's Minnesota state class 3A semifinal game, with Rochester Lourdes opting against a tying PAT in favor of a do-or-die two point conversion. RB Carter Greguson takes a handoff up the middle—and gets stuffed. But!...
Braves Trade Jason Heyward To The Cardinals
The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they have traded pitchers Shelby Miller and Tyrell Jenkins to the Atlanta Braves in exchange for outfielder Jason Heyward and pitcher Jordan Walden. ...
Carolina Won And Then Lost The Game On Two Huge 4th Quarter Plays
Late in the fourth quarter against the Falcons, Cam Newton and the Panthers were driving, down two, when Newton hit his rookie wideout Kelvin Benjamin for a 17-yard gain, taking Carolina down to the Atlanta 32, within field goal range. It represented the biggest gain in WPA for the week—28 percentag...
Despots, Serial Killers, And Dick Jokes: <em>Football Manager</em>'s Banned Names
From the sheer number of funny names assigned to the randomly generated players in Football Manager, you may have assumed there is no filter on name combinations. And while you may have seen a "Willy Pinas" or two, you haven't seen a "Adolf Hitler," "Tim McVeigh," or a "Dick Licka" for a good reas...
Kevin Hart Advises Jameis Winston: "You Need To Stop Doing Dumb Shit"
The omnipresent matter known as Kevin Hart had a show planned at Florida State over the weekend, so he took the opportunity to visit the Seminoles' locker room. In a now-deleted Instagram that TMZ saved, Hart gives some advice to quarterback Jameis Winston: "You need to stop doing dumb shit." He a...