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Winnipeg Jets Player Scoffs At Penalty, Pipes Down After Seeing ReplayAlex Burmistrov initially didn’t agree with his minor penalty for elbowing Wild defenseman Jared Spurgeon in the head during Sunday’s game. The Jets center called it “bullshit” as he sat in the penalty box. His opinion changed after he saw the replay, however:...

Nathan Fielder's Newest Text-Message Prank Is A Relationship-KillerWe've covered the text-message-based exploits of Nathan Fielder here before when he told followers to text their parents about drugs. This time the prank is a whole lot more personal and it has a huge cliffhanger element. ...

Jeremy Affeldt Returned $500,000 The Giants Paid Him By MistakeJeremy Affeldt admits it: In 2010, he literally was an overpaid relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants....

Steelers Safety Ryan Clark Made A Good Point About Hypocritical Steelers Fans

If there's one thing we learned while sifting through the assorted vitriolic, typo-ridden responses to the Why Your Team Sucks series, it's that many fans have no perspective when it comes to their favorite teams and players. Morals go out the window ("He basically paid his debt to society!"), logic...

Andrea Bargnani Calls The Raptors "Pretty Much The Worst NBA Team," Which Is Pretty Much True

Andrea Bargnani did an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport, an Italian newspaper dedicated to sports, in which he said some harsh words about the objectively awful team that employs him. Raptors coach Dwane Casey cautioned the press not to blow what might be a mistranslation out of proportion, ex...

A.J. Green On The Fallacy Of The Trap Game: "We Lost To Freakin' Cleveland"

The Bengals and Browns are a bitter, bitter rivalry. For Ohioans, it's almost as bad as soap vs. human skin—you just have to pick a side. It makes sense, then, that A.J. Green would be upset about losing to the Browns, but it would make sense regardless of geography because the Browns are terrible....

Cristiano Ronaldo Gives Fans The Finger, Denies Giving Fans The Finger (Video)

The Real Madrid star at least was honest last week, when he expressed why he feels opposing fans heckle him, thus reinforcing those fans' notion of him as an arrogant prick. Here, he shows his appreciation for all the love, though he later was less than forthright by lamely trying to explain it aw...

Cristiano Ronaldo Thinks He Knows Why You're Heckling Him, May Be Right

"I think that because I am rich, handsome and a great player people are envious of me. I don't have any other explanation." [Guardian]...