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Mario Balotelli's Supposed New House Is Cool And Good
This may not be news to you, but Italian soccer star Mario Balotelli, who is the funnest, is back in England after being bought by Premier League side Liverpool from AC Milan. Since he'll ostensibly be sticking around for a little while, at least, he needs somewhere to live. This is the house he's r...
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Cop Pointing Rifle At Ferguson Protestors: "I Will Fucking Kill You" [UPDATE]
This is remarkably bad copping. ...
Middle School Football Players Injured In Lightning Strike At Practice
Five students and one coach were injured in a lightning strike at Picacho Middle School in Las Cruces, New Mexico. One of the students, aged between 11 and 14 years old, was critically injured and rushed to the hospital. ...
Man Hit In Head With Golf Ball, Has Golf-Ball-Sized Welt To Prove It
This Swedish man was hit in the head with a golf ball so hard that it looks like the actual ball broke through his skin, embedded itself in his skull, and the wound healed around it. Put another way: the size of that welt is fucking outrageous. ...
Yasiel Puig Snapped His Bat On A Check Swing
Yasiel Puig can make even a check swing interesting. Puig was initially going to take a hack at Zach Duke's 2-1 pitch in the seventh inning last night, but thought better of it and stopped his hands right in front of him. The portion of the bat not in his hands, however, just kept going and snappe...
Blocked Dutch Penalty Almost Trickles In While Goalkeeper Celebrates
Oh man. Oh man, oh man, oh man. This would have been such a ridiculous thing. Sergio Romero made two saves in Argentina's win over the Netherlands and this is the first one, on the day's first attempt, from Ron Vlaar. In this video first flagged by Slate, we see another angle that shows Romero ma...
James Rodríguez Attacked By Horrifying Animal After Penalty Kick
James Rodríguez nailed home a penalty kick to draw Colombia within a goal of Brazil, and the first thing to celebrate with him wasn't a teammate but this giant green scary-as-shit bug. WHAT IS THAT THING?...
This Dude's Soccer Trick Shots Will Blow Your Mind
Trick shot artist Rémi Gaillard has a new World Cup-themed video out, and oh man is this dude good at soccer trick shots. I would wager that he is better at this than any of us will ever be at anything....
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...
Giant Sinkhole Opens At Austin Peay's Football Stadium
Austin Peay's Governors Stadium is getting a facelift, but a 40-foot-deep sinkhole in the north endzone has made the process a little more difficult. Workers have been aware of the sinkhole for some time, but in trying to make the area safe and workable, they've had to dig out a considerably larger ...
House Just Explodes On Live Television
This just happened in Brentwood, New Hampshire, and, um, holy shit. There were reports of shots being fired at this house earlier in the day, and it was burning for 15 minutes before it exploded....
Runner Takes Lead In Race, Is Trampled By Cows
As any high school coach will tell you, when you take the lead, never look back. And the reason is obvious: COWS AHEAD!...
Trapeze Collapse At Ringling Bros. Circus Critically Injures Acrobats
Today's horrible circus accident comes to you from the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, where Rhode Island authorities are responding after this trapeze disaster during a Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Legends show....
Tom Brady's Kentucky Derby Hat Game Is Nuts; Wilforks Similarly Fresh
Tom Brady's at the racetrack with Vince Wilfork and them today. People are taking photos of him, as is customary, and posting them to Twitter. That in itself isn't really newsworthy. That hat game, tho. Seriously, have another look:...
Soccer Player Has Worst Game Ever, Breaks Down Crying, Subs Himself Out
Real Betis suck, are in last place in La Liga, and barring multiple, simultaneous miracles, will almost definitely be relegated in a few weeks' time. Paulão is a center back on that team. This is his story....
John Daly Drives A Golf Ball Out Of A Woman's Mouth
John Daly's still got it, if "it" is trick shots from a tee in a woman's mouth....
I'd Argue That This Alley-Oop Is The Greatest Play In Basketball History
We found this play on the internets like a minute ago. We're not sure when or where the fuck it's from, or if it's even real. That said, basketball players are doing rainbows now, in transition. No one is safe....