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Mississippi Car Dealer TV Ad Features Awkward Version Of "Ride Wit Me"
Is this genius? Is this insanity? Or is this just Mississippi?...
Irish Football League Brings Us A 93-Yard Fat Guy Touchdown
This here is Shane McNulty, a defensive lineman for the Dundalk Mavericks, running back an interception for a 93-yard touchdown....
It's The 20-Year Anniversary Of The Greatest Prank Call Of All Time
The O.J. Simpson car chase had its share of memorable moments. For you, maybe it was the absurdity of a white Ford Bronco leading a phalanx of police well under the speed limit, or the knowledge that Simpson had a gun to his head, or Al Cowlings telling police "You know who I am, goddammit" or just ...
Russia vs. South Korea: Your Live Online Streaming Links
Today's final event is Russia vs South Korea. Here's how to watch it:...
Hey You, Get Your Ass Off That Brazilian's Head!
Why was it even there? Not cool, man....
Mexico Fan Speaks For All Of Us Who Just Watched That Match
You said it, sister....
Mike Francesa Has A Lot Of Dumb Questions About Soccer
We can't judge Francesa too harshly for not knowing dick about soccer, because he's probably not anymore clueless about the sport than 90 percent of the other American sports fans who populate his demographic. ...
Host Sites For A 2022 U.S. World Cup That Doesn't Exist–Yet
ESPN Deportes' Jorge Ramos caused a bit of a stir last week by reporting that FIFA put U.S. Soccer on standby for the 2022 World Cup, should Qatar be stripped of its hosting privileges. While this report has been disputed and denied up and down, America's vast sports infrastructure would make it a s...
The World Cup Is Your Kid’s Last Hope
I have three kids, and I have resigned myself to the fact that they will never be sports fans in the way that I am a sports fan. They'll never waste time perusing box scores in the newspaper because newspapers are old and dead. They'll never pledge loyalty to one local team because they have fantasy...
I Was Tony Gwynn's Bat Boy
The baseball-card collection I had as a teen—145,000 cards in all when I last bothered to count, 800-count box after 800-count box, all of them occupying a dusty bookcase in my bedroom—was sold years ago. Some random stranger now owns that collection of 400 Tom Glavine rookie cards I bought on specu...
Your Brazil-Mexico Open Thread
It's time for Brazil-Mexico, a rematch of the Olympics final a couple years ago. Talk about it here....
World Cup: The Better You Are, The Less You Run
This year's World Cup players (minus goalkeepers) will average around seven miles of running each game, and as many as 10. But the amount you run has more to do with skill than it does with overall fitness, and not in the way you might think....
Kevin Durant Continues To Be Bad At Internet Feuds
Poor Kevin Durant is just so dang bad at the internet and feuds, mostly because he seems to have a gift for doing and or saying completely innocuous things that he later has to back down from because the internet is stupid....
Mexico Talks Shit About Brazil: What Other Countries Are Saying
At the end of today, all 32 participating nations will have played a World Cup game. The interactive map below has a roundup of interesting coverage from some of these nations; mouseover the red countries to read their reports....
Brazil-Mexico: Your Live Streaming Links
The highly-anticipated Brazil vs Mexico match is upon us. Here's how to watch it....
Celebrating Kings Fans Took Down A Drone
On Friday, after winning the Stanley Cup, Kings fans celebrated outside the Staples Center under the watchful eye of a quadcopter-mounted camera. In the most L.A. move ever, they brought it out of the sky with a commemorative T-shirt, whacked it with a skateboard on its way down, and chanted "We Got...
Deals: Nest Protect Smoke Alarm, Polarized Sunglasses, Fitbit One
After a brief recall, the Nest Protect carbon monoxide and smoke detector is once again available for sale, this time at a $30 discount. It's still more than your garden variety smoke detector, but boy is it awesome. [Nest Protect, $99]...