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Aaron Cresswell Puts West Ham Up With Top-Class Free Kick
West Ham's Aaron Cresswell put his side up early on Stoke with this marvelous free kick that left the announcers giddy: ...
11 Things Longer Than Last Night's Sox-Yanks Game But That Felt Shorter
Last night’s offensively-, technologically-, and spermatozoaically-deficient 19-inning Red Sox-Yankees game officially clocked in at 6:49, but in reality the broadcast with festivities, anthems, et cetera lasted around seven hours. For viewers, though, the slogging despair of watching the longest R...
18th-Inning Umpire Nutshots Are The Worst
The machines tried to tell us it was time to go home. We didn't listen. And now Marty Foster's crotch has paid the ultimate price....
This Is One Of The Weirdest Infield Hits You'll Ever See
Last night the Padres' Cory Spangenberg hit a common foul chopper that turned out to be not so common: it caught an edge in foul territory and somehow managed to roll back into fair territory for an infield hit. It left announcer Dick Enberg delighted:...
Dee Gordon Dunks On Christian Yelich During Post-Game Interview
The Marlins earned a big walkoff win against the Rays last night in Miami, with Christian Yelich delivering the clutch hit. Then Dee Gordon dunked all over him during his live post-game interview: ...
Red Sox-Yankees Misery Extended Further By Power Outage
The anguish that is watching a Red Sox-Yankees game proved especially torturous in the Bronx tonight as a game already in its fifth hour came to a 15-minute delay as lights all over Yankee Stadium suddenly fell silent, as if they had been, like the modicum of remaining fans, literally bored to death...
Ottawa Fury Player Attacked During Flight To Atlanta
An assailant attacked Ottawa Fury FC forward Oliver Minatel today during the team’s Air Canada Jazz flight to Atlanta for Saturday’s NASL match against the Silverbacks. CBC reports the man attempted to use his headphones as a garrote to strangle the former C.D. Nacional player just before the plane ...
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Alleged Taxi Thief Handing Out Money To Kids During Car Chase [UPDATE]
L.A. cops have been chasing a Prius for more than an two hours in an attempt to arrest the man they believe stole the very taxicab he’s driving. (As might be expected given the auto model, it’s a slow-speed chase.) The driver/alleged armed robber has been driving through neighborhoods as kids get ou...
Excellent Chimp Knocks Stupid Drone Right Out Of The Sky
Somebody thought a chimpanzee habitat would be a good place to fly a drone, an invasive piece of technology that techno-knobs are really into these days. That somebody was wrong....
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Is Bad, And What He Did Was Bad
Earlier today, a reader sent us a complaint regarding the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two men who set off bombs at the Boston Marathon in 2013. He believed we were lacking in the coverage of Tsarnaev’s trial, and that we did not denounce his acts enough. Here’s his email, in full:...
Q&A: Superchunk's Mac McCaughan Talks His Beloved Carolina Hurricanes
Today on Ask an Indie Rock Dude About Sports, we’re talking to Mac McCaughan, the singer and guitarist for Chapel Hill lifers Superchunk and the king of the best hooks in rock 'n' roll since 1989. (For newbies, his tried-and-true staple “Slack Motherfucker” deserves your respect.) In addition to fro...
Edmonton Oiler Does Good Thing
We only have one more game of the Oilers this NHL season—Saturday at 10 p.m. against the Canucks, if you’re a fan of sadness—so let’s send them off with a highlight. Here is a legitimately positive feat done by a member of the Edmonton Oilers from Thursday night’s game. This is not a joke. ...
Matt Barnes Once Tried To Beat Up Mo Cheeks
Sports Illustrated published a profile of longtime NBA role player and noted asshole Matt Barnes today. The story effectively goes about humanizing Barnes, who’s known more for his eagerness to scrap on the court than for his play, but there’s still plenty of great anecdotes in there about Barnes lo...
Do Arsenal Even Need Jack Wilshere?
We're pretty staunchly against the year-round transfer gossip circus, since even at the best of times—when the transfer windows are actually open—there are about a thousand reasons never to trust what's being bandied about. But these rumblings about Manchester City sniffing around Arsenal's beloved,...
Fix The New ESPN.com Annoyances With This Greasemonkey Script
One of the biggest complaints about the new ESPN.com layout is that clicking a live score at the top of the homepage no longer takes you to the box score, but instead a live Game Tracker that takes time to load and generally isn’t something anyone actually wants to see. Reader William has remedied t...
A Nice Fruit Beer For Butts Of All Types
Kim Kardashian is on a sightseeing tour of Armenia, her ancestral homeland, a delightful fact that I know because the guy on the radio mentioned it at three o’clock this morning. My wife also knows this information about Kim and Armenia, because she got up to feed the cat shortly after I came into p...
Henrik Stenson Goes Full Bo Jackson, Breaks Club Over His Knee
Henrik Stenson carded a six at Augusta National’s 15th during today’s second round of the Masters, thanks to a series of unfortunate events that included ricocheting a shot off the trunk of a tree. It so infuriated the Swede that he took his rage out on the responsible club....
Kendrick Perkins, With The Classic Nine-Step Move
NBA truthers, this is your moment. Kendrick Perkins’s shuffle is your chance to say “He traveled,” and not be seen as a joyless penis. No one will hate you. Well, they probably still will, but not to the usual degree. ...
ESPN's Jorge Sedano Told An Allen Iverson Club Story That Never Happened
When Chris Copeland was stabbed and Thabo Sefolosha and Pero Antic arrested outside a New York City club at four in the morning the day of a game, there was a rush to question their judgment. You know the old saying: nothing good ever happens after 2 a.m. ...