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Prince At The French Open With A Scepter
Prince was at the French Open yesterday, and he brought a scepter. So here are a bunch of pictures of Prince, who was at the French Open with a scepter....
Ultramarathon Interrupted By Out Of Control Car
South Africa's Comrades Marathon is the granddaddy of ultramarathons, having been held first in 1921 and nearly every year since inviting runners to traverse the 56 miles between Durban and Pietermaritzburg. This year runners were also invited to avoid spectators fleeing an out-of-control automobile...
FIFA's Match-Fixing Investigation Staff Is Just Six People
FIFA, soccer's world governing body, has long struggled to police match-fixing, either because there's not much it can do, or because there's not much it wants to do. In the first part of a two-part series, The New York Times investigated allegations of match-fixing during the 2010 World Cup in Sout...
Why Don't You Just Come Over Here And Watch These Baby Bears Wrestle?
Hey, what are you up to right now? Probably nothing, because it's Friday afternoon and work is stupid. So maybe you should just go ahead spend the next, oh, 20 minutes watching these baby bears wrestle each other. Maybe make it 30 minutes....
Macedonians Bemused When Wrong Anthem Played At Friendly Match
It's international friendly season, as teams either get their final tune-ups before heading to Brazil for the World Cup or regroup to make a run at qualifying for 2018. Macedonia took on Cameroon yesterday in Austria, but ran into a bit of trouble before the match even started....
Reporter Congratulates Nicolas Mahut For Losing; Mahut Is Not Amused
We linked to the transcript of this unfortunate yet hilarious exchange yesterday, but now we finally have video of a confused reporter congratulating Nicolas Mahut on his loss at the French Open. It's better than we could have ever imagined. ...
Novak Djokovic Chills With Ball Boy During Rain Delay
During a rain delay in his first-round French Open match yesterday, Novak Djokovic made a buddy—a ball boy, whom he invited to sit down, out of the rain, and grab a beverage....
Gael Monfils And Laurent Lokoli Engage In Dance-Off Before French Open
The French Open Kids' Day featured tennis players Gael Monfils and Laurent Lokoli stealing the show for a few minutes. It was an old-fashioned dance-off, with the clay court as the stage....
South African Soccer Players Apologize For Nude Photo With Trophy
After the Orlando Pirates won the Nedbank Cup last Saturday over Bidvest Wits, players from the South African team got naked and took a photo in the shower with the trophy. Now, they've had to apologize for their celebration....
What The "Palace Intrigue" Over Bud Selig's Successor Is Really About
If Bud Selig's commissionership were a heist movie, we'd now be at the part where the thieves were gathered in a dimly lit room to count out the loot, and Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf would be the one with a gun in his hand, telling everyone to back away from the table slowly....
Giants Pitcher Santiago Casilla Hurts Himself On Meaningless Groundout
The Giants had a four-run lead in the top of the ninth, which makes it all the more frustrating that reliever Santiago Casilla hurt himself while trying to get a useless infield single....
An Improbable Tennis Prodigy
Dig this fine story by Liz Clarke for the Washington Post:...
Science: Gluten-Free Food Budget Best Spent On Unicorns
From the same researchers that brought you the idea that gluten-free was the way to be, a new study suggests that it's just a bunch of hogwash. ...
Jackie Bradley, Jr. Now Has A Glorious Afro
Red Sox outfielder Jackie Bradley, Jr. undid his braids, and now he's got a fantastic afro....
France's Manager Sues Samir Nasri's Girlfriend For "Public Insult"
After Samir Nasri's girlfriend took to Twitter earlier this week to slam the French national team for leaving her man off the World Cup team, said France manager Didier Deschamps has brought a lawsuit against her for public insult. This is so French....
Michael Sam Is Doing A Reality Show, And That Sucks
So Michael Sam has a reality show now, and I'm just gonna go ahead and align myself with the HOT TAKES crowd and say that Sam just pissed away a whole lot of the goodwill he'd built up for himself these past few months. They can class up the announcement all they like. They can call it a "document...
The Death Of A Cowboy
Sometimes you read a story and everything about it is in harmony—narrative, character, setting, emotion, and insight. Such is the case with Peter Richmond's 1990 tribute to Lane Frost. I'll get out of the way now and let you appreciate it for yourself:...
Fried Chicken Sandwich Smackdown: Wendy's Vs. KFC
Fried chicken is the best. The main reason I had to stop reading about death row inmates' last meals is that every single thing about this sentence so far is ghastly; I was also secondarily appalled by how many of them forgot to request fried chicken. I understand that if they were good decision-mak...
Samir Nasri's Girlfriend Is Not Happy With France's World Cup Team
It's been a bit of an up and down week for French star Samir Nasri. On Sunday, his Manchester City team won the Premier League. Way up! But today, Nasri found out he was left off France's World Cup squad. Way down!...