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The Kings Will Beat You At Their Game, Or Yours
A game can be a classic without being particularly good hockey. We haven't had a conference final Game 7 go to OT in 20 years, so Kings-Blackhawks qualifies as an all-timer just on sheer novelty, but it was ugly at times. Bad goaltending, lax backchecking, freak bounces on questionable ice, and goal...
Los Angeles Kings Beat Blackhawks In Overtime, Advance To Stanley Cup
The Kings beat the Blackhawks 5-4 in overtime of Game 7 and advance to the Stanley Cup Final. It was another wonky goal in a game full of wonky goals....
Blackhawks Twitter Account Tells Mexican President To Fuck His Mother
Sort of! The poor sap who's running the Chicago Blackhawks Twitter account fell victim to the dreaded hashtag autofill trap and while trying to hashtag the above tweet with "#CHIvsLAK," they instead tagged it "#ChingueAsuMadreEPN." The explicit tag was likely an automatic prompt and they didn't even...
The End Of The First Period Of Kings-Hawks Was A Goal Smorgasbord
I've re-written this sentence four times since I originally started this post, and I can't even remember what it was originally going to be about. Anyway, The end of the first period of Game 7 between the Kings and Blackhawks was bananas. With goals from Toews and Saad, Chicago jumped out to an earl...
British Comedian Almost Sneaks On Team England's World Cup Plane
Simon Brodkin is a British actor/comedian/prankster who plays, among other characters, a soccer player named Jason Bent. Brodkin, dressed in character as Bent, got amongst team England on a private tarmac at Luton Airport and tried to board the plane the squad was taking to Miami as they begin train...
Old Lady Is Not Amused By Juggling Cracker Jacks Vendor
What at first seems like a wholesome bit of Americana, becomes just regular, old everything's-a-pain-in-my-ass Americana. On first blush, we've got a concessions worker at Miller Park, juggling Cracker Jacks. Who doesn't love Cracker Jacks and Baseball? It's in the song, for crissakes. That lady in...
Marlon Byrd Broke His Bat Swinging Without Making Contact With The Ball
In the sixth inning of today's game against the Mets, Phillies right fielder Marlon Byrd swung through Jonathon Niese's 89 mph cheese so hard that he broke his bat. Byrd struck out swinging for the first out of the inning. ...
Just Shirtless Tyrann Mathieu Singin' And Drinkin' Some Rosé
Here we have Cardinals free safety Tyrann Mathieu and Nichols State wide receiver Terry Lucas, Jr. singing and waving around a bottle of some Belaire rosé....
David Attenborough Narrates Bird Taking A Shit On Memorial Golf Course
Golf Channel cameras caught a bird taking an enormous shit on the course during the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio earlier today. This is video of that bird shitting, with some spliced in narration provided by famed naturalist Sir David Attenborough....
Phil Mickelson Investigated For Insider Trading
Update, June 11: The New York Times rows it back a little:...
Nori Aoki Hit In Dick With Foul Pop
Oh, Nori. Poor, sweet, black-and-blue balled Nori. Days after swinging at a ball aimed at his chest, he took a ball to the dick while trying to track down a pop-up in foul territory. That look of anguish at the very end, oof. Poor guy's had a rough week....
Edwin Encarnacion Hits Homers As They Were Meant To Be Hit
Remember 10 days ago, when Toronto first baseman Edwin Encarnacion hit the crap out of a baseball? Before that monstrous shot, he had already hit the crap out of seven baseballs in the month of May. Since that homer, he has hit the crap out of eight additional baseballs. According to math, Edwin Enc...
Screencap Classix: You Are Not The Father
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We Turned Spelling Bee Loser Jacob "What?" Williamson Into A Rap Star
We all had our laughs about poor Jacob Williamson, the 15-year-old eighth grader whose excited misspelling of "kabaragoya" left him a spelling bee loser but viral video hit. We thought he deserved something better, and when it comes to "WHAT?" there's only one expert: Lil Jon....
Henrik Lundqvist Comes Up With An Unreal Save To Prevent A Habs Goal
The Rangers are leading 1-0 in a potential final game of the series against the Canadiens, and goalie Henrik Lundqvist deserves thanks for his part with a tumbling save in the second period to keep Montreal scoreless....
Yasiel Puig Is A Giant Six-Year-Old, And It's Great
This picture was just posted to Yasiel Puig's Instagram account, and before we go any further, you need to read the caption that was appended to it:...
A Gay Basketball Player Goes To Bible Study
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is a nationwide organization that often uses college athletic facilities to host weekly meetings. On the nationally ranked 2003 Colorado Buffaloes women's basketball team, FCA exerted a strong influence, and nearly half of the players attended meetings and Bible ...
How Did 50 Cent's Attempt Compare With Other Famous First Pitches?
Was 50 Cent's terrible first pitch the worst of all time? To find out, the Washington Post Wonkblog went to the tape on 30 notable first pitches, and plotted their location on the chart above....
Harry Reid's Office Is Laughing At The Sad #RedskinsPride Campaign
We weren't going to do this, we swear. We figured there was no need for a Twitter roundup when it was immediately clear to everyone that the Redskins' latest PR move, an attempt to galvanize fans into flooding Sen. Harry Reid with support for the team name, was backfiring wildly. Then we heard from ...
These Animated NBA Playoff Highlights Are Cool As Hell
Richard Swarbick is an artist who's been turning sports highlights into awesome animations for a long time now, and now he's working his magic on cool moments from this year's NBA playoffs. ...