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High School Pole Vaulter Annihilates Pro Field, Breaks A Bunch Of Records
Mondo Duplantis is not only the best-named high school athlete in the country, he’s also one of the best. Last weekend, Duplantis was competing in pole vault at the Texas Relays in the men’s elite division. Duplantis is a junior at Lafayette High School in Louisiana, yet he smoked a field that conta...
WADA And The IOC Will Do Whatever They Please With Positive Tests<em></em>
A report from German broadcast network ARD—which previously broadcast bombshells about FIFA corruption in Qatar and unpunished doping activity—claims that the IOC covered up doping cases from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. German journalist Hajo Seppelt reports that “in 2016 during the re-analysis for b...
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Idiot On The Field In San Francisco Makes It Damn Near A Minute Before Getting Ass Sacked
It’s still spring training for MLB security teams, as an Idiot On The Field in San Francisco tonight was able to scamper around the field for close to 60 seconds—tagging second base along the way—before being accosted by the cops....
James Baldwin Was An Honest Man And A Good Writer
This article was originally featured in the August 1988 issue of GQ and appears here with the author’s permission....
Good News: The NFL Has More Rules
As everyone knows, the best part of the NFL season is when the league gets the chance to add rules and bylaws to an already-impenetrable rulebook. One of the new additions is a ban on players jumping over linemen to block field goal kicks....
Extra-Cool Iguana Is Now The King Of This Tennis Court
There is, supposedly, tennis being played at the Miami Open today. However, all the footage I’ve seen from the tournament indicates that some sort of benevolent reptile takeover is going down....
Who The Hell Is Woody Kincaid?
Wiping sweat and spit from his face with his t-shirt, 23-year-old Woody Kincaid seemed to be trying hard not to sound arrogant, or stupid, or insulted by reporters’ surprise at his come-from-behind victory in a semifinal heat of last year’s Olympic Trials 5000 meters....
Video Shows Police Tackling Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield
Oklahoma star quarterback Baker Mayfield was arrested last month in Fayetteville, Ark., for public intoxication, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct. An officer wrote in the police report that he had been flagged down “to take an assault and battery report” and was trying to talk to a rowdy, in...
Tiny Idiot On The Field Can't Get Enough D-II Hoops Action
Who could blame the kid with a matchup like Oregon Tech vs. Saint Francis in front of him!...
The Future Of Innovation Is Innovation: A Day At Stanford's Sports-Business Conference<em></em>
Stanford University in the springtime is immaculate. There are no clouds in the sky and none of the aerated haze of the East Bay or the fog of San Francisco. Off to the west, the Santa Cruz Mountains gently form the outer boundary of Palo Alto. As I got lost looking for the Stanford Graduate School ...
Oklahoma Quarterback Baker Mayfield Arrested For Public Intoxication, Disorderly Conduct And Resisting Arrest
Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield is in an Arkansas jail after Fayetteville police accused him of public intoxication, disorderly conduct, fleeing, and resisting arrest....
The IAAF Seeks To Restrict The Market For African Runners<em></em>
Kenya-born Yasemin Can and Meryem Akda, competing for Turkey, won gold and silver respectively at the 2016 European Cross Country Championships in November. The Irish Independent wrote that Ireland’s Fionnuala McCormack, who finished fifth, was “denied” a medal by the naturalized Turks, and Irish ru...
Soccer Team Boned By Ref Who Allowed Idiot On The Field To Score Goal
Motagua were on the cusp of sealing a big win late into their match against rivals Olimpia in the Honduran league last week. Then, up 2-1 with just seconds remaining, the Motagua keeper was beaten by two shots that hit the back of his net almost simultaneously. One goal was the equalizer, scored by ...
Runner Foiled By Pole Vaulter's Giant Rubber Band
Aengus Meldon of the National University of Ireland Galway was caught in the final stretch of the 800-meter preliminary at the Irish University Indoor Championship on Friday, but not by another runner....
Prince Fielder's First Project In Retirement Is Launching His Own Cooking Show
It’s now been six months since Prince Fielder tearfully announced that a second spinal fusion surgery meant he would be forced to retire from baseball at the age of 32, and it sounds like the guy is doing just fine. In an interview with Jerry Crasnick of ESPN, Fielder seems to be making peace with t...
Idiot On The Court Gets Arrested Trying To Join Miami Huddle
The latest entry to the Idiot On The Field series took place in Louisville, where 31-year-old Randall Bolton tried to enter the Miami huddle during a first-half timeout of what would go on to be a 71-66 victory for the Cardinals....
Naked Idiot On The Pitch Thwarted By Wall
One foolhardy, nude individual jumped onto the cricket pitch at Monday’s one-day international match between New Zealand and Australia at Auckland’s Eden Park. The streaker ran freely around security, until he was faced with the need to hurdle a wall....
Idiot On The Golf Course Takes Off Shoes, Jumps In Water To Avoid Security
This weekend’s tournament at Torrey Pines brought us a lovely variation of Idiot On The Field—an Idiot On The Golf Course. And one who cares more about his shoes than he cares about himself, at that, as he took care to remove them and set them aside for safekeeping before jumping in a water hazard t...
Usain Bolt Just Lost A Gold Medal
Usain Bolt and the rest of Jamaica’s 4 x 100m relay team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics have been stripped of their gold medals after a stored doping sample from one of the runners, Nesta Carter, tested positive for a banned stimulant....