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USA Loses 4x100 After Botched Baton Exchange
The Jamaican team of Jermaine Hamilton, Julian Foote, Rasheed Dwyer, and Oshane Bailey took first place at the Penn Relays 4x100 after the top U.S. team botched the baton exchange on the anchor leg....
Dog On The Field
Have you ever wanted to check out a Copa Libertadores game? Not as much as this dog here, you haven’t. The good boy in question made the absolute most of his time on the pitch, runnin’, yippin’, hootin’, hollerin’, and jumpin’ until he was carried off like a little baby. Even as he was being whisked...
Idiot On The Field Attacks Referee At End Of 4-0 Loss
Robin van Persie and Nani scored goals, but those won’t be the highlights remembered from today’s Turkish Süper Lig match between Fenerbahçe and Trabzonspor as a fan for the latter came out of the Huseyin Avni Aker Stadium stands in the 91st minute and started beating the shit out of an assistant re...
Jake Arrieta Throws First No-Hitter Of The Season
The Cubs might have to break out the pajamas again, because Jake Arrieta has thrown another no-hitter, blanking the Reds in a 16-0 blowout win on only 119 pitches. Incredibly, Arrieta hasn’t lost a start since his no-no back in August, and today was (obviously) his best outing since then. He only st...
Aaron Hicks Rockets A 105 MPH Throw To Nail A Runner At The Plate
Danny Valencia probably thought he had a decent chance to sprint home from third after Aaron Hicks caught this sacrifice fly. He didn’t even get close. Look at this goddamn throw....
4x400 Runner Comes Back "From The Depths Of Hell" To Win
To get the full effect of the dramatic ending to the women’s 4x400 at Saturday’s Irish University Athletics Association intervarsity games, I suggest you watch the entire race. But if you’re pressed for time, skip to 3:06 for the final lap. It’s incredible, with an incredible ending, and improved 50...
Syracuse Football Players Stabbed; Former Player Arrested
Police charged former Syracuse defensive back Naesean Howard with two counts of assault after stabbings landed two current Orange players in the hospital....
Cute And Good Puppy On The Field Gets Whisked Away Like A Little Baby
Capivariano FC beat Oeste 2-1 on Wednesday in some hot Campeonato Paulista action down in Brazil, but I don’t care about that and you don’t care about. What I care about and what you presumably will care about is this here furry Idiot On The Field. A Capivirano player was eventually able to befriend...
Well, This Is The Worst Way To Start A Race
If you’re interested in the vector of virality, you’ll surely find interest in this New York magazine story on a video of an eighth-grader faceplanting at a track meet a full year ago, but the video itself not blowing up until a new friend decided to Tweet it out this weekend....
Aleksandar Mitrovic Celebrates With Idiot On The Field After Scoring A Late Equalizer
Newcastle tied up Sunderland late to secure a 1-1 draw. Aleksandar Mitrovic scored the equalizer, and was understandably pumped since it came in the 83rd minute against a rival. Mitrovic ran away from all his buddies to celebrate with this jeans-wearing Geordie....
And...They're Off
A groundsman attempts to tackle a streaker during the Gold Cup Day of Cheltenham Festival at Cheltenham racecourse on March 18, 2016 in Cheltenham, England....
Runaway Bull Makes For Very Intimidating Pitch Invader
This rambunctious bovine wanted to join some Australian youths in their soccer game after escaping his nearby paddock. Unfortunately, the kids were very rude and refused to pass him the ball, so he had to retreat back to the forest. ...
Cal State-Bakersfield Wins First NCAA Tourney Bid With Last-Second Stunner
Dedrick Basile’s last-second three-pointer gave the Cal State-Bakersfield Roadrunners a 57-54 win over NMSU and punched that school’s first ticket to the NCAA tournament since joining Division I nine years ago....
Something Sketchy Is Going On Between Nike And The Kenyan Athletics Federation
Kenyan runners have dominated men’s and women’s distance running for decades now, and they own 18 world records, from the middle distances to the marathon. Nike has an exclusive sponsorship agreement with the Kenyan athletics federation (Athletics Kenya), wherein they pay a boatload of money for Ken...
"Chinaman" Is Not The Preferred Nomenclature
We’ve been over this before, dude....
Former Russian Anti-Doping Chief Dead At 52
Nikita Kamayev, the former head of the Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA, died on Monday at the age of 52. “Presumably, the cause of death was a massive heart attack,” wrote RUSADA in a press release....
Mark Wahlberg From <i>Ted 2</i> Misses A Hole-In-One At Pebble Beach By Inches
Mark Wahlberg, famous for such movies as Ted and Ted 2, is, it turns out, a real damn good golfer. Look at the curve on this bad boy....
My Mom's Cool Report From The Broncos' Victory Parade
My mom works in Denver and has a window overlooking the site of the Broncos’ Super Bowl victory parade. She’s been texting me pictures and videos along with her commentary all day. Here now is her report from the scene....
Chinese Runners Allegedly Revealed State-Sponsored Doping In 1995, IAAF Suspicious
In 1993, the Chinese women’s track team ran crazy; they set insane world records, times so fast, over such a range of distances with almost no recovery in between that, well, they were widely believed to be dirty. The women themselves admitted doping in 1995, but we’re just seeing the evidence now. ...