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Moussa Sow Scores Outrageous Bicycle Kick Goal

Just two minutes into a Europa League group stage clash with Manchester United, Fenerbahçe forward Moussa Sow scored this improbable and beautiful goal. All David de Gea could do was give a rueful little head shake. ...

Bárbara Latorre Scores Barcelona's <em></em>Goal Of The Season For The Women's Team

It’s hard to compete with the likes of Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez, and Neymar when it comes to scoring beautiful goals. Then again, it’s hard to imagine any of those guys to topping the wondergoal Bárbara Latorre scored for the Barcelona women’s team yesterday when she ran past almost literally every...

Ben Zobrist Has Your Attention Now

It’s good to be Ben Zobrist. After leaving Tampa, where he put in nine productive seasons, he’s now a back-to-back World Series champion, helping bring championships to both the Royals and the Cubs, two midwestern teams with disparate, but notable droughts. Oh, and he delivered the decisive hit to m...

The Cubs Don't Have To Pretend To Be Lovable Losers Anymore

Cubs fans: Go crazy, you’ve waited more than long enough. But while this World Series is a welcome end to your suffering, let us not pretend that the Cubs franchise has ever been half as downtrodden as it portrays itself. Losing does not automatically bestow charm; underachievement does not make an ...

Kris Bryant Smiling Through The Final Out Is My Favorite Thing

I don’t really have anything add to this video of 24-year-old Kris Bryant grinning like an idiot as he made the throw to first to win the World Series, only a sincere wish that everyone reading this gets to experience a moment of similar anticipatory joy in their lives, and the observation that it i...

The Cubs Were Built For That

When a championship is decided under circumstances as historic as those that saw the Chicago Cubs claim their first World Series title in 108 years, the impossible becomes overdetermined. The evaporation of a 3-1 series lead leaves behind chokers, miraculous individual feats, and moments of immense ...

This One's For All The Cubs Fans Who Didn't Live Long Enough To See It

Fair warning, but this’ll probably make you cry....

The Cubs Were The Greatest Part Of The Greatest Sports Year

Some people are not fans of the Chicago Cubs. But many, many more people ARE fans of the Chicago Cubs. This 2016 World Series recap is for those in the latter group....

Old People Celebrating The Cubs' World Series Win Are Just The Best

When a team goes 108 years without winning a World Series, it ends up with a fanbase full of old people who have literally waited their whole lives to see the team win it all. When that team finally goes and gets a title, as the Chicago Cubs did last night, we are left with some impossibly adorable ...

What Is Sports If Not Pain?

Good things come to those who wait, unless they die first. ...

"I'm Like, Fuck You!"

Language, Theodore!...

Bill Murray Douses Reporters With Champagne

The ever-incorrigible Bill Murray dropped by the Cubs’ clubhouse tonight to celebrate with his favorite team, and gave reporters standing by a taste of victory champagne—whether they wanted it or not....

This Is Wonderful

¡Los Cubs Son Campeones! The Final Out Of The World Series, As Called By Announcers Around The Globe [Update]

The Chicago Cubs are World Series champions after a wait of 108 years, and one very tense extra inning. Here’s how the final out of tonight’s Game 7 sounded on TV and radio around the globe, starting up top with Chicago’s flagship radio broadcaster WSCR. ...

Draymond Green Shares Totally Genuine Expression Of Sympathy For Cleveland<em></em>

He really had this one holstered all night, huh....

Holy Fucking Shit, Chicago Cubs Actually Win World Series

The longest and most fabled of all championship droughts is over after an insane, interminable Game 7. The Chicago Cubs came back from a 3-1 deficit in the World Series to win in seven, and they capped off the comeback with a 8-7 win tonight in 10 innings....

David Ross Celebrates Dinger By Slapping Dongers<em></em>

Old Man David Ross is playing in the final major-league game of his career tonight, and he smacked a big solo home run off Andrew Miller in the sixth inning to give the Cubs a three-run lead....

Dexter Fowler Starts Game 7 With A Leadoff Donger

Corey Kluber is starting for the third time in the past nine days, and he gave up a dinger to Dexter Fowler on his fourth pitch of the evening. Fowler wasn’t sure it’d clear the fence but he rounded second and yelled backwards at the Cubs dugout after the dinger fell....

Zinedine Zidane's Kid Gave Up A Dumb Own Goal

This here’s Luca Zidane. He’s the teenage son of Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane and he plays keeper for Real Madrid’s youth team. They played Legia Warsaw today, just like their senior side, and Zidane gave up a dumbass own goal in stoppage time....

Please Help Leandro Barbosa Find His Very Good Doggie [VERY HAPPY UPDATE]

Suns guard Leandro Barbosa has a very sweet looking dog named Maya, who apparently left his Paradise Valley, Ariz. home today and got lost....