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Cameroon Are A Mess, And Samuel Eto'o May Be Abandoning Ship
In 2010, in South Africa, the French famously refused to get off the bus. Four years later, Cameroon refused to get on the plane to Brazil. ...
"Spain Was The Titanic": The World Reacts To A World Cup Collapse
It's full-on postmortem time in Spain and around the soccer world, as people grapple with La Roja's ignominious exit from this year's World Cup. One of the finest international runs the sport has ever seen went out not with a whimper, but with an embarrassing, well-documented shriek....
Pat Riley Says The Heat "Don't Need To Rebuild"
The biggest question of the NBA offseason will be what becomes of the Miami Heat, who obviously cannot challenge again with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade's corpse, Chris Bosh (who is good and whatever but making a shitload of money), and the rest of the crap roster. It was perhaps Pat Riley's biggest co...
This Dated Video Helped Make The Case Against The Redskins Trademarks
What you see up there is taken from a VHS tape called Hail to the Redskins and produced by NFL Films in 1986. It's a compilation of highlights from the 50 seasons following the team's move to D.C. from Boston....
Report: The Bills Are Officially For Sale
The chance to buy an NFL franchise doesn't come along very often. But if you're not one of the select rich folk who received documents from the Bills yesterday, you're probably going to have to wait for the next one....
What Tim Cahill's Wondergoal Sounded Like In Australia
Australia's national broadcaster SBS gave us a treat yesterday: an inset of announcer Craig Foster going nuts on Tim Cahill's outstanding equalizer against Netherlands yesterday. Australia had a lot to cheer for at the moment, but so did Chile and the other countries who scored goals on Wednesday. H...
NFL Analyst Pimp Named Slickback Likely Better Than Sapp, At Least
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Cards Manager Mike Matheny Didn't Like Jonathan Lucroy's All-Star Ad
Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy's All-Star ad poked fun at the St. Louis Cardinals, their NL Central rivals, and it was legitimately funny. Today, someone asked St. Louis manager Mike Matheny for his thoughts on the anti-Cardinals spot, and he thought it was hilarious. Nah, just kidding....
Santiago Is Partying After Chile's Victory Over Spain
After Chile upset Spain 2-0 today to seal La Furia Roja's flame-out, Chile fans swarmed downtown Santiago to celebrate and make tons of noise, because that's what a country does when it takes out the defending World Cup champions....
Here Are The Two Chile Goals That Ended Spain's Dynasty
Most "end of an era" talk is usually lazy analysis seeking to narrativize the moment when a former Super Team inevitably devolves into just a Really Good Team. But when the reigning World and two-time European Champions get absolutely ran off the pitch while looking old and terrified, you have to ta...
This NESN Reporter Does Not Seem To Understand Irony
NESN reporter Ben Watanabe is very upset at the Philadelphia 76ers. If you were to read the first half of this, you might come away with the impression that Ben Watanabe is upset at the Sixers for being so tight-lipped with the media about Andrew Wiggins's recent pre-draft workouts. But that's not r...
A Maracanã Stadium Staircase Has Been Wobbling Under Fans' Weight
The Associated Press is reporting that Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã, Brazil's most storied soccer stadium and the location of the 2014 World Cup final, could be a disaster waiting to happen. One Brazilian photographer captured footage of a major Maracanã stairway, which most of the site's 79,000 fans u...
There's Something Off About This <em>Sports Illustrated</em> Cover
Above is the cover of this week's issue of Sports Illustrated, showing Kawhi Leonard skying through the air, his arm cocked back and ready to spike a dunk on poor Chris Andersen's head. There's a slight problem with this image, though....
Your Spain-Chile Open Thread
The result of this match pretty much decides whether Spain or Chile make it out of Group B. Talk about it below....
Chile Fans Have Bum-Rushed The Stadium
Chile supporters are out in force for their match against Spain this afternoon, a red sea descending upon The Estádio do Maracanã in Rio—many of them without tickets. About an hour before kick-off, the dam burst....
Lil B's Hoop Dreams: Why The Based God Is Our Lebron (And Our Tupac)
Every Lil B mixtape is an event: a multi-stage, multimedia extravaganza that in all its quirkiness, interactivity, and downright craziness exemplifies why the Based God is the most fascinating artist currently doing it....
Hide Your Eyes, Aussies
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Diamondbacks Enforce Unwritten Rules; Universe Punishes Them For It
This might go down as my favorite sequence of the 2014 baseball season....