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Lance Stephenson Is Pulling A Miami Heat On The Miami Heat
The Indiana Pacers are up at halftime over the Miami Heat, 48-47, in the fourth game of the Eastern Conference Finals. This is your open thread. Knock yourselves out....
Sad Dortmund Greeted By Peppy Flash Mob After Champions League Loss
Mere hours after a hard-fought, heartbreaking 2-1 loss in the Champions League final, a dejected Borussia Dortmund trudged to the airport for the miserable flight home. They just wanted to be left alone with their thoughts, and their regrets. That's when the beatboxer piped up....
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Maurice Jones-Drew Allegedly Punched Out A Bar Staffer [UPDATED]
Jacksonville Jaguars running back and back-to-UCLA student Maurice Jones-Drew has been charged with battery after he allegedly punched and knocked out a bar staffer over the weekend at a beach bar in St. Augustine, Fla., according to police....
Trope-Recycling Bill Simmons Has Bill Simmons Syndrome
Bill Simmons this week mused on the fate of Dwight Howard, who appears to be the NBA's equivalent of plutonium: a potential world-beater but perilously radioactive. To characterize the gap between Perceived Dwight Howard and Actual Dwight Howard, the founder of Grantland and ESPN spittling-head did ...
The Rams Signed A 403-Pound Lineman
Ole Miss had tackle Terrell Brown officially listed at 385. That was either a lie, or he's had a sedentary spring, because after the Rams signed him as an undrafted free agent earlier in the week, they put him on the scale and got a big surprise....
This Is How You Sign A Picture Of Ray Lewis Trying To Tackle You
This comes to us from reader Andrew, whose friend received this autographed photo from former Jacksonville Jaguars tight end Pete Mitchell. I doubt Mitchell signed too many autographs throughout his eight-year career, but it looks like when he did get the opportunity to do so, he made it count....
An Anonymous Jet Is Blasting Mark Sanchez; Summer Is Unofficially Here
This year was going to be different, the front office claimed. The leaks would stop, Woody Johnson declared. It took under 24 hours from the Jets' first open practice for an unnamed player to tell a reporter that most of his teammates don't want Mark Sanchez at quarterback....
Kevin Durant's Tattoo Might Not Have A Misspelled Word In It After All
Yesterday, we drew your attention to what looked like a misspelled word in Kevin Durant's massive back tattoo. The photo we shared seemed to offer incontrovertible evidence that someone had tattooed the word "mautre" instead of "mature" on KD's back. But now we have another picture of the tattoo, an...
Bills Fan Appropriately Honors Hall Of Fame RB
This is a pretty good tattoo of not-convicted-in-court murderer O.J. Simpson. ...
Michael Crabtree Tore His Achilles, Could Miss The Season
Per USA Today's Mike Garafolo, 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree tore his Achilles during organized team activities yesterday. A source also told Garafolo that Crabtree will soon have surgery, and that the injury could be serious enough to keep Crabtree from playing this season....
Jakub Voracek Smashed Up His Ferrari
The 23-year-old Flyers winger is uninjured after crashing into a truck, a tree, and finally a telephone pole in an accident in his native Czech Republic this morning....
Brian Urlacher Announces His Retirement
After a 13-year career as one of the most feared linebackers in the NFL, Brian Urlacher has decided to call it quits rather than play for a team other than the Bears....
The Way This HS Goalkeeper Loses State Soccer Championship Is The Worst
You gotta feel for the kid....
The Fight Over Mario Williams's Engagement Ring Has Gotten Super Nasty
The court battle between Mario Williams and his ex-girlfriend over a $785,000 engagement ring has reached the "Mario Williams had to hold a press conference to deny he considered committing suicide" stage....
Santa Clara And Houston Will Host The 2016 And 2017 Super Bowls
At the NFL spring meetings in Boston this afternoon, owners voted to award Super Bowls L and LI—in 2016 and 2017—to the Bay Area and Houston. That leaves Miami as the only finalist to go home empty-handed. Should've paid for those stadium renovations, South Florida!...
The Summer Of Gronk Pauses For Nothing, Not Even Surgery
It (sort of) looks that way, according to Zachary, our tipster. But it's tough to be sure. That pose you see above is certainly Gronk-like, but dude's also wearing a shirt with buttons, and we can't tell whether he's also wearing Zubaz. Another photo shows dude drinking from a bottle of water, which...
Man Breaks Record For Most Backflips On A Pogo Stick
We throw the word "hero" around a lot on the internet, but sometimes there is simply no other word for doing more backflips on a pogo stick than any other person in the history of human-and-pogo-stick coexistence. ...
We Have No Idea Why Kobe Bryant's Wife Posted This To Instagram
Vanessa Bryant's Instagram sometimes can be a valuable source of actual news. Today, it featured an image of these four photos, which were taken yesterday at a barbecue....