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Goalie Fight Comes To Sudden, Violent End
Adam Vay of the Quad City Mallards—a real team in the ECHL, I swear—is not someone you wan to scrap with. The goalie is an avid MMA practitioner, but it seems that Cincinnati Cyclones keeper Michael Houser didn’t know that, because he tried to throw hands last night. It did not end well....
Floyd Mayweather Is Still Using The Same Old Domestic Violence Excuses
Retired boxer Floyd Mayweather went through the ESPN carwash today, and sat down for an interview with SportsCenter anchors Cari Champion and David Lloyd. To the anchors’ credit, they asked Mayweather multiple questions about his history with domestic violence, only to be met with the same old talk...
Mark Hunt Sues Brock Lesnar, The UFC, And Dana White
UFC heavyweight Mark Hunt accused the UFC, Dana White, and Brock Lesnar of racketeering, fraud, breach of contract, and other charges in a lawsuit filed in Nevada federal court yesterday. The lawsuit seeks millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages....
Manny Ramirez Will Play Baseball In Japan
Manny Ramirez, who is now 44 years old, clearly can’t quit baseball. Last I knew, Manny was some sort of “coach” for the Chicago Cubs and was riding the waves of his first year on the Hall of Fame ballot. ...
The FBI Spent More Than A Year Investigating The 1965 Muhammad Ali-Sonny Liston Fight
The FBI spent more than a year unsuccessfully searching for evidence of fixing in the 1965 championship fight between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston, according to newly released documents....
Missouri, Georgia Coaching Staffs Fight
The Missouri and Georgia coaching staffs got into an old-man brawl at the end of the first half of today’s game between the Tigers and Bulldogs in Athens, with referee Karl Hess even inserting himself into the ruckus and shoving people in what his mind we’re sure passes for an attempt to restore ord...
Cowboys Fan Gets Punched, Loses Pants
You’ve seen plenty of videos of football fans punching each other on this website, but I don’t think you’ve ever seen one as neat and sad as this one: ...
Fight Leaves Wayne Simmonds Shirtless
Kevin Bieksa and Wayne Simmonds dropped the gloves just 95 seconds into last night’s 4-3 Ducks shootout win over the Flyers, and Bieksa immediately yanked his opponent’s jersey over his head, to the delight of the crowd and to grins from Simmonds and the officials....
Vols Brawl
Tennessee scored a big Music City Bowl win over Nebraska tonight, but that wasn’t enough for some Volunteers fans, it seems:...
IT IS ALL OVER: UFC Announcer Mike Goldberg Mercifully Sent To Nice Farm Upstate
Every so often, a play-by-play announcer will make a call that can’t be improved on—the kind that resonates years later, evoking all the drama and immediacy of a perfect and memorable moment. AGÜERRRROOO! ... Auburn’s gonna win the football game! Auburn’s gonna win the football game! ... In a year t...
Kicker Sparks Sideline Fight
The Dolphins and Bills brawled a bit late in today’s game in Buffalo, and it’s all Dan Carpenter’s fault—as the Bills kicker taunted the Miami returner after forcing him out of bounds, and havoc briefly reigned....
The End Of Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins, a man I both like and admire, generally, if selectively, tells the truth. But he has some cinematic set pieces, one of which involves a story of being taken aside at the time of his release from Graterford Prison and told by the warden, “I’ll see you back here in six months.”...
Iowa Refuses To Shake Hands After North Dakota, Down By 11, Tries Buzzer-Beater
With the Hawkeyes up by 11 with three seconds to play, there was no question about who was going to win tonight’s game between Iowa and North Dakota. But North Dakota’s Corey Baldwin stole the ball and Drick Bernstine tried to beat the buzzer with a little jumper anyway*, and Iowa coach Fran McCaffe...
Sage Northcutt Tries Out Shit Talking, Enjoys It
Sage Northcutt is fighting Mickey Gall tomorrow in Sacramento, and he’s spent most of his time in California’s state capitol doing flips, grinning, and ripping apples. He also did a bit of media, which included something approaching real actual shit talk from the UFC’s 20-year-old Val Kilmer cosplay...
Sage Northcutt Is Running Wild In Sacramento<em></em>
It’s a dull, dreary day here in Northern California, as long-awaited rainstorms are replenishing the state’s meager water supplies and keeping citizens indoors sulking. That, however, is not nearly enough to dampen the spirits of the UFC’s premier Ken doll/golden retriever, Sage Northcutt, who is in...
Soccer Guy Loses Mind After Game, Suddenly Thinks He's In A Kung Fu Movie
Look closely and you can see the exact moment that Mumbai City striker Thiago Cunha, mere moments after losing on aggregate to Atlético de Kolkata in the Indian Super League semifinals, completely forgets that he’s in a soccer game and instead becomes convinced that he’s the star of some martial art...
Brawl At Chiefs Game Turns Into Fan Avalanche
We join this fight that happened at last night’s Raiders-Chiefs game in media res, just in time to see a few haymakers thrown and a some unfortunate combatants go tumbling over the seats:...
The More We Learn About The Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association, The Shadier It Seems
As pretty much everybody saw coming, things aren’t going so well with the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association—the latest attempt at forming a sort of fighters union—and former Bellator founder and CEO Bjorn Rebney’s presence in the group is already threatening to ruin it....
Notre Dame Fans Take Out Full-Page Meme In Student Paper Calling For AD's Job
No matter how you look at it, Notre Dame’s football team sucked, and it seems fans are roughly three steps away from the acceptance stage....
Kickboxer Who May Actually Be Captain Falcon Ends Fight With Flying Knee Strike
If you played as Captain Falcon in Super Smash Bros, you could K.O. opponents with a wild jumping knee strike lovingly dubbed the “knee of justice.” I never thought I’d see someone pull it off in real life, but here we are....