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ESPN Closed Captioning: "That Is It From The Paedophiles"
This kind of amazing clip comes from the ESPN UK broadcast of the Gold Cup final between the United States and Panama. Christ, closed captioning guy....

Brek Shea Scores Winning Goal For USMNT In The Gold Cup Final
The US Men's National Team have been dominating Panama throughout the Gold Cup final match, and in the second half, it felt like US Soccer were going to break through. In the 69th minute, substitute winger Brek Shea tapped in a cross that beat the keeper over the goal line, just 42 seconds after com...

New York Red Bulls, Real Salt Lake Play MLS Game Of The Year
You can skip ahead to 4:12 in these highlights of the New York Red Bulls' 4-3 win over Real Salt Lake on Saturday night. Everything after that made the game probably the best we'll see this MLS season....

Here's A Liga MX Golazo From Midfield
Pachuca's Daniel Emmanuel Ludueña pumped in a goal from just over his side of the midfield line tonight against Tigres. [SB Nation]...


Jefferson Montero Scores One Of The Greatest Hat Tricks You'll See
Sure, someone at some point might have scored a better hat trick than this one, we guess, because odds. We just can't think of any....

Phil Mickelson Takes A Statistical Approach To His Short Game
British Open winner Phil Mickelson has remained relatively quiet in the media since his win last week, but he popped up on the radar after requesting to be featured on the podcast Science Friday. What'd he talk about? Math, science and golf!...

Alfonso Soriano Is A Yankee Again
The Yankees, who can't hit for shit, have officially acquired Alfonso Soriano from the Cubs. Soriano is old and streaky, and will therefore hit cleanup for New York tonight....

“Source? <em>I'm</em> Your Fucking Source!” Dick Young, As He Really Was
To round off our Dick Young tribute/roast, please enjoy this excerpt from Keepers of the Game: When the Baseball Beat Was The Best Job On The Paper, a new oral history compiled by Dennis D’Agostino in the tradition of Jerome Holtzman’s No Cheering in the Press Box. Dennis was good enough to let me ...

Sucking In The Seventies
Over at the great site, In Focus, Alan Taylor takes a look at America in the 1970s. Check out what he's got so far......

Producer Fired Over “Ho Lee Fuk” Prank Says His Reputation Is “Intack”
That incredible prank that snookered a Bay Area television station into reporting names like "Sum Ting Wong" and "Ho Lee Fuk" as the flight crew of that downed Asiana airplane? It cost three producers at KTVU in the Bay Area their jobs. TheWrap reached out to all three. One of them responded....

And It Happens Every Day
Over at Narrative, dig David Thomson on The Long Goodbye—...


Gonzalo Higuain Signs With Napoli, And Now Arsenal FC Are Screwed
Last week, Italian runners-up Napoli sold their best player, striker Edinson Cavani, to French champions Paris Saint-Germain for €64 million. It was the fifth-highest transfer fee ever for a player, and there were sure to be implications all over Europe as international soccer inched through the sum...

The Batter's Boxes At AT&T Park Are Seriously Screwed Up Tonight
How do you not notice this? How have they not been fixed!?...

Happy Derrick Rose Makes A Sad Dunk
This video from his recent Euro tour makes it official: Sad Derrick Rose isn't sad anymore. He jumped off his left foot! He put the ball between his legs in the air! He dunked! He smiled! So that rim was only eight feet high? So what? Don't be a party pooper. Happy Derrick Rose is back!...

Death Of A Racehorse
Here's W.C. Heinz's celebrated 1949 column, "Death of a Racehorse." ...

Jimmy Butler Does Not Support “Pussy, Money & Weed”
This picture of Bulls forward Jimmy Butler has been making its way around the internet today. That's a pretty snazzy shirt! Unfortunately, Butler is afraid that not everyone will find it so snazzy, so he took to Twitter to apologize and clarify his stance on pussy, money, and weed....

